VLCC Institute of Beauty
& Nutrition holds 13th Convocation Ceremony
~Hon’ble Manipur Governor Shri V.K. Duggal, NSDA
Director-General Shri J.P. Rai, DGET Director General Shri Alok Kumar, NSDC MD
& CEO Shri Dilip Chenoy, India TV Chairman & Managing Editor Shri Rajat
Sharma, Jaipur Development Authority Commissioner Shri Shikhar Agarwal & Noted
Actor & Social Activist Ms. Shabana Azmi Guests of Honor at event~
New Delhi/Mumbai, July 14, 2014: VLCC Institute of Beauty & Nutrition
- Asia's largest chain of vocational education academies in Beauty & Nutrition
- held its 13th Annual Convocation at the FICCI Auditorium in the Capital.
The Hon’ble Governor of Manipur, Shri
V.K. Duggal, the Director General, National Skill Development Agency
(NSDA), Government of India, Shri J.P. Rai, the
Director General, Directorate General of Employment & Training (DGET),
Ministry of Labour & Employment, & Joint Secretary, Government of
India, Shri Alok Kumar, the MD & CEO, National Skill Development
Corporation (NSDC), Shri Dilip Chenoy, the Chairman & Managing Editor,
India TV, Shri Rajat Sharma, the Commissioner, Jaipur Development Authority,
Shri Shikhar Agarwal, and noted Actor & Social Activist Ms. Shabana Azmi
were Guests of Honor at the program.
Over 400 of the nearly 5,000 students who
successfully completed their courses at the VLCC Institute of Beauty &
Nutrition during 2013-14 attended the Convocation ceremony and were personally
presented the diplomas by the Hon’ble Governor, Shri Rai, Shri Kumar,
Shri Chenoy, Shri Sharma, Shri Agarwal, Ms Azmi and the VLCC Founder &
Vice-Chairperson, Mrs. Vandana Luthra.
Congratulating
the students at the ceremony, VLCC Founder & Vice-Chairperson Mrs.
Vandana Luthra said: “I would like
to congratulate all the students who received their diplomas today and wish
them the very best for the future. I am sure that they will take
advantage of the training they have received at the VLCC Institutes to not just
secure their own futures in the fast-growing Wellness domain but also act as
ambassadors-at-large of a confident, young and skilled India.”
Mrs.
Luthra said India is uniquely positioned
to leverage its favorable demographic profile to take the final step in its
transition from a developing to a developed nation. “The future of
our country rests on the skill-sets of our youths. It is imperative that all of
us work towards creating an ecosystem where skills are recognized and valued.
Only when we do that can we truly leverage India’s favorable demographic
profile to emerge as a developed nation, and possibly even become the ‘Skills
Capital’ of the world by the turn of this decade,” she pointed out.
Mrs. Luthra
– who is also Chairperson of the industry-led and government-backed
Beauty & Wellness Sector Skill Council in India - said VLCC is
deeply committed to the cause of vocational education and training in the
Wellness space to further the cause of women empowerment in the light of
the fact that the Wellness domain employs a large number of women. “As
an organization almost 70% of whose nearly 6,000-plus workforce happens to be
women, nothing has given us more joy over the 25 years of VLCC’s
existence than being able to enable thousands of women to take charge of their
own lives and shape their destinies through the cutting-edge, industry-focused
training provided at the VLCC Institutes across the length and breadth of the
country,” Mrs. Luthra said.
Mrs. Luthra
said the VLCC Institutes have since their inception set over 50,000 youths on
the path of success by empowering them with the requisite industry-oriented
skills to find decent, well-paying jobs, or become gainfully self-employed.
VLCC is also working very closely with several states and the Central
government to impart job-ready training in the fields of beauty and nutrition
to thousands of youths across India. “For me, the chain of VLCC
Institutes is what truly makes VLCC unique because what we do through them is
to promote social and economic inclusion of a scale which has never before been
thought of or attempted by any Indian corporate,” she added.
The Convocation Ceremony also witnessed
dance performances by children supported by the NGO Khushii - an initiative
with which VLCC’s Founder & Vice-Chairperson Mrs. Vandana Luthra is
also keenly involved - and students from Arunachal Pradesh currently undergoing
training at the VLCC Institutes. Moreover, a ‘Bridal Show’ and a
‘Fashion Show’ were held at the Convocation. Eminent fashion
designer Ms. Varija Bajaj provided
support to the ‘Fashion Show’ through her designs.
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