AMP Delhi Chapter held a meeting of Sr. Professionals to develop a roadmap for the Economic Development Plan of the Community.

Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) organised a Sr. Professionals’ Meeting on Mon, 9^th Oct 2017 in New Delhi to continue its initiative of holding country wide meetings and discussions for developing a complete Roadmap for the Economic Upliftment of the Muslim Community.

The Meeting started with the recitation of Holy Quran, and then Mr. Altamash Ansari, AMP Board Member, who co-ordinated the Meeting, gave the basic introduction on the purpose and need of the meeting. He mentioned about the decades of negligence, impoverishment and lack of opportunities & initiatives, which have pushed the community to the very fringe of existence. He said in the last two decades the community has focused on Education and the difference can be seen by virtue of work done by various organisations like Rahbar, Bihar Anjuman and AMP to name a few. That apart, there is an important aspect of community development we need to focus on, which is the Economic Development and invited AMP President, Mr. Aamir Edresy to enlighten the participants.

Mr. Edresy started with the historical background of economic condition of Muslims in India. He mentioned that a professional is only self-sufficient but an entrepreneur is way ahead in term of social contribution, hence focus on Economic Development is need of the time. He mentioned the following points;

-- Economic Independence is the first step toward progress hence AMP has taken an initiative to generate a consensus among the community for economic-based initiatives.

-- AMP will work as an enabler by guiding the marginalised to realise their potential and helping them stand on their feet and actively contribute to and fuel the India of tomorrow.

-- AMP aims to achieve this through strategic intervention providing advice, financial guidance, process assistance, documentation support and mentoring.

-- AMP will connect with top community Business Leaders, Administrators and various Corporate Heads to brainstorm and create a guideline to make the way forward.

--AMP will go to nook and corner of India and educate people for the Economic Independence and provide all support with the help of a knowledge bank which will be created to guide every level of community Entrepreneurs.

In the brainstorming session that followed, the participants put their ideas and thoughts to bridge the missing links. The meeting was attended by Tehseen Ahmed, Waseem Khan, RA Siddiqi, Amir Equbal, Aftab Fazil, Varchaswa Gupta, Kashid Ahmad Faraz, Jb. Samiullah, Naushad Javed, Bushra Ma’am, Zafar Sb., Shaheen Kashfi, Shibli Mazoor, S. Z. I. Hashmi, Abdullah Bhai, Shahnawaz Bhai and Prof. Jawed Ahmed.

The meeting concluded with the resolution to identify a model business cluster and do a wholistic research on the same in terms of business style, various stages involved, stake holders, participation of stakeholder in product process, health issues, government schemes and its accessibility. The idea is to diagnose the issues first before we start working on the solutions.