HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
INITIATIVES COMMITTEE
Human Development Study Circle meeting on
“Vidur Niti from Mahabharata” held on 9th April, 2019 at BCAS
Conference Hall
The Human Development Study
Circle organised an interesting discussion on “Vidur Niti (containing the
lessons of wisdom narrated by Vidur to Dhrutrashtra before Mahabharta War) on 9th
April, 2019 at BCAS Conference Hall which was presented by CA. C. N. Vaze. The
Speaker talked about some important teachings in relation to human behaviour
i.e. Sandhi (Joining), Vigraha (Disconnect), Yana
(Aggression), Asana (Sit on compound – non-aligned) and Dwaidhibhav
(create dilemma) and also sources of happiness such as to stay healthy,
fearless, debt free, in company of good people, be professional and do justice
to the profession etc.
Vidur
was one of the most respected gurus in the Kingdom of Hastinapur. He had vowed
allegiance to the throne (and not to the person occupying it), as a result of
which he had to face a lot of hardships when things started going wrong in the
kingdom. Before and during the period of the Mahabharata war, he continued to
live in Hastinapur – but he did not eat even a single morsel of food from the
King’s kitchen. For his consumption, he grew his own grains, fruits and
vegetables because he did not want to be contaminated by consuming food served
by the “evil” forces that were ruling the land and the ill wind that was
blowing over it. He lived by himself and was always willing to give advice in
the court – but there was hardly anyone to listen to him. It was his disciples
who noted down his sermons and came up with what is called “Vidur Niti”.
It was an extremely
interesting session and the participants learned about several hitherto unknown
aspects of the respected sage, seer and guru, Vidur.
HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Full-Day Workshopon “Effective Leadership and
Executive Presence” held on 13th April, 2019 at the BCAS Conference
Hall
The HRD Committee organised
a full-day workshop for enhancing executive gravitas and developing better
leadership acumen. It was conducted by the young and dynamic CA. Mudit Yadav
who is a skilled and internationally-certified success coach.
He stressed on the
following 4 modules:
(1) How a leader can
motivate his team by making subtle changes in his vocabulary and leadership
style that will inspire his team and hence get more work done.
(2) How to convey feedback
in an effective manner that hurts the least but hits the most and thus being
able to identify the strengths of the team and balance them with opportunities
and team expectations.
(3) How to influence people
like successful political leaders, by learning techniques in interpersonal
interactions with the team and clients and making effective presentations,
speeches and the use of a power vocabulary.
(4) What to wear, how to
walk and ways to talk to enhance your presence and thus building respect and
reverence in the minds of your colleagues, further addressing the body language,
wardrobe and postures that leaders can apply on themselves to build greater
presence.
The session was very
interactive and the group activities conducted by CA. Mudit Yadav helped the
participants to sharpen their skills and take home a valuable lesson at the end
of the workshop.
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS STUDY GROUP
International Economics Study Group meeting
on “How Foreign-Funded NGOs (Professional Agitators) are Hurting Economic
Growth” held on 16th April, 2019 at BCAS Conference Hall
The International Economics
Study Group held its meeting on 16th April, 2019 at BCAS Conference
Hall to discuss “How Foreign-Funded NGOs (Professional Agitators) are
Hurting Economic Growth.”
CA.
Deepak Karanth led the discussions and presented his thoughts on the subject,
describing how concerted efforts by select foreign-funded NGOs ran “rent-an-agitation”
stirs to “take down” mega developmental projects in India in order to adversely
impact the economic growth of the country.
Thousands of NGOs were
involved in genuine social service and health-related activities; they had
become part of a wide variety of activities: aid, development, healthcare,
education, feminism, the environment, human rights, conscientisation (sic),
organisation, etc. But sometime back, the Intelligence Bureau had submitted a
report to the PMO suggesting that many foreign-funded NGOs protesting against
coal and mining projects in the country were stalling India’s development and
had negatively impacted GDP growth by 2 to 3%.
Many such “Professional
Agitators” (funded by well-known philanthropies in western countries) had tried
to stall large projects. These NGOs had received funds in the form of “research
funding”. Cracking the whip on this trend, approximately 20,000 NGOs in the
country had been barred from receiving foreign funds by the government
following cancellation of their FCRA registrations, said CA. Deepak.
The Intelligence Bureau
report said that among the agitations pursuing ”anti-developmental activities”
were those that were against nuclear infrastructure development, coal-fired
power plants, genetically-modified organisms; Posco in Orissa, Vedanta in
Orissa, the Narmada Bachao Andolan; the agitations against extractive
industries in the North East and the agitation against the Kudankulam Nuclear
Power Project.
CA. Paresh Budhdev led the
discussion on the impact of debt defaults arising out of cases like IL&FS
on mutual funds’ debt schemes and provident and pension funds (government as
well as privately-run employees’ PFs) and the overall debt market.
The meeting was very interactive
and participants benefited a lot from the discussion.
