Diary of a Rural Manager!

51st Week@XIMB - 27th May to 2nd June, 2012 27th May - I find one more good articles on MPWPCL in Business Standard :- MP women`s poultry co-op to up production . One more website was explored : BELL Teaching Case Studies - BELL teaching cases explore sustainability related business challenges and capture business decisions that identify environmental challenges as business development opportunities. They are now freely available via the catalog below. Navjyoti is a community based-paced-managed-owned enterprise system in Padmapur Block, Rayagada district. XIMB is one of the patron of this enterprise. Navajyoti as a Community Enterprise System is a Producer’s Company that is being assisted by NABARD-XIMB-Sustainability Trust. Fasal is an easy to use yet sophisticated SMS based platform which gives actionable information on price, potential buyer info, weather to the farmers make more money. 28th May - NGOBOX and SAMS Jobsonline are good website for recruiter of the De...

50th Week@XIMB - 20th May to 26th May, 2012 20th May - I came to know the concept of Producer Company. A Producer Company is a means to bring together the small and marginal farmers and other small producers in the village level to build their own business enterprise that will be managed by professionals. In addition, to regular and sustainable source of income, a PC can give the rural producer (a) Identity, (b) Capacity or competence, (c) Brand, (d) Empowerment, (e) Equity, and (f) Dignity. I heard two good quotes from Ashish that inspired him. Sharing those quote with an anecdote to all.... Service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. - Mahatma Gandhi IRMAns will go where they are most needed not where they are most rewarded. - Dr. Verghese Kurien When a journalist asked him what made Dr. Kurien settle down in a small village like Anand, when he had a Masters degree from a US u...

49th Week@XIMB - 13th May to 19th May, 2012 13th May - DB city mall was inspected in this short tour of Bhopal. I read a good article ' Doing Development Better ' that brought together both macro development and micro development practitioners together. I was also busy in making arrangements of the room for stay of 10 fellow interns for few days. 14th May - The new apartment was not upto the standard due to sanitation and cleaning facilities. We decided to leave the apartment next day. Since, almost all of the data was collected at district level. I decided against going back even after review. Rather than spending unfruitful time at Bhind, I hope to learn few new tricks with my friends. On my request, Aditya arranged me one week unofficial stay and learning with their organization MPWPCL. Management at MPWPCL had happily accpeted their MPWPCL- Impact on Life 15th May - The PGDM (RM) Programme consists of 72.0 core course credits and a minimum of 33.0 elective ...

48th Week@XIMB - 6th May to 12th May, 2012 06th May - Kudos to Aamir Khan for Satyamev Jayate. Satyamev Jayate doesn't need us. We the people need the TV programs like this. It is educating the public by destructing our sweet lies and false notions of Indian society. Our safe, middle-class morality and India rising campaigns should be re-examined with time making us think hard even our definition of traditions, social justice and cultural values. No one has paid attention to the same cause of stopping female foeticide that had been taken by various human rights activists from years. Now with Satyamev Jayate, everybody is talking about it. It tells us a lot about our society. Tasleema Nasreen aptly summarized this as : The truth is female foeticide is a symptom, not a cause. It's a symptom of the disease that treats women as 2nd class citizen. The rage on FB and Twitter may have caused revolution in the middle east but it is still in prevailed by ignorant youths. While FB...

47th Week@XIMB - 29th April to 5th May, 2012 29April - A sunday in the life again. I planned for the compilation of the report. I am planning to visit Malanpur Industrial Growth Centers 625 Hectares. Most of the Large and Medium scale industries with Industrial giants like Cadbury, Godrej, Hotline etc are present there. Yet, the problem of funding of diesel and even availability of vehicle is hindered here. 30th April - Monday was not so much different from any other day. There is NOTHING to update today. What a waste of precious time ! 1st May - Let me wish everybody happy labours day. Let us ungrateful managers remembers great persons like Marx and Engels without whom workers right would never have been heard. The office work is slow and no progress is happening here. Grades of the few subjects of 3rd term came today. I was disppointed with my performence. There is an urgent need to find root cause of the problem. There is a gradual decrease in the Grades over semester....