BSDM sets sights on CSR in sustainable skill development

In a major push to utilize CSR for sustainable development of Skills, Bihar Skill Development Mission (BSDM) organized a summit titled Confluence of State Skill Mission and CSR for Sustainable Development of Skills.

The summit was held on 19th March, 2019 at India Habitat Center by Bihar Skill Development Mission (BSDM) to create synergy between State Skills Mission and CSR wings of PSUs, Corporates for Sustainable Development of Skills.

One of the key objectives of the summit was to tackle the twin problem of channelizing and ensuring proper utilization of resources to bring sustainable change in the life of all youths of Bihar and to address the major challenges and its probable solutions to harmonize the relationship between corporate and government. The

summit was graced by the many prominent attendees including Dipak Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary, Labor cum CEO, BSDM, G.K. Singh, Joint secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Dr. U.D. Choubey, Director General of Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE).

Dipak Kumar Singh said, “The concept of CSR is evolving. It’s no longer an act of few people carrying out philanthropic activities but is being increasingly seen as a medium of active cooperation between people, government and corporations. Just like that, skills development is also a dynamic concept.”

“We need to evolve the public-private partnerships to better address the challenges of current society in terms of unemployment, generation of livelihood opportunity, enhancement of skills in disadvantage groups and develop various model of upskilling and livelihood. This can be learnt from one place to another and replicate with the help of CSR. This can only be done through Multi Stakeholder engagement with quality inputs, assistance from stakeholder and by sharing resources, building blocks on new / innovative models and adopting best practices,” he added.

“We had a fruitful discussion with BSDM officials. We deeply appreciate their efforts to bring a new dimension to the whole gamut of CSR activities being undertaken by private entities in Bihar and beyond. We are currently running a CSR program in conjunction with IOCL Begusarai. But there’s lot of potential to grow. We suggested Bihar govt. and BSDM to create a central portal where we can get information on every governmental schemes at one place,” said, one of the representative from the CSR wing of IOCL.