14th VARINDIA IT Forum 2016 :
Helping Build the Digital India Vision
[From L-R : Mr. Ravi S. Pani, Vice President-SPO INDIA, Ms. S. Mohini Ratna, Editor, VARINDIA, Mr. Deepak Kumar Sahu, Publisher & Chief Editor, Kalinga Digital Media & VARINDIA, Mr. R. K Bhatnagar, Director General – TEPC, Mr. Rudra Murthy K.G, CISO, Digital India programme, Ministry of Home – GOI, Mr. Vipin Tyagi, ED, C-Dot, Mr. Vishwanath Kulkarni, Director of Sales, Physical Access Control, India and SAARC, HID Global, Mr Shankar Aggarwal, Secretary, Labour and Employment, Government of India, Mr. Arvind Saxena, Group Marketing Head – Sify Technologies Limited, Mr. Sanjeev Sehgal, M.D. - Samridhi Automations and Mr. Gaurav Agarwal, Operations Director, Public Sector – Cisco Systems]
Mr. Kiran Karnik, Former President, NASSCOM “When the CSR law first came into force, many of my friends in the industry regarded it as being useless. They are of the opinion that CSR is something that comes out of profit and should be left to us whether we want to do anything for the society or not. The govt. should not be putting any mandates on this. But members from the community service organizations feel that companies make lots of profit and don’t do anything for the community. Many saw it as a good opportunity for flowing money into NGOs and the CSO sector, which was always starved of funds. But there are still issues that need to be sorted out in terms of putting the law into place.”
A day full of Technical keynote sessions, corporate presentations, discourses on issues impacting the technology landscape, business networking have what turned 14th VARINDIA IT Forum 2016 into a grand success. It served as a platform for the convergence of the who’s who of the ICT industry, Corporates, IT consultants and various government agencies and PSUs. The Annual Forum this year was divided into three sessions – CSR & Sustainability Summit which formed the morning session and the Information Technology Forum which consisted of both the afternoon and the evening sessions. The evening session also saw the unveiling of the 5th edition of the Brand Book. The day-long event kick-started with the morning session titled “CSR & Sustainability Summit” that had the active participation from corporates, social foundations, NGOs and different government bodies. The Summit reinforced the fact that CSR has, indeed, come a long way in India and that Information Technology is a primary catalyst that is driving this unprecedented growth. Mr. Kiran Karnik, Former President, NASSCOM, was a Special Guest joining the session along with Mr. Shrikant Sinha, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation who wooed the
Mr. Shrikant Sinha, CEO - NASSCOM Foundation “What is important to understand today is that even after 69 years of independence, the scenario has not changed much; we still have 1 NGO for 535 people. I think it is time to look for things differently, look at how corporates can play a role in CSR by bringing their policies and processes and ensure that the beneficiaries who are there on the ground actually benefit out of it. And that is the crux of Section 135 that has helped us not only to get things in perspective, but now we are looking at philanthropy by getting meaningful activities done. Today there is a challenge and to address it people need to get associated with technology. This is where NASSCOM Foundation does it part by working with the Government of India in the National Digital Literacy Mission.”
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