To help less privileged people — living across the rural belt of the country — benefit from corporate culture, professionals, including policy makers and corporate heads emphasised on educating them to adopt corporate communication.
The discussion was held out at the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Corporate Governance in Emerging Market by Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Management Studies on Friday where students and participants from various countries, including Australia, Zambie, Zimbabwe and Israel were present.
“The thrust in India is to bring corporate governance to rural areas. Unless we do that, India cannot progress. To make the administrative set up of panchayats more effective, corporate governance is a key. We have to bridge the divide,” said Rajya Sabha member and Editor-in-Chief of The Pioneer Chandan Mitra, who inaugurated the two-day international conference as the chief guest.
Quoting an example of the Sarpanch, Chhavi Rajawat, Mitra encouraged young students to follow her by trying to spend more time in their villages to understand people’s needs and help in bringing the change. He, however also stressed that India was no more a backward country.
“Today, women like Chhavi ride horses and wear western clothes in the rural part of country. I have travelled the length and breadth of the country. Even though there are poor villages in States like Orissa and Jharkhand, the stereotypes are disappearing. There are gas pipeline being installed to free women from the smoke of kitchen, children go to schools and everyone aspires to be someone in India,” he added.
The three-hour-long session shed light on different aspects of the corporate culture, its benefits and areas which need improvement to take every individual on board as a beneficiary. The key speaker, Sutanu Sinha, chief executive and officiating secretary, Institute of Company Secretaries of India, emphasised that sustainability of the innovation is must but “should not impairing the earth while innovating”.
“World is changing but innovation is creating challenges from the beginning of the civilization. Anywhere, any business or social activity happens, we are impairing mother earth. It is the most unfortunate we discuss everything in the boardrooms but not our country. Now thinking about the sustainability of India is we should give back to earth and make green industry. We must resist the threats of global warming and pollution,” Sinha said.
Barak Granot, Head of Economic and Trade Mission, Embassy of Israel, spoke about the growing ties between India and Israel.
Sharing the success stories of country’s business tycoon’s like Narayan Murthy, former MlA and founder chairman of Maharaja Agrasen Technical Education Society, (MATES) Nand Kishore Garg said, “We have to learn to uphold ethics, morals and honest only that can make us succeed. The youth must not only demand but also bear the responsibility towards the country.”
The speakers also discussed the role of the media in corporate governance and a conference proceedings book with different research papers was released on the occasion.