A quarter of Jharkhand’s population is between 15 and 29-years-old. The state’s young people have the potential to propel the economy forward. However, they face structural barriers shaped by geography, social, gender and economic factors – all of which will be released in a report during this session. Mitigation strategies will be discussed in the session that brings together stakeholders from government, industries, academia and young people themselves. Pathways will be mapped to catalyze “local solutions” aimed at reducing these structural barriers in the state of Jharkhand.
Shri Lokesh Mishra is from Pratapgarh, UP. He secured 44th rank in UPSC 2015. He completed his schoo...More
Shri Lokesh Mishra is from Pratapgarh, UP. He secured 44th rank in UPSC 2015. He completed his schooling from Pratapgarh and then joined the prestigious IIT Delhi for his graduation in Chemical Engineering. He graduated in 2012. After the completion of his graduation, he joined chambal fertilizers and chemical limited in Kota, Rajasthan and worked there for about 2 years. He always had a dream of joining civil services since his childhood days and that is the reason why he opted for the civil services examination. He got selected in UP PCS and he gave 9 months to the state civil services of Uttar Pradesh. He worked in Raibareli, UP as Block development officer. In 2018, he joined as SDO in Chhapra, Bihar. Lokesh even did his training in Champaran, Bihar after he cleared UPSC.He has served as CEO-ZP, Koderma, SDO Ranchi before being appointed as Tribal Welfare Commissioner. He has done B.Tech. from IIT.
Dr DK Singh had taken charge of BIT Sindri in 2017 and made the institution the second-best engineer...More
Dr DK Singh had taken charge of BIT Sindri in 2017 and made the institution the second-best engineering college in the country as per the 2022 survey of the All-Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi. Besides it, BIT Sindri emerged first in East Zone Engineering College ranking competition 2022, first prize in the IFAT India Trade Fair University Challenge competition held in Mumbai in October 2022 and became a champion in Eastern India Geo-Mining Technocrats Fest (MINARS) held at NIT Rourkela, 2023
Dr DK Singh was the first vice-chancellor of Binod Bihari Mahto Koylanchal University (2017 – 2018) as he was given an additional charge alongside being the director of BIT Sindri and recently IIT ISM appointed him as a Senate member.
Director and Co-founded a successful startup – PURESH DAILY FOODS PVT. LTD. at Ranchi. The com...More
Director and Co-founded a successful startup - PURESH DAILY FOODS PVT. LTD. at Ranchi. The company is valuated Rs 15 cr in Just 1.5 years of operation and created jobs for more than 50. Though in a challenging eco-system, the bootstrapped startup is in positive profits and seeing revenue growth.
The Farm to Fork model uses innovation in logistics, products, job creation, social impact through self-developed technology.
The Techno-commercial role in Cars- Customer Support in Jharkhand involved single handed responsibility for the entire state at very early stage of career. The role and locations have also been much diversified – from Sales at Ahmedabad and Jaipur, Customer Support (PCBU) for Jharkhand state, Plant-HR role at Jamshedpur, Strategy and Finance role at Dharwad, Technical projects in Pune, International Business role at Seoul, Korea and presently all India Marketing for Intermediate and Medium trucks at Mumbai.
The exposure to product knowledge has been all round - from Passenger vehicles, Commercial vehicles, Tata Markopolos Buses and TDCV Korea’s (under Daewoo brand) domestic and export -Medium and Heavy commercial vehicles
The role at International Business sales, marketing and business development allowed exposure to multiple work cultures and markets in parallel. The diversity among middle East markets like Iraq, Jordan, Bahrain, Qatar, Lebanon and also very challenging European environment market –Turkey was well handled with sales operations from Korea, with Korean colleagues.
Dr. Fr. Pradeep Kerketta has done his Masters and M.Phil. in Economics from Loyola College, Chennai ...More
Dr. Fr. Pradeep Kerketta has done his Masters and M.Phil. in Economics from Loyola College, Chennai that comes under Madras University. He did his Ph.D. from Ranchi University. His area of research was on Developmental Economics. Being closely associated with the developmental activities of the Institute, he developed a deep passion to work for the excluded. He taught Managerial Economics and Macroeconomics in Marketing and Finance Programs. Currently, he teaches Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Dr. Pradeep working on the post of Assistant Director equipped himself in the area of administration and public relations, managerial skills that includes Business communication, counseling and problem solving and negotiation skills. As he was also working with Development Resource Centre (DRC) of the institute in projects like Dikonia and Italian Livelihood Project he gained experiences of running and evaluating livelihood activities both in need based and right based approaches.
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