1. Mr Alagu Krishnan Senguttuvan
Alagu Krishnan Senguttuvan holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) degree from Thiagarajar
College of Engineering, Madurai. He works towards promoting Skill oriented programmes, Open
University and Distance Education systems domestically and internationally; Build and nurture a
new generation of professional designers who can spearhead the Indian fashion and Apparel
Industry to global leadership; encourage and take part in social service activities (Skill Training)
through established organizations; he has helped found several Educational Institutions to promote
collegiate level education both full-time and part-time. All of these institutions are authorized by
well-renowned universities like Alagappa University – Karaikudi, Tamilnadu Open University –
Chennai, Bharathiar University – Coimbatore, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University –Tirunelveli
and Periyar University – Salem to offer courses. More than one lakh students have registered and
pursued their studies in various undergraduate, postgraduate, diplomas and certificate courses
through the institutions he helped found. Also he is constantly looking to bring the newest and the
latest degree programs to the masses; one such endeavor is the Madras Institute of Fashion
Technology. The vision of Madras Institute of Fashion Technology is to produce well-qualified
professionals who are exposed to cutting-edge developments in the field of fashion technology. In
addition, Deepighaa Instititute of Management & Technology has been selected by the Department
of Most Backward Classes (Tamilnadu) to conduct job oriented (Skill Training) programs. This
initiative was the result of his desire to impart quality education to the under-privileged.
2. Dr. B. Dharmalingam
He is Professor, Department of Economics & Rural Development
And Director, Alagappa Institute of Skill Development. His Research Area / Specialization(s):
include Vocational Education, SHGs and Rural Development, Women’s Studies, Rural Self
Government. He is also Co-ordinator - Alagappa University – IL&FS Institute of Skills (AU-IIS) &
Director - Centre for Nehru Studies. He holds a degree in M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D..
3. Mr Balamurugan Marghabandu
He is the Principal - GKD Institute for Technological Resources
4. Mr Nalluchamy Perumal Pillai
He is the General manager – HR : Lakshmi Machine Works
5. Mr Shavez Bakhsh
He is the consultant, Uttarakhand Skill Development Mission
6. Dr Pankaj Kumar Pandey
Dr Pankaj Kumar Pandey is a serving officer of Indian Administrative Service(2005 batch)
His education qualification is MBBS. He has worked as collector & District Magistrate in 3 districts
of Uttarakhand namely Champawat, Uttarkashi and Udham Singh Nagar.
He is currently working as Additional secretary Technical Education & Training, Labour &
Employment and Medical Education (Government of Uttarakhand) and Project Director
Uttarakhand Skill development Mission. Also working for skill development since last about one
year. He has also developed our state mission to meet the current requirements for skill
development. He has also developed a mobile app(KUSHAL UTTARAKHAND) to enable
unemployed youth to get all the information about skills training and placement as well as self
employment. He is working closely with all stakeholders in skill ecosystem in India like NSDC,
NSDA, MSDE etc.
7. Ms Anitha Nair
She is the Deputy Director (Vocational Education) for National Institute of Open Schooling
8. Mr Faraz Faridi
He is the Head, Business Development, Industry and States Engagement : FICSI Food Industry
Capacity & Skill Initiative
9. Ms Shobha Mishra Ghosh,
Ms. Ghosh is Senior Director, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
(FICCI) heads Education (school, vocational education & higher education), Skill
Development, Health, Health Insurance, Medical Technology and Life Sciences
(Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology). She has the experience of working with private
sector, governments and multilateral/bilateral development agencies with the expertise
to recommend policy reforms, areas for public-private partnerships and awareness
programmes amongst stakeholders and beneficiaries.
She is responsible for successfully making FICCI a leader in the above sectors by
mobilizing experts and leaders to actively participate in pushing the reform agenda to
the Government. Ms Shobha led the India Skills competition in Fashion Technology trade which
was successfully organised in July 2016.
The winners of India Skills Competition have qualified for the final selection for WorldSkills Internati
onal Competition at Abu Dhabi, 2017. It provided a platform that brought youth, industries, and
educators together.
She is trained as an architect from Sir J J College of Architecture, Mumbai and Post
Graduation in Urban Planning from Institute of Housing and Development Studies (IHS),
Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She has about 28 years of experience of being associated
with organizations, which deal with large-scale development programmes and policy
issues on Education, Health and Infrastructure (Mass Housing, Energy, Environment &
Urban Renewal). She also has certificates on higher education leadership and
management from United States Department of State and Illinois University of Urbana
Champagne, USA.
Prior to FICCI, she has worked with organization like The Energy & Resource Institute
(TERI), Schumacher Centre Delhi (SCD) - Indian partner of IDG (India Development
Group) in London, U.K, and ACORD in various leadership positions.
10. Ms Minakshi Sharma
Minakshi Sharma is a Trainer with over 6 years of experience in training and course development:
delivering training, designing and writing courses, leading & directing teams of trainers.She holds a
degree in Master of Computer Application from Punjab Technical University. She is working with
Indian Institute of Skills Development (Deployed at Maruti Suzuki India Limited) from June 2014 to
till date. Her key deliverables are Functioning as a Trainer to deliver functional and behavioral
training sessions. Key subjects include MS office, Work Safety (5S, 3G, 3K, Kaizen, HHT and
KYT) ; identified gaps and redesigned layout of Student trainees’ feedback for vocational school
which smoothen collating of data ; Collating and processing data for documentation of training
reports ; Worked on LMS (Learning Management System) and currently utilizing my Skills to
design a Database Management System for student trainees to ensure efficient monitoring of their
progress ; Designed basic modules for courses on Automotive Body Repair and Automotive Body
Paint for vocational school; Developing of Training Content for Student Trainees (Vocational
School) on MS Office and Internet Applications.
11. Mr Manish Kumar Pandey
An automobile industry professional with 14+ years of experience in manufacturing. Proficient in
strengthening core manufacturing processes through implementation of breakthrough techniques,
target alignment, cost control, strategy formulation and execution.
12. Mr Mahesh Chandra Bitra
He is the Deputy Manager - Maruti Suzuki India Limited
13. Mr Rajesh Kumar
He is the Mission Director - Uttar Pradesh State Skill Development Mission
14. Mr Gole Rajendra Mukund
He is the OSD to Minister Skill development - Government of Maharashtra
15. Mr Sambhaji Patil Nilangekar
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Is the member of 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra from Nilanga. He is a
[3]
member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) & RSS and also the General Secretary
of the
Maharashtra State Unit of the BJP.
Nilangekar is currently representing Local government in Maharashtra Panchayati Raj.
2016 he was sworn in as a cabinet minister in Devendra Fadnavis government
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On July 8,
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16. Mr Mahesh Kshirsagar
Project Fellow at CSIR- Unit for Research and Development of Information Products (URDIP)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
17. Mr Ashutosh Rathod
MSc; LL.B, OSD to Skills Development Minister, Govt of Maharashtra, Director Business Bank,
Strategic Legal Consultant
18. Ms Rubina Akhtar
She is an Independent Delegate from Manipur.
19. Dr Suhel Akhtar
Additional Chief Secretary to Government of Manipur, Imphal Area, India
Supervision & Control of Labour & Employment Department, Skill Development, Supervision &
Control of Administrative Reforms Department and Director General of State Academy of Training,
Govt. of Manipur.
20. Mr Ranjan Choudhury
Principal - Program Development National Skill Development Corporation
Ranjan received his Masters Degree in Business Administration from Faculty of Management
Studies, Delhi University and a Bachelors in Economics from St. Stephens College. Prior to joining
NSDC, Ranjan has been an entrepreneur and was with the Godfrey Philips group heading their
vocational training initiative. He has considerable in depth experience in vocational training
including setting up network through franchisee and Public Private Partnership modes. In his
current role in NSDC as Principal - Program Development, primary focus is to foster NSDC
partnerships to set up large scale sustainable training projects with private sector to deliver the 150
million mandate by 2022. Additional responsibilities include promoting train the trainer projects,
bilateral and multilateral agency engagement; special projects; international collaboration and
being atask force member for the India EU Skills Development Project A personal interest is in
working for initiatives for skilling differently abled people.
21. Mr Aditya Pratap Singh Rathore
He is Winner of India Skills Competition, in Automobile Technology skill.
He belongs to Agra- a city known for world famous Taj Mahal. After his matriculation examination,
he shifted to Pune. He has just completed ‘Apprenticeship Training’ of 3 years’ duration from Tata
Motors Limited, Training Division in ‘Mechanic Motor Vehicle’ trade.Aditya has fascination about
cars since childhood. He likes the skill ‘Automobile Technology’ because there are so many things
to learn and explore new answers in continuously changing advance technology being deployed in
today’s cars. For India Skills, Aditya has undergone a rigorous training at Tata Motors Central
Training Center, Pune.
After achieving success in India Skills , Aditya is looking forward to represent India in WorldSkills
Abu Dhabi 2017. He is putting up his best foot forward with sincere efforts and dedication. His
ambition is to make his parents,company and nation proud by accomplishing podium finish in
WorldSkills Abu Dhabi.
22. Ms Neha Ulhas Chande
Neha Ulhas Chande, a bright young girl of 21 years, from Mumbai - the land of opportunities, left her
mark on the global skills landscape by grabbing a gold medal for India in the “Beauty Therapy” category
at WorldSkills Oceania Competition 2015.
WorldSkills Oceania, which is hosted by WorldSkills New Zealand, saw over 100 participants from
across 7 countries participating this year. These countries are New Zealand, Australia, Korea,
Canada, Malaysia, China and India. This is the first time WorldSkills India had sent its contingent
to participate in WorldSkills Oceania and this girl was all set to compete at a world stage.
As they say -“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”. Neha’s skill of seeing and portraying
beauty in her subject so well, brought her dream closer to her and achieve what she wouldn’t have
ever thought when she enrolled to participate in the WorldSkills India Competition 2015 being
conducted by NSDC under the supervision of Ministry of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship. Neha made her way through tough training and skill education and finally made
it to the final 29 contingent being prepared from India to display their best of skill set on a global
platform. Her dreams and her dedication to perform her best, had finally got her wings to fly higher
in life. Neha is presently working as a senior technical consultant with Enrich Academy in Mumbai.
A CIDESCO qualified Neha is also pursuing graduation from Mumbai University. This is her one
big step towards performing her best at WorldSkill Sau Paulo 2015 which Neha is eagerly waiting
for. She is a more confident contender now and awaits to make a stronger mark for her country,
her family and last but the least for herself
23. Mr Nihal Rustgi Coordinator,
Worldskills India at National Skill Development Corporation
He is a Coordinator, WorldSkills India & CSR Engagements at National Skill Development
Corporation, MSDE, Govt. of India. Also a Co-founder at Brainwiz. Worked with InnovAccer as a
Marketing Associate for 10 Months, worked with Yatri Entrepreneur, Jagriti Yatra at Google for 2
months also he was a Marketing intern at MPS Techworks and Giesecke & Devrient GmbH. He is
been an Advocate at Student World Assembly
He is also Online Volunteer at United Nations Volunteers, Volunteer at Médecins Sans Frontières
Belgium, Volunteer at AROH Foundation......A Ray Of Hope
24. Richard Everitt - Director Education : British Council
25. Leighton Ernsberger - Assistant Director- Skills : British Council
26. Sheena Cherian - Head – Skills : British Council
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