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dr. ram Chelluri speaks at Un meet on poverty eradication

OUR BUREAU
West Windsor, NJ
est Windsor, NJ resident Dr. Ram Chel-
luri, Senior Fellow-Research, Interna-
Wtional Committee for Peace and Recon-
ciliation, Inc. [a Non-Governmental Organization
(NGO) accredited by the Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations], was
an invited speaker at the United Nations Confer-
ence on Eradicating Poverty in all its forms and
dimensions through promoting sustainable devel-
opment, expanding opportunities and addressing
related challenges (July 17-20, 2017), in New York
City on July 20, 2017. Ministers from UN member
countries from all over the world, ambassadors,
representatives from NGOs, economists and social
workers attended this conference.
Dr. Chelluri’s talk on the theme of “Eradicating
Poverty” presents the current worldwide epidemic
of poverty and forcefully appeals for its eradication
through sustainable development and expanding
opportunities. He emphasized that poverty eradica-
tion programs can succeed only if the poor can be
motivated to play their due role and he also asked
the poor to respond to a wakeup call and March
forward or be left behind Dr. Chelluri’s speech was The next steps are to continue to work with from IIT Bombay and he received MBA from the
received with approval and applause from the audi- the UN delegates to implement the UN 2030 agen- University of Chicago. Dr. Chelluri retired from
ence and has been translated into five UN languag- da, including the eradication poverty and promot- AT&T and Bell Labs after a 33-year successful ca-
es - Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. ing prosperity. Dr. Ram Chelluri received Ph.D. reer in Computer and Network fields.

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