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HR Sampark connects 120 Heart – Heads – Hands at its Wellness Conclave 2020 for a Healthier and Happier Kolkata HR Sampark, a Kolkata based Trust founded by a team of professionals with backgrounds in HR, training-coaching-mentoring, entrepreneurship, academics came together at Hotel Hindusthan International on 8th Feb with a Wellness Conclave. It was an attempt to project how physical, social, mental & financial well-being are capable of making our workplaces and society at large a better place to live in.      HR Sampark, completing two years now, is a platform for professionals to network and carve out a niche in the city with its various outreach programs in CSR, industry-academia, Knowledge Sharing  etc Hon Chief Guest, Ms. Alokananda Ray, stressed on how feeling happy is a self-controlled decision. We should choose to be happy, be empathic and less judgemental towards others.     Speaking at Sampark’s Wellness Conclave,...

Create Change: PM’s Ujjwala Scheme & its implications -  Santi Ranjan Karar, Invited Guest Lecturer, DeMontfort University & University of North Hampton, UK     Prime Minister’s Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) was launched by Narendra Modi on 1 May 2016. It is an initiative by the Prime Minister to distribute 50 million LPG connections to women and their families who lie below the poverty level.      A study by the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that around 4.3 million people die around the world due to extended smoke inhalation from home made earth stoves fueled by dried cow dung, firewood fueled by kerosene or coal. It is no secret that even as a strong and upcoming economy, a large majority of India’s population are still impoverished. In 2019 we find ourself in as situation that’s both contradictory and shocking. In one side a majority of Indians own and carry smartphones, but on the other side many of the women in the vi...