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Corporate sector more sensitive towards poverty issue:Minister

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Press Trust of India Ranchi
As corporates renewed their pledge to make the youth under below poverty line job-ready through skill training, Union Minister Choudhary Birendra Singh today said top industrial houses are now more sensitive toward poverty eradication programmes.

"...Today I saw their body language and found them to be sensitive for the under-privileged people. The speakers (from the industry) appeared sincere to do something for Jharkhand and the country," the Union Rural Development Minister said here.

Singh was addressing a function - Deen Dayal Upadhaya Grameen Kaushal Yozana (DDU-GKY), organised by the Union Rural Development Ministry and the Jharkhand government and the CII being the lead industry partner.
 

"It (sensitiveness) is a big thing)," Singh said.

The function was attended by Biren Ramesh Bhuta, Chief of Corporate Social Responsibility - TATA Steel, B V M Rao, Group Head - Human Resources, Shoppers Stop Limited, Ashutosh Raghuvanshi, Managing Director Vice-Chairman and CEO Narayana Health, Avijit Ghosh, Chairman-cum-Managing Director Heavy Engineering Corporation, among others.

In their speeches, all of them pledged their bit to poverty eradication programmes under Deen Dayal Upadhaya Grameen Kaushal Yojana -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pledge to empowering India and powering the world through skill training.

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First Published: Feb 18 2015 | 12:00 AM IST

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