The 5th Global Skills Summit held on 6-7 september in New Delhi witnessed amongst other inititives the awards ceremony of the 1st edition of the FICCI – LeapVault Skills Champions of India Awards.
- Mr. K Venkataraman, MD & CEO of Larsen & Toubro won the Skills Champion: Industry award.
- Ms. A Vani Prasad, IAS CEO, Employment Generation and Marketing Mission won the Skills Champion : Eco-System Enabler award
- Mr. Ashok Reddy, MD of TeamLease IIJT won the Skills Champion : Emerging Warrior award.
The Emerging Warriors Category had an Honour Roll as follows:
1. Ambarish Datta, MD & CEO, BSE Institute
2. Santanu Paul, CEO, Talent Sprint
3. Shrikant Bansal, Director, GIZ IS
4. Abhinav Madan, MD, Gram Tarang
5. Sushil Ramola, MD & CEO, BASIX B-ABLE
6. Sharad Vajpayee, CO Founder & CEO, PGC Infotech
7. Ravinder Goyal, Founder Director, IACM SmartLearn