As India registers strong economic growth, significant challenges remain with regard to inequity, unemployment, food insecurity, natural disasters and climate change. Given these complexities, direct participation of people will increasingly play a transformative role. Synergized efforts of 1.25 billion Indians in c...

As India registers strong economic growth, significant challenges remain with regard to inequity, unemployment, food insecurity, natural disasters and climate change. Given these complexities, direct participation of people will increasingly play a transformative role. Synergized efforts of 1.25 billion Indians in cohesion can be a force multiplier, volunteers as channels of delivery can be instrumental in achieving many of the social developmental mission mode schemes aimed at achieving an inclusively developed India by 2022. India@75 is strategically positioned as a facilitator to provide a platform for stakeholders to converge, collaborate and forge partnerships through its various volunteer initiatives the National Volunteer Week.. I am sure the NVW will motivate and encourage all Indians across geographical and social spectrums to get engaged with the nation building exercise and give their bit to be a part of the Indian growth story, which is bound to be a gratifying experience.

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India@75, an initiative of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), symbolizes its developmental agenda. In 2007, India@75 embarked upon the outreach and advocacy for co-ownership of the vision that was validated through a pan India public reasoning process. With the Union and State Governments acknowledging and ...

India@75, an initiative of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), symbolizes its developmental agenda. In 2007, India@75 embarked upon the outreach and advocacy for co-ownership of the vision that was validated through a pan India public reasoning process. With the Union and State Governments acknowledging and also endorsing most of the vision elements like skilling 500 million people, creating 500 developed cities, housing for all, generating adequate nonconventional energy etc. India@75 moved on to creating synergies amongst the diverse stakeholders for collaborative and participative action to augment the efforts of nation building. Technology and volunteerism have been identified as the key drivers cutting across the vision elements to make the exercise participative and collaborative and also to enable outreach and scales with time constraints to achieve envisioned objectives on completion of 75 years of Independence. CII and India@75 have been celebrating National Volunteering Week (NVW) since January, 2014; endeavoring to aggregate the ongoing efforts of the stakeholders in the volunteering space, facilitate synergy and alignment to augment the Government initiatives, by ensuring impactful delivery of the various social developmental initiatives / schemes at the grass roots.

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