A seminar on Student Leadership was conducted in Association with Project Management Institute, Pearl City Chapter(PMIPCC) Hyderabad at Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada.

The main Speakers were Mr V Srinivasa Rao , President-PMI PCC and Dr Anil Jampala ,President,HYSEA . Dr.K.R.K.Prasad,Principal, V.R.Siddhartha Engineering College, Mr.D.Rama Krishna, M.D., Efftronics Systems Pvt. Ltd., Mr.P.Ravi Kumar, Executive Director, Vortex Technologies were also present for the seminar.

50 students of 12 departments and 10 members of the faculty of the colleges attended the seminar. Speaking on the occasion V. Srinivas Rao, President, PMI-PCC said Industry sectors like IT, ITES, Retail, Hotel, Aviation, Telecom, Animation and others have tremendous potential to generate millions of Job Opportunities in India. Unfortunately in India only 20 - 25% of the students coming out of the academic institutions are employable. There are many reasons for non-employability of the remaining 75% of the students. The academic institutions in collaboration with Industry and Government have to shift the focus from subject based learning to holistic learning. The holistic learning should focus on Subject Knowledge, Industry/Domain Knowledge and Leadership Knowledge. The integrated power of these three areas with practical based learning would improve the employability of the students. In this line PMI Pearl City Chapter (PMIPCC) has planned to conduct awareness sessions to Students on the importance of Leadership and how it will help them to excel in 35+ years of their future career. PMIPCC in association with HYSEA has conducted awareness session at Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada covering the following characteristics of a leader:

Project Management Institute Pearl City Chapter (PMIPCC) President V. Srinivasa Rao (VSR) has shared about 25 important Leadership Knowledge Areas what the students have to understand and practice to demonstrate the leadership characteristics. VSR has mentioned that the students have to start understanding about leadership and its importance from the age of 12 years and once they come out of the education they should be ready for taking up any challenges. In this way the employability of the students also would get increased. VSR also mentioned about the importance of dedicating one day per year to motivate, inspire and influence the students to start practicing leadership. In this endeavor, PMIPCC has announced about International Student Leadership Day (ISLD) to celebrate leadership festival. VSR has urged the students to celebrate International Student Leadership Day on 03-February of every year. VSR has mentioned that it is his dream to see each student in India will have a clear Vision statement for which they will put all their efforts with unshakable determination to realize the same.