Livelihood Summit focuses on food & job security
Updated: Nov 03, 2014 02:57:11pm
New Delhi, Nov 3 (KNN) To deliberate on issues pertaining to food and job security ultimately leading to livelihood security, ASSOCHAM organised a livelihood summit here today.
President of India, Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the summit on ‘Livelihood Security: Realizing the vision for 1.3 billion Indians.’
Through the event ASSOCHAM aims to bring stakeholders cutting across domains including but not limited to central and state governments, industry, and social enterprises together, to deliberate on issues pertaining to food and job security ultimately leading to livelihood security, according to official data.
Speaking on the occasion, the President said that there is a compelling need to provide livelihood security to those in the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder. Additionally, there is a binding obligation to realize the dreams of the aspirational generation of young Indians.
Considering that India with 2.4 per cent of the world’s geographical area has seventeen per cent of its population, these issues pose a formidable challenge, he said.
He said he anticipated an honest appraisal of issues concerning livelihood security and expects solutions at the meet that will guide policy makers.
He pointed out that livelihood security is incomplete without the provision of social security. To make a decisive change in the livelihood security of Indians, the challenges are many and time limited.
But he was certain that with the combined efforts of all stakeholders – government, industry, non-governmental agencies and the community at large – we will be able to extend to our countrymen enormous livelihood prospects. The industry can create mechanisms for income opportunities and capacity building under CSR initiatives mandated by the Companies Act of 2013.
He expressed the hope that the Summit would discuss issues threadbare and make recommendations in the right perspective.
According to ASSOCHAM, livelihood security is invariantly linked to food security in general and India in particular as 70 per cent of Indian population is predominantly dependent on local ecosystems for its basic subsistence requirements.
Undoubtedly India has made tremendous progress since independence in the area of food security. Paradoxically in spite of regular adequate food production, nearly 40 per cent of the population still lives in poverty sometimes without two meals a day. The policies and schemes introduced by Government from time to time have been mostly good and far sighted; however, due to lack of effective implementation their impact is often limited in scale and scope, it said.
The limited scale and scope calls for strategic collaboration with social enterprises like NGO’s among other solutions which though exists but are marred by diverse origins and varied institutional interests with a view of up-scaling of their efforts.
Coupled with strategic orientation with NGO’s, industry contribution is also an important factor especially in the wake of compulsory CSR spending under the new Companies Act 2013.
On the expected outcome of the meeting, the involvement of industry can directly and indirectly help the vulnerable/ poverty struck sections through increased income and employment opportunities, improved access to infrastructure, and knowledge sharing, it said. (KNN/ES)
President of India, Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the summit on ‘Livelihood Security: Realizing the vision for 1.3 billion Indians.’
Through the event ASSOCHAM aims to bring stakeholders cutting across domains including but not limited to central and state governments, industry, and social enterprises together, to deliberate on issues pertaining to food and job security ultimately leading to livelihood security, according to official data.
Speaking on the occasion, the President said that there is a compelling need to provide livelihood security to those in the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder. Additionally, there is a binding obligation to realize the dreams of the aspirational generation of young Indians.
Considering that India with 2.4 per cent of the world’s geographical area has seventeen per cent of its population, these issues pose a formidable challenge, he said.
He said he anticipated an honest appraisal of issues concerning livelihood security and expects solutions at the meet that will guide policy makers.
He pointed out that livelihood security is incomplete without the provision of social security. To make a decisive change in the livelihood security of Indians, the challenges are many and time limited.
But he was certain that with the combined efforts of all stakeholders – government, industry, non-governmental agencies and the community at large – we will be able to extend to our countrymen enormous livelihood prospects. The industry can create mechanisms for income opportunities and capacity building under CSR initiatives mandated by the Companies Act of 2013.
He expressed the hope that the Summit would discuss issues threadbare and make recommendations in the right perspective.
According to ASSOCHAM, livelihood security is invariantly linked to food security in general and India in particular as 70 per cent of Indian population is predominantly dependent on local ecosystems for its basic subsistence requirements.
Undoubtedly India has made tremendous progress since independence in the area of food security. Paradoxically in spite of regular adequate food production, nearly 40 per cent of the population still lives in poverty sometimes without two meals a day. The policies and schemes introduced by Government from time to time have been mostly good and far sighted; however, due to lack of effective implementation their impact is often limited in scale and scope, it said.
The limited scale and scope calls for strategic collaboration with social enterprises like NGO’s among other solutions which though exists but are marred by diverse origins and varied institutional interests with a view of up-scaling of their efforts.
Coupled with strategic orientation with NGO’s, industry contribution is also an important factor especially in the wake of compulsory CSR spending under the new Companies Act 2013.
On the expected outcome of the meeting, the involvement of industry can directly and indirectly help the vulnerable/ poverty struck sections through increased income and employment opportunities, improved access to infrastructure, and knowledge sharing, it said. (KNN/ES)
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