PUBLICATIONS

During the week we had a full day training workshop on ‘Organization settings and Five S prelims’ for members of our fourth Lean Manufacturing Cluster.  The objective of the program was to help the members of the cluster to understand cluster roadmap, CEOs role and responsibilities in the entire project and also acquaint oneself with the audit process of the Government.  All CEOs and Coordinators along with the key members of their organizations attended the workshop.  Besides, the  participants were also exposed to basic introduction of the some important topics like Lean basics, 3 Ms,  Seven types of wastes, Milestones to be achieved, competencies required, Lean accountability distribution across organization, registers to be maintained, various data boards and the maintenance of trend charts etc.

MCCIA’s HR Forum held a panel discussion on “Engineering the Human Resource”, under the guidance of Mr. Amrut Rath. Other panel members were Mr. Shirish Kulkarni and Mr. Ravendra Mishra.

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MCCIA conducted some interesting workshops and seminars during the week. We had a very informative session on “Fire prevention and life safety measures”, by an industrial expert Prof. Suresh Bokil. In the Industrial Relations Forum meeting we had a discussion on the recent developments in the Industrial relations field and the recently signed wage agreements of Thermax Ltd and Mather & Platt pumps Ltd. Adv. S. B. Inamati led the discussions. The day long seminar on “Exploitation of ocean resources – an opportunity for Indian entrepreneurs”, saw various paper presentations by eminent scholars of India .  In the We-BIZPAD Forum for women entrepreneurs, there was a  presentation by Ms. Sheela Dharia, an entrepreneur and a lecture on “Amendments in Direct-Indirect tax – Union Budget 2012, by Mr. C. V. Chitale. The discussion on “Various issues in Lok Pal Debate” by Dr. Madhav Godbole, IAS (Retd.), Former home secretary & secretary of Justice, Govt. of India saw immense participation.

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MCCIA and NASSCOM organized the Dewang Mehta Memorial lecture.  Dr. Ganesh Natrajan, Vice-Chairman and CEO of Zensar Technologies delivered the lecture on “Technology trends around the world andIndian IT industriescapability to address them”. Padmabhushan Dr. S. B. Mujumdar was the chief guest on the occasion. 

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We had some very interesting meetings and seminars  during the week. MCCIA and Innoastra together organized a two day workshop on “Value innovation through blue ocean strategy and design thinking” by Prof. George Eapen. The Chamber joined hands with the Directorate General of Anti- dumping and allied duties, Department of Commerce, Govt. of India and Office of  the Joint Director General of Foreign Trade, Pune to organize a meeting on “Anti Dumping duty and other trade remedy instruments under WTO framework”. Besides the one to one meeting with Mr. Jean-Guy Schattens, Trade & Investment Commissioner of Belgium, with our members to explore exports/imports, joint ventures from the Wallonia-Belgium region was again a step forward to bridge ties across nations. The lecture on “Legally speaking – law for non-legal persons” by Er. Adv. V. G. Kulkarni saw a good participation. 

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MCCIA jointly organized with Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency and supported by NASSCOM, IBM, TCS, Ernst and Young, Infosys and Zensar, a special executive briefing session on “Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, European business hub” with Ms. Marijke A. Van Drunen Little – Consul General of the Netherlands in Mumbai for ICT and ITES companies.

MCCIA’s HR Forum organized a penel discussion on “HR professional on a treadmill : Walk? Run? Sprint?”, panel leader – Mr. Kuldip Joshi, panel members – Mr. Shounak Deshmukh, Mr. Raju Nageshkar & Mr. D. R. Kurane.

MCCIA jointly with Aundh Institute of Medical Sciences organized a awareness program on “How to prevent heart attack”, the main objective was to control the risk factors of heart attack. Speakers- Dr. Shirish Hiremath and Dr. Nitin Unkule.