TN Vision Summit @ Taj Coromondel April 12th

Working for social causes has never been so much rewarding .... Not only we are able to meet top corporate Honchos, HR Heads and VPs; we are able to involve with them in serious discussion at the same plane of thought... It really amazes me at most of the stages that these profit oriented people are even more dedicated and enthusiastic when the topic veers towards social upliftment... and i must add that this enthusiasm has definitely rubbed more often than not at our tyro arms.

What could be even more great, is when you are invited to a corporate summit which houses the who's who of the industry for a day long event along with great food at the TAJ.... of yeah Free !!!
It was really an eye-opener at the TN Vision summit organized by CII, at the TAJ on 12th April...

It started off indeed well with M.K.Stalin's trademark address (I really am beginning to get an affinity with him, since he has been presiding over most of the Top shows in town these days), but what happened afterwards was seriously food for thought... and it was not only industrialists who were talking about Rural development, Healthcare and the ubiquitous vision & mission statements but they were rallied on the stage with various Ministers of the state showcasing their achievements, roadmap and development for Tamil-Nadu.

Each panel discussion had members of the Industry sitting side with various ministers of the same field and each giving their view-point of how the next phase of developments should happen.

Of course, the first discussion revolved around the summit's moot point - TN Vision 2025 chaired by PWC(Price Water Coopers) with their Presentation on what should be done across the state of Tamil Nadu, which included from the inane promise of delivering one Noble prize winner to understated activities that have to prolonged on a sustainable basis for education in TN. But, personally i really could not relate much to a PPT ; more so as it was after all just a presentation and not a concrete effort in jumpstarting TN to the next decade....

The real show-stealers of the entire day were these two gentlemen ... Minister Arcot N. Veeraswamy (TN Electricity) and Mr. K.V.Kamath (CEO , ICICI)
I really admire the presentation skills of any politician, even though there is much to be said about their promises, but they can convince even the pope to become an atheist. And Mr. Arcot Veeraswamy was really brilliant in the way he started talking about the various initiatives that have been taken, talking about initiatives did you hear about the concept of "Staggered holidays"

Well, it goes like this the TN electricity board used to waste around 300 Kw of power every sunday cause all the companies were on holiday, so they decided to consort with the industry in a particular belt to give holidays on Tuesday and the other belt on thursday and so on... as a result they waste only 60 Kw... that is what i really would say "POWER OF SIMPLICITY"

Mr.K.V.Kamath's topic actually threw light about how civilizations evolved; sprinkling his ideas on couple of topics such as the dissemination theory & culture synthesis... of course, this was more so beyond the purview of the summit.. but i found it really interesting !!

Of course to keep the story short and sweet.... here is a pic of the Yin-Yan Dessert at the luncheon....