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FICCI has set up a sectoral Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion for steering its agenda towards enabling Diversity and inclusion work policies across India Inc. Being the voice of the Indian Industry, FICCI has been instrumental in bringing about many policy changes through several active committees representing various sectors of the Indian economy.
FICCI has set up a sectoral Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion for steering its agenda towards enabling Diversity and inclusion work policies across India Inc. Being the voice of the Indian Industry, FICCI has been instrumental in bringing about many policy changes through several active committees representing various sectors of the Indian economy. The D&I Task Force endeavours to ensure that Indian corporates have inclusive organizational policies in their companies with enough gender diversity, inclusion of people with disabilities as well as representation from the LGBTQI+ community.
FICCI's Engagement
With representation of senior industry leaders and CHROs/ D&I experts from private sector, NGOs and other policy influencers, this group being mentored by Dr Jyotsna Suri, Past President, FICCI and Chairperson and Managing Director, The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group and it is co-chaired by Ms Radhika Piramal, Executive Director & Vice Chairperson, VIP Industries and Mr Keshav Suri, Executive Director, Bharat Hotels Ltd. & Founder, Keshav Suri Foundation. For focused planning and action, this task force has sub-groups on the three priority areas i.e. Gender Parity, Empowering Persons with Disability and LGBTQ each led by a chair. Under the aegis of this Task Force, FICCI undertakes continuous engagement efforts with its industry members and other stakeholders including government, academia, opinion makers, experts etc.to build and showcase best D&I practices in the Indian private sector and bring about effective policy changes to ensure that the workplaces have an acceptable environment where people respect and recognize each other’s meritocracy over their sexual orientation, disability or gender.
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Bavleen Kaur
DirectorTimeline
2023
2022
2021
2020
Feb
Event
G20 EMPOWER Inception Meeting
Jul
Press Release
Minister of State, Social Justice & Empowerment exhorts industry to scale-up initiatives in workplace inclusion
Dec
Nov
Aug
Event
FICCI D&I Training Programme on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities at workplace
Jun
Apr
Event
Equally Book Launch
Mar
Press Release
FICCI collaborates with Microsoft to launch a whitepaper on inclusion of persons with disabilities
Feb
Dec
Sep
Event
FICCI Certification Programme on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Press Release
An Inclusive workplace can lead to better individuals, businesses, and organisational outcomes: Keshav Suri
