Gp. Capt. Vijayakumar expressed his gratitude to all the JSDP partners for joining the conclave and the preparatory meeting of JSDP. In his welcome address, Peter Rimmele, Resident Representative of KAS to India, highlighted how inventively MMA organises the programmes and probably should consider adding a training session to the JSDP. The directors of the partner organizations then introduced themselves and their current project activities.
“Empowering NGOs: Change Makers – Learning, Unlearning and Re-learning"
Moderated by Pankaj Madan, Head Programmes of KAS, Subrata Nag Choudhury of the Statesman Print Journalism School (SPJS), Devidas Ghodeswar of the Society for Sustainable Development (SSD), Sudhakar Ghosh of the Centre of Economic and Social Research (CESR-Purulia), L S Ghandi Doss and Lokesha of the Institute of Youth and Development (IYD), Dayanand Tandon of the Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship and Technical Education (CREATE), R Vijaykumar of the Madras Management Association (MMA), Manda Parikh of the Yuvak Vikas Trust (YVT), Mayank Upadhyay of the Indian Society for Community Education (ISCE), Uday Shankar of Vishwa Yuvak Kendra (VYK), Santosh Besra of the All India Santal Welfare and Cultural Society (AISWACS) and C. M. Krishna of the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry had a lively discussion on the proposed agenda for the upcoming 36th JSDP 2019.