SKILLS 2015 concludes successfully

SKILLS 2015 concludessuccessfully

Emphasis on a comprehensive approach to make ‘Swach Bharat’ a reality

SKILLS2015 – The International Conference on “Life Skills and Livelihood Skills – for achieving and sustaining a Clean India‟at ni-msme centre concluded today. The valedictory ceremony saw a special address by Mr. RCM Reddy (Managing Director & CEO- IL & FS Education & Technology, India), Dr.  Ravi K Reddy (Secretary, REEDS, India), Mr. Ramesh Katta (President - Abburu Gram Panchayat, Guntur District, India) and other dignitaries. SKILLS2015 saw a host of VIPs and dignitaries, policy makers, government officials, educators, business executives and training professionals from around the world visiting and deliberating at the event. 

The speakers exchanged ideas and discussed initiatives on the sanitation to provide practical inputs to make SwachBharat Campaign a success and take it to all parts of rural and urban India.

Mr. Jack Sim, the founder of World Toilet Organization (WTO)addressed the session and urged on the need for a holistic approach to address hygiene &sanitation issues in India, including lack of household toilets in rural India, which is essential for Clean India.

The SKILLS2015 received a fantastic response and strongly communicated the importance of Skill development in achieving clean India. The two-day event addressed several dimensions of skill development related to sanitation and hygiene. SKILLS 2015 served as a platform for a dialogue on “Clean India”.  It helpedin preparing a roadmap to achieving Clean India by creating opportunities by imparting life & livelihood skills to the citizens of India.

Mr. Jack Sim, the founder of World Toilet Organization (WTO) at the Valedictory Function.

According to Dr.Ravi Reddy, co-chairman of the conference, “We are very happy with the participation and the deliberations at SKILLS2015. It was a platform to discuss and provide the relevant skills, technologies and best practices necessary to achieve the Clean India campaign. 

The conference discussed various issues and challenges regarding making “Swach Bharat” a reality. We will be submitting a summary of the outcome of these deliberations to the Government to take it forward. We thank the speakers, delegates and the participants for the overwhelming response to SKILLS2015.”

About SKILLS2015

SKILLS2015 International Conference is being organized by Life Skills and Livelihood Skills International (LSLSI), a Hyderabad based not-for-profit organization with a focus on the“skilling” of the rural population of India. LSLSI was established in the year 2012 to further the work of Rural Economic and Education Development Society (REEDS), a not-for-profit NGO that has been active in fostering development in rural India since 1989.

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