My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

Everyday the papers carry at least 2-3 items about the Satyam episode and a lot has been discussed about the corporate governance , the role of independent directors and the accountability . No, I am not going to talk about all these things - But I am going to talk about something else which also revolves around these same core issues - So when will the nation be talking of the accountability of the government, government offices, etc. Like the corporate sector,where we hold the CEO responsible for the acts of commission, omission , etc, why aren't we holding the Heads of the States and Country accountable. Let these people run their departments like a corporate entity - let there be a quarterly results published for each state like what the public limited companies do. The public limited company have the obligation to the general public to publish their accounts because the general public has invested money in their company. Aren't we all investing our money in ter...

The Padma awards are instituted by Government of India and I am reproducing below the recitation of these awards as found in the government website Padma Awards, namely, Padma Vibhushan , Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri are given for exceptional and distinguished service in any field including service rendered by Government servants. The recommendations for Padma Awards are received from the State Governments/Union Territory Administrations, Central Ministries/Departments, Institutions of Excellence, etc. which are considered by an Awards Committee. On the basis of the recommendations of the Awards Committee, and after approval of the Home Minister, Prime Minister and President, the Padma Awards are announced on the eve of the Republic Day. When I went through the list released yesterday I became curious to know about the nature of these awards as I found that all the awardees were more from Arts, Literature & science & Medicine. What I found was very interesting. There ar...

Oh my blog posts now looks like an announcement board talking about one meeting after another. so let me talk about something else different now Today in the afternoon when I was having lunch, I happened to see a Reality show - so what is different in this show was : There was a competition going on and the competition to choose the pair which scored the highest points . Guess what ! The real difference was the competition place and also the activity - It was the plucking of " Drum sticks" by farm labourers . Yes it is true The whole thing was set in a real work environment and the participants were competing on the actual work they perform everyday. These poor ordinary labourers without any surrounding sets were performing so well in their natural environment. The pair which had plucked the highest number was given a Silk Saree and all the participants also got gifts. within a time of 2 minutes this pair managed to pluck 237 drum sticks. I am sure this zeal will ...

The Association of Small and Medium Knowledge Industries ( ASMKI ) Invites you For a half day seminar on “Financing of Knowledge Industries " On 31st of January 2009 At Hotel GRT Grand, T. Nagar , Chennai (9.30 AM – 1.15 PM) Agenda Registration: 9.30 AM Inaugural Session Welcome Address: Mr. Nalin Kohli President , ASMKI Inaugural Address: Mr. S. Ramasundaram , I.A.S., Managing Director, Tamil Industrial Development Corporation Ltd, Chennai Session on Credit Needs Mr. Jiten Nanda , Vice President and Head Business Banking ABN AMRO ,India Mr.S.K Misra , DGM (Credit), Indian Overseas Bank, Central Office, Chennai Mr. Jaishankar , Managing Director, Quest Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd Session on Venture Capital Needs Mr . Ramakrishnan , Executive Director and Head Investment Banking, Spark Capital Mr . Vijay Anand , Head of Incubation at TeNeT ...

so here is the meeting announcement for the month of January from the ITSME Association to be held on 29, 2009 at 5.00 pm at Hotel Savera . The agenda is given below: 5.00 - 5.30 Networking and High Tea 5.30 - 5.35 Welcome address – ITSME President 5.35 - 7.45 ISO 27001 FOR SMEs by Mr. Govind Srinivasan 7.45 – 7.55 Q & A 7.55 - 8.00 Vote of Thanks Background to this session: About 450 companies in India, mostly IT Services and BPO organizations, have implemented the ISO 27001 (Information Security Management System) Standard. Information Security has become the part of business process today, in the light of growing uncertainties that come out of vulnerabilities and threats, human behaviour and technology being the prime factors. The implementation of ISO 27001 Standard can prove to be a good exercise for integrating different functions and domains in an organization by design. Besides, other possible business requirements like implementing Data Protection Act c...

eWIT (Empowering Women in IT) have announced the “ eWIT Excellence Award - 2009”, a Paper Presentation Contest, as an opportunity for the women IT/ ITES professionals engaged in HR, Quality, and Technology to showcase their talent and expertise in their respective areas. There is also a separate contest for the students studying to be in the IT/ ITES industries. The award is presented at eWIT ’s anniversary, to the winner of the competition selected by an eminent panel of judges. The competition includes written and oral presentations on the topics in the various categories. There are two stages in the selection process: 1. The panelists from top executives who are experts on the subject would be evaluating the papers and short listing the participants. 2. The short listed participants will make Oral Presentation to the panelists subsequently. The categories, topics for each category and abstract for each topic is given below: Technology Green IT Quality Role of Quality processes ...