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Jagriti yatra members visit Sri City
The 15-day-long Jagriti Yatra, a train journey that inspires and supports entrepreneurship among youth, arrived at Sri City on Friday. Among 500 participants of yatra, 48 per cent are women from India and abroad, Sri City authorities took them around the Integrated Business City.
Tirupati: The 15-day-long Jagriti Yatra, a train journey that inspires and supports entrepreneurship among youth, arrived at Sri City on Friday. Among 500 participants of yatra, 48 per cent are women from India and abroad, Sri City authorities took them around the Integrated Business City.
The yatra facilitates meeting some of the role models in social and business entrepreneurship across the country. Besides interacting with Sri City Chairman Srini Raju and Sri City founder MD Ravindra Sannareddy, they had the opportunity of meeting with the CEOs of some of the units.
Addressing the participants of the yatra, Srini Raju summarised his journey as an entrepreneur, and detailed the socio-economic developments that took place in the region after the advent of Sri City. He advised them to ‘think big and achieve the set goals’.
Thanking managements of Sri City and other industrial units for giving the opportunity, Raj Krishnamurthy, one of the board members of the Jagriti Sewa Samsthan, said the organisation aims to inspire youth of the country to become job creators and develop enterprise solutions for their districts, with the spirit, which Sri City captured perfectly.
Briefing about the setting up of Sri City, Ravindra Sannareddy said, “we found the present location, which is the most backward area in Andhra Pradesh and suitable for establishing Sri City. We dreamt Sri City to be what Hosur is to Bengaluru or Shenzhen is to China”.
PepsiCo HR head Swetha, Alstom MD Nilesh, and Vital Paper MD Sashi Ravada have delivered inspirational lectures to the visitors on entrepreneurship, goal setting, motivation and shared their own experiences.
At the end, there was a question and answer session in which doubts of the participants were clarified by the speakers. The participants of yatra visited the production units in different sectors and interacted with managers and staff.
