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APPOINTMENTS
Nishi Vasudeva
appointed as
HPCL CMD
The government of India has
appointed Nishi Vasudeva as
Chairman and Managing
Director of Hindustan
Petroleum Corporation Ltd.,
one of India’s leading Fortune
500 companies. She takes
over from S Roy Choudhury
who superannuated on
February 28, 2014. Prior to
this assignment, Nishi
Vasudeva was holding the
position of Director Marketing of HPCL, since July
04, 2011. Nishi Vasudeva in
addition to being on the
Board of Directors of HPCL
associate Companies, is also
Vice President - Youth &
Gender, World Petroleum
Council. Nishi Vasudeva is an
MBA from the Indian Institute
of Management- Calcutta.
She has a wide exposure in
the Petroleum Industry
spanning over 36 years in
various streams like
Marketing, Corporate Strategy
& Planning, Information
Systems, etc.
CORPORATE CONNECT
SBI donates ambulance vans
A Krishna Kumar, Managing Director and Group Executive
(National Banking), SBI donates a sum of Rs. 1.39 cr for
ambulance vans to nine hospitals at Trichy, life saving medical
equipments to six hospitals and bus for a school. In his key
note address, A. Krishna Kumar talked about the bank’s services
to the public and corporate social responsibility activities of
the circle. Varsha Purandare, Chief General Manager, SBI
Chennai circle narrated about the bank’s performances in
various activities in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. S. Krithivasan,
GM (Network 2) welcomed the gathering and Arun Agrawal,
DGM, Trichy module gave the vote of thanks. Senior
Government officials, representatives of done organizations,
important customers of the bank, senior executives and
employees of the bank graced the function with their
presence. SBI has spent a sum of Rs. 105 cr. (as on 31. 01. 2014)
at All India level against the target of Rs. 140 cr and Chennai
circle has spent Rs. 5.58 cr.
THE FREE PRESSJOURNAL
MUMBAI | WEDNESDAY | MARCH 5, 2014
Ramesh Narayan inducted into IAA Hall of Fame
CLW observes Safety Awareness Week
C .P. Tayal, General Manager, CLW was the Chief Guest at the
Safety Awareness Week on the theme titled “Production Must –
Safety First” organized by the Safety Organisation of
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW). Others present at the
event were senior officers, G. L. Rajoria, CME, Harindra Rao, CEE;
Dayal Arya, COS; Dr Sanjay Kumar, CMO & Shree Prakash,
CME/Loco of different departments of CLW. The General
Manager lighted the traditional lamp for the commencement
of Safety Awareness Week in CLW along with other senior
officers. The main objective of observing the Safety Awareness
Week in CLW was to renew the commitments of the CLW
employees and general public to work safely throughout the
year. A small booklet on workers safety manual for Crane
Operators and Riggers was also launched. Safety Pledge was
also read out by General Manager which was followed by all
present.
43rd National Safety Day
observed at NTPC Dadri
ICAI launches T V Channel
(From L-R)- Srinivasan Swamy, President IAA India and B.L.Joshi, Governor of Uttar Pradesh
inducted Ramesh Narayan into the International Advertising Association (IAA) Hall of Fame
on 1st March 2014 at a glittering ceremony in Mumbai. The ceremony was held to award
marketers, media leaders and advertising achievers. The induction into Hall Of Fame is the
highest honor given to the recipient by the IAA. Mr. Kaushik Roy, President Marketing
Reliance Industries Ltd, read out the citation listing the achievements of Mr. Ramesh
Narayan. These included the leadership role he played in associations including The
Advertising Club, The Advertising Agencies Association of India, The Asian Federation of
Advertising Associations and The International Advertising Association.
It commended him for being an influential force in establishing and nurturing creative
awards in India and for his overarching role in conducting AdAsia 2003 in Jaipur and AdAsia
2011 in New Delhi. The citation recalled the decisive role he has played in the Audit Bureau
of Circulation and the National Readership Survey and also mentioned his thought
leadership which helped institute the IAA's flagship projects: Lighting a Billion Lives, IAA
Olive Crown Awards and the IAA leadership Awards. Finally, it referred to his journalistic
achievements and to his social bent of mind.
In response, Mr. Ramesh Narayan said he was humbled to have been bestowed this great
honor. Saying that the industry needed heroes to inspire the younger generation, he
accepted the award on behalf "of those unsung heroes whose little contributions have
made a big impact" on the industry. Mr. Srinivasan Swamy President IAA said "I am
delighted that this award could be conferred on Ramesh in my term as President."
The IAA is a unique partnership of marketers, advertising agencies and the media with a
robust presence in 77 countries across the globe.
ESIC Day celebrated on Feb 24
ONGC wants expert
to assess if RIL taking
its gas in KG basin
New Delhi
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has
written to the Oil Ministry
seeking appointment of an
international expert to assess if Reliance Industries
Ltd was drawing out any of
its gas in KG basin.
ONGC says four wells
drilled by RIL in the eastern
offshore KG-D6 blocks are
within "few hundred metres" of its gas field and it
fears the two may be sharing the same pool of reservoir. "We had raised that issue last year... some data on
over-lapping has been exchanged but things have
stopped and so we have appraised the ministry about
the status," ONGC Director
(Exploration) N K Verma
told reporters here. ONGC
fears RIL may have drawn
some of its gas.
CA. K Raghu , President ICAI greeting Dr. M.M Pallam Raju,
Minister of HRD in the presence of Ashok Thakur, Secretary
Higher Education, MHRD and Praveen Prakash , JS(TEL) MHRD
during the signing of the MoU on sharing the MHRD DTH
Platform at the Ministry of Human Resource Development in
New Delhi. In order to make use of the modern technology for
its registered students, the Institute of Chartered Accountants
of India (ICAI) has in the past been using all possible ICT
modes, including delivery of audio video lectures extensively
through Gyan Darshan etc. The ICAI intends to use the
upcoming DTH platform of MHRD i.e. ICAI T. V. Channel for the
benefit of more than 8 Lakh students pursuing Chartered
Accountancy Course across the country. CA.K Raghu, President
ICAI on this occasion added “The content that shall be beamed
through ICAI channel can be of tremendous help not only to
CA students but to commerce students as well. With this facility
we can reach out to the remotest corners of the country.”
“All employees should strictly follow and adopt the safety rules
and use the Safety gadgets at their respective working place to
avoid accident,” said D.K Sood, ED (NTPC Dadri) while
inaugurating the 43rd National Safety Day/Week celebrations,
being observed at NTPC Dadri. Addressing the gathering, Sood
further said that all necessary safety measures should be
adopted at various work places to make the power station the
Zero accident area. Sood hoisted the Safety Flag and
administered the Safety pledge to the employees. R K Jain, GM
(Gas), A N Goyal, GM (TS), Siva Rama Krishna M, GM (O&M-Coal),
head of departments, senior officials were also present at the
event. With a view to create awareness about Safety at work
places and in day-to-day activities a series of Quiz, Lectures,
Slogan and essay competitions for employees, laborers,
residents of Vidyut Nagar and School Children are being
organized during the week-long event.
BPCL Mumbai Refinery bags
Green award
S.P. Gathoo, Director (HR) & R.R. Nair, General Manager (HR)
along with the team of Puneet Gupta, Navnath Ingle and
others pose with the six awards bagged by BPCL Mumbai
Refinery at the 19th Exhibition to promote Greenery at
Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udhyan, Byculla. The event was
jointly organized by Tree Authority and Municipal
Corporation of Greater Mumbai. The “Children Park” of
BPCL Staff Colony at Chembur also bagged an award in the
Garden Category. The award bears testimony to the
greening initiatives undertaken by BPCL.
EVENTS CORNER
CORPORATE CONNECT
SJVN oganises seminar
Devendra Chaudhry, Additional Secretary (Power), MoP, GoI,
addresses a one day seminar on "Global Critical R&D Gaps in
Hydro Sector and Way Forward" at CSMRS Auditorium, New
Delhi flanked by Chairman, CWC A.B. Pandya and Member
(Planning), CEA Major Singh besides other dignitaries from
CSMRS, BHEL, GSI etc. On this occasion, CMD, SJVN R.P. Singh,
Director (Civil), R. N. Misra, Director (Finance) A.S. Bindra,
Director (Electrical) R.K. Bansal and Executive Director (BD&MS)
R.K. Agarwal, Executive Director (Electrical Design) N.C. Bansal
were present. They expressed their valuable thoughts on the
need to set the agenda for R&D works by pooling the resources
of all the Central Power Sector Undertakings and the leading
Research Institutes in India.
Warm send off to D.S. Mukadam
in the presence of LIC MD
Bank of India organises meeting of
All State Banks’ Committee
The 29th meeting of all state banks’ committee (National
Language) organized by BOI, was held on March 3, at Pune. The
chairperson for this meeting was working head, R Atmaram.
Congratulating the winners and urged all the members to
speak amicably to the customers who walk into the banks,
“This will make them feel like us,” said Atmaram. Thereby
urging all to learn and speak in Hindi. Atmaram said, that
though he lived in Southern states, he has learnt to speak and
write in Hindi. “The more we learn to interact and speak in
Hindi, the more we can reach out as bankers to our customers
and government authorities. Speaking the language of people,
always brings us closer to each other,” said Atmaram. In these
days of stiff competition, Atmaram said, it is necessary for
everybody to change with the times. The general manager
Narendra Kabra said that this committee has successfully been
trying to implement the national language, Hindi across all
banks. “Since last six decades we have been successful in
getting to implement Hindi, the national language in all our
banks,” said Kabra. This committee has organized such
meetings since last 28 years.
Proxy advisory firm IIAS says Maruti
must invest in Gujarat unit
NEW DELHI
Devkinandan Mukadam completed 40 years of service with
Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), at the age of 60 years.
Mukadam retired the day of his birthday February 28. At the
official farewell function, all the staff and officers were present
including Usha Sangwan, Managing Director of LIC. This
function was organized by the union. Mukadam was
considered a pro-staff officer, who was popular. Mukadam was
considered a warm person, who connected with many people.
He is looked upon as a support by many employees and is
known to have given quality time to many Non-Governmental
Organisations. People who knew him and wanted to convey
their respect or thanks, submitted their articles in writing,
which was specially published after this event.
Employees’ State Insurance Corporation is a pioneer Social Security Organization under the
administrative control of Ministry of Labour & Employment, Govt. of India. It runs the ESI Scheme,
a self-financing scheme providing social security with medical-care and payment of cash benefit
against loss of earning capacity due to employment injury, death, unemployment etc. to the
working class in the organized sector. Every Year, the ESIC Day is celebrated on 24th February in
all the establishments of the Corporation throughout the country. On this day in the year 1952,
the then Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru inaugurated the ESI Scheme at Kanpur. The
venue was the Brijender Swarup Park and Pandit ji addressed a 70,000 strong gathering in Hindi.
Other eminent personalities who were present and addressed the gathering were Pt. Gobind
Ballabh Pant, Chief Minister Uttar Pradesh; Babu Jagjivan Ram , Union Labour Minister; Raj
Kumari Amrit Kaur, Union Health Minister; Sh Chandrabhan Gupt, Union Food Minister and
Dr.C.L.Katial, the first Director General of ESIC. The Scheme was simultaneously launched at Delhi
as well and the initial coverage for both the centres was 1,20,000 employees. During the 62 years
of its existence, ESIC has grown from strength to strength and the Corporation owes it, most of
all, to the commitment, dedication and perseverance of persons like Prof. Adarkar and Dr. Katial.
The ESI Scheme is based on the Gandhian principle of “contributions as per their ability and
benefits as per the requirement”.
Proxy advisory firm Institutional Investor Advisory
Services India Ltd has said
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd,
not parent Suzuki Motor
Corp, should invest in the
Gujarat unit.
Maruti Suzuki's minority shareholders should be
concerned only about how
Maruti deploys its funds,
as per Institutional Investor Advisory Services.
Maruti has enough funds
to meet the initial capital
investment of 30 bln rupees from the Gujarat
plant.
"If Maruti is not investing in the Gujarat plant,
then it must return the excess liquidity to shareholders in the form of
higher dividend," said the
note.
"Maruti has done neither: dividend payout (including dividend tax) remained comparatively low,
between 2.5 bln rupees to 3
bln rupees over the past
-Cogencis
three years."
Inauguration of Shri Sunil Dutt Garden
Guru Das Kamat - Member of Parliament, recently inaugurated
the modernised late Shri Sunil Dutt Garden near Juhu, which
was funded by MLA Ashok Jadhav. During the inauguration
present was opposition leader Bala Amberkar, Kunal Jadhav,
Inderpal Singh, Mahesh K Malik and among others.
Sharon Johnston visits CORP
Vocational Training Centre
Nirmal Chandappa, Director of CORP, welcomed Sharon
Johnston, wife of Governor General of Canada, David Johnston,
to CORP Vocational Training Centre for poor women of Dharavi
slums. Mrs Johnston along with 14 other officials visited CORP
Vocational Training Centre, during which Nirmal Chandappa
briefed about CORP’s work and Canadian links with CORP. Mrs
Johnston was impressed with the various activities implemented
by CORP towards upliftment of women. CORP offers several
programmes to develop support and sustain the women, since
women of slum communities are rarely literate or employable.
CORP believes in empowering women with education, life skills
and training towards building their entire family’s future.
Fashion Design courses
B. D. Somani Institute of Art & Fashion Technology offers
Diploma, Degree courses in Fashion Design. Those keens on
studying at the Institute may contact: Raju Bhatia on
9820056669 or 022 22188818 (ext 733) or 022 22155731
(ext 729). Email: [email protected]
ART SPACE
Unbound
WHAT: An exhibition of
recent paintings, titled
‘Unbound’ by Kolkata based
well-known artist Sajal Kanti
Mitra. Sajal Kanti Mitra dwells
in the twilight world of the
figurative and the abstract.
His visual designs speak of
an interface between the
two kinds of
ideations, often
indicating the
potential of one
emerging from
within the other. An
unmistakably urban
visualiser, the fact of
Mitra's upbringing
in Chandernagore
may well have
contributed to his
ability to describe
his ideas through a
very personal
idiom which has
not been sullied
by his academic
training in Calcutta
during the late
Eighties. There is a
touch of
romanticism in his
works, especially
those relating to
lone, pensive
women. Born in
1965, he
graduated first
class first from
Government
College of Art
and Craft,
Calcutta in 1989.
He received the Dr B C Memorial medal and
merit certificates from his College in the years 1987 & 1988
and won Camlin awards in the years 2004 & 2007. He has
held one solo show and participated in several group
exhibitions.
WHEN: March 6 to 12, 11 am to 7 pm
WHERE: Hirji Jehangir Art Gallery, 161-B, M.G. Road, Kala
Ghoda, Mumbai
CONTACT: 098314 29243
SEND YOUR EVENTS, ARTS PROFILE AND PICTURES TO
MS. PRATIKSHA SHARMA Email: [email protected]

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