The Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust (BYST) is

a non-profit organisation at the forefront of

entrepreneurship development. It works with

business leaders to assist disadvantaged youth to

develop their business ideas into enterprises. The young

entrepreneurs are supported with finance and training, as

well as mentoring, in their transformation from job seekers

into job creators.

Awards: BYST entrepreneurs won prestigious international,

national and regional awards this year.

International Visits: Senior delegates from Youth Business

China, and Youth Business Singapore visited India to

understand the BYST programme. They met BYST mentors

in New Delhi, as well as entrepreneurs in rural Haryana.

Interaction with Young Parliamentarians: BYST board

members, mentors and entrepreneurs had an interactive

session with young parliamentarians of India, including

Mr Naveen Jindal, Mr Rajeev Praptap Rudy, Mr Vijaysinh

Mohite Patil, and Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal, in New Delhi.

Global Entrepreneurship Week: To commemorate

‘Global Entrepreneur Week (GEW)’ in November, BYST,

as a partner to the renowned Kauffman Foundation,

USA, conducted various programmes for youth (students,

unemployed youth, small business people etc) to motivate

them and to increase their knowledge base.

Global Youth Innovation workshop Fair: BYST

was among 50 countries invited to participate in the

international conference in Benin.

Innovations in mentoring-student mentoring:

BYST, for the first time in its history, initiated a role for

business school students in its main facet of Mentoring,

in partnership with the Indian Institute of Planning and

Management.

Delegates from Youth Business China, and Youth Business Singapore, in New Delhi

Naveen Jindal, Member of Parliament, Haryana, interacting with BYST Entrepreneurs in New Delhi

Family-run businesses account

for almost 95% of all Indian

companies. The privatisation

of the Indian economy has given

Indian businesses a critical role in

the country’s growth process. With

today’s emphasis on an inclusive

growth process, traditional family

business values are generating

new-found interest in corporate

circles, particularly with respect to

employment, ethics, compliance,

social responsibility and

philanthropy, values which resonate

in CII’s theme of ‘Business for

Livelihood.’

The CII-FBN India Chapter highlighted the growth

opportunities and challenges that Indian family businesses

face and worked to build greater interaction between the

different constituents of Indian family business. With this

objective, the Chapter organised its XIIIth Annual Convention,

three regional workshops and six sensitisation sessions in

different parts of the country during 2011.

The CII-FBN XIII International Convention on Family

Business, titled ‘Family Business as Paradox’, held in New

Delhi in April 2011, highlighted the challenges faced by

Indian family businesses and owner-managers, through

sessions such as ‘Family and Business – A Fundamental

Dilemma,’ ‘Succession as a Cultural Event’ and ‘Family and

Business Governance.’ Issues relating to compensation

planning, the role of trusts, philanthropy, role of women

in family business, and the institutionalisation of processes

governing family and business were discussed, as also

how to leverage family knowledge for the benefit

of business. In a power-packed panel discussion on

‘Unconventional Strategy’, speakers talked about how

family belief systems strengthened their businesses. The

Convention was addressed by Prof. John Ward, The Family

Business Consulting Group, and Professor, Kellogg School

of Management, USA, Ms Annelie Karlsson, Founder &

Executive Director, FBN Sweden, and prominent heads of

Indian family businesses.

Arun Bharat Ram, Past President, CII, Member, CII-FBN India Chapter Core Group, and Chairman, SRF Ltd; Sunil Kant Munjal, Past President, CII, and Chairman, Hero Corporate Service Ltd; Pheroza J Godrej, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Ltd; and Dr Naushad Forbes, Director, Forbes Marshall Pvt. Ltd. at a panel discussion in New Delhi

Prof. John Ward, Founder Chairman, FBCG, and Clinical Professor, The Kellogg School of Management, USA, conducting a workshop in New Delhi

Ravi Poddar, Chairman, CII Eastern Region Family Business Task Force, and Chairman, Ravi Auto Ltd, at the CII-FBN India Chapter conference in Kolkata

Three regional workshops on

family business, held in Mumbai,

Kolkata and Chennai, were based

on the following themes:

• ‘Building Stronger Business

Through Strengthened Family

Alignment’

• ‘Family Values - The Key to

Legacy of Continuity and

Success’

• ‘Preparing Family Business for

Strategic Change’

The lead faculty for these

workshops was Mr Anil Sainani,

Director, S&S Empowering

Solutions Private Ltd.

Sensitisation Sessions on Family

Business were held in tier two

and tier three cities like Trichy,

Bhubaneswar, Cochin, Srinagar,

Pune, Jaipur and Ahmedabad.

These sessions helped the

participants to design their

short-term and long-term goals for

their family businesses.

The highlight of the India Brand Equity

Foundation’s (IBEF) activities during 2011-12 has

been the projection of Brand India consistently across

markets through the platform of ‘The India Shows’ and the

concomitant usage of digital media for the promotion of

Brand India.

IBEF led the branding initiatives under the aegis of the

Department of Commerce, Government of India, at The

India Show in Addis Ababa in May, and also undertook

branding for the 2nd Africa-India Forum Summit on

the request of the Union Ministry of External Affairs.

Subsequently IBEF effectively showcased India’s business

strengths across sectors through The India Show in Toronto

in October, followed by similar events in Lahore in February

2012, and later in Jakarta, in March 2012. In all these

markets, whilst the messaging on Brand India was kept

consistent, it was set in a blend of India and local market

designs.

The IBEF knowledge works, comprising the ‘Experience

India’ CDs/access info drives, the ‘India Now – Business and

Economy’ magazine and ‘Product Books,’ continued to be

a valuable resource tool leveraged by diverse audiences

within India and abroad. ‘The Best of India in Services,’

book, second in ‘The Best of India’ series, was prepared by

IBEF during the year. It highlights the successes scripted by

the Indian service industry across sectors, bringing Brand

India global repute.

Another key highlight of IBEF’s activities has been

innovative use of digital media technology across its

initiatives to promote Brand India to wider audiences in

markets abroad. This was particularly evident in IBEF’s

initiatives at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic

Forum at Davos 2012 where numerous positive Brand India

stories were generated in the form of blogs, audio-video

and images through IBEF’s web-based initiative centred

around ‘Conversations on India’ at the India Adda (www.

india-at-davos.ibef.org). Also noteworthy were the special

promotional efforts made by IBEF for tea, coffee and spices.

IBEF’s ‘India Ingenious’ brand campaign at Davos was

well-noticed. The online and offline branding initiatives

synergised to impact audiences in and outside Davos.

In a natural progression in its brand strategy, IBEF stepped

into sectoral branding in 2011-12. Under the aegis of

the Department of Commerce, IBEF conceptualised and

developed the brand strategy for Brand India Pharma

in collaboration with the export promotion council,

Pharmexcil. As a first step, IBEF negotiated Focus Country

status for India at the largest pharmaceutical exhibition

platform, CPhI, making India the first country to get this

status. IBEF prepared a Brand India Pharma kit and active

partnered in leading the global launch of Brand India

Pharma at CPhI Japan in March 2012.

During the year, IBEF truly synergised its Knowledge Centre

and Communication initiatives to promote Brand India in

overseas markets

Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, at the 2nd Africa-India Forum Summit, Addis Ababa

Anand Sharma, Union Minister of Industry & Commerce, and Textiles, India, with Antonio Patriota, Foreign Minister of Brazil and Rob Davies, Minister of Trade & Industry, South Africa, at the India Adda at Davos 2012

The National Foundation for

Corporate Governance (NFCG)

has been set up by the the

Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs,

in partnership with CII, the Institute

of Company Secretaries of India, and

the Institute of Chartered Accountants

of India, to create awareness about

the importance of implementing good

corporate governance practices, both

at the individual corporate level and for

the economy as a whole. In 2010, the

Institute of Cost and Works Accountants

of India, and the National Stock Exchange came on board

as Trustees.

The NFCG works closely with partner institutions and

accredited institutions to provide a platform for quality

discussions and debates amongst academicians, policy

makers, professionals and corporate leaders through

research, conferences, orientation programmes, meetings

and seminars in areas of corporate governance, CSR and

sustainability.

In 2011-12, NFCG supported various flagship CII events such

as the National CSR-CSO Bridge: Moving the Growth Story

Forward through Inclusive Partnerships, the 7th International

Corporate Governance Summit, and Sustainability Solutions:

Summit and Exhibition, among others.

B Muthuraman, President, CII, and Vice Chairman, Tata Steel Ltd. and Chairman, Tata International Ltd, Dinesh Kanabar, Deputy CEO, KPMG, Rahul Bajaj, Past President, CII, and Chairman, CII National Council on Corporate Governance & Regulatory Affairs, and Chairman, Bajaj Auto Ltd, M Veerappa Moily, Union Minister of Corporate Affairs, and Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII, at the Corporate Governance Summit in Mumbai

Tarun Das, Former Chief Mentor, CII; Prof. Michael Pryles, Chairman, SIAC; Justice V.K. Rajah, Judge, Singapore Court of Appeal; and Lalit Bhasin, Chairman CII National Committee on Dispute Resolution, at the conference on Arbitration India in New Delhi

In addition, NFCG also supported 15

international and national level seminars

and conferences, and orientation

programmes organised by accredited

institutions and other partner institutions

in corporate governance, sustainability

and CSR.

The CII Committee on Accounting

Standards focussed on facilitating

industry’s understanding and adoption of

the new financial reporting system (XBRL)

and the converged Indian Accounting

Standards (IndAS). Interactive sessions on

XBRL were held in Delhi and Mumbai.

The CII Committee on Dispute Resolution focussed on

establishing and developing the CII Centre for Alternate

Dispute Resolution to provide an institutionalized

mechanism for resolving commercial disputes amicably,

economically and quickly, by a process of conciliation,

mediation and arbitration. An Interactive Session on

Salvaging Dispute Resolution was organised in Mumbai in

September.

In partnership with the Singapore International Arbitration

Centre, CII organised a conference on Arbitration India:

Protecting Business Interests in the Changing Global Market

in January 2012 in New Delhi. The Conference brought

together arbitrators, counsels and judges from India,

Singapore and the region to discuss international arbitration

for dispute resolution, in the backdrop of India’s position as

an investment destination.

The Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre (OIFC) is

a not-for-profit initiative of the Ministry of Overseas

Indian Affairs (MOIA) and CII. It was set up to

facilitate economic engagement of the Indian diaspora,

considered a strategic resource, with India, and has been

recognised as a focal point of contact, especially, for

diaspora professionals and small/mid sized entrepreneurs

keen to connect

with India.

With a network of ten State partners, 9 Knowledge

partners, 5 Diaspora Associations and 2 Media partners,

OIFC actively services the Indian diaspora.

OIFC Market Place at the PBD 2012: The OIFC Market

Place is a premier business networking forum for PBD

delegates who wish to expand their economic linkages

with India. This year, it witnessed an impressive footfall of

more than 1200 visitors and 520 business interactions and

meetings.

Publication Release by the

Prime Minister of India at PBD 2012: To ease the

process of returning to India, OIFC compiled a publication,

‘Returning Indians- All that you need to know’, which was

released by Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India.

‘Returning Indians’ has been developed keeping in mind all

aspects that would impact an Indian wanting to return to

India, right from the planning stage, right from rules and

regulations to softer aspects like culture.

OIFC Study of Indian Diaspora

OIFC commissioned a survey in November to understand

the expectations and concerns of Overseas Indians in their

economic engagement with India. The survey covered the

regions of Singapore, UAE and USA.

Diaspora Engagement Meets and

International Business Delegations

‘Diaspora Engagement Meets’ in regions where the

concentration of Indian diaspora is high, apprise NRIs of

opportunities for investment and business engagement

in India.

In 2011, two OIFC Meets were organised in Trinidad &

Tobago and The Netherlands. A business delegation from

India comprising prominent industry players and policy

makers interacted with 350 + delegates.

CII-OIFC Delegation to Canada

In an effort to help build synergies between businesses in

India & Canada, OIFC, in association with CII, organised

Dr. Manmohan SIngh, Prime Minister of India, releasing the OIFC-Deloitte publication, on the occasion of PBD 2012, with B Muthuraman, President, CII, and Vice Chairman Tata Steel Ltd. & Chairman, Tata International Ltd.; Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister of Rajasthan; Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Vayalar Ravi, Union Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs; and Shivraj V Patil, Governor of Punjab and Rajasthan, in Jaipur

Vayalar Ravi inaugurating the OIFC Pavilion at PBD 2012, with Ashok Gehlot and Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII, and Co-Chairman, OIFC

a CEOs delegation to Canada that coincided with the 5th

Mini Pravasi Bharatiya Divas held there in June 2011.

Partnerships with Indian States and other

organisations

The year 2011 saw OIFC further strengthening its ties

with State Governments in India, knowledge partners

from industry, prominent diaspora associations and media

partners to further its outreach among the diaspora.

During the year, Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Jharkhand and

Rajasthan came on board as OIFC’s State partners bringing

the total number to ten. The other State partners include

Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha and Punjab.

Young Indians, a platform for progressive young

Indians between 25-40 years of age, works towards

its objective of realising the dream of a developed

India.

During the year, Young Indians (Yi) worked actively

in sectors as diverse as healthcare, environment, and

agriculture, interacting with government officials, industry

representatives and other stakeholders.

For the first time ever, Yi hosted the G20 Young

Entrepreneur Alliance Leadership Assembly and Interim

Meetings. In January 2012, Presidents and Sherpas from 17

of the 20 member countries of the G20

Young Enterprenuer Alliance (YEA) joined Yi in New Delhi

for three days of meetings followed by a visit to the Taj

Mahal. India, as host nation, created history as a MoU

(drafted by Yi), outlining deliverables and procedural codes

for working together as a ‘Chartered Alliance’ of youth

organisations representing the 20 most powerful nations

in the world, was signed. Fifteen of Yi’s Governing Council

members were ‘official observers’ for the event, and used

the opportunity to build bridges with delegates from

around the world to explore opportunities of

working together.

Delegates at the Yi G20 Young Entrepreneur Alliance Leadership Assembly Meeting in New Delhi

CII - Yi Walkathon on World Environment Day in Bangalore

Winners of the Green I contest 2011 from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi

B Muthuraman, President, CII, Vice Chairman, Tata Steel Ltd, and Chairman, Tata International Ltd., at the 8th Yi National Summit in Coimbatore

Yi organised receptions hosted by the Ministry of External

Affairs and the Turkish Ambassador, interactions with the

Mexican Ambassador and a Yi-CNBC panel discussion.

Yi has been nominated Chair of the G20 YEA Governance

Committee, and will play strategically critical roles on the

Alliance’s Membership and Marketing Communications

committees.

In another noteworthy achievement, Yi brought together

the best youth organisations in the Commonwealth

Asia Region to form the first-ever advocacy and

mentorship network in the Region in partnership

with the Commonwealth Youth Programme Asia

Centre, Chandigarh. Commonwealth Asia Alliance of

Young Entrepreneurs (CAAYE). This network of young

entrepreneurs and the organisations that support them will

convene each year in advance of the Commonwealth Heads

of Government Meeting and relevant Commonwealth

Ministerial forums to present a united voice of young

entrepreneurs. The alliance has representatives from

Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore,

Maldives, Brunei-Darussalam and India.

In April 2011, Yi organised World Health Day, where 22 Yi

chapters from across the country simultaneously launched

the ‘Fit India Campaign’ towards ensuring that healthcare,

in terms of information and facilities, is accessible to as

many Indians as possible. The 22 healthcare activities,

organised in 15 states, impacted close to 57,000 people,

making it one of the biggest Yi initiatives this year.

Through its environment initiative, Yi plays a keen role in

generating awareness, especially amongst students, about

environment-related issues, advocating protection and

preservation of ecology. Various events were organised,

Yi Poster for World Health Day

especially on World

Environment Day in June,

from Kashmir to Vizag,

and Ahmedabad to

Nagaland. These included

sessions, panel discussions,

cleanliness drives, tree

plantation and seed ball

making activities.

Yi’s Green-I contest is

supported by the Indian

Green Building Council

and Carrier Aircon, to

create awareness about

environmental responsibility

• The 8th Young Indians National Summit, ‘Taking

Charge,’ brought 540 delegates and students from

different parts of the country and abroad to Coimbatore

in November. Mr B Muthuraman, President CII, and

Vice Chairman, Tata Steel Ltd, and Chairman, Tata

International Ltd, in his inaugural address, called

upon Young Indians to become a powerful, inclusive

organisation to gain wider acceptability.

Mr Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII, lauded

the endeavours of the Yi organisation, while Mr N

Gopalaswami, former Chief Election Commissioner,

urged youth to get actively involved in governance, both

at the local and national level.

• The Students’ Summit 2011 in Coimbatore in

November was addressed by several artists, trainers, and

academicians, and attended by more than 250 students

from Coimbatore, Kochi, Hyderabad, Bangalore,

Chennai and other chapters across India. The first

edition of the Yi Youth Affairs quarterly newsletter

was released by Mr Shankar Vanavarayar, National

Chairman, CII Yi, at the Summit.

Commonwealth Asia Alliance of Young Entrepreneurs in New Delhi

• Designed as a bridge between farmers and universities,

the 8th Agromax 2011, a summit to encourage farmers

to use innovative methods in agriculture, was held in

Coimbatore in November. Since its inception about

three and-a-half years ago, Agromax today has 11,000

farmers as its members.

• The 2011 edition of the G20 Young Entrepreneur

Summit (G20 YES) held in Nice, France, built on the

dialogue that began in Stresa, Italy (at the G8) and

continued at the G20 meetings in Toronto. The Summit

was attended by, among others, Mr Anand Mahindra,

Vice Chairman and MD, Mahindra & Mahindra, and 23

Yi members from 16 cities in India.

• The Nagaland Chapter of Young Indians welcomed 9

delegates from different parts of the country to the

annual Hornbill Festival, the cultural festival of the State,

in December. The inaugural function was attended by

Mr Nikhil Kumar, Governor of Nagaland, Mr Neiphiu

Rio, Chief Minister of Nagaland, and a host of other

ministers and dignitaries of the State.

in school children. The contest

encourages students to think about

conservation and sustainability

measures that can be implemented

within their school/community. The

winner gets a grant of Rs 7.5 lakhs

to implement its green ideas within

its campus. More than 100 schools

participated in the contest this year.

The winning team was from Sardar

Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi.

• In an informative and interesting

session with Yi members in

Coimbatore,

Ms Vasundhara Raje Scindia,

Leader of the Opposition,

Rajasthan Legislative Assembly,

spoke about the different

communities of Rajasthan, and

policies in the State.