Lead India..letter from Times of India

Dear 'Doctors For You' Volunteer,
Sub: Doctors For You-TOI partnership for Lead India

It is my privilege, on behalf of The Times of India, to seek your participation in Lead India, the biggest search for India’s future leaders. Doctors For You has joined hands with The Times of India in this unique movement to positively impact this country’s political landscape.

Lead India seeks concerned and action-oriented people like you to nominate the best names for India’s next generation of leaders. If you have it in you, please come forward and rise. Spread over three phases, Lead India is seeking nominations in the first phase that ends on Sep 7, 2007. All entries will be screened to arrive at city-wise representatives. Eight candidates will be short-listed from each city, in the second phase, followed by the final national round to elect the Lead India winner.

The process of selection will entail a 360-degree evaluation of candidates on political leadership – like the ability to conceive goals for the nation, a sense of social responsibility, the capability to translate the vision for the nation into specific, pragmatic action points, the ability to rally people around ideas, the ability to execute, and resilience. The public at large, and an eminent jury, will judge each candidate’s performance.

What awaits the eventual Leader will be a handsome corpus of Rs 50 lakh for funding a public project of his choice and an entry into the Leadership Development Programme at the John F Kennedy School of Political Leadership. This is besides the once-in-a-lifetime chance to short-circuit the arduous political route and be pitched right in the arena.

To find out more about Lead India, please visit www.lead.timesofindia.com. You can also browse through related Times news stories and interactive features at the website.