Stree Shakti: VLCC joins hand with Government of Delhi

Friday, 15 June 2012

VLCC joins hand with Government of Delhi

India's first comprehensive vocational training academy, VLCC Institutes, announced first-of-its-kind Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with the Government of NCT of Delhi for providing beauty vocational education to the underprivileged section of the society. The agreement was signed between VLCC & Delhi Govt. to mark the birth anniversary of Late Prime Minister of our country, Indira Gandhi. The prestigious Agreement was signed between Rashmi Singh, MD-Samajik Suvidha Sangam (SSS) under Delhi Government and Narinder Kumar, Group CFO & Business Head Education, VLCC in the presence of Sheila Dikshit, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Delhi, Kumari Selja, Hon'ble Minister for Tourism, Transport & Urban Development, A K Walia, Hon'ble Minister, Urban Development, Govt. of Delhi, P.K. Mohanty, Joint Secretary & Mission Director - JNNURM, Ministry of HUPA, Govt. of India and Vandana Luthra, Founder & Mentor, VLCC and other dignitaries. In addition to the development VLCC has also announced Priyadarshini Award.

As per the agreement, VLCC Institutes will offer skill based beauty vocational education in select districts to encourage employability, self-reliance and entrepreneurship. A group of 40 students per batch will be trained at the VLCC Institutes on the beauty treatments. On the successful completion of the course, the students will be provided a joint certificate by VLCC in association with the Govt. of Delhi. The institutes will also assist the students in securing placements as well as guiding the students for starting their own venture.

Speaking on the occasion Vandana Luthra, Founder & Mentor, VLCC Group said "We at VLCC feel grateful to the Government of Delhi for providing us with such a great opportunity of helping the underprivileged women and youth through vocational training which will help them secure decent livelihood. I have always tried to be a part of noble causes which aims at providing aid to the people in need. We at VLCC are equipped to train about 20,000 students per annum. This project is very close to my heart and hence I will closely monitor the progress of the same."

"It gives me immense pleasure to announce the association with the VLCC Institutes for providing vocational training to the underprivileged. A high number of women and youth living in slums and other vulnerable areas do not have access to good quality training for skills development and employment. I am sure this association will help in redefining public service by helping the underprivileged section of the society by giving them best opportunities for skill enhancement and improved income levels" said Rashmi Singh, Mission Director, Samajik Suvidha Sangam, Government of NCT of Delhi.
(Source: Indiaprwire)

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Rashmi Singh

Rashmi Singh is a public servant who has created a distinguished track record for her innovative works in human services, governance reforms and woman empowerment. She was the founder Director of Mission Convergence programme and Samajik Suvidha Sangam in Delhi and was instrumental in laying the foundations, structures and processes which define this unique programme. Her key endeavors through this Mission were to redefine social policy on the basis of new criteria for poverty identification in terms of vulnerability, aligning government policies and delivery mechanisms to reach out to these vulnerable, and building effective GO-NGO partnerships at the grassroots. She is currently working as the Executive Director in the National Mission for Empowerment of Women, Ministry of WCD, Government of India.

Rashmi has provided leadership to the innovative public private partnership program called ‘Stree Shakti’ for the women of low-income groups by steering this programme in Delhi in the years 2004-2007. Under this she institutionalized the Gender Resource Centres as one-stop information cum facilitation center for marginalized women and their families, providing an integrated and holistic empowerment framework benefitting women living in jhuggi-jhopries, slums, resettlement colonies who had little access to development programmes earlier.

Rashmi facilitated the development and adoption of a new criteria and process of defining and identifying the poor. This criteria uses proxy indicators of income based on spatial, social and occupational vulnerability. Widows, single deserted women, and female headed households (FHH) amongst others fall in this vulnerable section. Using this criteria, Ms Singh conducted a unique exercise of mobilizing more than 100 NGOs to undertake a survey of the poor and the marginalized sections of Delhi, living in slums unauthorized colonies, resettlement colonies, and those on the streets. This criteria and methodology of its implementation on ground has been widely recognized by other significant platforms such as ministry of rural development and planning commission.

Rashmi has contributed significantly towards developing systems for introducing transparency, accountability and rights based framework. Through Mission Convergence initiative, she could make significant headway in bringing various existing social security/ benefit schemes of the different departments under unified delivery systems, fostering mechanisms for vertical and horizontal integration in the government, and effective community outreach, especially for reaching out to the unreached i.e. the most marginalized and vulnerable groups.

She has also served as Director, Welfare in the New Delhi Municipal Council from 1999-2004.

Recognitions accorded:

· In 2006 led Stree Shakti to Silver Award at the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration & Management ( CAPAM) in 2006.

· Women of Excellence Award by the FICCI Ladies organization

· In 2010, 2nd ‘Adhi Abadi Award’ for women achievers by Invitca media

· In 2010, the Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Award, Stree-Shakti award instituted by the Ministry of WCD, Govt of India was conferred upon her by the President of India in recognition of her services in the area of Women’s Empowerment.

· In 2010 won the Award of Excellence in Innovations in Government Services and Programmes and the overall Gold Medal across four awards categories at the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration & Management for Mission Convergence.

· Dr. Sadhna International Empowerment Award, 2011

· In 2011 was conferred the distinguished leadership award for internationals by the University of Minnesota in USA

Educational Qualification

· University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Master of Public Affairs, 2007. Major in Management and Governance of Non-Profits.

· I.H.S, Erasmus University, Netherlands. Post graduate Diploma, July-Sept, 2004. Topic of Study: ‘Policies on Poverty Reduction and Local Economic Development’.

· University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. Post Graduation in History completed in 1989.

· Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi. Bachelor of Arts, 1987. Honors in History.

Others

· Invited to several national and international platforms to deliver talks and share her experience on governance reforms, GO-NGO platforms, inclusive development strategies etc. Significant are the Leadership Conference at Malyasia organized by Commonwealth Association, Conference on inclusive growth amongst IBSA countries at Brazil, International Women’s conference organized by Art of Living at Bali, besides her award winning presentations at Commonwealth Conference at Malta in 2010, and Sydney, Australia in 2006.

· Serves as patron of several Non govt organizations of repute such as the Delhi Chess Association, The All India Federation of Deaf and Dumb

· Rashmi comes from an illustrious family of freedom fighters, and social crusaders. She is the granddaughter of Sh Kamta Prasad Singh ‘ KAM’, freedom fighter and members of first legislative assembly in Bihar after independence, and daughter of famous literary personality and Hindi crusader, Sh Shankar Dayal Singh, who served as a distinguished member of parliament from Bihar both in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.