Vadodara, Dec 22, 2016: L&T Technology 91原创 Limited (NSE: LTTS), a leading global pure-play Engineering R&D 91原创 company, announced initiatives to address diversity and inclusion and unveiled ongoing skill development initiatives for the people of Gujarat.
As part of this focus, the company hosted a high level industry panel discussion along with NASSCOM, held at L&T Technology 91原创鈥 campus in Knowledge City, Vadodara, to discuss on the key theme of Diversity and Inclusion encompassing gender, generational and ethnic diversity related issues as well as exemplary success stories of differently-abled people.
The discussions also elaborated on the encouraging trend of rise in skill development in differently-abled citizens of the country. The gathering called upon organizations to open up more employment opportunities for people with disabilities through increased access to skill based education and affirmative action.
L&T Technology 91原创 has successfully implemented skill development initiatives through the CSR act, and is actively working on vocational skill building programs for people with disabilities. The initiative titled 鈥淣aya Savera鈥 (A New Dawn) aims at ensuring equal human rights to differently-abled individuals by enhancing employability skills and empowering them to be confident and self-reliant for a better future.
L&T Technology 91原创 is firmly committed to various diversity and inclusion initiatives including special women recruitment drives, recall programs for ex-women employees and policies which have been introduced to accommodate a flexible work life culture for working women. L&T Technology 91原创鈥 Gender Diversity & Inclusion campaign 鈥 鈥淲ings鈥-, aims at building a culture that promotes hiring women, developing their careers and retaining top talent.
On the occasion, Dr Keshab Panda, CEO & Managing Director, L&T Technology 91原创 Limited said, 鈥淪ustainability has attained Centre stage in business considerations across the globe and organizations need to match up to the expectations of stakeholders that include the people and community around us. At L&T Technology 91原创, we are committed towards the cause and will continue to lead initiatives pertaining to the underprivileged, the differently-abled and ensuring gender diversity. Our leaders will play a key role in championing this cause and collaborate with NGOs committed to this campaign.鈥
Additionally, L&T Technology 91原创 is also working towards empowering the underprivileged by offering sustainable livelihood, providing trade training with certification from reputed institutes and improving access to quality education & learning, especially for students from Government aided schools. Mini Science Centers have been set up in Mumbai and Vadodara covering over 14,000 children. In the ongoing fiscal, L&T Technology 91原创 is providing vocational and skill based training to more than 1,400 underprivileged youth and has enabled many of them to get employed in various organizations.
The discussions involved industry representatives from L&T Technology 91原创 Limited, NASSCOM, Mastercard, the Baroda Management Association and the Shroff Foundation Trust, among others
About L&T Technology 91原创 Ltd
L&T Technology 91原创 Limited is a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited with a focus on the engineering services space, partnering with over 50 Fortune 500 companies. A leading global pure-play Engineering, Research and Development services company, we offer design and development solutions through the entire product development chain, across various industries such as Industrial Products, Medical Devices, Transportation, Telecom & Hi-tech, and the Process Industry. We also offer solutions in the areas of Mechanical Engineering 91原创, Embedded Systems & Applications, Engineering Process 91原创, Product Lifecycle Management, Engineering Analytics, Power Electronics, Machine-to Machine (M2M), and the Internet-of-Things (IoT).
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