On the dias are CS Gopalkrishna Hegde, council member, ICSI & vice-chairman, Convention Organising Sub-Committee; Dr Kunal Sarkar, senior vice chairman, Medical Super Specialty Hospitals; Utpal Chatterjee, former sheriff of Kolkata; Arvind P Datar, senior advocate, Chennai; SS Goplarathnam, managing director, Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Co ltd and CS B Narasimhan, council member, ICSI. (l to r)
The third day of the 41st National Convention of Company Secretaries started with the fourth technical session with the topic ‘IFs and BUTs with governance and related professionals’. There was an interesting panel discussion on the topic which was chaired by Utpal Chatterjee, former sheriff of Kolkata and given preliminary observations on the topic of the discussion.
Arvind P Datar, senior advocate, Chennai mainly spoke about effective and ineffective legislation and said, “Those who attempt the absurd, achieve the impossible.” While speaking about the ifs and buts with governance, Dr Kunal Sarkar, senior vice chairman, Medica Super Specialty Hospitals expressed his view about social governance with political governance and added that social governance make the what life should be and we should know how to protect ourselves.
SS Goplarathnam, managing director, Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Co ltd said, “Company secretaries as key management professional should have broad outlook and act as an advisor on issues.”
“Aspirations are very high, capabilities are not meeting aspirations,” he concluded that as the governance professionals, their capabilities should meet the aspirations.
In the valedictory session, CS R Sridharan, council member of the ICSI, and the chairman of convention organising sub-committee welcomed the gathering.
CS SN Ananthasubramanian, president council of the ICSI delivered the presidential address where he expressed that with this 41st National Convention the transition of the company secretaries into governance professionals had already begun.
Valedictory address was delivered by Dr Devdutt Pattanaik, chief belief officer, Futures Group and best-selling author. In his address, he talked about mythology to management, roots of modern management where company secretaries as governance professional should have personal development to attract the fortune which wealth, security and knowledge for the country and act as governance professionals working with a holistic perspective.
The summing up of the proceedings was done by CS MS Sahoo, secretary, the ICSI, where he mentioned the key takeaways from the three day deliberations at the 41st National Convention of Company Secretaries to Governance Professionals. CS Gopalkrishna Hegde, council member, the ICSI and vice-chairman, convention organising sub-committee delivered the vote of thanks.