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- A
senior once said “B. Tech. from IIT is a more effective qualification than
a
PhD from most other institutions.” It
took me five years after graduation in
1975, to be convinced of that. It is
true.
I
was, for twenty one years, in Infrastructure Projects of various types, in India and
seventeen other countries with some interesting projects where I was
Project Head. In 1996, I got a call from the Planning Commission
(specifically Dr. G.V Ramakrishna, who founded SEBI).
He
said “I am going to give you a Government Salary, one sixth of what you are
getting. But I am going to give you an assignment you cannot refuse. Join
as Head of CIDC, which we have formed to reform the chaos called “The
Construction Industry of India”.
The
only compensation you have is complete autonomy and freedom to act with the
full backing of Government of India.
Well,
nobody refuses G.V. Ramakrishna.
To see what my team has
achieved, google in “P.R. Swarup + CIDC” and see the first 400 entries. If
you are in India,
look around you and compare today’s systems with those before 1996.
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Along
the way, I have not forgotten my symbiotic attachment to my alma-mater.
Some of my minor contributions:
1. Placements
for large number of students in the leading Infrastructure Companies
(mostly among the members of CIDC or its allied organisations).
2. Summer
Internships for many students.
3. One-to-one
assistance to students for Projects.
4. As
Vice–President of AA in 2000-2001, I had started some initiatives and
intended to start others. These have, somehow, been dropped from the agenda
of AA along the way.
I intend to re-start these and
other initiatives including building of
sustainable, functional,
interactive platforms for Alumni and Students for:
i)
Placement
opportunities.
ii)
Business
opportunities.
iii)
Creation
of Corpus for relief for Alumni in trouble-Financial or otherwise.
iv)
Creation
of Corpus for relief/support/opportunities for families of
deceased/disabled Alumni.
and last but not the least.
v) An improved, transparent and fair
process for elections to AA-IITK.
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To enable me to implement this,
I seek your full support for my election as the new Alumni President in the
ongoing BoD elections
- A major focus of our team will be to
ensure that systems and initiatives built by us not getting lost with
changing sets of Office Bearers of AA.
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