The Bangalore-based UL (Underwriter Labs) Pvt. Ltd ” a subsidiary of the US-based UL LLC (estb.1894) which offers a wide range of industrial, fire suppression, home and other safety auditing, inspection, test and validation services ” announced a partnership with Youth Service America (YSA) to launch two ˜Safer Roads, Safer India™ youth leadership programmes in India. Under the programme, UL-YSA will shortly invite creative solutions from young people in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai BMLand Pune to create safer roads and a safer India. Later this year, UL-YSA will award grants to 40 educators and 16 youth ambassadors to organise youth-led awareness, service, advocacy, and philanthropy activities. After being trained by experts in youth leadership and road safety issues, the grantees will conduct the largest youth-led road safety audit worldwide, mapping road safety in Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, and Pune. Subsequently they will raise public awareness about road safety and educate their peers and community members to improve safety practices and lead community service projects. œThrough the Safer Roads, Safer India campaign, we are trying to canalise youth energy to create solutions for a better and much stronger road safety scenario in India, said R.A. Venkitachalam, vice president (public safety mission) of UL, speaking on the occasion. IIS™ new leadership centre Sushil Mantri, chairman and managing director of Mantri Developers Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru, formally inaugurated a new Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Leadership of the Bangalore-based Indus International School (IIS, estb. 2003), on its Sarjapur campus on April 25. A new mobile healthcare centre and a low-cost sanitary napkin machine were also gifted to benefit underprivileged households in the vicinity of IIS. œIndia stands on the edge of becoming a global leader, economically and culturally. The Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Leadership is a much-needed institution to build future leaders who will lead India in its growth trajectory. I applaud the efforts by the school to meaningfully educate children beyond the conventional learning system and make a positive difference to society and the country, said Mantri, speaking on the occasion. Added Sarojini Rao, principal of the IBO, Geneva-affiliated IIS who explained the objectives of the new centre: œThe Mahatma Gandhi Centre is one more initiative of Indus International to create leaders of tomorrow. The launch of the mobile healthcare centre and the low-cost sanitary napkin machine are two more endeavours to guide children to become responsible leaders of society. BMU-IBM initiative Dilpreet Singh, vice president and head of human resources of IBM India, Sunil Kant Munjal, chancellor, BML Munjal University, Gurgaon (BMU, estb. 2014) and Prof. G. Anandalingam, dean of the Imperial College, London™s business school, inaugurated a business analytics laboratory on the BMU campus on April 21. Under the university™s career education programme, IBM will provide the software and case studies pedagogy to train BMU™s faculty. The objective of the programme is to enable BMU to graduate business managers with the requisite skill-sets to succeed in business and industry. According to BMU sources, on completion of the faculty development programmes at the start of…
