New Delhi, Jan 31 (ANI/Business Wire India): Quality Council of India (QCI), India’s apex quality accreditation and facilitation body, functioning under the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion is organizing its 4th National Quality Conclave on the February 5-6.

The 2 day event would be held at Hotel Le Meridian, New Delhi.

With a powerful theme “Quality for Empowering the Billion”, reflecting former President of India, Prof APJ Abdul Kalam’s vision on the role of QCI, the conclave will focus on exploring the roles and responsibilities that quality is taking in order to respond to national initiatives on key issues for transforming India into a developed country. The theme is aligned with the focus areas of the Council, namely, Education, Healthcare, Public Services and Manufacturing.

Within the framework of the theme, the Conclave will offer the participants an opportunity to update knowledge on innovative ideas and best practices relating to quality in industry, governance, education, healthcare, environment, conformity assessment and others.

The 2 day event comprising of 9 sessions will witness many eminent personalities and luminaries of national and international repute speaking and deliberating on the issues. More than 1000 delegates including policy and decision makers, academic leaders, healthcare experts, quality and environment experts, professionals, corporate, students, teachers and NGOs, will attend the sessions during the event.

The defining address will be delivered by Prof. Noriaki Kano, the world renowned educationist and scientist, who is the creator of the famed “Attractive Quality Creation” methodologies and techniques, also popularly known as the “Kano Model”. Prof Noriaki Kano, is a recipient of numerous international awards in the field of quality management. Over the years, he has made outstanding contributions to industrial development through quality across different countries.

The plenary Session on “Quality for Empowering the Billion” will be addressed by Dr. Mrityunjay Athreya, renowned Management Expert and Mr. Vishal Bali, CEO Wockhardt Hospital and Prof E.Balagurusamy, Member UPSC.

Announcing the theme for the event, Girdhar J Gyani, Secretary General, Quality Council of India, said, “This year’s theme “Quality for Empowering the Billion” is yet another firm step towards taking the nation on the road to excellence. This heralds the beginning of India’s journey towards achieving excellence, by brining the spheres of education, healthcare and food within the ambit of quality aside of manufacturing and service sectors. This time around empowerment is being emphasized because autonomy, mobilization of adequate resources, providing state-of-the-art infrastructure, excellent team work, meticulous planning and evaluation, and above all, a firm commitment to excel are some of the vital ingredients of achieving this.”

The event is being sponsored by the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories and D. L. Shah Trust. QCI will also announce the D. L. Shah Award on “Economics of Quality – Best Projects on Cost Savings” during the event for which leading organizations have participated from across the country.

The event will offer a platform for the delegates to update their knowledge base and exchange ideas and thought related to implementation of quality standards in education, healthcare and public service.

The session on Healthcare will be addressed by Dr. Narottam Puri, President, Fortis Healthcare; Dr. Gautam Sen, Presidential, Healthcare International.; Dr. Arti Verma, Chief Medical Excellence Programme, Max Healthcare; Dr. Harish Nadkarni, Six Sigma Expert on healthcare; Dr. Geeta Mehta, President, Infection Control Society of India; Dr. K. Marikar, CEO, Malaysian Society for Quality Healthcare. Speakers will deliberate on strategic planning for improving clinical outcome, capturing voice of patients, good practices on infection control, applying six sigma in healthcare, developing clinical indicators and managing global quality in healthcare.

The session on Education will be addressed By Prof. Bhoomittra Dev, Vice Chancellor, Mangalayatan University, Aligarh; Dr. Dinesh, Advisor, Quality Assurance, AICTE; R. Raghuttama Rao, Managing Director, ICRA Management Consulting Services.; Swami Ishatmananda, Secretary, Ram Krishna Mission, Arunachal Pradesh; Rupa Chakravarty, Principal, Suncity School, Gurgaon and Parimal Rai, Chairman, New Delhi Municipal Corporation. Panelists will discuss issues like emerging quality paradigms in education, impact of Washington Accord on Indian Education, technology and innovation management in education, value nurturing and integration in Schools and holistic development of students as well as school accreditation initiatives of NDMC.

The session on Quality in Public Services will be addressed by Padam Vir Singh, Joint Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration; B.B. Nanawati, NeGP, PMU, Govt. of India; Dr. S.K. Agarwal, Vice Chairman, Transparency International India. Speakers will deliberate on issues like excellence in public service – issues and challenges; effective e-governance. There will also be case study presentation by Maharashtra Government on improvement of working of Zila Parishad.

The session on Manufacturing will be addressed by Prof. A K Choudhury, Six Sigma expert; Subir K Choudhury, Executive Vice President, JCB and by Tin Plate India Ltd. Speakers will deliberate issues like lean six sigma initiatives in manufacturing, cost reduction in supply chain management as well as best practice in manufacturing management.

The Session on Quality and Conformity Assessment will be addressed by Shri K P Nyati, Advisor, CII and Member EIA Technical Committee, R K Sharma, Country Manager BVCI. It will discuss on topics like carbon footprint, ISO9001:2008 and other related topics.

The Valedictory address will be given by Swami Sarvolokanandji who will speak on the Indian spiritual way for improving quality of life. (ANI)