Shweta Shalini (born 8 September 1980) is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state of Maharashtra.
She was appointed General Secretary of the Ayodhya Samanvaya Samiti which was formed at the behest of petitioners of Ram Janmabhoomi movement to construct Ram Mandir. This Samiti having representations from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Nirmohi Akhara, Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas and Shiv Sena was formed to work towards bringing together all petitioners and removing obstacles to the construction of Ram Mandir.
Her Corporate success with two more IT companies later on turned her into serial entrepreneur which eventually led to her being Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011.
Apart from her political role, She is Executive Director of Maharashtra Village Social Transformation Foundation (VSTF) which aims at transforming the 1000 backward villages in Maharashtra.
She has appeared in several news debates in English, Hindi and Marathi channels to put forth the party point of view. She was appointed BJP Spokesperson.
She is special executive director at the Maharashtra Village Social Transformation Foundation tasked with Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis initiative to transform 1000 villages into model villages.
Woman Empowerment
She launched the Billennium Divas Angel Fund for women entrepreneurs and start-ups quoting impact alpha special report that India's 650 million women are the key to meet all global goals for 2030 especially sustainable development goal by achieving gender equality. The fund is the second in the country dedicated entirely to woman-entrepreneurs and woman-led startups where Shweta Shalini as chief evangelist mentors the start-ups.
Rural Transformation through VSTF
Shweta Shalini is Executive Director of Village Social Transformation Foundation (VSTF), a Section 8 company formed by the Government of Maharashtra. She was appointed as Director on January 2018 after which she has steered the initiatives of the foundation in training the Chief minister Rural Development Fellows (CMRDF), transforming the villages and monitoring the changes on the ground by personally visiting villages. The foundation chaired by the Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis himself is tasked with transforming the 1000 backward villages in Maharashtra into model Villages. The Foundation which is an initiative of Government of Maharashtra and chaired by Chief Minister of Maharashtra has corporate tycoons like Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani and Anand Mahindra as part of the governing council. The progress and development work of all 1000 villages have been initiated by them already. He also expressed hope that villages adjoining the transformed 1000 villages will also take a cue and join in the social transformation process.
Skill Development
The UBYPM established with Shweta Shalini as one of the core members will promote skill development of the community with an aim to provide employment and promote livelihood development and eradicate mass unemployment. The manch will organize trainings, workshops and seminar to promote basic skilling and education among both blue collar workers and white collar professionals with a view to have a prosperous community building.
Entrepreneurship Promotion
The UBYPM under the guidance of Shweta Shalini will promote self-employment and entrepreneurship among the community to make the community job-givers rather than job-seekers. The entrepreneurship promotion will aim at establishing a rich ecosystem of entrepreneurs who will work together for the welfare and prosperity of the community with an aim to provide employment and also grow existing business enterprises.
She was appointed General Secretary of the Ayodhya Samanvaya Samiti which was formed at the behest of petitioners of Ram Janmabhoomi movement to construct Ram Mandir. This Samiti having representations from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Nirmohi Akhara, Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas and Shiv Sena was formed to work towards bringing together all petitioners and removing obstacles to the construction of Ram Mandir.
Her Corporate success with two more IT companies later on turned her into serial entrepreneur which eventually led to her being Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011.
Apart from her political role, She is Executive Director of Maharashtra Village Social Transformation Foundation (VSTF) which aims at transforming the 1000 backward villages in Maharashtra.
She has appeared in several news debates in English, Hindi and Marathi channels to put forth the party point of view. She was appointed BJP Spokesperson.
She is special executive director at the Maharashtra Village Social Transformation Foundation tasked with Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis initiative to transform 1000 villages into model villages.
Woman Empowerment
She launched the Billennium Divas Angel Fund for women entrepreneurs and start-ups quoting impact alpha special report that India's 650 million women are the key to meet all global goals for 2030 especially sustainable development goal by achieving gender equality. The fund is the second in the country dedicated entirely to woman-entrepreneurs and woman-led startups where Shweta Shalini as chief evangelist mentors the start-ups.
Rural Transformation through VSTF
Shweta Shalini is Executive Director of Village Social Transformation Foundation (VSTF), a Section 8 company formed by the Government of Maharashtra. She was appointed as Director on January 2018 after which she has steered the initiatives of the foundation in training the Chief minister Rural Development Fellows (CMRDF), transforming the villages and monitoring the changes on the ground by personally visiting villages. The foundation chaired by the Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis himself is tasked with transforming the 1000 backward villages in Maharashtra into model Villages. The Foundation which is an initiative of Government of Maharashtra and chaired by Chief Minister of Maharashtra has corporate tycoons like Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani and Anand Mahindra as part of the governing council. The progress and development work of all 1000 villages have been initiated by them already. He also expressed hope that villages adjoining the transformed 1000 villages will also take a cue and join in the social transformation process.
Skill Development
The UBYPM established with Shweta Shalini as one of the core members will promote skill development of the community with an aim to provide employment and promote livelihood development and eradicate mass unemployment. The manch will organize trainings, workshops and seminar to promote basic skilling and education among both blue collar workers and white collar professionals with a view to have a prosperous community building.
Entrepreneurship Promotion
The UBYPM under the guidance of Shweta Shalini will promote self-employment and entrepreneurship among the community to make the community job-givers rather than job-seekers. The entrepreneurship promotion will aim at establishing a rich ecosystem of entrepreneurs who will work together for the welfare and prosperity of the community with an aim to provide employment and also grow existing business enterprises.
Business and employment co-operatives (BECs) represent a new approach to providing support to the creation of new businesses. The first BEC was started in France in 1996, since then a further 55 such enterprises operating in 100 locations across the country has sprung up. The idea has also been adopted in Belgium, Sweden, Quebec, Morocco and Madagascar.
Like other business creation support schemes, BECs enable budding entrepreneurs to experiment with their business idea while benefiting from a secure income. The innovation BECs introduce is that once the business is established the entrepreneur is not forced to leave and set up independently, but can stay and become a full member of the co-operative. The micro-enterprises thus combine to form one multi-activity enterprise whose members provide a mutually supportive environment for each other.
A BEC thus provides budding business people with an easy transition from inactivity to self-employment, but in a collective framework. Intending entrepreneurs pass through three stages:
* First, they remain technically unemployed but develop their business idea under the wing of the BEC;
* Next, if it looks like being a success, they become a ‘salaried entrepreneur’ with the security of a part-time employment contract;
* Finally they become a self-sufficient business, sharing in the ownership and management of the co-operative.
BECs allow a small business person to achieve control over their working life, but with the support of a group of people who are facing the same problems and want to pool their enthusiasm and expertise. They help to overcome one of the most discouraging features of becoming self-employed - isolation. They thus lower the bar for becoming an entrepreneur, and open up new horizons for people who have ambition but who lack the skills or confidence needed to set off entirely on their own - or who simply want to carry on an independent economic activity but within a supportive group context.
BEC clients are in all sorts of activities from cookery, industrial cleaning, furniture restoration and organic horticulture to violin making, jewellery, translation and web design. At the end of 2005, the 90 sites in the BEC network numbered 2,618 supported entrepreneurs plus 1,138 salaried entrepreneurs (including 60 member entrepreneurs), with a combined turnover of €16.5 million in 2005. Two-thirds of entrepreneurs start off as unemployed, two-thirds are aged between 30 and 50 and 53% are women.
Three-phase career
Stage 1 - Supported entrepreneur
Initially, the 'candidate business' works up their idea while remaining legally unemployed. They continue to receive unemployment benefit while developing a marketable product or service, testing the market and establishing a client base. The BEC handles the business administration and accounting.
Stage 2 - Salaried entrepreneur
The entrepreneur agrees to a part-time employment contract with the BEC, and in return pays over 10% of sales. They continue to build up the business and receive training, administrative support, and social insurance coverage. The salary grows as the business grows.
Stage 3 - Member entrepreneur
When the business is self-supporting, the entrepreneur can choose to join the BEC as a full voting member, and take part in its management, continuing to pay an administration charge of 10% of sales. Optionally, the business can spin off as a totally independent entity.
Policy relevance
Business and employment co-operatives have aroused interest in various areas of policy-making:
* One of these is economic development in rural areas, as BECs are a good way to support the so-called SOHO-SOLOs, professionals who migrate to the countryside to carry on their business at a distance - and in so doing bring valuable skills, economic activity and social life back to depopulated areas.
* Another is the regularisation of informal work.
* A third is demography, and concern about how to raise the activity rate to counter the effect of an ageing population. BECs can help excluded groups such as ex-offenders to restart their working careers, and allow older people to work part-time.
Like other business creation support schemes, BECs enable budding entrepreneurs to experiment with their business idea while benefiting from a secure income. The innovation BECs introduce is that once the business is established the entrepreneur is not forced to leave and set up independently, but can stay and become a full member of the co-operative. The micro-enterprises thus combine to form one multi-activity enterprise whose members provide a mutually supportive environment for each other.
A BEC thus provides budding business people with an easy transition from inactivity to self-employment, but in a collective framework. Intending entrepreneurs pass through three stages:
* First, they remain technically unemployed but develop their business idea under the wing of the BEC;
* Next, if it looks like being a success, they become a ‘salaried entrepreneur’ with the security of a part-time employment contract;
* Finally they become a self-sufficient business, sharing in the ownership and management of the co-operative.
BECs allow a small business person to achieve control over their working life, but with the support of a group of people who are facing the same problems and want to pool their enthusiasm and expertise. They help to overcome one of the most discouraging features of becoming self-employed - isolation. They thus lower the bar for becoming an entrepreneur, and open up new horizons for people who have ambition but who lack the skills or confidence needed to set off entirely on their own - or who simply want to carry on an independent economic activity but within a supportive group context.
BEC clients are in all sorts of activities from cookery, industrial cleaning, furniture restoration and organic horticulture to violin making, jewellery, translation and web design. At the end of 2005, the 90 sites in the BEC network numbered 2,618 supported entrepreneurs plus 1,138 salaried entrepreneurs (including 60 member entrepreneurs), with a combined turnover of €16.5 million in 2005. Two-thirds of entrepreneurs start off as unemployed, two-thirds are aged between 30 and 50 and 53% are women.
Three-phase career
Stage 1 - Supported entrepreneur
Initially, the 'candidate business' works up their idea while remaining legally unemployed. They continue to receive unemployment benefit while developing a marketable product or service, testing the market and establishing a client base. The BEC handles the business administration and accounting.
Stage 2 - Salaried entrepreneur
The entrepreneur agrees to a part-time employment contract with the BEC, and in return pays over 10% of sales. They continue to build up the business and receive training, administrative support, and social insurance coverage. The salary grows as the business grows.
Stage 3 - Member entrepreneur
When the business is self-supporting, the entrepreneur can choose to join the BEC as a full voting member, and take part in its management, continuing to pay an administration charge of 10% of sales. Optionally, the business can spin off as a totally independent entity.
Policy relevance
Business and employment co-operatives have aroused interest in various areas of policy-making:
* One of these is economic development in rural areas, as BECs are a good way to support the so-called SOHO-SOLOs, professionals who migrate to the countryside to carry on their business at a distance - and in so doing bring valuable skills, economic activity and social life back to depopulated areas.
* Another is the regularisation of informal work.
* A third is demography, and concern about how to raise the activity rate to counter the effect of an ageing population. BECs can help excluded groups such as ex-offenders to restart their working careers, and allow older people to work part-time.
Sanjaya Wijeyekoon is a specialist General and Colorectal Surgeon. His NHS practice is based at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital in Dorset, United Kingdom.
Career
Mr Wijeyekoon was appointed in 2010 as a Consultant Surgeon at the Royal London Hospital. He then transferred as Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust in 2011. He was the clinician for the Homerton Anogenital Neoplasia Service (2013-2015) and lead colorectal surgeon for the Homerton Endometriosis Service. Mr Wijeyekoon was then appointed as Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital in 2015. He joined Nuffield Health Bournemouth as a consultant surgeon in the same year. In 2016, he joined the MacMillan Cancer Support as their UK expert clinician for AIN3 and provides online advice to patients around the world afflicted by this condition. He was appointed as Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University in 2016.
In 2012, Mr Wijeyekoon was part of the medical team based at Homerton University Hospital in London which provided clinical care for athletes and officials at the games of the 30th Olympiad ( London 2012 Olympic and Para-Olympic Games) based in East London.
Major Awards
*1993: The Sidney Sussex College Cambridge Travel Award for Overseas Surgical Research
*2000: The Royal College for Surgeons of England and Department of Health United Kingdom Research Fellowship to the National Liver Transplant Audit, United Kingdom and Ireland
*2009: University College Hospital Clinical Training Award
*2011: The Worshipful Company of Cutlers' Surgical Award
*2016: Visiting Fellow Bournemouth University
Career
Mr Wijeyekoon was appointed in 2010 as a Consultant Surgeon at the Royal London Hospital. He then transferred as Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust in 2011. He was the clinician for the Homerton Anogenital Neoplasia Service (2013-2015) and lead colorectal surgeon for the Homerton Endometriosis Service. Mr Wijeyekoon was then appointed as Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital in 2015. He joined Nuffield Health Bournemouth as a consultant surgeon in the same year. In 2016, he joined the MacMillan Cancer Support as their UK expert clinician for AIN3 and provides online advice to patients around the world afflicted by this condition. He was appointed as Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University in 2016.
In 2012, Mr Wijeyekoon was part of the medical team based at Homerton University Hospital in London which provided clinical care for athletes and officials at the games of the 30th Olympiad ( London 2012 Olympic and Para-Olympic Games) based in East London.
Major Awards
*1993: The Sidney Sussex College Cambridge Travel Award for Overseas Surgical Research
*2000: The Royal College for Surgeons of England and Department of Health United Kingdom Research Fellowship to the National Liver Transplant Audit, United Kingdom and Ireland
*2009: University College Hospital Clinical Training Award
*2011: The Worshipful Company of Cutlers' Surgical Award
*2016: Visiting Fellow Bournemouth University
UTAH FC is a Premier soccer organization in Utah Valley. It was the first youth soccer organization in Utah Valley to be sanctioned by Utah Youth Soccer Association.
History
Founded in 2003 by Michael Anderson, (who at that time was the head coach of Timpview High School men's soccer), as Utah County Strikers, UTAH FC (soccer club) was first set up as an organization for high school players in Utah Valley to play statewide premier club soccer during the high school off-season.
In early 2009, the UC Strikers Soccer Club, a non-profit 501 (c) 3 youth organization, merged with another Utah County youth soccer organization and rebranded exchanging their red/white/black colors for the black/gold/white and the new name of UTAH FC - the FC an abbreviation for Futbol Club.
Currently, UTAH FC has anywhere from 300-500 youth soccer players on 30+ teams. They are a member organization of Utah Youth Soccer Association, which is the governing body over youth soccer in the state of Utah on behalf of United States Youth Soccer Association, US Soccer Federation and FIFA.
Home
The home of UTAH FC is all of Utah Valley with players from Payson in the southern end to Lehi in the northern end and everywhere in between. Its home fields are at Sertoma Park in Provo and Mountain Ridge Jr. High in Highland. Its home website is http://www.utahfc.org
Annual tournament
UTAH FC runs an annual Soccer Tournament anchored by the club's key sponsor Adidas, called the Utah Invitational Soccer Tournament. Began in 2007, the Utah Invitational draws teams from all over the state and inter mountain region, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, and sometimes teams from other states and countries. It is the only Premier Competition level tournament hosted in Utah Valley and is historically held over the 4th weekend in July at the Lakeside Soccer Complex in Orem.
Organization
UTAH FC is led by a board of directors with bylaws, articles of incorporation, and is a tax exempt entity under the Utah State Tax Commission and IRS.
History
Founded in 2003 by Michael Anderson, (who at that time was the head coach of Timpview High School men's soccer), as Utah County Strikers, UTAH FC (soccer club) was first set up as an organization for high school players in Utah Valley to play statewide premier club soccer during the high school off-season.
In early 2009, the UC Strikers Soccer Club, a non-profit 501 (c) 3 youth organization, merged with another Utah County youth soccer organization and rebranded exchanging their red/white/black colors for the black/gold/white and the new name of UTAH FC - the FC an abbreviation for Futbol Club.
Currently, UTAH FC has anywhere from 300-500 youth soccer players on 30+ teams. They are a member organization of Utah Youth Soccer Association, which is the governing body over youth soccer in the state of Utah on behalf of United States Youth Soccer Association, US Soccer Federation and FIFA.
Home
The home of UTAH FC is all of Utah Valley with players from Payson in the southern end to Lehi in the northern end and everywhere in between. Its home fields are at Sertoma Park in Provo and Mountain Ridge Jr. High in Highland. Its home website is http://www.utahfc.org
Annual tournament
UTAH FC runs an annual Soccer Tournament anchored by the club's key sponsor Adidas, called the Utah Invitational Soccer Tournament. Began in 2007, the Utah Invitational draws teams from all over the state and inter mountain region, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, and sometimes teams from other states and countries. It is the only Premier Competition level tournament hosted in Utah Valley and is historically held over the 4th weekend in July at the Lakeside Soccer Complex in Orem.
Organization
UTAH FC is led by a board of directors with bylaws, articles of incorporation, and is a tax exempt entity under the Utah State Tax Commission and IRS.