CII's Rural Job Fair - Providing 450 rural youths employment in a day

It was almost weeks of effort that finally paid off.... the mission was to conduct a Job Fair for the Rural youth in and around the villages of kancheepuram dist in Tamil-Nadu; but the tasks were multi-faceted ranging from converting a barren land to a mandap which can fit around 3000 village folk, contacting and convincing corporates to participate in this as a Social responsibility venture, arranging the collaterals and the processes for smooth functioning and last but definitely not the easiest would be to get all the rural folk to the grounds.

To begin with, the barren site which we had to convert to the fair (16th April,2008)



And as the magic wand waved(19th April 2008)



And then the village folk arrived in numbers reaching 2800 and more, consisting of around 600 unemployed rural youth and the remaining were their families.

And then came the chief guests

(From L to R) : Mrs.Stella (Director, CII), Mr. B Santhanam(Chairman, CII), Mr Manikam Ramaswami (Chairman, Tamil Nadu State Council), Mr Santosh K Misra, IAS (Collector, kancheepuram), Mr G R K Reddy (CMD, Marg) ,,Mr Desh Raj (Deputy Director General, Ministry of Employment & Training)

And that's me sharing some lighter moments with Mrs.Stella and Mr.Santhanam who were also incidentally our guide for the project :)
The Execution team (SPJIMR students with CII team)

And with all the corporates (15 of them including L&T, Upasana Engg, Reliance Fresh, Unicorn services, etc) who did participate recruiting 450 of the rural candidates.....

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