New Delhi, Nov 8 (KNN) To address the challenges in adoption of Digital India policies  for rural empowerment ,SKILLS 2017 international conference is being organized on November 16th and 17th in Telengana under the theme ‘Life Skills and Livelihood Skills- Leveraging Digital India for Rural Empowerment”.

Vice President Venkaiah Naidu is expected to inaugurate the conference and eminent personalities including Ravindra Vikran, Chairman REEDS and Richard W Oliver, CEO of American Sentinel University are expected to be a part of the event.

The main objective of the conference is to identify and discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with leveraging Digital India for creating life and livelihood skills that could facilitate rural income.

All the FISME affiliated industry associations and their members can avail a special discount of 50 % to attend the conference. They can register themselves with the Rs. 5000 for full conference (2days), Rs. 2500 for part conference (I day)  and Rs. 1000 for one session.

The program further targets to engage corporations, NGOs and social and business entrepreneurs to create long-term demonstration projects, commercial models, products, programs and services necessary to accelerate Digital India for sustainable rural economies. (KNN/AG)