UNITED NATIONS: To alleviate poverty and create more jobs, entrepreneurs should impart skills, particularly to people in rural areas in countries like India, Hinduja Foundation U.S. Chairperson Shanu SP Hinduja has said.

Hinduja was invited to be the co-chair of the United Nation Foundation's Global Accelerator, which brought together entrepreneurs and the UN to accelerate global solutions on key Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the world's "to do list" to alleviate poverty.

The other co-chairs of the programme include computer giant Dell's Chairman Michael Dell, UN Under-Secretary General Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, UN Foundation President and CEO Kathy Calvin and UN Foundation Entrepreneur-in-Residence Elizabeth Gore.

Addressing the subject of job creation and youth at the session here yesterday, Hinduja said that companies and entrepreneurs have the responsibility to impart skills for jobs to men and women, who in turn will be able to create value for the companies and businesses.

"We really need to take the aspect of teaching skills very seriously," she said.
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