INDUSTIRAL RELATIONS

The question is more poignant: Will Naveen Kumar Das still be ‘allowed’ to work in Tata Steel a decade from now? “14,000; I think we still need to look at about 14,000 more exits and some more relocations,” thunders Avinash Prasad across his exorbitant room, snugly sitting cross-legged on his commodious settee. As the Vice President, Industrial Relations, ‘quick gun’ Prasad – who has rushed to meet us from the Jamshedpur airstrip after landing from Mumbai – is clearly not bent upon earning brownie points, and he’s coming in with all guns firing, when he snaps, “And close to 10,000 migrations to other projects.”

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An IIPM And Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Initiative

Microcredit

“One of the prime reasons for the success of the Grameen model of microcredit was that it was a private sector initiative. In India, it is the government which is undertaking the micro-finance activities. Thus, being a government led policy, it comes along with both corruption and red-tapism,” says Dr. Amir Ullah Khan, Deputy Secretary General, PH.D Chambers of Commerce & Industry. Since 1992, the governments have adopted the NABARD pioneered Self Help Group (SHG) Banks linkage model in which a homogenous group of people are provided credits on a collective basis. The performance of this model so far, has been quite impressive. From 255 SHGs linked with banks in 1992-93, the number reached 14,000 in 2000.

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IS HONESTY THAT TOUGH DOC?

MONEY COMES AND GOES, BUT DR. MCGUIRE SHOULD HAVE REALISED THAT RESPECT ONCE LOST, RARELY COMES BACK
It is said that the greatest wealth is health. And at times, when you aren’t in the pink of health, the greatest wealth is health insurance! But for America’s second largest health insurer UnitedHealth Group (UHG), the best medicine (if it existed) could have been insurance against greed! A corporate scandal involving grave tribulations with the way stock options were granted, has literally shaken the roots of the company and caused exits of quite a few high profile executives (either via resignation or by forceful removal). And when heads roll, even the best are not spared. At the top of the list was Dr. William W. McGuire, the iconic CEO of UHG, who was credited with bringing the company from oblivion to a position of indomitable strength.

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An IIPM And Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Initiative

PLAYING BALL MR.MINISTER?

THERE’S NO VALID REASON FOR PREVENTING FM CHANNELS TO AIR DAILY NEWS
Now read this. Be it the Mumbai blast of 7/11 or the torrential rains of 2005 (both bringing Mumbai to a stand still), when the mobile networks were jammed and information about near and dear ones was the rarest of the rare phenomenon, when no minister or government information was available, those were the indispensable FM channels, which had come to the rescue of hapless Mumbaikars. Our very own and faceless, yet famous radio jockeys (RJs) stayed awake throughout the night, not just entertaining the millions stranded in jams, but also relentlessly helping people locate their beloved ones. These are the very FM channels, which our government would make us believe are not good enough to foray into current affairs and news programs because they might provoke certain sections of the society.

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AWE’TUMNAL AURORA

NATURE’S FALL COLLECTION IS OUT
DIVINE DESIGNS
Almost heaven, West Virginia / Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River / Life is old there, older than the trees / Younger than the mountains, growin’ like a breeze. Country Roads, take me home…
John Denver couldn’t have painted a better picture of West Virginia... Almost heaven, is what it is, any time of the year. And in New Vrindaban community, set up by the founder of the ISKCON movement, with an aim to recreate the Lord’s childhood abode, there is left no doubt of the same, especially with all the colourful festoonery of fall. Around the Palace of God, better known as America’s Taj Mahal, overlooking the City of God, there is to be found, in addition to plenty of tranquility and vibrancy, that feeling of ‘rebirth’...

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Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy, Initiative:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006