Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Monday, Nov 24, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, Nov 24, 2003 |
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Employment 22 nations to take part in youth employment meet Our Bureau
Hyderabad , Nov. 23 OVER 1,000 delegates from 22 Asian countries are expected to take part in the four-day Regional Youth Employment Summit 2003 to be held here from December 14. The Andhra Pradesh Government in association with the Education Development Centre (EDC) of Boston is hosting the summit. Launched last year at Alexandria in Egypt, the Youth Employment Summit (YES) campaign is a decade-long international programme of the Boston-based EDC to address the growing problem of youth unemployment worldwide. The YES campaign, which has its presence in over 60 countries, comprises 6 Es - employability, employment creation, equity, entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability and empowerment. According to the State Minister for Sports and Youth Services, Mr P. Ramulu, the Hyderabad summit is estimated to cost Rs 5 crore. Of this, EDC is providing Rs 3 crore and the State Government Rs 1 crore. The remaining amount is being mobilised through sponsors. During the summit, he said, seminars would be held on five topics - renewable energy and gender, 6Es and rural development, water and sanitation, ICT and HIV/AIDS and capacity building. Over 100 speakers were invited to address the seminars. The Minister told newspersons here on Sunday that the list of confirmed speakers included the World Economic Forum Managing Director, Mr Jose Maria Figueres, the UNESCO Director, Mr Rupert Maclean, the UNIDO Director General, Mr Carlos Magarinos, the Indian Ambassador to US, Mr Naresh Chandra, and the MSS Research Foundation Chairman, Dr M.S. Swaminathan. As a run-up to the summit, the Andhra Pradesh Government would be organising "Yuva Chaitanyam", a youth-related programme for 12 days from December 1 in all the districts of the State. Under the programme, seminars, rallies and public meetings would be held across the State.
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