tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11199387870298583422024-03-05T20:24:31.167-08:00progressive bankerDr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.comBlogger1155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-47176409857842343772023-09-21T05:44:00.001-07:002023-09-21T05:44:15.575-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_FJp1yM8Wtc" width="320" youtube-src-id="_FJp1yM8Wtc"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-3448410916804093962023-09-09T20:51:00.001-07:002023-09-09T20:51:57.902-07:00My true power comes from Self Mastery | Dr. Chowdari Prasad<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/-_srEgXupm0?si=q0zJ59_mcLCZzOfZ" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-37855128789127780902023-09-03T19:57:00.000-07:002023-09-03T19:57:08.451-07:00My life has been a roller-coaster ride | Dr. Chowdari Prasad<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/KIXg72kWkKQ?si=p9-dG7dUAg9-vyUs" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-60474713192037604122023-05-03T08:11:00.001-07:002023-05-03T08:11:45.741-07:00Zindagi Ka Safar : Dr Choudhary Prasad - E2<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/0veETP72DuI" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-5426992667326230212022-12-12T04:40:00.023-08:002022-12-13T17:21:44.700-08:00<p><b>22. Social and Organisational Work</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUb5-vsrRRox9ajhgma-9X8xVt9nav6dg0j94gNtMz4-qk0S9Z0iXDYEKgJzVbldMm8bx6kk5raOY0iU6ZPTgG9q_nzwRlVOcXiDi4QCVqMAuREPC7VycCoT6kOw5qyPSInfjqBymVbrDAdYgwJRlzyKAfxMQVzS_okP-BOdv5Kp2CtGsZuDurf46n/s259/SBIH1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUb5-vsrRRox9ajhgma-9X8xVt9nav6dg0j94gNtMz4-qk0S9Z0iXDYEKgJzVbldMm8bx6kk5raOY0iU6ZPTgG9q_nzwRlVOcXiDi4QCVqMAuREPC7VycCoT6kOw5qyPSInfjqBymVbrDAdYgwJRlzyKAfxMQVzS_okP-BOdv5Kp2CtGsZuDurf46n/s1600/SBIH1.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_fCGYPP13wua2eE3PKo9VXld28PPmp9SssJxGsqs8xe4y49iZPsap2P7UZ7IC4t9h3fs46CcVlEPaBjB4qqYE1Y3GK33ASFgeWdcpnAruJ6w_KK865IsGgcJlkujjB6A52kkQ8-0vcS0mTD6jMU9zDLFt-YyGSmXhhblfPLwUWQJwBjSZbx2255bu/s1280/SBIH2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_fCGYPP13wua2eE3PKo9VXld28PPmp9SssJxGsqs8xe4y49iZPsap2P7UZ7IC4t9h3fs46CcVlEPaBjB4qqYE1Y3GK33ASFgeWdcpnAruJ6w_KK865IsGgcJlkujjB6A52kkQ8-0vcS0mTD6jMU9zDLFt-YyGSmXhhblfPLwUWQJwBjSZbx2255bu/s320/SBIH2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmojqfHjS667Fjg-75cVkVhgdrLDrehd4rUpkfg4XeDo9Zzzj5QOmoV9tvk5JnQzhY3WxK_irfQZThIodI8yhHVHtJ0yr_3I1ZDXzssI4DqMh4XpJ1NQr4NLeuBLRE7MkUnz-wEFTWuU1HhJXNyjK_3kPXqood5exACaLMCwbCm3NvUYkar42Eemt2/s343/SBIH.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="147" data-original-width="343" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmojqfHjS667Fjg-75cVkVhgdrLDrehd4rUpkfg4XeDo9Zzzj5QOmoV9tvk5JnQzhY3WxK_irfQZThIodI8yhHVHtJ0yr_3I1ZDXzssI4DqMh4XpJ1NQr4NLeuBLRE7MkUnz-wEFTWuU1HhJXNyjK_3kPXqood5exACaLMCwbCm3NvUYkar42Eemt2/s320/SBIH.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">22.1 SBI Union: <b>Hyderabad Main Branch of SBI (1868)</b> handles multi-crore business and is divided into Commercial & Institutional (with Foreign Exchange Dept), Personal Banking, SSI & SB Divisions, Cash Dept which are all supported back office by Accounts Department. Its staff strength would have been around 400 or so. SBI Staff Union is headquartered in Hyderabad LHO / Main Branch campus. After two years of service, I took interest in 1973 to contest for <b>EC Member for Accounts Department</b> and won the election twice. I learnt a lot many things in people management and resolving issues.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">22.2 As stated earlier, I was chosen as Vice President for the <b>SBI Staff Housing Society, ECIL Branch</b> in 1975-76 but withdrew within a short time due to personal reasons. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">22.3 Being an active member of <b>Lions Club, Manipal</b> between 2000 and 2014, I handled responsibilities as a Member, Treasurer, Secretary, Vice President, <b>President, Director </b>and served to my full satisfaction.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">22.4 I was the Founder <b>President of Premier Park Apartments Owners Association, Manipal</b> during the years 2009-11 and helped its registration. I demitted Office, upon selling the flat subsequently. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiS-l5k1V7TXoecio9nvZEVPTY6iBhVBgsqYVudzTy8Wvw_K009cJh1PCYMR9pn_KJlFk6w6Vg85Tah3MbEXNBTHJrcNxMBDfkRVWhxvpc7ol2XHlomrLKH4Zr7mGZ_dsE95jD5zyxZ4Ygt6pSRVNw3PjuRSO1v5g9jTv0Rs6DtKXfJrwVrWgirf4X/s192/APSKA1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="192" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiS-l5k1V7TXoecio9nvZEVPTY6iBhVBgsqYVudzTy8Wvw_K009cJh1PCYMR9pn_KJlFk6w6Vg85Tah3MbEXNBTHJrcNxMBDfkRVWhxvpc7ol2XHlomrLKH4Zr7mGZ_dsE95jD5zyxZ4Ygt6pSRVNw3PjuRSO1v5g9jTv0Rs6DtKXfJrwVrWgirf4X/s1600/APSKA1.jpg" width="192" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">22.5 I was closely observing my father working for the </span><b style="text-align: justify;">AP Sistakaranam Association, Hyderabad</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> during my younger years in 1960s and 1970s. I have partially known the issues being handled by APSKA. Subsequently, in 1990s, after quitting SBI and while staying in Hyderabad, I was attempting to revive the activities of APSKA along with my brother late Shri Ch. Nageswara Rao, late Shri B Venkatadri Rao, Behara Nageswara Rao-Advocate and others. However, the task was daunting for want of funds, membership support, etc. Now, Mr Trinadha Swamy is said to be handling this Assn., with a changed name as Telangana Sistakaranam Association (post bifurcation of State).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">22.6 I shifted to <b>Bangalore </b>in 1996, Manipal in 1999 and finally settled down in Bangalore. We have a few families of <b>Sistakaranams / Patnaiks</b> of North Andhra and Odisha and other parts of India in large numbers in Bangalore working for long years in various organisations. Booming of IT industry brought many youngsters to Bangalore in recent years. Infosys, WIPRO, TCS, Cognizant, and many others have grown in business globally and provided employment to many young engineers and graduates. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">22.6.1 All our families meet occasionally for weddings and other functions. We also hold annual Karthika Vana Bhojana gatherings. However, we never had any formal registered community association / organisation. I have been handling a Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1555217824521614" style="text-align: left;">Bengaluru Karanalu (Patnaiks) | Facebook</a> and a WA group for this community. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirw1CGetJ4PnJ1pv_2A7DGDqTW0btxOaM4Fhay8CprMgb1oIL7Ov8Lr_K_ECx7cU-JIj6Q_LXh1Z0wmKxfM6Kc38xuWHPgc9J3xyj-zM_5xvX0rKA6Dyw0cnbz_l7NKkeZyvNbRSz3DgWGKWAc1fhU2QkbZaG625LB-sCwVs6H-EyiUSvwr75RUbp5/s1125/AIPSKA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="1125" height="107" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirw1CGetJ4PnJ1pv_2A7DGDqTW0btxOaM4Fhay8CprMgb1oIL7Ov8Lr_K_ECx7cU-JIj6Q_LXh1Z0wmKxfM6Kc38xuWHPgc9J3xyj-zM_5xvX0rKA6Dyw0cnbz_l7NKkeZyvNbRSz3DgWGKWAc1fhU2QkbZaG625LB-sCwVs6H-EyiUSvwr75RUbp5/s320/AIPSKA.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">22.7 In August-September 2020, I received a proposal from Sri B Ramesh Patnaik of Raipur, Chattisgarh, Sri Vadada Umamaheswara Rao of Kharagpur, West Bengal and Sri Behara Harimohan Patro of Bhubaneswar, Odisha to join and form a new Outfit called </span><b style="text-align: justify;">All India Pravasandhra Sistakarana Association (AIPSKA).</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> It was proposed to form the body to serve community members other than AP and Telangana but residing in all other States and abroad. A founding team comprising of representatives from as many states to cover wider cross section. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">22.7.1 I was appointed as one of the <b>Vice Presidents.</b> We launched a Quarterly Online <b>Newsletter (Sista Velugu), a Facebook page</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/391899975161310" style="text-align: left;">AIPSKA Patnaiks Raipur | Facebook</a>, WhatsApp Group for the EC Members and proposed to register the body. Large number of online events were organised to encourage men, women and children, in cultural activities, quizzes, annual events were organised, even during the Covid19 time (since March 2020). These are RAGA TARANGINI, RAAGA NATYA TARANGINI, SISTA MEDHA (QUIZ), THAMA SOMA JYOTHIRGAMAYA (DIWALI MILAN), NOMULU-VRATHALU, VANITHA VEDIKA, SANKRANTHI MILAN-2022, KALAM SNEHITHULU, KALA THORANAM AND SISTA-IDOL. YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-pkx8ARjUk&t=139s" target="_blank">Sistakaranam Anthem</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwsj9ngO5E" target="_blank">History of Sistakaranams </a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">22.8 <b>NWAOWA</b>: I jointly own a flat number A-503 in Nandi Woods Apartments in Yelenahally, Begur, off Bannerughatta in Bangalore since 2011. It was rented till May 2020, and we occupied it in June 2020. <b>Nandi Woods Apartments Owners Welfare Association (NWAOWA)</b> is registered body serving the community since 2009 with 13 EC Members. I was unanimously elected as President of NWAOWA in February 2021 for a two-year term. The EC faced and handled a variety of issues including Covid19. We conducted two AGMs in 2021 and 2022 and a Special General Meeting-2022. We have a Facebook page for the community: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/177294018950851" style="text-align: left;">Nandi Woods, Bangalore | Facebook</a> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZCspCfKN3vQONnoLD12U3GiNeeMMqlzhxZgqQSTvBIpiBv8gQf5-ns0YGrpv6bM_8vBIhi5CvwBxTWm3DTUR7ji4UyBkCcSbfVFcarWaRhbZubadoQWi2R9-7mmEMBQID1w1eEACTV0q7byrpESjETrgNR14cGdOgmqLCQve-zRlefKf81gqdON3m/s389/SWA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="130" data-original-width="389" height="107" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZCspCfKN3vQONnoLD12U3GiNeeMMqlzhxZgqQSTvBIpiBv8gQf5-ns0YGrpv6bM_8vBIhi5CvwBxTWm3DTUR7ji4UyBkCcSbfVFcarWaRhbZubadoQWi2R9-7mmEMBQID1w1eEACTV0q7byrpESjETrgNR14cGdOgmqLCQve-zRlefKf81gqdON3m/s320/SWA.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">22.9 AISKA Hyderabad: <b>All India Sista Karana Association (AISKA) </b>is a decades old community organisation. Two-Three outfits with same name are operating from Berhampore-Odisha, Vizag and Vizianagaram, for reasons best known to the Leaders / Members. Similarly, APSKA is also operating from two-three centres like Vizag, Srikakulam and Vijayawada while in Hyderabad there are two bodies existing. In October 2022, Sri Dabbiru V Krishna Rao Sistakaranam of Hyderabad SWA, <a href="http://sistakaranam.com/index.html" style="text-align: left;">Sistakaranam Community Site</a> was elected unanimously as President of AISKA in Visakhapatnam <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpdIhBfh1jg" style="text-align: left;">SISTA KARANAM SIKARAM SRI.D.V KRISHNA RAO GARU ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY - YouTube</a>. He has been championing for the cause of OBC at all India level for a few years. He invited me and others to join the newly constituted <b>Executive Body</b> of AISKA. I am <b>representing Karnataka from Bangalore</b> along with Sri R Ramji Patnaik and Uriti Santhosh Kumar. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjiw0wZry5OGVCHcRYXA1yidcdDEYPNUHb-LL0Qny7pXd8oIyrlj0qzZMNwWwxc8txdZBRCPLlr5fiUzaODKCWFksHQWcRIXUx_OU671ZMCepM9OBZVo9yTSCBM-wOttY6Ahgf71wQTW2RMe1WKW2IH_0_UFY6XVEh6De89vs0AiA9GUpAWrhbVMZa/s225/SKIV.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjiw0wZry5OGVCHcRYXA1yidcdDEYPNUHb-LL0Qny7pXd8oIyrlj0qzZMNwWwxc8txdZBRCPLlr5fiUzaODKCWFksHQWcRIXUx_OU671ZMCepM9OBZVo9yTSCBM-wOttY6Ahgf71wQTW2RMe1WKW2IH_0_UFY6XVEh6De89vs0AiA9GUpAWrhbVMZa/s1600/SKIV.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">22.10 I am closely associated with a digital group for Sistakaranams called </span><b style="text-align: justify;">Sistakarana Ikya Vedika</b><span style="text-align: justify;">, operating from </span><b style="text-align: justify;">Hyderabad</b><span style="text-align: justify;">. It has a </span><b style="text-align: justify;">website</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="https://skiv.online/page.php" style="text-align: left;">OUR FRATERNITY - Sistakaranam Ikyavedika (skiv.online)</a><span style="text-align: justify;">, a </span><b style="text-align: justify;">monthly online newsletter LEKHA,</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> a </span><b style="text-align: justify;">Facebook page</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sistakaranam.community" style="text-align: left;">(1) SistaKaranam IkyaVedika | Facebook</a><span style="text-align: justify;"> and </span><b style="text-align: justify;">YouTube page</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dj4-_loTUQ" style="text-align: left;">SMALL POETRY ON SISTAKARANAM IKYA VEDIKA - YouTube</a><span style="text-align: justify;"> too to cover various activities / achievements of members of community all over the world. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">22.11 I am a Life Member of Indian Institute of Banking & Finance (IIBF)-Mumbai, Indian Society for Training & Development (ISTD)-New Delhi, All India Management Association (AIMA)-New Delhi and State Bank of India Pensioners Association, Hyderabad Circle (SBIPAHC). I am also on the Board of Study of SSIM-Hyderabad and Institute Development Council of VVIM-Hyderabad. </p><p style="text-align: right;">Continued... ... ... 23</p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-41122452466990292542022-12-06T02:41:00.050-08:002022-12-18T22:22:46.227-08:00<p><b> 21. Savings, Borrowings and Investment </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCQ5lKnUCObacIZWqYzxM0dDTyqH_KJ953SihY57DCRe_sLxVdKbWuI6h1vP-D1gMgnk8FCV9TgMWzMVLZUXDgu8v5VRITyRWMvxz4YfqAGKhXRPhsAgKo7YreGfJVJ7597T5GjyedMyyyIMjQaIA_h8JM_xY6Z2_EHgAXMZz0L9Qu6Y7kn6uXIGy-/s1200/APCB.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCQ5lKnUCObacIZWqYzxM0dDTyqH_KJ953SihY57DCRe_sLxVdKbWuI6h1vP-D1gMgnk8FCV9TgMWzMVLZUXDgu8v5VRITyRWMvxz4YfqAGKhXRPhsAgKo7YreGfJVJ7597T5GjyedMyyyIMjQaIA_h8JM_xY6Z2_EHgAXMZz0L9Qu6Y7kn6uXIGy-/s320/APCB.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi36dJOZQvYfGg5FcckyyAl9afqwgqm0NExco02DbwmzwYMTxQAxh5Bf0_ofO1wcE40c3PJMeI9PMvQirMsWnBpSWD34MfP0ykqey0axqdFG5uXVAuGoUnnYBY6x_JX4ErpywmwyeNlpwZtoA6BvgEHjURqYM8OrbypMm04l0ULY8B0talxJ7HH-MYm/s227/APCOB.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="222" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi36dJOZQvYfGg5FcckyyAl9afqwgqm0NExco02DbwmzwYMTxQAxh5Bf0_ofO1wcE40c3PJMeI9PMvQirMsWnBpSWD34MfP0ykqey0axqdFG5uXVAuGoUnnYBY6x_JX4ErpywmwyeNlpwZtoA6BvgEHjURqYM8OrbypMm04l0ULY8B0talxJ7HH-MYm/s1600/APCOB.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;">21.1 My father had his SB A/c with the nearest branch of <b>APCOB, Malakpet, Hyderabad</b>. He used to ask me to deposit cheques or cash in the bank during my teen years. He also used to send me to <b>Margadarsi Chit Fund Co</b> for remitting monthly premia. Besides, as a college student, I used to pay fees in <b>SBH Gunfoundry Branch</b>, Hyderabad. This was how I was introduced to Savings and Banking. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFjkDKkMnCXPGKDo3jmpydZ0nnfSF4gd8fqzbr5Q-gUeIHyTbhcFjo64_gDFKTOWZzy3IGy2ZyaRBSyt8Njg3-otUFK__xdkCGtDDyOWK69PrbG6IkF-vWDpa07uoFYfmZ7s3Q_oehaS5lHwr_ntf_b2MamKXwWwehdZY0ngPZdQTItzNDPqeQRTKQ/s200/MDC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFjkDKkMnCXPGKDo3jmpydZ0nnfSF4gd8fqzbr5Q-gUeIHyTbhcFjo64_gDFKTOWZzy3IGy2ZyaRBSyt8Njg3-otUFK__xdkCGtDDyOWK69PrbG6IkF-vWDpa07uoFYfmZ7s3Q_oehaS5lHwr_ntf_b2MamKXwWwehdZY0ngPZdQTItzNDPqeQRTKQ/s1600/MDC.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.2 With my joining the first job at 18+ in April 1971 in Andhra Bank, I opened my <b>SB A/c</b> to get monthly salary credited. I got familiarised with <b>Recurring and Fixed Deposits</b>. This habit continued after my joining SBI, Hyderabad. I was also initiated to LIC schemes for savings and insurance. Provident Fund facility was statutory. Even thrift and loans were started by me in the Staff Coop Society.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.3 During 1975-76 our group, including myself, V Venkateswarlu, N Hanumantha Rao, PPK Rao, RL Nageswara Rao, UD Kumta, T Srinivasa Rao et al in SBI Hyderabad formed a <b>Staff House Building</b> Society in which I was made Vice President. The project was through our ECIL Branch and located in Kothapet. After my promotion as Trainee Officer in mid-1977, I withdrew from Housing Society. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.3.1 I opened my first <b>Public Provident Fund (PPF) a/c</b> while working at SBI, Masulipatnam branch as Accountant in 1980. After completion of 15-year cycle, I closed and <b>reopened PPF accounts twice</b> to avail the IT benefits. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Provident_Fund_(India)" target="_blank">PPF Accounts </a> On getting married in March 1983, I started feeling the need for household articles like TV, Fridge, Bike, etc., and procured them with the savings and availing of consumer loans from time to time. By then, it was necessary to compare the Interest Rates on Loans and Deposits as also to know Income Tax Rules.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.4 Life in Mumbai is exciting and challenging in many ways. It teaches you value of both money and time. Working in SBI Corporate Centre is also a rare opportunity towards planning of career, besides balancing family life. It's but natural that you get familiarized with <b>Share Market, investing in Debentures, Mutual Funds, Deep Discount Bonds and Gold.</b> In 1984-85, my boss Mr S Chintamani, DGM at ABD, CO transferred the SBI Rights Shares (1:5) to invest. He was an ace investor. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.4.1 <b>SBI share of Rs. 100 (Face Value then)</b> was offered by the bank at Rs. 260 (premium of Rs. 160), so I invested Rs. 1,300. I was excited and became a proud owner of our own bank's five shares for the first time. We never had ESOPs at that time. About 95% of SBI shares were primarily held by Govt / RBI and only 5% were held by select privileged individuals / public. It was hardly being traded at around Rs. 400 and the bank used to declare annual dividend at around 25% on FV, the yield works out to less than 10% p.a.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.5 I purchased my first and only <b>Bajaj Scooter in 1986 </b>in Mumbai. Going with the crowd, I used to apply for minimum numbers of 100 <b>shares of good / popular companies</b> like Timex (Titan), ICICI Bank, LIC Housing Finance, SRF, GMR (Sharada Alloys) and others in IPO market and rarely get allotments. It was a good learning but requires financial muscle to invest / wait and shrewd market knowledge to trade to make profits. All these transactions were operated only manually and without computerization.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.6 My close friend and TO 1977 Batchmate, Mr TVLN Chary was Branch Manager of SBI, Vidyanagar Branch in late 1980s. He took all the pains of helping me acquire a <b>2 Bedroom Flat in a 4 storied Radhika Apartments in Ashok Nagar, Hyderabad </b>(centrally located) promoted by Sri P Rama Rao, SBI Officer and Sons. I was sanctioned Individual Housing Loan by CC. I also took support from my father and father-in-law to contribute. Mr N Hanumantha Rao helped me in performing Griha Pravesam puja arrangements. All my family members attended the same. It was rented out later. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.7 During 1991-92, there was a large-scale fraud in the Bombay Stock Exchange involving several Public, Private, Foreign, Cooperative Banks and NHB's funds. It was perpetrated by one Mr Harshad Mehta <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harshad_Mehta#The_1992_scam" target="_blank">Securities Scam 1992</a>. Heads of many top bosses in all these banks rolled and legal cases went on and on. In the first half of 1992, all types of shares (good, bad and ugly) were traded at exorbitant rates without any sense or link to Balance Sheets. In March / April 1992, <b>SBI shares moved higher</b> and higher in BSE on a daily basis and we all had no clue where this frenzy will stop. I sold 4 out 5 split SBI shares at a high of Rs. 19,000 and got Rs. 76,000 (against my original investment of Rs. 1,300). I availed bank loan and purchased a <b>second hand Maruti 800 cc car </b>in Hyderabad, which I sold in April 1996.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.8 On administrative reasons, after spending 8 years in CC Mumbai, I was repatriated to Hyderabad Circle. I was initially expecting a posting as CM of any City branch, but in November 1992 was surprisingly sent to our Sangareddy branch, Medak dt., which is about 65 kms away. I took a hurried step of leaving the bank in April 1993 to join a private export firm. I was eligible for pension from SBI. I had to <b>liquidate my Housing and Car Loans </b>with my savings / PF Balances and Gratuity received. </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhS6dC6ATwLDT_7LprcvUwTRuWaseTow8V1gRLhPOgDaPQxkFsjPxKvp7AMFqWiksQ7LehaF8NuBbJ1UeGDoazFW5E_qYEKyB1ksfVio3URoNOKsgkwi9dfmNZk8VUbqJDjT4B3kzGU3clLxc8D-814qTWcJ-qepxWEb7rwqJzpS-HKVBhzoGMwJhn/s343/Radhika.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="343" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhS6dC6ATwLDT_7LprcvUwTRuWaseTow8V1gRLhPOgDaPQxkFsjPxKvp7AMFqWiksQ7LehaF8NuBbJ1UeGDoazFW5E_qYEKyB1ksfVio3URoNOKsgkwi9dfmNZk8VUbqJDjT4B3kzGU3clLxc8D-814qTWcJ-qepxWEb7rwqJzpS-HKVBhzoGMwJhn/s320/Radhika.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <b>Radhika Apartments, Ashok Nagar, Hyderabad </b></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.9 I occupied my flat in Radhika Apartments. My family relocated to Hyderabad from Mumbai. I was not satisfied with the kind of work in the private firm. Simultaneously I was harping on Entrepreneurship and joined hands with 4-5 retired Officers of SBI to <b>float a Nidhi Company, an NBFC, a Chit Fund Company in Hyderabad and another Nidhi Company in Ongole, Prakasam Dist.</b> I was also investing in share market in primary and secondary market. All such investments did not get me expected returns. I also burnt my fingers by investing in <b>Plantation firms and Dalmia Resorts-New Delhi (shared accommodation in Tirupati, AP)</b> and lost. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.10 An ex-colleague of SBI and friend recommended / compelled me to invest in <b>Happy Homes Co</b> for a housing site in Tirupati. Towards end of the Scheme, I lost my savings. My elder brother encouraged me to invest in an <b>Agricultural Land in Bommala Ramaram near Keesara Gutta, Bhongir</b> which I did. He had a larger farmland, adjacent to mine. But, after a few years, since there was no further investment or yield, I made a big profit in selling the same. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.11 I took up a new job of VP of VBLL in Bangalore in April 1996. I replaced my Maruti 800 with a new car. Some staff members of VBLL and VBHL, Bangalore floated a <b>housing scheme / plot in Begur</b> village. I subscribed for a plot but had to leave for another new job in TAPMI Manipal in April 1999. Due to sudden death of the Organiser (Sudhakar) and disappearance of the Vendor (Ravi), I lost the money when the entire project site of Begur came under the NICE Road. My brother-in-law Arun encouraged me to invest in a Scheme of Housing <b>Plot near Shamshabad,</b> which I did in regular monthly payments. Not too sure whether new Airport built there benefited me or stunted the investment. I sold the same plot after few years and made a big profit again. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.12 During 1996-99 stay in Bangalore, I was also trying to acquire at least a 3 Bedroom flat. At that time, the City was modernising in the fields of IT Sector, MNCs and infrastructure. I finalised one flat and paid token advance of Rs. 50,000. Due to my decision to shift to Academics and move to Manipal in April 1999, I had to withdraw the proposal and got refund. I never expected that I will return and settle down in Bangalore at a later date. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.13 My tenant in Hyderabad flat was brother of a good friend of Mumbai, Mr Surendra Hegde. It was fully furnished with furniture, cots and beds, refrigerator, dining set, landline with STD facility. After staying for some time, the flat was vacated only to find that furniture was damaged and huge telephone bill was pending. I was handicapped to oversee or maintain the flat and rent out to a good tenant. I sorted out the matter and <b>disposed of the flat</b> to new tenant, sister of Mr OG Nagi Reddy of SBI. With Ganga taking up a new job in Manipal and SBI-Udupi offering liberal housing loans, I booked <b>two 2-Bedroom flats with M/s Premier Builders, Manipal in 2002 and 2005.</b> Both were well furnished and rented out to NRI Students. Subsequently, we disposed off with a marginal premium. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs4zoZPQt09nXTuO21UqPzHr6CUvtY550SbkU5FWWOf49cnpodFJctEE-Y282PwP0-lFINt1uLjVbeROVZ9W6WWIFulBQOulxYtCN_hCECkdAA8OERBgXoyKw_qrcJO9r3U9EIOZ27X3uMcUDc1y5YNfX4iJKef1jDN9uTf7rIn6BAl5juWW3GQOQ4/s341/P%20Enclave.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="148" data-original-width="341" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs4zoZPQt09nXTuO21UqPzHr6CUvtY550SbkU5FWWOf49cnpodFJctEE-Y282PwP0-lFINt1uLjVbeROVZ9W6WWIFulBQOulxYtCN_hCECkdAA8OERBgXoyKw_qrcJO9r3U9EIOZ27X3uMcUDc1y5YNfX4iJKef1jDN9uTf7rIn6BAl5juWW3GQOQ4/s320/P%20Enclave.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGPgDnPUmuYou9Bvlr4kgYbFO5nRwh3zu7xdlxQXFgTKAge4zWzBomYMVRY6FlDdpOTr6n9t4GMs8Qeh2UA5u_ncnwx50N60vY9T7d2nCLdLz5W8myNC1Xo81hsk4A60NFbDb74YbKEHkAvD8DY4fVG7BbAY3_YDn9F1VKsEyhOTMnCuirWi5nsyyN/s1080/P%20Park.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGPgDnPUmuYou9Bvlr4kgYbFO5nRwh3zu7xdlxQXFgTKAge4zWzBomYMVRY6FlDdpOTr6n9t4GMs8Qeh2UA5u_ncnwx50N60vY9T7d2nCLdLz5W8myNC1Xo81hsk4A60NFbDb74YbKEHkAvD8DY4fVG7BbAY3_YDn9F1VKsEyhOTMnCuirWi5nsyyN/s320/P%20Park.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Premier Enclave and Premier Park Apartments, Manipal</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.14 Working in Academics also gave me roller coaster experiences against my expectations. There are petty politics with colleagues, problems with bosses and surprisingly sometimes Mentors turn suddenly to be Tormenters. I served to my best in TAPMI for two stints in responsible positions discharging both academic and administrative roles. First one was during 1999-2006 and second time during 2009-2014. Service conditions and Pay structure were well designed and hence I could save handsome amounts as also get <b>PF / Gratuity and other terminal benefits</b>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRoYTdUDYvkeOQwGTdhQUT-mqDyufKAPw8mLdXP3Acm0wiwidWf1axJiPw3bm_CguiRyePjj6TdBPUpJGpHbxzNrGmPvLNzGPIH04uM9fe2K08UHILux8dAFLRCrszNx4FheJhOrp6Vilg0qgL2DrarfMyBGXvzeNLn6bOVlRIx2u8csZw7HYSwyHl/s617/Nandi%20Woods.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="617" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRoYTdUDYvkeOQwGTdhQUT-mqDyufKAPw8mLdXP3Acm0wiwidWf1axJiPw3bm_CguiRyePjj6TdBPUpJGpHbxzNrGmPvLNzGPIH04uM9fe2K08UHILux8dAFLRCrszNx4FheJhOrp6Vilg0qgL2DrarfMyBGXvzeNLn6bOVlRIx2u8csZw7HYSwyHl/s320/Nandi%20Woods.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">Nandi Woods Apartments, Noble Residency Road, Begur Hobli, Bangalore</p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.15 Besides me and Ganga working, our primary concern was to give best and uninterrupted studies to our daughter Sravanthi. During her Engineering studies in MIT, Manipal I purchased a TVS <b>Scooty </b>by borrowing from TAPMI. She successfully qualified as an Engineer by 2007 and MBA in 2009. All her education was funded by us from our own savings, but without any Education Loan. She immediately started working in Bangalore, where we moved out. I was with Alliance during 2006-2009 and IFIM (now JAGSOM) during 2014-16. It was in 2011, that we booked a <b>3 Bedroom flat in Nandi Woods</b> Apartments, Bangalore, in joint names of myself and Sravanthi by availing Housing Loan from SBI. We also purchased two new cars viz., <b>Honda City in Dec 2009 and Nissan Micra in 2013. </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.16 Sravanthi left her job in March, was married in April and left for Melbourne, Australia in May 2015. Having moved out of Manipal permanently, we decided to sell the second flat in Premier Enclave in late 2015. Market conditions were not favourable. Then came Demonetisation in November 2016 which further worsened our chances of selling. It took over two years to dispose off the same that too at a very nominal rate in mid-2017. Ganga retired from service in 2019 but started teaching CueMaths to young children at home. I too stopped my active working in early 2020 due to Covid19. Besides drawing monthly pension from SBI Vidyanagar branch from May 1993, I did very systematic financial planning, insurance policies, <b>SBI Medical Policy B,</b> getting monthly amounts from TAPMI-LIC Scheme, and regular interests from <b>FDs. </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.17 All above changes in jobs, organisations and places of course, made an impact in our portfolios, particularly keeping update with Shares invested. Demat facility introduced in 1995 was not complied with. Printed copies of Annual Reports, AGM Notices or Dividends were not being received properly. All communications, transactions and AGMs were being held Online only. Most of my portfolio of investments got derailed and lost tracking. I made some failed attempts in last 2-3 years to consolidate my portfolio and regularise my status with all companies. I approached SBI Cap and other DPs but of no avail. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.17.1 After having gained sufficient experience over the years, I was slowly moving my portfolio to a safe and steady <b>Fixed Deposit based earnings</b>, by consolidating my portfolio. In mid-2017 came another good friend and SBI Official, who was heading the local outfit of <b>SBI's Wealth Management (Personal Finance). </b> He visited us with all papers and team members only to open the first account. The amount of savings would be in Mutual Funds etc., and promises at least 15% Tax-free return, I was told. In phases, over a year, I invested up to Rs. 100 lakhs. My investment earned hardly a 5% return during the years. I withdrew and amount and switched to Fixed Deposits, whereas an ex-staff of SBI, I get a decent interest regularly. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.17.2 In May 2020, during peak time of Covid19, I suddenly got a phone call from one Mr Vittalaraya Pai of Udupi. He studied my condition and struck a deal to regularise at least shares of 5 companies by taking up with <b>Investors Education and Protection Fund / Authority, New Delhi </b>which was constituted in 2013. I agreed instantly for all terms and started correspondence. It's over two years that my position is regularised to the extent of 90%. I opened mine / Ganga's DP Accounts with <b>SHCIL,</b> Bangalore and got dematerialisation work done. Claims of one company are in correspondence. The benefit of all this work is definitely sizeable, worth the efforts and surpassing all the losses I incurred. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.18 Better late than never. Thanks to Covid19 Lockdowns and spending quality time post retirement, we both decided to further consolidate our position, listed out all assets and liabilities and updated entire data sheets with full details. We met, discussed and took advice / guidance of a close friend and senior advocate Shri Rajagopalan in BTM1 Bank Colony, in finalising <b>our Will and got them registered</b> with Registrar's Office in Madiwala, Bangalore in December 2021. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.19 Another important work done by us was to file and finalise all our Income Tax Returns. Housing Loan from SBI Jayanagar Branch has been closed and all documents since collected. Khatha Papers obtained from BBMP and Property Tax is also paid up to date for our flat no. A503 in Nandi Woods Apartments. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.20 As on date, we have dealings (Savings/ FD accounts and Lockers) with four banks - SBI, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and Jana Small Finance Bank, Bangalore. Our Insurance Policies are with Birla Sun Life, Max India and State Bank of India Life Insurance Companies. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.21 The caption "Savings, Borrowings and Investments" may not depict the complete picture of the financial status for an individual with 70 years of life. In the parlance of Economics, of course, Savings is equal to Earnings minus Expenses. In a typical Balance Sheet, we ought to show Liabilities and Assets on two sides. Here, I was narrating about Borrowings and Assets (moveable and immoveable). And then, the Shareholders or Regulators in my case being only myself, wife and daughter, no strict compliance of rules have been followed. Again, Investments over a long period, have yielded fruits as also dented with losses. Some are quantifiable and others not so. All these costed me dearly too.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.22 I can't conclude this chapter without making reference to at least two such damages. One was a minor damage to friendship, that I tried to rescue a close friend and ex-College mate, from a very dangerous situation around 2012-13. I lent him Rs. 2 lacs instantaneously in Hyderabad while I was in Manipal, over a telephone call. That was a decent amount for me, but never came back. The second was a major damage costing my decent job, unquantifiable cash loss, peaceful life and everything. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">21.23 I was under tremendous pressure in Dec 1992 after my return from SBI CO Mumbai, leaving my family behind. I was very much depressed over multiple issues that cropped up. I was misguided by another ex-colleague and supposed to be a close friend. I was only 40 years old then, with another 20 years of promising career in SBI. I took a reckless decision believing whatever was told to me, quit the bank in April 1993, after serving for over 21 years and getting best of career with four merit promotions. I had foregone at least 25 types of service perks, facilities and decent working conditions. He promised me moon but ditched me that I was not even grounded but pushed several layers below that level. Here I lost a friend, a bright career and life term uninterrupted / ever growing / assured income. I will be covering about friendship, but this is why I gave the title ROLLER COASTER.</p><p style="text-align: right;">Continued ......... 22</p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-76685815939585268102022-11-27T16:00:00.026-08:002022-12-08T20:29:35.639-08:00<p> <b>20. Lions Club, Manipal </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitYxC14BZ-NJW2CtR6NCcjLZ4QC-dA2AoZM4-G2JPOzDB2Q3eqV0HwJ8pPAxtgkDux_qEoxVFWtlE50S6V6P47CAMZVPREEk6eRzObdBehFhpa0WjWIGKjOwkV78YY4itzepI_GFYBcqMaYeESvxjSXqwE2u5PLL-W69ldb7nRe5XIWQgqKid7fSft/s2171/Lions%20Club%20logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2171" data-original-width="1892" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitYxC14BZ-NJW2CtR6NCcjLZ4QC-dA2AoZM4-G2JPOzDB2Q3eqV0HwJ8pPAxtgkDux_qEoxVFWtlE50S6V6P47CAMZVPREEk6eRzObdBehFhpa0WjWIGKjOwkV78YY4itzepI_GFYBcqMaYeESvxjSXqwE2u5PLL-W69ldb7nRe5XIWQgqKid7fSft/s320/Lions%20Club%20logo.jpg" width="279" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>20.1 </b>Lions Club International was established in 1916 in USA. It's the world's largest NGO in service. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_Clubs_International">Lions Clubs International - Wikipedia</a>. It has two extensions for women and youngsters, viz., Lioness Clubs and Leo Clubs. Please click to view more from their website: <a href="https://www.lionsclubs.org/en" style="text-align: left;">Home | Lions Clubs International</a>. Also click here to view their Facebook page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/168038066568365" style="text-align: left;">Lions Club International | Facebook</a>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">20.2 <span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-line;">Lions are a global service network of volunteers that make a difference in their local communities. Lions Clubs is the world's largest service club organization with more than 1.35 million members across 46,000 clubs in 209 countries. Whenever a Lions Club gets together, problems get smaller, and communities get better. That is because Lions help where help is needed. Lions Clubs in India are the second largest group of volunteers in the world after USA, with 6,335 Clubs and 2,35,000 members. Lions can reach out to help anywhere across the country, even in the remotest locations. Lions Clubs was established in India, in Bombay, in February 1956.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">20.3 Lion <b style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Noshir Khan</b><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> had gathered 20 prospective members in Bombay, with whom the first Lions Club in India was formed in Bombay on February 3, 1956. Lion Noshir Pundole became the first President. To know more, please click here: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/lions-clubs-india/?originalSubdomain=in" style="text-align: left;">Lions Clubs International (India): Overview | LinkedIn</a>. Lions Club, Manipal is operating under Lions Dist 317C <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/179625465428257" style="text-align: left;">LIONS DISTRICT 317 C | Facebook</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">20.4 <strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Lions Club Manipal was inaugurated on 29th May 1992 sponsored by by L C Udupi when Ln Dr Koteshwara Rao was its President. More about LC Manipal: </strong><a href="https://e-clubhouse.org/sites/manipal/" style="text-align: left;">Manipal Lions Club - Lions e-Clubhouse</a> I was a member of Lions Club, Manipal between 2000 and 2014. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/230564323636211/about" style="text-align: left;">LIONS CLUB MANIPAL | Facebook</a>. I joined the Club when Dr Rajagopal Shenoy was the President and at the instance / introduction by Dr Ganesh H Pai of Manipal when I was working in T A Pai Management Institute. In 2005, myself and wife Ganga travelled to Hong Kong to attend the 90th Anniversary of the LC international and as tourists. Fortunately, we had a host in Hong Kong, Mr M Lakshman Kumar, my old friend from Hyderabad. We spent a week with him and had a gala time. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">20.5 Members of LC Manipal are elite of the town, and are Doctors, Lawyers, Professors, Businessmen etc. All members participate in the Club activities along with spouses and children in almost all community service activities like medical camps (eye checkups, hearing aids, artificial limbs, etc), Blood Donation, Plantation, Educational support to poor and needy, etc. Periodic visits were made to nearby Orphanages, Old Age Homes, or Medical Camps were part of the club activities. Beginning as an ordinary member, I graduated to Treasurer, Secretary, Vice President and President by the year 2013-14. I was also a Director and Chairman of Training wing in the Club. It was a highly engaging Social Work to the Community as also keep socialising in the vicinity of Udupi District. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8IoKt-BJEcUWGnTJ5efrjbYHEV8fRIsniCy-mwz-YtF5qOikBTpoVTaaW-nLBwlZDogSnHCUSItcg_vVRfCYA8bNMlYiBHnFKfHbtGb_jetVB0uivcvooXyoSvMGKKK3wjpdm0i5CEHQhiz29gXhXg45KdIjdDi_etGVxKAOLFCFeBZrzNi9EXqF/s960/CP57b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="921" data-original-width="960" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8IoKt-BJEcUWGnTJ5efrjbYHEV8fRIsniCy-mwz-YtF5qOikBTpoVTaaW-nLBwlZDogSnHCUSItcg_vVRfCYA8bNMlYiBHnFKfHbtGb_jetVB0uivcvooXyoSvMGKKK3wjpdm0i5CEHQhiz29gXhXg45KdIjdDi_etGVxKAOLFCFeBZrzNi9EXqF/s320/CP57b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Swearing in as President of LC Manipal for 2013-14</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I was very regularly attending the Club meetings in Manipal and Zonal and District events. Mainly, the Club was pooling funds to carry out its activities like helping inmates of Old Age Homes, Orphanages, Hostels, Schools, Hospitals in Manipal. Blood Donation campaigns and Sapling Planting was regularly carried out. Besides, the Club was also celebrating Birthdays of all Members and Cubs, Wedding Anniversaries and host dinners / get-togethers. Picnics were organised too. My singing performance at Madhu Shobhe 2012 at Lions Club, Manipal <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qikz-VWehoM" target="_blank">Madhu Shobhe 2012</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Many more pleasant incidents, events, picnics at Lions Club, Manipal: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L8hujN90q8" target="_blank">Members dance </a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DVyRP0IvkQ" target="_blank">Couples Dance</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIYvGB4taMM" target="_blank">Mrs Shalini Pai sings....</a><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WjmvbypCy4" target="_blank">Its Family celebrations time</a></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db0oeydtdRk" target="_blank">Mrs Shali Pai at Lioness Club </a><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHbgjy_Us2s" target="_blank">Dr Archana performs ...</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iRZ2JThBfc">P1080616 - YouTube</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Mu7Atq8vU" target="_blank">Ranga Simhadri LC 317C</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Lion Couples too dance </div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAtNlG9AaqY" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAtNlG9AaqY</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGawwDeURDw" target="_blank">Its all families to celebrate...</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc3URORMwVw" target="_blank">Lions Cubs are no less...</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHVM6fdJP68" target="_blank">Street Play by School Children on Alcoholism </a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKFOoelRfUaDUZ9RkCBIKpqGmshkitGrb6hkTrAOkTddbQTPP2wW0cfHvKrsAIcJGQQ9hj8fBfx1qkxnOf2PktYps4uLi39FaYaT-yDk4kSu6YYwezD2b7e3kYmeS8Z3E8PZE76G6hav3EA-CLsr9dtKMX6YNYHr_q-g4Plx6mWKx0tkLdkhqs3NN9/s320/LCM5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Members of LCM on a 2-day Picnic on 8th Dec 2013 at Wild Woods Resort</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;">Continued ......... 21</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-66897693446726737332022-11-27T15:27:00.029-08:002022-12-07T04:32:13.880-08:00<div class="separator" style="text-align: left;"><b>19. Me and My Family</b></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjufCpp8ZCmzBT0oxf1zYkgGThhIkdQLHzdr_79a2JK-zBf0wRNe8DcPzWZMNQprpTEf1_Ewpr34WW_AusrXKwtObwPEaoWEh46uMmGlsvOvL1CeFtxyY-5m1j6RtFKoODz-SSvEWZOU2h_8Slff2Pv2RtHHQlHHF1Vg2INOgKUyVwvfbYAOlzT1UZd/s2048/Our%20Family%201967.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjufCpp8ZCmzBT0oxf1zYkgGThhIkdQLHzdr_79a2JK-zBf0wRNe8DcPzWZMNQprpTEf1_Ewpr34WW_AusrXKwtObwPEaoWEh46uMmGlsvOvL1CeFtxyY-5m1j6RtFKoODz-SSvEWZOU2h_8Slff2Pv2RtHHQlHHF1Vg2INOgKUyVwvfbYAOlzT1UZd/s320/Our%20Family%201967.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;">With my parents and siblings in Hyderabad in 1970</div><p style="text-align: justify;"> <b> </b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpz5y2Y1Nsr5mLiqwPkUlk-ifNCxoLbV3vIgrkCypkNC1oS-S1zTScPdShJfmY_l9dSobLz05YQjfzlbuss-yWOVnF70Op2jlMTzMBCvCfNjqKV3uYg8TrKMao6qqYAkovU9SL89_TUiN8LSPSFLBl4dQchYw3Mi4MPWWY3gNwF8ryfeRPXDBf1opp/s2048/Me%20Baby%20and%20Mom%201954.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpz5y2Y1Nsr5mLiqwPkUlk-ifNCxoLbV3vIgrkCypkNC1oS-S1zTScPdShJfmY_l9dSobLz05YQjfzlbuss-yWOVnF70Op2jlMTzMBCvCfNjqKV3uYg8TrKMao6qqYAkovU9SL89_TUiN8LSPSFLBl4dQchYw3Mi4MPWWY3gNwF8ryfeRPXDBf1opp/s320/Me%20Baby%20and%20Mom%201954.jpg" width="240" /></a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In the arms of my mother Smt Sugunavathi as a Toddler</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="text-align: justify;">19.1 Earlier, I introduced my parents, grand-parents and families, my hometown and childhood. I had an idea to draw a </span><b style="text-align: justify;">well-structured Family Tree</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> showing the entire family network but am unable to. Also, I am not in a position to immediately collect and compile details of my family tree, as most of them are scattered and I am on a long trip to Melbourne, Australia for at least two more months (till February 2023)</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">19.2 My elder brother, </span><b style="text-align: justify;">late Ch Nageswara Rao (1950-2015) </b><span style="text-align: justify;">is older to me by two years. We studied in the same School till 1966 when he passed out of High School. He too started his work life early after his Pre-University Course in Hyderabad. He joined B.Com. (3 YDC) in the New Science College in Evening Session and simultaneously took up the course of Cost Accounting in 1967-68. He contested for General Secretary of the Students Union in 1969 in his Final Year. After acquiring degree, he appeared for selection in Defence Services by attending tests / interviews at Indian Military Academy. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcGwLkoAkqLqdXflujaMFitH68S1aJVqdbC-di5y_eFAkc774n80Rjxyw40YVZzy2kqopq1dQUw3pGTOBNFZCVci4WmmY3fU-3mtDVdyTAF_3dyr8AWuqGE0CtnbYzcGE8siAVjyPeCpcOgqRqIZeiUKVY74N60vh_nzskqRSm91F_HrmfKBclAii5/s1280/Family%202015.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="1280" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcGwLkoAkqLqdXflujaMFitH68S1aJVqdbC-di5y_eFAkc774n80Rjxyw40YVZzy2kqopq1dQUw3pGTOBNFZCVci4WmmY3fU-3mtDVdyTAF_3dyr8AWuqGE0CtnbYzcGE8siAVjyPeCpcOgqRqIZeiUKVY74N60vh_nzskqRSm91F_HrmfKBclAii5/s320/Family%202015.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With families of my two brothers in 2015 in Bangalore for our daughter's wedding</div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">19.3 In the year 1972, my brother was selected as Accountant by M/s Zuari Agrochemicals Ltd., Goa and was posted in their Secunderabad Office. He also took up M.Com studies privately with Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. My friend Mr N Hanumantha Rao also pursued the same and they both passed the same by 1974. Then, he </span><b style="text-align: justify;">joined Andhra Bank Ltd., Secunderabad</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> and worked till his retirement in 2010 as Manager. He was married in 1979 to </span><b style="text-align: justify;">Smt Lakshmi and had three daughters - Preethi, Mythri and Sanjukta</b><span style="text-align: justify;">. Eldest daughter is a post-Graduate, married to Mr Bharani and has two children. She is living in Pune. Second one studied Engineering, went to USA for MS, worked there for a decade and returned to India in 2019. She is now married and shifted to Melbourne, Australia. The youngest is Sanju, who also went to USA after her Engineering, pursued MS and settled there after marriage. My brother died due to ill health in Hyderabad in 2015. My Bhabhi Smt Lakshmi is living in Saket, Hyderabad.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiitCDnKjsdg8FbHE-StVuJ7qJxDJSD_oiWWjk9H1ODwMtK5usbj67mtL1xBNVhuwNLeE1_20tA7ZVuZ4Hr-ajit89TBpRDqEcjRQU2iUS7PqTqNqfHmSubYH95lIfiWS68jMXNOXsxJHn1vqmt7WQmj4KBWmuagQZo6-vDjYl9g9JJ6gSfYb1xFJmq/s414/CN%20Rao%202015.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiitCDnKjsdg8FbHE-StVuJ7qJxDJSD_oiWWjk9H1ODwMtK5usbj67mtL1xBNVhuwNLeE1_20tA7ZVuZ4Hr-ajit89TBpRDqEcjRQU2iUS7PqTqNqfHmSubYH95lIfiWS68jMXNOXsxJHn1vqmt7WQmj4KBWmuagQZo6-vDjYl9g9JJ6gSfYb1xFJmq/s320/CN%20Rao%202015.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My elder brother late Sri Ch Nageswara Rao (1950-2015)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLrH9neJ89KZzEvGnN8CWXBoL8aDmKyY65DWs-7DysUS4D1HS-Kf4RB-hH_fTFnqSZNTu0axdzO8BefFzV9GyiBH7TOptTO1sDHN2i9GOpgrBcp0y0bXbaAbdyMLmtFpHJU2AqEbjayoDV9URjGoWblt30S38RxAw6QBbP9nEc1oUYqxL_3ZJEBJN9/s960/CP43.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLrH9neJ89KZzEvGnN8CWXBoL8aDmKyY65DWs-7DysUS4D1HS-Kf4RB-hH_fTFnqSZNTu0axdzO8BefFzV9GyiBH7TOptTO1sDHN2i9GOpgrBcp0y0bXbaAbdyMLmtFpHJU2AqEbjayoDV9URjGoWblt30S38RxAw6QBbP9nEc1oUYqxL_3ZJEBJN9/s320/CP43.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My bhabhi and niece Mythri visited us in Bangalore in 2019</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga_0xAPpzckrnI-AEijet-Ng9H7-h0PMeiwpWUbDmopb6yiDHaUQvS1N_FLwiqmXe_pNZgUHi1Vjjy58aOi3E54DgGay7-S9K6MjbQ0vIf_1iJNdjr2pSVBQUG1320hy3Ka_PUTz3_QHJlwOUEAuFz-osgAPqp69g0XHbOG_TfITSX19qItY5vj7hu/s960/CP62.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga_0xAPpzckrnI-AEijet-Ng9H7-h0PMeiwpWUbDmopb6yiDHaUQvS1N_FLwiqmXe_pNZgUHi1Vjjy58aOi3E54DgGay7-S9K6MjbQ0vIf_1iJNdjr2pSVBQUG1320hy3Ka_PUTz3_QHJlwOUEAuFz-osgAPqp69g0XHbOG_TfITSX19qItY5vj7hu/s320/CP62.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My sister Mrs Jyothi Ippili visited us in Bangalore </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">19.4 My younger and only sister, <b>Smt Ippili Jyothi</b> is an Arts Graduate from Osmania University, Hyderabad. She was married <b>in 1982 to late Dr Ippili Sankara Rao (1958-2021),</b> who was a Research Scholar then, in the area of Nuclear Chemistry in Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, AP. He chose to work in Academics in AP and retired as a Principal of Junior College in 2018. Besides being in service, he partnered with two of his colleagues and <b>established Sri Venkateswara Group of Colleges in Etcherla</b>, Srikakulam, AP. The group grew from strength to strength over the years, and now comprises of eleven residential colleges offering Agriculture, Pharmacy, Engineering, Education, Management, Polytechnic and Physical Education and allied colleges. It's now well established and popular across the border States too attracting students. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHmvK-SUCmw" target="_blank">SV Group of Colleges, Etcherla </a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27dKsIVO8xE" target="_blank">SVG of Colleges, Engineering, Etcherla </a><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eR8_o9_2sQ" target="_blank">SV College of Pharmacy, Etcherla</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOjGX_aj2yQ" target="_blank">SV College of Engineering </a><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUhCk6c5NzQ" target="_blank">SV College of ET Convergence 2017</a><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Bh_olt7nE" target="_blank">SVCET Converge 2020</a><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4ZVTdWGN4" target="_blank">SVCET My Engineering College </a><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxn4W601GRs" target="_blank">SV Colleges Flashmob 2022</a><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rfWl0XuWIw" target="_blank">SKYCOA Agriculture College</a> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Family dinner with daughter Sravanthi in Bangalore in 2014</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiATF3FHI6TPOzuSUooRkaUi9acAcwoBoB_49l1wMAgwQpF9ZWdhit0n27kdYejXkzTvziydX5nJ3qbcwYuwzd3xBFN_lJkpklHRGt6dZ5e9ds_8O9ulaLdHlXZwCNEkEhVZdJQSsYnNP8tKKMOt8CBb3-nsruYJveeHqt5dz1JAxQAR_91TjgKxUGU/s1280/CP22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiATF3FHI6TPOzuSUooRkaUi9acAcwoBoB_49l1wMAgwQpF9ZWdhit0n27kdYejXkzTvziydX5nJ3qbcwYuwzd3xBFN_lJkpklHRGt6dZ5e9ds_8O9ulaLdHlXZwCNEkEhVZdJQSsYnNP8tKKMOt8CBb3-nsruYJveeHqt5dz1JAxQAR_91TjgKxUGU/s320/CP22.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Attended an Educational Conference along with Mrs Ganga Prasad in 2019</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="960" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBVdN7cdCnOaOx-djQGCA-E8-HhF1hb1bLfOc5t-qoBNgk1ehs0QmqKUiyFLBOBgeOWoCAwfa_MbAmZGkxDGclt5jxKHOdvb005JlxzB_bh1CdJ0XB1sTQXCRETxSqMbGH4Z8lBP1T0NI7xfjO4IjbL01joxvdAsiCAKW9H8Xuj1eiHYmJ5Zwz5nxm/s320/CP50d.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In Bangalore, with grandson Master Amay Rao in 2017</div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">19.5 Dr Sankara Rao Ippili was one of the co-promoters of the Group. Mrs Ippili Jyothi, my sister is part of the Management Team since beginning. Their son, </span><b style="text-align: justify;">Mr Ippili Kishore </b><span style="text-align: justify;">is an Engineering Graduate and turned Entrepreneur after working for a few years in IT industry. He is married to his classmate </span><b style="text-align: justify;">Ms Sravanthi of Hyderabad</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> who works for M/s Dell. He is also associated with the SV Group of Colleges, Etcherla. Dr Sankara Rao died prematurely in May 2021 in Visakhapatnam, AP. Their only daughter is </span><b style="text-align: justify;">Mrs Deepti, an M Tech </b><span style="text-align: justify;">and was working in Bangalore. She is married to Pakki Kiran s/o Pakki Appaladas of Rajam and now residing in Denmark. The couple is blessed with a boy. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">19.6 My younger brother <b>Mr Venkateswara Rao (Babu)</b> lives in our own home in Saidabad Colony, Hyderabad. He is married and has three children Sai, Pavani and Rithik. Daughter is married and lives in Bangalore and two the sons are working in the Pharmacy field. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">19.7 My spouse <b>Mrs Ganga Prasad (formerly Ganga Patnaik)</b> is from Kondavalasa family. We were married in March 1983 in <b>Bhubaneswar, Odisa</b> where my late father-in-law Shri K N Patnaik lived. My mother-in-law Smt Lalithamba was not keeping good health then. Ganga is the youngest of the five children in their family. She is a Science Graduate from Utkal and pursued B.Ed from Annamalai University. She was born in Kolkata and later lived in North-eastern States, Ujjain in MP prior to settling in Bhubaneswar. She had two elder brothers and two elder sisters. We continued the journey in TS, Maharashtra and Karnataka States. She took up the teaching profession for about two decades in different Schools and retired as a Group Principal of St Meera's High School, Bangalore. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">19.7.1 Our only daughter <b>Mrs Sravanthi Chowdari</b> was born in Vizag, AP and grew up in Mumbai. As a toddler, she was taken care by our friends and Telugu families in SBI Apartments in Malad, Mrs Appa Rao, Mrs Mani Sreedhar, Mrs Vijaya Murthy and Mrs Radha Chary. After our shifting to Hyderabad (1993), Bangalore (1996) and Manipal (1999), she completed her schooling up to 12th Standard (2003) in Little Rock Indian School, Brahmawar and BE in <b>Bio-medical Engineering (2007) from MIT, MAHE, Manipal. She pursued MBA in Marketing (2009) </b>in Bangalore and commenced her career for next five years in two Organisations, M/s RAMCO and M/s Manipal Informatics. She was engaged in October 2014 to Mr Krishna Kumar Rao of Melbourne, Australia and married in April 2015. She joined her husband and inlaws in May 2015 and is now settled. She is blessed with a son Amay Rao in Jan 2017. She now works with <b>M/s Medibank</b>, a leading Insurance Company in Melbourne. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">19.8 My Eldest brother-in-law is <b>Wg Cdr KA Patnaik</b> was an Electrical Engineer and worked in The Indian Air Force (IAF). He was married to Chowdari <b>Vasantha </b>Lakshmi d/o late Sri CVR Murthy of Hyderabad and has two sons, <b>Sai and Tunnu.</b> On retirement in 1993, he moved to Hyderabad and settled down. Both sons completed their studies and are working in New Delhi and Hyderabad respectively. <b>Sai is married to Sarada Menon.</b> Arun died in October 2020 in Hyderabad.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">19.9 <b>Smt Uma Rao</b> is the elder sister, married to Shri <b>Kuppili Raja Rammohana Rao</b> of Vizag. He worked in ONGC and retired as General Manager. They have four children, three daughters and a son. Vanaja Rao is in Pune, Vandana Adivishnu is in Chennai, Vathsala Rao is in Mumbai and the youngest Sai Giridhar is in USA. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">19.10 Mr <b>RK Patnaik</b> is also an Electrical Engineering Graduate from REC / NIT, Raipur (MP). He retired as a <b>Director of DRDO in Hyderabad</b> in 2016. Earlier, he was in Odisha and worked in ITR in Balasore / Chandipur for close to two decades. He is married to Mrs <b>Sadasivuni Padma</b> (d/o Mrs Kamala and Mr S Prasada Rao of Hyderabad) in 1984. They have two sons, <b>Sai Abhishek (Babla) and Sai Abhilash (Kankan).</b> Both studied Engineering Degrees. Babla added an MBA from IPE, Hyderabad a leading Institute and started working. Kankan went to Canada in 2017 for pursuing MS and later started working and settled down there. Babla also went to Canada for his second MBA in Entrepreneurship in 2019 and after completing the same, took up employment. Kankan is married in 2022 to his college-mate of Engineering, <b>Ms Kriti Bagga</b> who also pursued her MS in Canada.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">19.11 <b>Mrs Rama Vidya Sagar </b>is also a Science Graduate. She is married to Mr <b>Pakki ES Vidyasagar</b> (Sukumar) of Vizag, AP. Sukumar is an MA in Economics from Andhra University. He started his career as a Lecturer in Bullayya College in Vizag and switched to corporate job in IDBI, Mumbai in 1984. He shifted to SIDBI in Mumbai and was posted on promotions to Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Cochin, Mumbai and Kolkata. He retired voluntarily as <b>Chief General Manager</b> and settled down at hometown, Vizag. They have two daughters, <b>Suma and Deepthi.</b> Suma is an Architect from Mumbai, married to Suresh and is located in USA. They have two sons. Deepthi completed her Degree in Physiotherapy from Mangalore/Manipal and shifted to USA after her marriage with Dr Urlam Murali. They have 3 daughters.</p><p style="text-align: right;">Continued ......... 20</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-34724740294838361942022-11-21T19:54:00.045-08:002022-12-22T17:00:13.693-08:00<p><b> 18. Research & Publications</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">18.1 My education and career were primarily in <b>Commerce, Management and Banking</b>. However, I had always had the habit of going in-depth in any activity or work I did. In fact, when I was working in the Agricultural Banking Branches / Department of SBI (Anantapur, Parkal, Jangaon, Wardhannapet and Sangareddy) and at the Corporate Office, Mumbai, I took keen interest to understand the farming and rural sociology to give my best. I also had the first opportunity of conducting surveys on two occasions partnering with Mr Bandopadhyaya, Specialist Officer in Economic Research Department and submit reports to Top Management and RBI. I conducted studies on "Comparison between Lead Bank Scheme and Service Area Approach" and "Effectiveness of Non-Banking Working Day at SBI Branches" during 1990-91. I never thought that I will land in Academics on a later date to pursue research in my work. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">18.2 Having started my banking career in April 1971 as an under-graduate, I added as many academic and professional qualifications during my service. These are B.Com in 1975, M.Com in 1977, Certificate in Industrial Finance in 1984, CAIIB in 1985, GOI-MHRD Hindi Praveena in 1987 and Pragya in 1989, Part-1 of PG Diploma in Computer Programming (Govt of Maharashtra Board) in 1987, Diploma in Training & Development in 1991, Diploma in Merchant Banking in 1997 and Diploma in Industrial Relations in 1992. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">18.3 On joining TAPMI, Manipal in 1999 based on my flair for Training & Development, I was into Academics and Administration. Our Director was prescribing Research, Training and Consulting also for one to become a full-fledged Academic. I began well in teaching banking courses in 1999 and started writing papers jointly with my colleagues on "Convergence of Financial Sector with Insurance" with Prof Meghdoot and on "Benchmarking in Training & Development" with Prof Vidhu S Jha in 2000-2002. Next, I published an article on "Impact of Economic Reforms on Indian Banking" in a Special Banking Issue of Indian Economic Panaroma, New Delhi in its Quarterly Journal of January 2002.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">18.4 After the above baby steps, I associated with my colleague Dr KS Srinivasa Rao in 2003 to write standard research papers on topics covering Indian Public Sector Banks (2003), <a href="https://dokumen.tips/documents/private-sector-banks-in-india-a-swot-analysis-2004.html?page=1" target="_blank">https://dokumen.tips/documents/private-sector-banks-in-india-a-swot-analysis-2004.html?page=1</a> Private Banks (2004) <a href="https://www.iupindia.in/205/IJBM_Private_Sector_Banks_in_India_31.html" target="_blank">Research Paper on Private Banks</a>, Foreign Banks (2005), <a href="https://www.sdmimd.ac.in/financeconference2013/ifcSessionSchedule2013.pdf" target="_blank">Private Equity Funding</a>, Management Education <a href="http://www.ijarcsms.com/August2016.htm" target="_blank">Big Data of B-Schools in India</a>, Ranking of B-Schools, <a href="http://www.managejournal.com/archives/2016/vol2/issue9" target="_blank">B-Schools in India </a> Corporate Governance, <a href="https://web.s.ebscohost.com/abstract?direct=true&profile=ehost&scope=site&authtype=crawler&jrnl=09725067&AN=139833835&h=NogU42UJyLhAxndrGmZaQGKFL0oekw%2fVVFj2i%2fc6qAHRkXWTK%2bE3ZGlwK7FJ6KbFb%2fTf%2fn2sW%2fLIznYYqarLBQ%3d%3d&crl=f&resultNs=AdminWebAuth&resultLocal=ErrCrlNotAuth&crlhashurl=login.aspx%3fdirect%3dtrue%26profile%3dehost%26scope%3dsite%26authtype%3dcrawler%26jrnl%3d09725067%26AN%3d139833835" target="_blank">Demonetisation </a>, <a href="http://www.ijstr.org/paper-references.php?ref=IJSTR-1019-24174" target="_blank">Digitisation of Business </a>, <a href="https://pdfcoffee.com/digital-banking-in-india-2016-pdf-free.html" target="_blank">Digital Banking Paper IFIM 2016</a> etc., for next 15 years. I also published / presented on topics like Retail Banking, WTO, FDI, CIBIL, Entrepreneurship, Crowd Funding, Woman Entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneurship, Management Education, Cheque Truncation, Basel-II, Micro Finance, Turnaround Strategy <a href="https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/18923135/turnaround-and-transformation-dspace-at-indian-institute-of-" target="_blank">https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/18923135/turnaround-and-transformation-dspace-at-indian-institute-of-</a>, <a href="http://52.172.159.94/index.php/nmr/issue/view/4908" target="_blank">Financial Inclusion</a>, Poverty Alleviation <a href="http://52.172.159.94/index.php/nmr/search/titles?searchPage=3" target="_blank">Microfinance</a>, Green Banking <a href="http://www.jiarm.com/Jul/paper4422.pdf" target="_blank">Digitisation of Banking </a>etc., for about two decades. During my work, I associated with Dr Subrat Sahu, Dr B Yerram Raju, Dr A Varalakshmi, Dr Kavita Chavali, Dr M Durga Prasad, Dr Mafruza, Prof Priya Angle and also some of my MBA students at TAPMI and Alliance School of Business. <a href="http://tapmi.informaticsglobal.com/348/1/TWP51_05_Retail%20Banking%20in%20India.pdf" target="_blank">Working Paper on Retail Banking</a>. An MBA Student group at Alliance carried out an assignment in 2007 on Research profiling me: <a href="https://fdocuments.us/document/indepth-interview-with-prof-chowdari-prasad-on-banking-research" style="text-align: left;">Indepth Interview with Prof Chowdari Prasad on Banking Research - [PDF Document] (fdocuments.us)</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">18.5 During my long career in teaching at TAPMI-Manipal, Alliance-Bangalore, IFIM-Bangalore and other places, I handled a variety of courses to First- and Second-Year MBA Students: These are:-</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>@TAPMI, Manipal (1999-2006 & 2009-2014)</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">(1) BookKeeping & Accounts (2) Managerial Communication (3) Management of Banks & Financial Institutions (4) Financial Services (5) Retail Banking (6) Business Laws (7) Entrepreneurial Finance and (8) Management in Practice (MIP) in PGDM, PGDM-Family Business, Exec-PGDM and PGDM-BKFS</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qgcrAvnX_eA" width="320" youtube-src-id="qgcrAvnX_eA"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">TAPMI-Atharva 2009 - Polemic on "Banking Sector Reforms" Moderated by me </div><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: justify;">@Alliance Business School, Bangalore (2006-2009)</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">(1) Principles of Management (2) Corporate Finance (3) Commercial Banking (4) Marketing of Financial Services (5) Entrepreneurship & New Venture Creation (6) Industrial Relations & Laws and (7) Faculty Guide for SIP and Dissertation to PGDM, Exec-PGDM and PGDM for Defence Personnel </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>@IFIM, Bangalore (2014-2016)</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">(1) Commercial Banking (2) Financial Services (3) Business Laws (4) Investment Banking & Wealth Management (5) Principles and Practices of Banking (6) IIP and (7) SIP courses to PGDM, PGDM-Finance and PGDM for Weekend / Executives.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpCylyxsI5roopNzAGW8iRKSp41EUsnfAJj68WTOLHr3oQzcjuvl1zf71pCr3UpCIcTmv2PFRmYFrTbiBSUe70wGSp7hgPwiLbepCOeaD5a2bUVtQkEV0n8I3Jq-mK1b36ho7IA4DnhDuBUx7jW7JxwRUN0IWX-EdJacclFhmA9y6zZ2ax6tjBIqAT/s1280/CP36.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpCylyxsI5roopNzAGW8iRKSp41EUsnfAJj68WTOLHr3oQzcjuvl1zf71pCr3UpCIcTmv2PFRmYFrTbiBSUe70wGSp7hgPwiLbepCOeaD5a2bUVtQkEV0n8I3Jq-mK1b36ho7IA4DnhDuBUx7jW7JxwRUN0IWX-EdJacclFhmA9y6zZ2ax6tjBIqAT/s320/CP36.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">18.6 The above papers were presented / published at National / International Conferences or Seminars organised by ICFAI, AIMA, MAHE, AIMS, IIMK, TAPMI, CII, UGC, AIMS-International, JKSHIM-Nitte, Mangalore and other Institutes / Universities / Professional Bodies. A few articles got Best Paper Awards and were showcased as Model Research Papers. Papers on Banking and Private Equity were also included as Book Chapters. I also acted as Track Chair at some of the Conferences. I partnered with Dr A Siva Kumar in two activities for Corporation Bank, HO, Mangalore on Cross Selling / Retail Banking and a Consulting Assignment on Priority Sector Lending by their branches during May-August 2006.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYxHvZkpSu_RBwLRMG4tVNCAUXpe6RXjuiscFJ4_DIa7pXLxvCk6zt2kHeo5fS2PZ0rK9vOgzN5QtHL9w2N5VL137-WtBAF_e8yaf58RGawX422JomU57_K8ppfRh_uEH-P4glrd-9Pf9fZI6Tu0CsJociwj-397NlVSnd2zOV6LNcAN9LFWlnByM/s960/CP41.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYxHvZkpSu_RBwLRMG4tVNCAUXpe6RXjuiscFJ4_DIa7pXLxvCk6zt2kHeo5fS2PZ0rK9vOgzN5QtHL9w2N5VL137-WtBAF_e8yaf58RGawX422JomU57_K8ppfRh_uEH-P4glrd-9Pf9fZI6Tu0CsJociwj-397NlVSnd2zOV6LNcAN9LFWlnByM/s320/CP41.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">18.7 In my banking career and later in academics, I handled Guest Lecture Sessions on various banking and management topics at various institutes viz., </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">(1) SBI Staff Training Centre, Mumbai <span lang="EN-US">(2) State Bank Institute of Rural Development (SBIRD), Hyderabad </span><span lang="EN-US">(3) Bankers Training College (BTC), RBI, Mumbai </span><span lang="EN-US">(4) Vysya Bank Staff Training Centre, Bangalore </span><span lang="EN-US">(5) Syndicate Institute of Bank Management, Manipal </span><span lang="EN-US">(6) Administrative Staff College of UGC, Bangalore University, </span><span lang="EN-US">(7) Power Grid Corporation, Bangalore, </span><span lang="EN-US">(8) KLS Institute of Management and Research, Belgaum, </span><span lang="EN-US">(9) Corporation Bank, Head Office, Mangalore, </span><span lang="EN-US">(10) SAP India Ltd., Bangalore </span><span lang="EN-US">(11) HAL Management Academy, Bangalore </span><span lang="EN-US">(12) Manipal Institute of Management, Manipal (Incubation Centre) </span><span lang="EN-US">(13) Department of European Studies, Manipal University </span><span lang="EN-US">(14) Rajalakshmi School of Business, Chennai </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">(15) Sahyadri Educational Institutions, Bhandari
Foundation, Mangalore </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">18.7.1</span>T<b>opics covered</b> in the
above sessions were (a) General Banking (b) Rural Finance (c) Lease
Finance (d) Asset Liability Management,
(e) Corporate Governance in Banks, (f) Challenges in Bank Marketing, (g) Online
Banking (h) Customer Relationship Management (i) Role of Branch Managers in
Changed Scenario, (j) Knowledge Management in Banks, (k) New areas of Banking
and Training Needs, and (l) Converting Branches into Profit Centres, (m)
Management Education, etc</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">18.8 All the above works of research, presentations, publishing or consulting definitely added value in my teaching at the four MBA Institutes (TAPMI, Alliance, IFIM and MSRF) I worked for two decades. Being deeply engaged in Admissions, Branding, Ranking, Administration besides Academics at all the above Institutes, I was unable to focus on Research to obtain a PhD from MAHE, Mangalore University or AIMA New Delhi due to constraint of time or fitting to the procedural formalities. However, I was very regular at the Weekly Faculty Research Seminars at TAPMI and introduced same at MSRF too. </div><div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTKqXrzJFRmlMNCUj-4mA17dnS0hjQI0yiA4BjSozVh5Gxg1MaV35setLFcWwTniqiKI8-g_G5wGwZ9fuavEYpPvIdoWtTMbEZpIi0uKqeB3lBBw9G-4MZO7xklSq6XwtsCd-78uWrZ4w0lQ3Yuc0Q1Numxd5sBIywAkIRJpk5Tedt01Fc3EufRruJ/s1280/CP27.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTKqXrzJFRmlMNCUj-4mA17dnS0hjQI0yiA4BjSozVh5Gxg1MaV35setLFcWwTniqiKI8-g_G5wGwZ9fuavEYpPvIdoWtTMbEZpIi0uKqeB3lBBw9G-4MZO7xklSq6XwtsCd-78uWrZ4w0lQ3Yuc0Q1Numxd5sBIywAkIRJpk5Tedt01Fc3EufRruJ/s320/CP27.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">18.9 I was a Research Guide for two MBA Students, Prof J Venkata Rao of MCOPS, MAHE, Manipal and Shri Shreyan, Legal Officer at Syndicate Bank, HO, Manipal. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">I worked as Examiner for three Institutes viz., Sri Satya Sai University-Puttaparthi, AP, IIBF-Mumbai and PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">I also helped three PhD candidates - Dr A Vittaleswar, Dr A Varalakshmi and Dr Shareef in writing their respective research theses. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Member of <b>Board of Management Studies</b></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: justify;"> of MIM and MESM, Manipal University (2010-13)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Member of <b>Board of Management Studies</b></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: justify;"> of Commerce Department, Manipal
University (BBM e-Banking) 2011-14</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Also member of <b>Board of Studies of Institute of Management</b>, Christ
University, Bangalore.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK_jiuLhopZ0apPxcWJnGZGgNaQxMmIvhrySJ8iRT4qrLkkgBl-L0kgkCH3pUuJZWY7zC6NjGmoiikDjWcbIrkqmD2OVJHY_QnPL_91iGymbzl3XvKuClAgw6IQEhlASv1VLwCOf5ZgugnvqCC4ccVuME8etknTKpI5tckf691Ok532hribRxIO3dh/s1280/CP23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK_jiuLhopZ0apPxcWJnGZGgNaQxMmIvhrySJ8iRT4qrLkkgBl-L0kgkCH3pUuJZWY7zC6NjGmoiikDjWcbIrkqmD2OVJHY_QnPL_91iGymbzl3XvKuClAgw6IQEhlASv1VLwCOf5ZgugnvqCC4ccVuME8etknTKpI5tckf691Ok532hribRxIO3dh/s320/CP23.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">18.10 I was a Member of Board of Studies at IFIM-Bangalore, and presently of Siva Sivani Institute of Management-Hyderabad. </span><a href="https://ssim.ac.in/board-of-studies/" style="text-align: left;">Board Of Studies - SSIM</a><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">I am also a Member of Institute Development Council of Vishwa Vishwani Institute of Management-Hyderabad </span><a href="https://www.vishwavishwani.ac.in/InstitutionalDevelopmentCouncil.php" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">IDC of VVIM, Hyderabad </a><span style="text-align: justify;">. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">I was a Member of the Research Journals of IFIM-Bangalore, KJ Somaiah Institute of Management-Mumbai and MSRF-Bangalore <a href="https://www.mbarendezvous.com/pdf/RIMS-Journal-24-07-2018.pdf" target="_blank">MSRF Research Journal 2018</a>. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"></span></p><ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Taught PGDM 2016-18 Students
/ 3<sup>rd</sup> Trimester, a 3 credit course “<b>Bank Management</b>” at
Rajalakshmi School of Business, Chennai during July – Sept, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ol><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Member of </span><b style="text-align: justify;">Reviewers Board
of Journal “Banks and Bank Systems</b><span style="text-align: justify;">” of Business Perspectives :</span><a href="http://businessperspectives.org/component/option,com_journals/task,edboard/id,443/Itemid,74/jid,6" style="text-align: justify;">http://businessperspectives.org/component/option,com_journals/task,edboard/id,443/Itemid,74/jid,6</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Reviewed a book titled “<b>Merchant Banking and Financial Services</b>” 2<sup>nd</sup>
Edition, 2017 authored by Madhu Vij and Swathi Dhawan of University of Delhi,
published by McGraw Hill Education (India) Private Limited, Chennai / NOIDA,
India, during Feb-March 2017. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I </span></span><span style="text-align: justify;">Chaired Two </span><b style="text-align: justify;">Research Track
Presentations</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> at AIMS Conclave on 30</span><sup style="text-align: justify;">th</sup><span style="text-align: justify;"> and 31</span><sup style="text-align: justify;">st</sup><span style="text-align: justify;">
August, 2018</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"> I am a Life Member of AIMA-New Delhi, IIBF-Mumbai and ISTD-New Delhi </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgchwmhXNkhfM20jtESGFzILrQNPXOdKKcDSSIkukbsRHYy0AMdLwOk6hJSu2ca6rYzXvSUwy09WJ3ERhc-apcuURPMjP-AWtb6llXs8bH5i_QVJNAeaiPCK8-3mvD1q5V_533_FXyQe-wtAenmr7JWKH875vvU5kattljgRNpqJtP8XzoFdzOZZM8e/s324/Bangkok%20PhD.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="244" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgchwmhXNkhfM20jtESGFzILrQNPXOdKKcDSSIkukbsRHYy0AMdLwOk6hJSu2ca6rYzXvSUwy09WJ3ERhc-apcuURPMjP-AWtb6llXs8bH5i_QVJNAeaiPCK8-3mvD1q5V_533_FXyQe-wtAenmr7JWKH875vvU5kattljgRNpqJtP8XzoFdzOZZM8e/s320/Bangkok%20PhD.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">18.11 All the above academic and research credentials got me eligibility to apply for an Honorary Doctorate conferred by University of Swahili, Panama, Central America in September 2018. The proposal was processed / handled by APJ Abdul Kalam Research Centre, Coimbatore, TN and I was awarded an <b>honorary PhD in Commerce with Specialisation in Banking</b>, and conferred in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2018. This has the due recognition of Govt of India. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bvk_iVhiuos" target="_blank">Honorary Doctorate Dec 2018</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie7H4dw2Qp55pOWmdR4Yq_QpqxnusKG_TL3Pw4DaJ0fuM5hK-0TFxS-jwCVxUXA984GMmjhDmPThARd_b1AicqX8hyE53IZMI4nNNdDU1PwJCBkjttXcgFg3R5nzCqFPHzFMW_ULEBEYgYla85hOBf0l8wFS1jgZeGrRutr5Jz0ahXIUVfkLsl1h7Z/s1280/P2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie7H4dw2Qp55pOWmdR4Yq_QpqxnusKG_TL3Pw4DaJ0fuM5hK-0TFxS-jwCVxUXA984GMmjhDmPThARd_b1AicqX8hyE53IZMI4nNNdDU1PwJCBkjttXcgFg3R5nzCqFPHzFMW_ULEBEYgYla85hOBf0l8wFS1jgZeGrRutr5Jz0ahXIUVfkLsl1h7Z/s320/P2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPtxpXb0cRgKlYxZltGlzkzgsNJqaoe8bfE5XAJ4OHRwD8Oaqb527GHt8-Ve9VDYl047M0f7A0qAAlzEjGj05G92BMJPYnTyXmEsux6903FuUU_1ekdSPsycGOC1FA6B1R5EVqqpwE81sZC01g-JWfEx-092r6AQshriW2HxABfVJkixratue1unDP/s2048/P3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPtxpXb0cRgKlYxZltGlzkzgsNJqaoe8bfE5XAJ4OHRwD8Oaqb527GHt8-Ve9VDYl047M0f7A0qAAlzEjGj05G92BMJPYnTyXmEsux6903FuUU_1ekdSPsycGOC1FA6B1R5EVqqpwE81sZC01g-JWfEx-092r6AQshriW2HxABfVJkixratue1unDP/s320/P3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjonaPmOGkZOBAIZ7heY5pkzIP28IGsRO8GtCBqUyCB5enIXMJ1KANO2vXX-MiLzVVUx_lSeoj4W7Ys7uECxUcndfbBpCYJN_ZJufXICJCR0aeB4nEPLXAFKK6nvnzXFKVqjOkqFcWhtRCRg3quFWG1NWhhaRn7br5aJBeDD5rTFlP14Pn1_zgjmhR/s2048/P4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjonaPmOGkZOBAIZ7heY5pkzIP28IGsRO8GtCBqUyCB5enIXMJ1KANO2vXX-MiLzVVUx_lSeoj4W7Ys7uECxUcndfbBpCYJN_ZJufXICJCR0aeB4nEPLXAFKK6nvnzXFKVqjOkqFcWhtRCRg3quFWG1NWhhaRn7br5aJBeDD5rTFlP14Pn1_zgjmhR/s320/P4.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_5AbPj25wAaTo-uPNM9q3qDtERxDMNUy85KeU6n8Sy9Zv6JfKLx9JgQESN6DWvsX6fSGKwqMExxvCgjJY88Hdr5glwS6ZHS_3Bv4QXez-3OjMsOjjD7L12nfPihmU-BYmJvRyYcwqDZ_uuxbn-fi7oCtPhgoU4Yb7B7OrMKnWytNF3gjuq_y3s2l/s2048/P5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_5AbPj25wAaTo-uPNM9q3qDtERxDMNUy85KeU6n8Sy9Zv6JfKLx9JgQESN6DWvsX6fSGKwqMExxvCgjJY88Hdr5glwS6ZHS_3Bv4QXez-3OjMsOjjD7L12nfPihmU-BYmJvRyYcwqDZ_uuxbn-fi7oCtPhgoU4Yb7B7OrMKnWytNF3gjuq_y3s2l/s320/P5.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;">Continued ......... 19</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-26424322685465383172022-11-17T17:39:00.072-08:002023-01-19T00:36:03.077-08:00<p> <b>17. Music and Karaoke Singing</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">17.1 My liking to music and singing began in my childhood. For long years, we were allowed to seeing movies only once a year; particularly after our annual exams are over. Television came in mid-1980s. My mother told me that my <b>first song was in the year 1956</b>, as four years old, when my father was away and posted in Madras (Chennai). The song was "Amma Choodalani Vundi... from the Telugu Black & White movie MUDDU BIDDA" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCzLkOepJIw">MUDDUBIDDA-AMMA CHOODALANI VUNDI-MUDDU BIDDA- OLD TELUGU SONGS - YouTube</a>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">17.2 I used to hear my father sing <b>old melodious Telugu classical filmy songs</b> at home during his free time from Devadasu, Bava Maradallu, Malleeswari, Vipranarayana, Batasari, Mooga Manasulu, Doctor Chakravarthi, Bharya Bharthalu, etc. Those melodies were rendered by top singers like <b>Ghantasala, Bhanumathi, Susheela and others</b>. That definitely had an effect on my picking up singing. But I never went for any training or classes. In 1965, as a 12-year-old boy, I was asked to participate in a cultural program in our Saidabad Colony, Hyderabad. I sang a popular song from Telugu movie MOOGA MANASULU and surprisingly got the first prize. It was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U9Fyg9DhDc">Mooga Manasulu Songs - Mudda Banthi Puvvulo - Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Jamuna, Savitri, Ghantasala - YouTube</a>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">17.3 Subsequently, myself and my classmate in School, MV Ramakrishna used to sing latest movie songs in leisure time. We were caught red-handed one day by our Headmaster and got scolded. But we were never poor in our studies and passed all the exams with high scores. I continued my literary and cultural activities during my B.Sc. college days but got aborted then. I continued to pursue my hobby only in private for next 30 years due to my focus on studies, career, etc. My watching movies regularly was after I started working in bank in 1971, particularly on Saturday afternoons after the working hours. My father died in 1990 due to ill-health, at the age of 60 years. He last recorded a tragic Telugu song on audio tape..... Avuna Nijamena from the film Malleeswari (NTR and Bhanumathi). <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqG_NvGK3Aw" style="text-align: left;">Ouna Nizamamena Song - Malleswari Movie Songs - NTR, Bhanumathi - YouTube</a>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">17.4 Music has its own special features. It conveys feelings and soothes our mind. It has no language barriers. Way back in 1973-74, I heard a friend singing Re-Mix of an old song SUNU MERE BANDHU RE (SD Burman) style adopted for the hot and popular number DUMMARO DUMMU RE, MITH JAYE GHAMMU RE from the Dev Anand-Zeenat Film, HARE RAMA HARE KRISHNA (RD BURMAN). It's a very powerful tool or instrument in connecting people, incidents, and what not in a thematic way. In 1974, I was organising a farewell meeting to our Chief Manager of SBI Hyderabad Branch, Shri KST Pani. On that day, I ventured to sing a classical song from Telugu movie Uyyala Jampala of Shri Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna..... Yeti loni keratalu, yeru vidachi povu... <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq90mwP03vs" style="text-align: left;">Uyyala Jampala movie song, Etilona keratalu eruvidichi povu yeda lopala mamakaram..... - YouTube</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDDjq2Iii4-dashITklVVsIXjhgZeGgOAo1ihVW2C-UuyJHAIQStBVP9HIkZLJnUczmgH0fQT5UoddnQxprUUkKv-cMZjxdu8z5fcGACJoD0xvcHswQ1gR8uTO7HUT3_22mRHeZfK6Arpc4JTtMon9robcpe9bACrjzY3_4HAj-UTfxqMgPUXTipAt/s960/CP32.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDDjq2Iii4-dashITklVVsIXjhgZeGgOAo1ihVW2C-UuyJHAIQStBVP9HIkZLJnUczmgH0fQT5UoddnQxprUUkKv-cMZjxdu8z5fcGACJoD0xvcHswQ1gR8uTO7HUT3_22mRHeZfK6Arpc4JTtMon9robcpe9bACrjzY3_4HAj-UTfxqMgPUXTipAt/s320/CP32.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">17.5 Only after I joined TAPMI, Manipal (a leading MBA Institute) in 1999, I revived my hobby while being amidst young and bright Management students, during various cultural programs on campus. <a href="https://manipalblog.com/tapmi-manipal-freshers-induction-day-2012-a-photo-story/" target="_blank">PGDM Inaugural 2012</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1oQR7aDPXi7OXkrWXCNo95Dq4oSXj5a7AbYcsHM_6OStxObERzHVmOxkdDPmiuMeHOIB63qPHp6pcuT0fAZkVa0D6Qq7XerBLxxRjeeWnCPkWaCLLOjzLfH0TClh0j1i32UR_bl07Dvs7mFoNAsaoPKfX1UaG9cTSpf38QPk_6fXz5Zv7HotjcoZL/s2048/CP31.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1oQR7aDPXi7OXkrWXCNo95Dq4oSXj5a7AbYcsHM_6OStxObERzHVmOxkdDPmiuMeHOIB63qPHp6pcuT0fAZkVa0D6Qq7XerBLxxRjeeWnCPkWaCLLOjzLfH0TClh0j1i32UR_bl07Dvs7mFoNAsaoPKfX1UaG9cTSpf38QPk_6fXz5Zv7HotjcoZL/s320/CP31.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">17.6 My successful career in Academics in four MBA Institutes for about two decades came to an end by 2018. Being active in social media, I came across in Facebook, posting of videos of old Hindi songs by an ex-colleague of SBI, Mr Kerala Verma. I got prompted and motivated to revive my forgotten hobby. I used my Apple 6 iPhone as Camera-cum-mic and started recording Karaoke Songs, solos and duets, in Hindi and Telugu and uploaded in my own existing <b>YouTube page</b>. Hitherto, I was using this page for my recordings with a Sony Handi-cam since the year 2009 on all programs / events in TAPMI. Now, I uploaded <b>218 Videos</b> in all covering a variety of Karaoke songs by me at home. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/chowdariprasad/videos" style="text-align: left;">Prof Dr Chowdari Prasad - YouTube</a><span style="text-align: left;">. I used to post these also in my Facebook page and share with my friends in WhatsApp. Many of my friends were surprised at my hidden talent and appreciated / encouraged me. Please click here to know all about Karaoke, which is in vogue since 1960s. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaoke" style="text-align: left;">Karaoke - Wikipedia</a><span style="text-align: left;">. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkFcmG2e7FlgZLLieHLyQb3O--uzuA_xBiq30t1xqaJnPY6oRhpvGMcwTYQqIUZQMMuGEje2rL3TZvdcrWp8imN-U0Imaqrp2TfuycBXoXNh2HAAzP_D6G-_UniP1eJ9wiaH49TzCblBbepjVZd2wp3mjw8orW82vSoEGFtNs43Yt-u17LqqE-CTo/s1000/YT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="1000" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkFcmG2e7FlgZLLieHLyQb3O--uzuA_xBiq30t1xqaJnPY6oRhpvGMcwTYQqIUZQMMuGEje2rL3TZvdcrWp8imN-U0Imaqrp2TfuycBXoXNh2HAAzP_D6G-_UniP1eJ9wiaH49TzCblBbepjVZd2wp3mjw8orW82vSoEGFtNs43Yt-u17LqqE-CTo/s320/YT.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wLh6Uwzbeqs" width="320" youtube-src-id="wLh6Uwzbeqs"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">17.7 Encouraged by the pleasant success of my karaoke singing and YouTube postings appreciated by many at my revived hobby, post retirement, my wife Ganga Prasad gifted me a Keyboard on my 66th Birthday in 2018. I looked around for a Tutor / Institute to learn to play the Keyboard in Jayanagar, Bangalore and attended a few classes on Sundays. I used to be an odd man out amidst young children present in the class. After about three months, I shifted to another Tutor in BTM-1, nearer to my home and attended early morning classes on Mondays and Wednesdays when children are not around. But my work pressure was coming in my way to learn seriously, and I was irregular at classes or practicing at home. Then came the Covid19 virus, affecting our movements due to Lockdowns in 2020-2022. However, my Tutor came back offering classes online using WhatsApp Video sessions. I could pick up around 35 Hindi and Telugu songs / bhajans on Keyboard. Simultaneously, my karaoke singing in YouTube and StarMaker App continued to keep me engaged and spend my panic-driven times happily.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7xe4ugedRVE" width="320" youtube-src-id="7xe4ugedRVE"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2fNyHYxIUso" width="320" youtube-src-id="2fNyHYxIUso"></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">17.8 My nephew Mr Rabi Patnaik initiated me to the StarMaker App for Karaoke singers in 2019. This is a high-tech platform developed by Star TV Channel group being used by 60 million members worldwide. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYYztqG1HA">StarMaker⭐ | Sing along with 60M+ music enthusiasts worldwide🌎 - YouTube</a>. This App has a variety of features and is so user-friendly that we have choice of picking any song and sing along. It contains the lyrics, track music, details of movie / singer / actors, time and scrolling facility, etc. We can also select partners for duets already posted for public use. The songs could be short versions, remixes, medleys, or specific to festivals or national events. While singing / recording itself, the App indicates the level of performance with running score points and gives running feedback. At the end, we have choice of saving as a draft, re-start or save in your page. You can also share to friends also. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggBevV8aG7NJf639JK-08dPN1B_S19CRpk4kGqb7axXBjtXcGKuGE3CMgAAKleH5F5z47U51MP8d4p7f_BHbiGkAbs5srIn-NmSePbyl80PzzHMO1ZzlwzdWpuCTxrcCcf-X1PQVaxp8M7kK19QQCnxHZQKEOfQQEyoDkJWSqEPuxfQ5Vc9xdIK5V_/s1599/WhatsApp%20Image%202022-11-21%20at%2019.29.06.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="1599" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggBevV8aG7NJf639JK-08dPN1B_S19CRpk4kGqb7axXBjtXcGKuGE3CMgAAKleH5F5z47U51MP8d4p7f_BHbiGkAbs5srIn-NmSePbyl80PzzHMO1ZzlwzdWpuCTxrcCcf-X1PQVaxp8M7kK19QQCnxHZQKEOfQQEyoDkJWSqEPuxfQ5Vc9xdIK5V_/s320/WhatsApp%20Image%202022-11-21%20at%2019.29.06.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">17.9 Every participant has his or her own page with profile information, photographs and album, showing the songs in chronological order. When a song is completed, based on the performance / scores obtained, it will also indicate the letter grading like A++ (highest and above 99% of the members), A+ (above 85% of members), A (above 60% of members), B, C or D (lowest) so that you can make up your mind to re-perform and improve the quality / performance. We do also have Followers and those whom we follow. Each song we save / post, can be viewed / heard by any Member, with a facility to Like, Comment, Re-post and Share. There is a provision for listeners to offer Gifts in appreciation (in points, of course). At the end, every song is allotted a DAILY RANKING and later a REGIONAL / TOTAL RANKING. Overall, it's very interactive and members-friendly. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGMNaYdxha5ArW0X6cYfW5hYbP5ZYuEbdwKza38ut7pyG-U6qlb6HBF-YN6Haef-xYAAjVJf1HrgN_kxg-TXjZfAT2eMFlXu2CMrPKq6oqT8905Jha2MCWyoooUzpyyVmTCFt6_wBhX9c2CLWezAYl7D1UfMT80PuRSA0e3H6Bp3K_bKRH_KnOfsyg/s760/starmaker.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="760" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGMNaYdxha5ArW0X6cYfW5hYbP5ZYuEbdwKza38ut7pyG-U6qlb6HBF-YN6Haef-xYAAjVJf1HrgN_kxg-TXjZfAT2eMFlXu2CMrPKq6oqT8905Jha2MCWyoooUzpyyVmTCFt6_wBhX9c2CLWezAYl7D1UfMT80PuRSA0e3H6Bp3K_bKRH_KnOfsyg/s320/starmaker.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">17.10 I downloaded the App in my Apple6 mobile phone and started using for continuing my karaoke singing. My phone works as a mike cum camera to record both audio and video songs. I enjoy using it which supports me with lyrics and track music, to sing solos and duets, in Telugu, Hindi and English. In the last over three years since 2019, I collaborated virtually with over 100 Female Members and a few Male Members too to sing Hindi and Telugu duets. I recorded all my favourite melodies of great singers. These include Telugu film singers: 1. Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao 2. PB Srinivas 3. SP Balasubramaniam 4. Madhava Peddi & Pithapuram Nageswara Rao 5. M. Balamuralikrishna 6. KBK Mohan Raj 7. KJ Yesudas 8. Ramakrishna 9. Udit Narayan 10. Mohd Rafi 11. Raghunath Panigrahi 12. AM Raja 13. Sriram Prabhu and 14. Chittaranjan (AIR). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgChNmf0YgI9bZhxM_U63B_ArcrGMpNCDfturTl5fbQvAN9lDw3GcMIDuceVV0-6X01UT2IzYiI6n37D0CQPPCuFszVz1dWAadPjeQB7b2C3uq3Qdpp_0yVVIYPeVULXDcAWS00mrpIS0LnxocsqT3ax352DduMcII6UbeltB1yU9ai7wnxMteX5RdH/s1600/WhatsApp%20Image%202022-11-21%20at%2019.29.07.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgChNmf0YgI9bZhxM_U63B_ArcrGMpNCDfturTl5fbQvAN9lDw3GcMIDuceVV0-6X01UT2IzYiI6n37D0CQPPCuFszVz1dWAadPjeQB7b2C3uq3Qdpp_0yVVIYPeVULXDcAWS00mrpIS0LnxocsqT3ax352DduMcII6UbeltB1yU9ai7wnxMteX5RdH/s320/WhatsApp%20Image%202022-11-21%20at%2019.29.07.jpeg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">17.11 Similarly, my Hindi melodies include that of 1.Mohd Rafi 2.Kishore Kumar 3.Manna Dey 4.Mahendra Kapur 5.Hemanth Kumar 6.Talat Mahamood 7.KL Saigal 8.SD Barman 9.Shailendra Singh 10.SP Balasubramaniam 11.Bhupender Singh 12.Jagjit Singh 13.Udit Narayan 14.Sonu Nigam 15.Sudesh Bhonsle 16.Mukhesh 17.Kumar Sanu 18.KJ Yesudas 19.Amitabh Bachchan 20. Nitin Mukhesh 21. AR Rehman 22. Amit Kumar and 23.Ghulam Ali. These songs go back to the mid 1930s till the recent times. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">17.12 I have two pages in StarMaker App in my name. I record on an average 4-5 songs every day. I have recorded a highest number of 28 songs on a single day. As on date, I <b>posted in all 4,389 karaoke songs (2,628 + 1,761)</b>, solos and duets, in Telugu and Hindi, Audio and Videos, besides 218 videos in YouTube page, thus <b>aggregating 4,607 songs.</b> More than 35% of them are graded as A++. There are Bhajans, Devotionals, Ghazals, Patriotic, Romantic, Comic, Group, Remix, Regional, Radio and Tragic Songs as also some English numbers from my choice of BoneyM and ABBA popular pop-groups. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">17.12.1 The seven favourite English popular numbers are: One way Ticket (2 times), Rivers of Bobylon (2 times), Money Money Money, Fernando, S.O.S., Mamma Mia, Brown Girl in the Ring (2 times). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">17.12.2 I also posted some Private Telugu Songs of Ghantasala garu like <b>Pushpa Vilapam, Tala Ninda Poodanda Dalichina Rani, Padake Naa Rani,</b> <b>Bahudurapu Batasari</b>, etc. I also rendered some popular cine / private songs of late Shri <b>Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna</b>. These are <b>Yetilone Keratalu, Ye theeruga nanu daya choosedavo, Padamule Chaalu Rama, Pibare Ramarasam and Yemi chethura linga. I also rendered Official Song of Andhra Pradesh ....... Maa Telugu Talliki, Malle Poodanda. </b>The App also has a provision of not only sharing with other friendly members and in other social media like Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">17.13 My level of achievement in the two pages is at 45 and 41. My songs are all typical melodies of duration of 1.20 to over 10.0 minutes duration. There are some popular songs repeated more than once. Similarly, the duets were performed many times with different partners. So, there is some double counting. In the first page, I have 6,900 followers while I follow 1,100. About 2,600 songs were ranked. I received 50,387 gift points worth 1,07,063 in as many as 27 types of gifts. Of the 2,600 songs, I received highest daily ranking of No.1 for 346, No. 1 to 5 for 900 and No. 1 to 10 for 1,251 songs. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">17.14 In the second page, I have 5,100 followers while I follow 350. About 1,478 songs were ranked. I received 32,253 gift points worth 64,584 in as many as 7 types of gifts. Of the 1,500 songs, I received highest daily ranking of No.1 for 514, No. 1 to 5 for 882 and No. 1 to 10 for 1,032 songs. I give below, some posts in my Facebook page recently:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://m.starmakerstudios.com/d/playrecording?app=sm&from_user_id=11540474045150731&is_convert=true&pg_rf_ca_vn=3&recordingId=11540474099414125&share_type=fb&fbclid=IwAR3jFKP3_Nf_sU8zkL7PnfTk4lyCXCZLqhVDOKKpUskHwWANgT5KJ6uwzlo">ProfDrChowdariPrasad just sang the song [Kasme Waade Pyaar Wafaa], how can the voice be so amazing?! (starmakerstudios.com)</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://m.starmakerstudios.com/d/playrecording?app=sm&from_user_id=11540474045150731&is_convert=true&pg_rf_ca_vn=3&recordingId=11540474099419502&share_type=fb&fbclid=IwAR2KJ-Th-_zfH8k_KJV3kmhYoRNN1eoQoZ3OpTVkcT_-9xVXVMJCOwWHqsg">ProfDrChowdariPrasad just sang the song [Meri Bheegi Bheegi Si], how can the voice be so amazing?! (starmakerstudios.com)</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://m.starmakerstudios.com/d/playrecording?app=sm&from_user_id=11540474045150731&is_convert=true&pg_rf_ca_vn=3&recordingId=11540474099483829&share_type=fb&fbclid=IwAR3QNkvzDIpuAROfpnqHMmKcddYcUSe1xQvVcgT8E0UCVNvx4CSfpK0WRhs">ProfDrChowdariPrasad just sang the song [Aamani Padave Geethanjali], how can the voice be so amazing?! (starmakerstudios.com)</a> </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">17.15 Overall, this hobby of my karaoake singing, keeps me cheerful and engaged instead of idling my time in my times post retirement. Incidentally, I am grateful to God that Karaoke singing has become a testing mechanism for my vision for reading lyrics in English / Hindi / Telugu, throat to render the songs with modulation and lung power (breathing too) at a time we were passing through the Covid19 times. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">17.16 <span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">In December 2022 while staying in Melbourne on a long holiday with family, I ventured to sing and post in my StarMaker Karaoke page, ten favourite / popular songs of the maestro late Sri Kundan Lal Saigal. These are 1. Jab Dil hi toot gaya (Shahjehan, 1946) 2. Soja Raaj Kumari (Zindagi, 1940) 3. Jo Beet Chuki (Pujarin, 1936) 4. Karoon Kya aas niras (Dushman, 1939) 5. Do naina matware (My Sister / Meri Didi, 1944) 6. Gam diye mustakil (Shahjehan, 1946) 7. Ek Bangla bane nyara (President, 1937) 8. Babul Mora (Street Singer, 1937) 9. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diya Jalao, Jag mag (Tansen, 1943) and 10. Main kya janu (Zindagi, 1940). His profile in Wikipedia says he is an actor / singer and first Super Star of Hindi Cinema (both in Kolkata and Mumbai):</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">17.17 In November 2022<span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">, while in Melbourne, I posted ten of my Karaoke songs of late Shri Jagjit Singh ji in my StarMaker page. I attended his live performances in Mumbai in 1985 and 1998 and was influenced. His profile from Wikipedia is here: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagjit_Singh?fbclid=IwAR3bqdPPCOELYmRHqtfY2ib0GfxrAsUKiHwxsfzeI__CVKqimyEMoiHwWx8" rel="nofollow" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagjit_Singh</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">The songs / ghazals are 1. Chitthi na koi sandesh, 2. Kal Chaudhvi ki raat 3. Ye Daulat bhi lelo 4. Hothon se chulo thum 5. Tum Itna Kyun Muskurarahi ho 6. Hosh Walon ko kya 7. Jane woh kaise, log </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">the jinke 8. Tum ko dekha tho 9. Jhuki jhuki thee nazar and 10. Yeh thera ghar, ye mera ghar. Each one is a master </span></span><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">piece</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">17.18 In the last week of December 2022, I made another valiant effort to karaoke sing 10 popular numbers, both solo and duets of late Shri Talat Mahmood (1924-1998), Padmabhushan Awardee. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talat_Mahmood" target="_blank">Late Talat Mahmood (1924-1998)</a> These songs were from various films released between 1951 and 1964. These are 1. Jalte hain Jiske Liye (Sujata, 1959) 2. Tasweer Banata hun (Baradari, 1955) 3. Itnana muzhse thu pyar badha (Chaya, 1961) 4. Zindagi Dene wale (Dil E Nadan, 1953) 5. Jayen tho jayen kaha (Taxi Driver, 1954) 6. Meri Yaad mein thum na (Madhhosh, 1951) 7. Phir wohi sham, wohi gham (Jahan ara, 1964) 8. Seene mein Sulagta (Tarana, 1951) 9. Rahi Math wale (Waris) and 10. Thu phulonki rani (Chitrapat, 1961).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">17.19 Finally, let me submit that Karaoke Singing is an art and for entertainment. It's not copying, mimicry or plagiarism but a sort of imitation. <a href="https://skiv.online/e107_plugins/download/download.php?action=view&id=165" target="_blank">LEKHA NEWSLETTER Jan, 2023 (Page 19)</a> A write up on my Karaoke hobby was covered on page 19 of Sistakaranam Ikya Vedika Monthly Newsletter.</div><div style="text-align: right;">Continued ......... 18</div><div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-32176470814665020942022-11-15T04:05:00.009-08:002022-12-07T04:26:14.466-08:00<p><b> 16. Vidya Gateway Foundation</b> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">16.1 As they say, all good things come to an end, at the age of 67 I almost decided to call it a day after quitting Shantha Group in September 2019. Dr K Sankaran, my ex-colleague in TAPMI, Manipal about 15 years ago and now working as Director of Justice KS Hegde Institute of Management, under Nitte University near Mangalore invited me for discussions. Dr Sankaran obtained his PhD from USA and also taught at SP Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai, IMI New Delhi and Sharjah University. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">16.2 Dr Ananth Rao, Dr Sudheer Sharan, Dr Pattanayak were also included in the proposed project by him. I added Dr Varun Murthy of Bangalore whom I knew as a Medical Graduate, engaged in Social Work and Educational Entrepreneurial Ventures. Dr Rao is an ex-SBI Officer turned Academician with high credentials having his PhD from USA and worked in Senior positions in University of Dubai. Besides being a Professor and Academic Administrator, he is an expert in global AACSB Accreditation. Dr Sudheer Sharan is an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and obtained his PhD. He worked as a Dean at MSRF Bangalore and was my predecessor. Dr SK Pattanayak is a retired top executive of Indian Railways and located in Bangalore as a Consultant. Mr Pratap Hegde of M/s Rane P Ltd., Bangalore joined us as seventh member in the proposed venture. He is an IT expert and engaged in Social Work too. 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Primarily we planned to propagate the New National Educational Policy 2019 of GOI. We called our organisation as Vidya Gateway Foundation. We recruited a Research Assistant and proposed to organise a National Conference to train Faculty Members and guide the Managements of Higher Educational Institutes. </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/vidya-gateway-foundation-vgf/?viewAsMember=true" style="text-align: justify;">(33) Vidya Gateway Foundation - (VGF): Overview | LinkedIn</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuO6PDJmOVkbaoZgiHpuKAKlq1l6KK1fzTUSIY0R6kOXDaYjhNJwAEjWr4pQCkLlgouocrxqt1de3MCN8EIw-jERSGxSVrFrVfagf3xqY44ZGUkS2yqsLmAIMpKeEDoqM5PF5UVZLoxLyRXDzc7ZehQdpVL2DtYJmGtCIBiQ23EUwyBdLwPpdtgk8w/s414/Vidya%20Gateway%202019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuO6PDJmOVkbaoZgiHpuKAKlq1l6KK1fzTUSIY0R6kOXDaYjhNJwAEjWr4pQCkLlgouocrxqt1de3MCN8EIw-jERSGxSVrFrVfagf3xqY44ZGUkS2yqsLmAIMpKeEDoqM5PF5UVZLoxLyRXDzc7ZehQdpVL2DtYJmGtCIBiQ23EUwyBdLwPpdtgk8w/s320/Vidya%20Gateway%202019.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/document/C511FAQHbR008jfh-Kg/feedshare-document-pdf-analyzed/0/1621150621310?e=1671062400&v=beta&t=kBrAeeGkkohWfp77BFxcBjWEM1PtvfKdaCNDFcfALpM" target="_blank">Conference Brochure 2020</a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguUKqLbySyunjYl6oTT4jqGXPbZXXlcCNZBs_2XvqRPXm4iHjhN-dM6FMfk4JY-7DJjNhthgw31AYNH9EeUM1mDfMUggFAW8hjB7shiHZwiwR2Xm1DB2tn42kjuP9Syk8OP2tYbLX0407PAbLaRAahYihW-cq9gqHXzlXKv_wpq9ij6HPAicYRka55/s594/CP12a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="573" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguUKqLbySyunjYl6oTT4jqGXPbZXXlcCNZBs_2XvqRPXm4iHjhN-dM6FMfk4JY-7DJjNhthgw31AYNH9EeUM1mDfMUggFAW8hjB7shiHZwiwR2Xm1DB2tn42kjuP9Syk8OP2tYbLX0407PAbLaRAahYihW-cq9gqHXzlXKv_wpq9ij6HPAicYRka55/s320/CP12a.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Visit to Jain University, Bangalore during our campaign for the Conference</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">16.4 We were making preparations for forming a Pvt Ltd Company and embark on our operations. All arrangements were made to launch our first program. Canvassing to several Bangalore based Institutes / Universities were commenced. Simultaneously, we did necessary research on the NEP 2020 (changed from NEP 2019 by GOI). The Conference was scheduled for April 2020, but unfortunately Covid19 took ugly turn in March 2020 aborting our progress. The prolonged lockdowns and uncertain conditions in all fields including Colleges and Schools affected the entire environment. After waiting for over an year, in view of changed conditions in Education field, we shelved the idea, while each of the Members engaged in their respective areas of interest. I almost took FULL RETIREMENT from work. </span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOOcKOJ-Sc9tYPakgWommygswUjl7_Wu9vpxnLngntHz0jt_irgBJq0E6INSZlIeUplB3TQY8ajkUNsAzJNTbiGcy-hrEf9v9D2DfkHeymiIvGUsT6wcZTgpA9yzvpxar9s4_R8H6fpmvHGMHCEcVb1uZCpfVCXip0RvS5FRv3wM8vO1fmwodzlOyX/s2048/CP10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOOcKOJ-Sc9tYPakgWommygswUjl7_Wu9vpxnLngntHz0jt_irgBJq0E6INSZlIeUplB3TQY8ajkUNsAzJNTbiGcy-hrEf9v9D2DfkHeymiIvGUsT6wcZTgpA9yzvpxar9s4_R8H6fpmvHGMHCEcVb1uZCpfVCXip0RvS5FRv3wM8vO1fmwodzlOyX/s320/CP10.jpg" width="240" /></a></p><p style="text-align: right;">Continued ......... 17</p><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-2134114830733381192022-11-03T02:07:00.017-07:002022-12-07T03:37:24.173-08:00<p><b> 15. Shantha Group</b> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">15.1 Mr Ananth R, who is an IISc Postgraduate, and an ex-Reliance Senior Official was introduced to me by Dr AP Achar in 2017 for my joining MSRF. Our association continued after I quit MSRF in August 2018 as we had several common tastes like passion for quality education and progressive ideals. He had a friend who was a young doctor, spoke Telugu and Kannada, a Congress MLA and was running an educational group called Shantha Educational Institutions in Peresandra near Chikkaballapur, on the highway between Bangalore and Andhra. The group had a High School, a PUC College and a Degree College with huge infrastructure and was over ten years old which was named after his late mother and established by his father. The founders desired to grow the group to a larger conglomerate in due course and stated that funds were not an issue. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">15.2 Mr. Ananth asked me to meet / discuss with our friend and visit the campus to understand the system. The students at these School / Colleges were all from the surrounding rural areas and generally come from poor economic background. The group was operating its own School buses to pick up and drop all students and teachers from nearby villages. The School / College fees were moderate so also the salaries of teachers. Principals of these institutions were mediocre but humble for certain obvious reasons. The school was to be accredited by AICSE Board. I took up the responsibility of the Group as its Academic Advisor and Ananth Ravi as the Chief of Academic Council to support the Founders.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOCPjOLkFWvfQ0ZaWImR8ha63F5eITSC6eQU-9PY_9xoEN19uXLL-WrUOh9HuB2zhPp5OHq1dM2QT8HJ4cOHICi1ow-nJPl1RRdZhDLV24MLZi7mtCwjvKHuZygI76xRXbtJNg-N1pzKVq00voSlo1bsCbFoLp-rc3dSUBserNvxbwAh3f9RT6Zgvv/s2046/CP25.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1149" data-original-width="2046" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOCPjOLkFWvfQ0ZaWImR8ha63F5eITSC6eQU-9PY_9xoEN19uXLL-WrUOh9HuB2zhPp5OHq1dM2QT8HJ4cOHICi1ow-nJPl1RRdZhDLV24MLZi7mtCwjvKHuZygI76xRXbtJNg-N1pzKVq00voSlo1bsCbFoLp-rc3dSUBserNvxbwAh3f9RT6Zgvv/s320/CP25.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">15.3 Lot of preparatory work was to be carried out in upkeep of premises, records, streamlining of systems and processes. We (me and Ravi) both created a high-profile Academic Advisory Council. We were functioning administratively from Bangalore City Office and visiting the campus at weekly intervals. Good number of qualified / trained teachers were recruited. All existing teachers were put through to Performance Appraisals. HR Manager was appointed who was an MBA and had long years of corporate experience. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">15.3.1 A Newsletter and Website were launched to disseminate about the Group. Teachers and Students were deputed to attend several events in Bangalore. Smt Sarada Lakshmi, who was a Principal in a Bangalore-based ICSE accredited High School with vast experience and knowledge of High School administration was approached to guide us for Accreditation, which was achieved as planned. Sports Day, Cultural Events, Annual Programs, National Events, etc were conducted on a high scale by inviting celebrities to address the children. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/shanthaeducational.institutions/" style="text-align: left;">(1) Shantha Educational Institutions |</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/shanthaeducational.institutions/" style="text-align: left;"> Facebook</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=863239010714544&set=pcb.863241234047655" style="text-align: left;">(1) </a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=863239010714544&set=pcb.863241234047655" style="text-align: left;">Facebook</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shanthagroupinstitutions_1/?hl=en" style="text-align: left;">Shantha Group of Institutions (@shanthagroupinstitutions_1) </a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/shanthagroupinstitutions_1/?hl=en" style="text-align: left;">• </a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/shanthagroupinstitutions_1/?hl=en" style="text-align: left;">Instagram photos and videos</a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ySMR323Uw">Shantha Group of institutions - YouTube</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwVXo5Fygaw&t=962s">Address by Dr K Sudhakar on the occasion of Admissions Habba 2019 - YouTube</a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">15.4 The founders did not interfere in all above improvements or initiatives. But there were some delays in taking decisions since the founders were located in Bangalore City. Staff Quarters were not constructed, as promised. Hostel rooms were not fully occupied where huge capital investment was locked in. Admissions were always a challenge, in view of heavy competition from neighbouring Schools / Colleges. We organised an Admissions Habba on campus and campaigned in the coverage area by engaging an Ad Agency. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l1MkXGjx_s&t=92s" target="_blank">Admissions Habba @SGI </a> The political activities / affiliations of our MLA changed with his becoming Chairman of a Public Organisation for a short term followed by his joining State Cabinet as Minister. Couple of CA+CWA were handling Accounts Administration, Budgeting, etc. Professional Management of the group took a back seat, and we were losing interest. I quit the group in September 2019 for good. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoJ4JvZMJy1PHEPIN0-c06eYtZkB12Q0x5xKLjXo4OAZQjDDhVKeAb8VC-PnH5XuBZXqHAzWnmGB4WnMzNMEQZK1R8DZv6ukrbwmuD1g-XwLx5S-d9poK50SDuaWri1XOzCPxkHFmjTiSjGzSKFudbWw2jeSATL_WLc9nN8oBouFl06R2XWCBbreMa/s315/CP44.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="315" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoJ4JvZMJy1PHEPIN0-c06eYtZkB12Q0x5xKLjXo4OAZQjDDhVKeAb8VC-PnH5XuBZXqHAzWnmGB4WnMzNMEQZK1R8DZv6ukrbwmuD1g-XwLx5S-d9poK50SDuaWri1XOzCPxkHFmjTiSjGzSKFudbWw2jeSATL_WLc9nN8oBouFl06R2XWCBbreMa/s1600/CP44.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhojYPPAz3F3vgw5NymiqW38VyYfvBbPHoePtOW8iMGg-22jVuxnU92FyMMs_nfMms8eEXMYHCylDCxqfv1695ITafHZvL_Vqys3_MiuBk5siFISGrUHs6BhFqbqlM1GKecpswg4Vr8gvmhSZZv--O7YAMBFv-odLrdIl2qU4R8iInFIFld_8o-zII-/s315/CP43.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="315" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhojYPPAz3F3vgw5NymiqW38VyYfvBbPHoePtOW8iMGg-22jVuxnU92FyMMs_nfMms8eEXMYHCylDCxqfv1695ITafHZvL_Vqys3_MiuBk5siFISGrUHs6BhFqbqlM1GKecpswg4Vr8gvmhSZZv--O7YAMBFv-odLrdIl2qU4R8iInFIFld_8o-zII-/s1600/CP43.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kwVXo5Fygaw" width="320" youtube-src-id="kwVXo5Fygaw"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1l1MkXGjx_s" width="320" youtube-src-id="1l1MkXGjx_s"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">15.5 Subsequently, the group added para-medical and medical courses and institutions into its fold: </span><a href="https://shanthainstitutions.com/about/" style="text-align: left;">About Us - Shantha Group of Institutions Chikkaballapur, Karnataka (shanthainstitutions.com)</a></div><p style="text-align: left;">15.6 I was invited to join as a Member of the Board of Studies of Siva Sivani Institute of Management, Hyderabad in the year 2019: <a href="https://ssim.ac.in/board-of-studies/" style="text-align: left;">Board Of Studies - SSIM</a></p><p style="text-align: right;">Continued ......... 16</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-64823046148097623022022-10-28T02:24:00.025-07:002022-12-09T00:28:05.849-08:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>14. MSRF / RIMS assignment</b></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWH7VSMxJY2cn-5hun1wC7EaFBTPyTSw5WThD9T43Pj3vP3vjYmZ3dgABScN1F_k3uMSgErisBsFyFhH2MLAXljCnutZ1uq1iceW_RWhffb9c66yZh6mFvdk9Cv2J3ZtkMdfYUK-0h28c5TCp6vGDjH3zeVvpttFk2f5-IxI6bUAjCRIX2Qm342QT/s960/MSRF%20%202018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWH7VSMxJY2cn-5hun1wC7EaFBTPyTSw5WThD9T43Pj3vP3vjYmZ3dgABScN1F_k3uMSgErisBsFyFhH2MLAXljCnutZ1uq1iceW_RWhffb9c66yZh6mFvdk9Cv2J3ZtkMdfYUK-0h28c5TCp6vGDjH3zeVvpttFk2f5-IxI6bUAjCRIX2Qm342QT/s320/MSRF%20%202018.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Independence Day at RIBS / MSRF Bangalore in August 2018</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoAL1SCJ4RZkkFz1ZTKtlh_N8X_Bd68j7uXli-c8CudJeWnJTbtX12K6yQy3rEz4pyEtcRkB1jTh0rFqTcD4QVBDTBchQiFWCp3awFmEOTMKcImeMzCmJ9c3eL1J3xLdsj9lI_7riIMe58r2gLHyH-rOvfsZ8WtTYUPj8FAGdGnTf1obu6E_UV3lXi/s960/MSRF%202018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoAL1SCJ4RZkkFz1ZTKtlh_N8X_Bd68j7uXli-c8CudJeWnJTbtX12K6yQy3rEz4pyEtcRkB1jTh0rFqTcD4QVBDTBchQiFWCp3awFmEOTMKcImeMzCmJ9c3eL1J3xLdsj9lI_7riIMe58r2gLHyH-rOvfsZ8WtTYUPj8FAGdGnTf1obu6E_UV3lXi/s320/MSRF%202018.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimQyy5YDKWiJZq6Uk_S2gIYcz-ZGSznn--j5iXN100tRSf8xPmMSUAcahFu7sMkC8TnJXGCVwvo6ckCYkW_ac9fJxkjG-Jy944XREHMQrwPE-dXYLly5Qk3wpTXvf78Cbqj0jggluede6TqXeADrZHY497Ob5PrUC-ZXtlsQPfbWn-Xf8r4QgKB6Mx/s267/Pratidhwani%20MSRF.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="189" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimQyy5YDKWiJZq6Uk_S2gIYcz-ZGSznn--j5iXN100tRSf8xPmMSUAcahFu7sMkC8TnJXGCVwvo6ckCYkW_ac9fJxkjG-Jy944XREHMQrwPE-dXYLly5Qk3wpTXvf78Cbqj0jggluede6TqXeADrZHY497Ob5PrUC-ZXtlsQPfbWn-Xf8r4QgKB6Mx/s1600/Pratidhwani%20MSRF.jpg" width="189" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Quarterly Newsletter of MSRF in June 2018</div><span style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div>14.1 Dr Anantha Padmanabha Achar is a holder of PhD in Management and good friend of mine. He belongs to Udupi-Manipal and worked in MIM, Manipal Academy of Higher Education for long years. Later he was Director (MBA Deot.) of Sahyadri College of Management in Mangalore for about five years. I visited his Institute for Guest Lectures on several occasions. He was a Dean of Corporate Relations in JKSHIM, Nitte for over three years and was keen in propagating Entrepreneurship in general. Currently, he is CEO of Atal Incubation Centre, Nitte for over three years.</span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzTDkXCZP3Ao2dI51H003nTAy9CvL8g6NGoT3FsfhN4q_EN4Ef4T1FLpCTyefAooC5C-dm8s-3BjCQgdjiWJOoJE8nPeSu53ExHQe5-zfceB1Aa5dBTNls68secMQSQuA_97Ka7Qw3N-T__kzIcE7CaoPo-1Jo7JvUxTBnpO-A_wt8z_yqm9FTvnA2/s2048/CP@Sahyadri%202012.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzTDkXCZP3Ao2dI51H003nTAy9CvL8g6NGoT3FsfhN4q_EN4Ef4T1FLpCTyefAooC5C-dm8s-3BjCQgdjiWJOoJE8nPeSu53ExHQe5-zfceB1Aa5dBTNls68secMQSQuA_97Ka7Qw3N-T__kzIcE7CaoPo-1Jo7JvUxTBnpO-A_wt8z_yqm9FTvnA2/s320/CP@Sahyadri%202012.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Guest Lecture at Sahyadri Institute, Mangalore </div><p style="text-align: justify;">14.2 in October 2017, during one of our interactions, he suggested me to take up the position of Dean at MS Ramaiah Foundation, Bangalore which is running RIMS, RIBS, RILS Colleges for Management, Business Studies and Law. Dr Pattabhiram is the Director of MS Ramaiah Foundation (MSRF). Mr Ananth Ravi is a Member of their Board of Studies besides a few top-class Academics, Corporate Professionals and others. He was earlier with M/s. Reliance, Mumbai in Senior Positions. I had two-three rounds of discussions with the Director and Team before my consenting to take up as Dean of MSRF Group of Colleges in January 2018.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_bLXTd6TAF2mXzoAvipnqPHtiMPiu55B2Ra79RQi07oNfo-U34Osr7Fb2ZnuvvMz-9jDX0zCZrhoF9d92_Y9SKg3hwJrfSMdYast7SueGtpOLw9dFbofykADXlgK9QZLG1m67aH1gMQrl8crDecgo2FFK2N1vA8hUaN-veEhZYJyk84lwefTmwgyd/s315/CP53.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="315" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_bLXTd6TAF2mXzoAvipnqPHtiMPiu55B2Ra79RQi07oNfo-U34Osr7Fb2ZnuvvMz-9jDX0zCZrhoF9d92_Y9SKg3hwJrfSMdYast7SueGtpOLw9dFbofykADXlgK9QZLG1m67aH1gMQrl8crDecgo2FFK2N1vA8hUaN-veEhZYJyk84lwefTmwgyd/s1600/CP53.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cultural Program at MSRF, Bangalore : with Prof Prasad Linganna, Ms Lepakshi and others </div><p style="text-align: justify;">14.3 MSRF is headed by Dr Pattabhiram, who is one of the sons of late Sri M S Ramaiah. He was an active Member and Administrators of MS Ramaiah University, Bangalore for long years. MSRF was offering various MBA Programs including that of All India Management Association (AIMA)-New Delhi, Swiss Management Institute, Annamalai University (TN) and Mysore University (Karnataka). Its other programs were under Bangalore University. MSRF had good number of faculty and staff working for Admissions, Placements, Academics, Accounts, HRD, Registrar's Office, etc. MSRF also had separate hostels for Men and Women students. It was quite popular among students, being reckoned as sister concern of Ramaiah Group.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJadlJjUKV39bodWrvgTDIUETV_wXHivymECoXYqw3Qj1iBZQqqOCJj8CjZJuWX9CtLfBJb-e5gL0LtXyPe19sNTCvugfWL3vfme8ibKoSWM5BsFUj-c6kym3irkPmxvt_MwFi0vm3QKi4sI4Vb2l1zKCWE7OAb12Wrqw32E9DJFB_t2aqNbb9uEuD/s254/RIMS%20RJ.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="198" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJadlJjUKV39bodWrvgTDIUETV_wXHivymECoXYqw3Qj1iBZQqqOCJj8CjZJuWX9CtLfBJb-e5gL0LtXyPe19sNTCvugfWL3vfme8ibKoSWM5BsFUj-c6kym3irkPmxvt_MwFi0vm3QKi4sI4Vb2l1zKCWE7OAb12Wrqw32E9DJFB_t2aqNbb9uEuD/s1600/RIMS%20RJ.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Half-yearly Research Journal revived in June 2018</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://issuu.com/chowdariprasad/docs/rims_journal2__1_" target="_blank">Research Journal of MSRF</a><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WATBuA-owSDZhUY0xxVHVLo9UlLlhbAdwToGM9l8mGQrThQfTYNdHTXQsCTCeYQWVbzNWAgVWbTSCvCOqgd62mL1GDFvsdSwM1TUMX9vm7dcoi8xsqU9UJgqqDgirAESIjCLcIKg9_xOXS3WP7MubzyijDE7UoPAsVsE-oBHupnUihc2BvPSbRjt/s286/MSRF%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="286" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WATBuA-owSDZhUY0xxVHVLo9UlLlhbAdwToGM9l8mGQrThQfTYNdHTXQsCTCeYQWVbzNWAgVWbTSCvCOqgd62mL1GDFvsdSwM1TUMX9vm7dcoi8xsqU9UJgqqDgirAESIjCLcIKg9_xOXS3WP7MubzyijDE7UoPAsVsE-oBHupnUihc2BvPSbRjt/s1600/MSRF%201.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Induction Program of PGDM at RIMS Bangalore with Dr Radha and others </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.abrajtrading.com/news/inauguration-of-orientation-session-at-rims/" target="_blank">Launching of PGDM</a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://alghadiandowsari.com/news/inauguration-of-orientation-session-at-rims/" target="_blank">Orientation Program of PGDM </a><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;">14.4 On the advice of Mr Ananth Ravi, referred by Dr Achar, I took up as Dean of MSRF in February 2018 and worked for 7 months and quit in August 2018. I worked almost in all facets of the three Institutes, interacted with Faculty, Students and Corporate; and brought in remarkable overall improvements. I revived the Monthly Newsletters, Website, Publicity Material, Half-yearly Research Journals and encouraged the faculty in offering research seminars as also attending Conferences to present Research Papers. All the important events were led by me. MSRF has its own constraints and limitations in working like a Family Management. It was not worthwhile for me to continue beyond August 2018. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">14.5 My Switching from Banking Industry to Academics was in 1999. Even though I was strong in both qualifications and experience, I was told that doing research and having PhD are equally essential in Academics. I started writing articles in 2000 itself and first published on Economic Reforms in India in 2001 waiting to register for PhD with MAHE. Later I wrote papers on Insurance with Meghdoot and Training & Development with Vidhusekhar Jha in 2002. From 2003 onwards, I started writing Research / Conference Papers on Banking, Management Education, Entrepreneurship, etc in a structured manner co-authored and guided by Dr KS Srinivasa Rao and presented / published them. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">14.5.1 All above three colleagues moved out of TAPMI by 2005-06. I also shifted to Alliance Business School, Bangalore in 2006, but continued writing research papers on Banking, Management, Private Equity, Foreign Banks, Entrepreneurship, Microfinance, Financial Inclusion, etc, despite my teaching and admin responsibilities. Back to TAPMI, Manipal in 2009, I continued associating with Dr Rao, Dr Kavita Chavali, Dr Subrat Sahu, Dr Yerram Raju, Prof A Varalakshmi et al and pursued my research interests. But, due to frequent changes, I missed my attempts for PhD enrolment with Mangalore University and AIMA, New Delhi. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">14.6 In the year 2018, I came across an opportunity / offer from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Centre for Research in Coimbatore who has an affiliation with University of Swahili in Panama, Central America to submit all my research work (about thirty papers) for considering an Honorary PhD. I complied with all requirements and then received a confirmation from the University that I would be conferred the same in December 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand. I travelled with Ganga to Bangkok and received the same. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbwO2zWfkRtAA3zHAmNyC_owcM3OK9t0sc_S2KG7zLjkf3Qu6OJ94dL3AWNNTNScvgShDQW3GH0PPa1_MHg29cCy5vEYe3CEHONxFzTRI0P2_fS9RjoAttW2HGD0lejVNnP1hVTBFCa-0swTWBSXD1UX9hg5O7TVJJbbfRhXvctQjU0dPLUXsfHnz8/s1280/CP27.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbwO2zWfkRtAA3zHAmNyC_owcM3OK9t0sc_S2KG7zLjkf3Qu6OJ94dL3AWNNTNScvgShDQW3GH0PPa1_MHg29cCy5vEYe3CEHONxFzTRI0P2_fS9RjoAttW2HGD0lejVNnP1hVTBFCa-0swTWBSXD1UX9hg5O7TVJJbbfRhXvctQjU0dPLUXsfHnz8/s320/CP27.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Received Honorary PhD from University of Swahili in Dec 2018</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisVJnWhN0UeSoZxDvrlrkEkTezrlZaJvH9zOsrqRw79FbE-YnKnD8woMA3v1z36onzjsMAf9JfSJDgUkw-Pl_ow5RVoc3iV5rD8kYAoe7YOLLJQlCVgLmHV_MePYnVcmVJHxLbiol31bBPrm0v2SLQGn6USjYjk0hmnorQjxMt2w7gzE7yfL4WeU6v/s324/Bangkok%20PhD.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="244" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisVJnWhN0UeSoZxDvrlrkEkTezrlZaJvH9zOsrqRw79FbE-YnKnD8woMA3v1z36onzjsMAf9JfSJDgUkw-Pl_ow5RVoc3iV5rD8kYAoe7YOLLJQlCVgLmHV_MePYnVcmVJHxLbiol31bBPrm0v2SLQGn6USjYjk0hmnorQjxMt2w7gzE7yfL4WeU6v/s320/Bangkok%20PhD.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">14.7 On this occasion, SBI, Corporate Centre, Mumbai captured my journey of life / career turning from a Banker to a Professor of Management and accomplishing at every stage in my post-SBI career in September2019: <a href="file:///C:/Users/chowd/OneDrive/Desktop/CP%20Misc/Second%20Innings%20September%202019.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">file:///C:/Users/chowd/OneDrive/Desktop/CP%20Misc/Second%20Innings%20September%202019.pdf</a>. <span style="text-align: left;">Please click here to view the issue: </span><a href="https://issuu.com/profchowdariprasad/docs/second_innings_september_2019__1_" style="text-align: left;">SBI Second Innings Sept 2019 issue carries Life and Career of Prof Dr Chowdari Prasad in 11-12 pages by Prof Chowdari Prasad Ph.D. - Issuu</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">Continued ......... 15</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-28057288913430217692022-10-28T01:28:00.015-07:002022-12-07T03:39:02.911-08:00<p style="text-align: justify;"><b> 13. Quit IFIM and Freelancing 2016 </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9YCAS42iRH1c5RSbJ_cfRv4IlbgMHgkbrZcCOhknjH-vl7rpqIK_pKiu0Dvtm7SO-Vpw3fhCtUAOmYip6plKKa0weQT2QVrDtBQ_6NBKSkXoxtUHDFahcYGMnlbYMvmlulq7WvCaIeuhD2eEGNVOBZ-D64vu7alahtilFyBdjAm26nHhO7o-uGH_7/s1500/CP76.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9YCAS42iRH1c5RSbJ_cfRv4IlbgMHgkbrZcCOhknjH-vl7rpqIK_pKiu0Dvtm7SO-Vpw3fhCtUAOmYip6plKKa0weQT2QVrDtBQ_6NBKSkXoxtUHDFahcYGMnlbYMvmlulq7WvCaIeuhD2eEGNVOBZ-D64vu7alahtilFyBdjAm26nHhO7o-uGH_7/s320/CP76.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With Dr Srividya and Smt Bindushree of IFIM Bangalore in August 2015</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQ8jLVu-mg5u-iVxoiBex2MdEUOrF2jjh7QtPypi6OtKkInQ0Rdxjk71WC4skEBljjkNG7ft4kCTfItUcPFAkyMTV0hLP4PPC7n7_9GoUOxBr0qLmfXLfbKp5Kkv8DDQwdgwBrcHM4-0OMpKAGrcwgYaNBOjht2tYloba0W_J0ZZRUdcECoFZfR7e/s792/CP74.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Industrial Tour in Shanghai, with NHRD Program participants, Dec 2014</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTAFYnSIaXuGLV6Lj7VLAEFZcDRZLLCOunof_XOT_H-E_7sbWlgUv5b0RaJFjRZMP5bDYgL2yLezAqJYsHZd-ZRPN-WHl4oLKoxwCDdiJ6LtjfAQS8Fh3QtCdgKzQO7lxxhameMkbvbT4yf-sWOs4Dj3-2FcagGrFhCY8ogamdd42alsGYUsR7FMlZ/s2048/CP78.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTAFYnSIaXuGLV6Lj7VLAEFZcDRZLLCOunof_XOT_H-E_7sbWlgUv5b0RaJFjRZMP5bDYgL2yLezAqJYsHZd-ZRPN-WHl4oLKoxwCDdiJ6LtjfAQS8Fh3QtCdgKzQO7lxxhameMkbvbT4yf-sWOs4Dj3-2FcagGrFhCY8ogamdd42alsGYUsR7FMlZ/s320/CP78.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At the 19th Annual Convocation of IFIM in August 2015 as Dean (Academics) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">13.1 Having quit IFIM in September 2016, at the age of 64, I was really feeling fresh and relaxed. My wife Ganga was actively working as Principal of St Mira's High School in Bangalore. Sravanthi is happily married and was living with her husband in Melbourne. Having lost my elder brother in 2015, a new concern bothering me was my mother's ill health. She was living in our own home in Saidabad Colony in Hyderabad with my younger brother's family. She was 82 years old and was hospitalised due to a fracture / fall at home in Hyderabad during September 2016. After prolonged suffering, she died in December 2016. God was kind to her that all children were well settled and also spent her time with grandchildren. </span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">13.2 My ex-colleague at TAPMI, Manipal Dr TN Badri invited me to handle a Course on Banking for MBA students of Rajalakshmi School of Business in Chennai in mid-2017. It was a 3-credit course and elective subject for second year students of MBA. I put in all my best efforts to deliver a high-quality content to groom the students eventually to get placed in banks. I derived tremendous satisfaction for this assignment. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">13.3 Dr Sankaran, Director of JKSHIM, Nitte in Mangalore Dist is an ex-colleague of mine at TAPMI during 2003-2006. He is a top-class teacher and researcher, and worked in SP Jain, IMI besides TAPMI in India and in Sarjah University prior to joining Nitte group. He invited me to consult on Admissions for Nitte and for studying the scope for an International BBA Program, taking support from Dr Ananth Rao, my friend whom I introduced. I utilised the free time to dispose of the two flats in Manipal. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">13.4 It may not be a direct incident or part of my career in banking etc. But, as an ex-Banker Pensioner and a common citizen, a retired professor the Demonetisation 2016 needs a mention here. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetisation" style="text-align: left;">2016 Indian banknote demonetisation - Wikipedia</a>. The announcement by PM Modi on the night of November 8, was a shock to many like me. Currency Notes of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 denominations were scrapped with immediate effect. We rushed to Bank branches to surrender the notes / cash available at home to exchange with lower denomination or credit to bank account. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">13.5 Next two-three months we were starved of free transactions in banks with our own balances in savings accounts, standing in front of ATMs and at the mercy of bank staff pleading for withdrawals for essential expenses or travel or health and so on. Typical treatment of PSB branches versus Private Banks like Axis Bank that too as a Senior Citizen cannot be forgotten. Also, when my friend Mr Ravi and family from Sydney, Australia travelled to Bangalore / TN / AP / Telangana for a month or so, how I had to help him procuring hard cash is worth mentioning. There was so much mistrust, confusion, lack of guidelines regarding Foreign Currency conversion and so on. </p><p style="text-align: right;">Continued ......... 14</p><p><br /></p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-31054297314213986862022-10-26T05:09:00.050-07:002022-12-09T01:07:05.329-08:00<p> <b>12. Final move from Manipal to Bangalore / IFIM 2014</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">12.1 It is generally believed that Second stint in any Organisation or Position is fraught with several risks. However, I firmly feel that I gave my best year after year and in both stints at TAPMI, Manipal (1999-2006 and 2009-2014) in its two campuses and with three Directors. I began with Dr Nagabrahmam followed by Dr Vasudev Rao, Officiating Director, and Dr Saji Gopinath as full time Director but for a limited tenure of two years ie., 2009-2011, as he was promptly repatriated to IIM Kozhikode. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">12.1.1 Dr Saji left his indelible footprints cin his teaching, research, leadership, governance, financial administration, staff relations, bridging gaps with top management, image boosting, ranking, branding, recruitment, pay fixation, public relations, knowledge management & transfer, face lifting and all other possible areas. He introduced TAPMI Silver Jubilee (1984-2009) Leadership Lectures by eminent thought leaders in industry and academics. He also led us to capture all the past Convocation Lectures at TAPMI and release a Coffee Table Book. He arranged for visit of Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia and Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia to inaugurate the Knowledge Centre (Library and IT Centre) at TAPMI and addressing a Banking Conference. Another feather in his cap was that President of India inaugurated the new Campus formally in December 2010. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUzvYfO5O33Bp83cKLy8CKYeIFZnnbHmXVPJqrDDyau5BoqvK_uROMXM84N6tSToZaVm29UC9CHbR6kLwDUzjl3r7fdX_H8aAJSDLZhHT7nWL-RB6-bfq4CJqeA88uaVbwe_i6_I3pSkqlYj4fXTQf8fGpL-lwz74WmpI_zOIqi3W4eq0QBhxJwLxL/s239/Saji%20Gopinath.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="211" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUzvYfO5O33Bp83cKLy8CKYeIFZnnbHmXVPJqrDDyau5BoqvK_uROMXM84N6tSToZaVm29UC9CHbR6kLwDUzjl3r7fdX_H8aAJSDLZhHT7nWL-RB6-bfq4CJqeA88uaVbwe_i6_I3pSkqlYj4fXTQf8fGpL-lwz74WmpI_zOIqi3W4eq0QBhxJwLxL/s1600/Saji%20Gopinath.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dr Saji Gopinath, Director TAPMI 2009-11</div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwxX3P2sHKEDS3nl4Mi1BG5uLT3Wpfx7kxV6EEVfXVNFphtllo_9t01SHSq0JqWPO7f9DAWi4SjvbCO27lg41OQRnzyOX7gQEdxY45FEDi_iFYl6t9f1nuFxWlTdOgDoHYtm5mT5riXG6QZZ5uQJTyW65Q4359O22PSKaU2u-P06SijkcItAIh4pd/s720/25th%20Convo%20TAPMI%202011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="720" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwxX3P2sHKEDS3nl4Mi1BG5uLT3Wpfx7kxV6EEVfXVNFphtllo_9t01SHSq0JqWPO7f9DAWi4SjvbCO27lg41OQRnzyOX7gQEdxY45FEDi_iFYl6t9f1nuFxWlTdOgDoHYtm5mT5riXG6QZZ5uQJTyW65Q4359O22PSKaU2u-P06SijkcItAIh4pd/s320/25th%20Convo%20TAPMI%202011.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">12.2 During 2009-11, I was also coordinating with Manipal Centre for European Studies of MAHE for conducting a joint MBA Program by the two institutions. I taught a few courses in the program and also travelled to Germany, Nederlands, Luxemburg and Belgium along with Dr Neeta and students of the program for a fortnight on Educational Tour. It was a wonderful learning experience for me. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbrE0rU5EazxQ4FWbfXFBmbwWLKs2mFYZwV56qQ06DF3rVCpqbr7N4jt9lKPcHCTxGijq_7266rTZN1TLpGJMSMMhVF0pHknblWuyPkNXn5iCnFz1_PwcEufQlIZp6dHl69ZFxSKk1_LWKcU5gULWSS5jBpRYlqvDNNJJv8q8-60MZxunCv_IG33np/s2048/CP15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1356" data-original-width="2048" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbrE0rU5EazxQ4FWbfXFBmbwWLKs2mFYZwV56qQ06DF3rVCpqbr7N4jt9lKPcHCTxGijq_7266rTZN1TLpGJMSMMhVF0pHknblWuyPkNXn5iCnFz1_PwcEufQlIZp6dHl69ZFxSKk1_LWKcU5gULWSS5jBpRYlqvDNNJJv8q8-60MZxunCv_IG33np/s320/CP15.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Silver Award at IMC of MBA Universe in 2014 from Dr Subramanya Swamy</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archives.manipalblog.com/2014/08/tapmi-wins-silver-award-imc-2014.html" target="_blank">Silver Award for TAPMI, 2014</a><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">With Dr Simon George Dr Murthy in Bangalore </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivshS83wBxYLsW-tDzLMYt3BRq1POhJvJSRNkBLCut_vP3LqAzrIpO4gPQwTjHPpBSJD4IBSSwLgKjU1ymdOKx8yJ02p9UQ_PBsa-F-rctTTrL6OPtX_riDQiobiDHTx6rUeZD3q5Ywb9DpR8agO4522fthCsHo9_8gvpQMDuRv4Gvnr4-7FyzCjtr/s720/CP30.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="720" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivshS83wBxYLsW-tDzLMYt3BRq1POhJvJSRNkBLCut_vP3LqAzrIpO4gPQwTjHPpBSJD4IBSSwLgKjU1ymdOKx8yJ02p9UQ_PBsa-F-rctTTrL6OPtX_riDQiobiDHTx6rUeZD3q5Ywb9DpR8agO4522fthCsHo9_8gvpQMDuRv4Gvnr4-7FyzCjtr/s320/CP30.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Industrial Visit in Bremen, Germany with MCES Students in June 2011</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The visits included six Universities and four major companies like Mercedez, Volks Wagon, Air Bus and Houghdout and several beaches, churches, museums and places of importance to learn all about Europe.</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">12.3 I also handled as Chairman-Admissions role at TAPMI besides teaching, research and as Dean (P&D). <a href="https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/tapmi-shortlists-students-based-their-profiles-along-exam-scores-prof-chowdari-prasad" target="_blank">TAPMI Admissions process </a> Director collaborated with MAHE administration and brought to campus several thought leaders and stalwarts like Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Isher Judge Ahluwalia to address our students and the special conferences and President of India, Smt Pratibha Patil for formal inauguration of the new Campus in December 2010. He introduced Silver Jubilee Leadership Lecture Series <a href="https://www.mbarendezvous.com/ethical-leadership-and-values-in-management-based-on-the-ideology-of-mahatma-gandhi/" target="_blank">TAPMI Leadership Lecture Series </a> and got approvals for new programs after liaising with AICTE, invited AACSB Team for Accreditation in 2011. We conducted many high-profile Conferences and Students-led events. After he was repatriated to IIMK, and a few months gap, Dr RC Natarajan was given opportunity to head TAPMI. I was involved in a variety of activities for branding TAPMI in getting awards and accolades. <a href="https://www.careerindia.com/news/2013/04/17/tapmi-manipal-gets-best-b-school-in-south-award-004656.html" target="_blank">Best B-School in South India </a> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxD7xBM8U_S-CEWlIOj_W38C779j91hSmlGOluLYVBGJ9LSDzD6VbMPthe6lWM31ZQMpVuBPwwXEfPlaJW3NYkffm-TvBSzzl7Eq17ETklIsTRG8XQ8G99_aTmne8BRLmVm0MZsdUgY-IN0R5Vq3kjSFPopD9ECI4_ulO5hXzoVeBZPcL9yu7Uj6Kq/s1280/CP17.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxD7xBM8U_S-CEWlIOj_W38C779j91hSmlGOluLYVBGJ9LSDzD6VbMPthe6lWM31ZQMpVuBPwwXEfPlaJW3NYkffm-TvBSzzl7Eq17ETklIsTRG8XQ8G99_aTmne8BRLmVm0MZsdUgY-IN0R5Vq3kjSFPopD9ECI4_ulO5hXzoVeBZPcL9yu7Uj6Kq/s320/CP17.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.apnnews.com/indian-management-conclave-2014-concludes-with-recommendations-on-improving-management-education-recognizes-best-practices/" target="_blank">TAPMI Wins Silver Award, 2014 for Admissions Process </a><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4fQvwbyqm44fOraCIZXr3cDI8Fc9eGqlThcHCLGmnaeVNzswhwwGUXiDUC8RGz4FSjdJaWulMWWFoUE-eAwVpKahLhu2-GqXRGC4af6bneIwbuxw7-hTmSags7VT_Gev7TFahQUAhfpJ-VrRsHZ9kyn9t1q04X-1_uDding1Q2APxujOw4TEImHky/s2048/Team%202012.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4fQvwbyqm44fOraCIZXr3cDI8Fc9eGqlThcHCLGmnaeVNzswhwwGUXiDUC8RGz4FSjdJaWulMWWFoUE-eAwVpKahLhu2-GqXRGC4af6bneIwbuxw7-hTmSags7VT_Gev7TFahQUAhfpJ-VrRsHZ9kyn9t1q04X-1_uDding1Q2APxujOw4TEImHky/s320/Team%202012.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">12.4 I was the Editor for the Monthly Newsletter, Website, Quarterly Alumni Newsletter, Prajna- Student Newsletter, UPDATE-the Annual Magazine released on the Convocation Day. For some strange reasons, my title was changed twice in next two years as Dean (Branding & Promotions) and Dean (PR), which was against the terms of appointment by the Board. The post was abolished in December 2014 after I quit TAPMI in November 2014. <a href="https://studylib.net/doc/8173629/pgp-handbook" target="_blank">TAPMI PGP Handbook of 2014-16</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://manipalblog.com/study-tour-to-europe-by-mesm-students/" target="_blank">MESM Batch 2010 MAHE+TAPMI Manipal </a><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAZAo2P_XxUinzQeXJjsrPoGbWK2Pmwy5KCpAVOvLKpjl8XWMNEYQmeHrdzRS5jFm6xgFX7siN-e0XB7a9invfSqYtuqqLonIKeeyB32KYJI0w2WE0G_MGspma_pxleENWNnwBxwuxVx94APs2RhjaHkF5ksrf_L4VCSYf4zxzshSfT0e0zRRwQiOZ/s1600/MESM1%202011.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAZAo2P_XxUinzQeXJjsrPoGbWK2Pmwy5KCpAVOvLKpjl8XWMNEYQmeHrdzRS5jFm6xgFX7siN-e0XB7a9invfSqYtuqqLonIKeeyB32KYJI0w2WE0G_MGspma_pxleENWNnwBxwuxVx94APs2RhjaHkF5ksrf_L4VCSYf4zxzshSfT0e0zRRwQiOZ/s320/MESM1%202011.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1184" data-original-width="1780" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgicJv1ogaZ0Luj71RgYhhrHTzDdZ03HMsvs8g_e2eP5SfVbssxgxHnwG4NNgAcOaW209R-RLG0nO3xUmylggSHqwcPO441GJQsPmJihXB4lbbggYM8Bv7XmBhWeovA712_jq0NGdRoMvByy7kcq9tY_ziOUMlaVmcZdbUdaCtDB6T9BQoPoxtG1ihk/s320/LTA%202013.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">APJ Abdul Kalam Lifetime Achievement Award in Bengaluru in 2013</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Received Dr Abdul Kalam Lifetime Achievement National Award 2013 from <b>International
Institute for Social and Economic Reforms (IISER), Bangalore</b> on 18<sup>th</sup>
April, 2013 at Ravindra Kala Kshetra, Bangalore</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSpx7UCSoYY0lrIjP3LAQkQlbOlMQPRY9LV1wJzLVKdpOeSQNzhS8R2dOFio4k9wVEXtWTMRIBZ6KmIQtS9JZYwx1LqrpVuOIqGEgwVgFGrETsBqYYtLIJZyRRajZmbB1fBGsiGQD-JrqGuPIVl3N0yX6p9mSeL4hTmjrxQq-ZiGrWukmQZ2hy-yhv/s1780/LTA%20Bangalore%20May%202013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1184" data-original-width="1780" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSpx7UCSoYY0lrIjP3LAQkQlbOlMQPRY9LV1wJzLVKdpOeSQNzhS8R2dOFio4k9wVEXtWTMRIBZ6KmIQtS9JZYwx1LqrpVuOIqGEgwVgFGrETsBqYYtLIJZyRRajZmbB1fBGsiGQD-JrqGuPIVl3N0yX6p9mSeL4hTmjrxQq-ZiGrWukmQZ2hy-yhv/s320/LTA%20Bangalore%20May%202013.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaCasqjrY-2y7Lhwuw2PqycNBhL4X77p3lOyvByOPwkx1GFqmkMbOvDyOkaiHSwZcP8cOOI3H0OBqrSQUnQ5xzBVyp9dAQ6PAkeyt-T3OiWj2DxuzjU4P5opmxq338oG5hqPuiQCz2mfAExm-bxEOjV4AyagEZNohzA94MNEwXN2II5fHlgh4XKzFI/s500/TAPMI%20Campus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Founding Team of IAABS, Bangalore in 2013</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.iaabs.org/about-iaabs" target="_blank">Indian Association of Autonomous Business Schools </a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iudxZN0kkHQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="iudxZN0kkHQ"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlrYdlc9X5k565-GtAdkMsk9rkR2bGmrAw5Mj1nVjr-xJSYCG9_bSvEeK9zCHm-XPJ59oczGw7VmGM1tlICuf4tF_6QShKYCik6Ef15ui-L0LPcx3wenP7YRHfiPza2MVkw42YC7yBvHfYU1XTCuFKZAmf8e-bDO7jHjnmQ2zLawSl2ZZO9AFtzc-k/s1280/CP13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1280" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlrYdlc9X5k565-GtAdkMsk9rkR2bGmrAw5Mj1nVjr-xJSYCG9_bSvEeK9zCHm-XPJ59oczGw7VmGM1tlICuf4tF_6QShKYCik6Ef15ui-L0LPcx3wenP7YRHfiPza2MVkw42YC7yBvHfYU1XTCuFKZAmf8e-bDO7jHjnmQ2zLawSl2ZZO9AFtzc-k/s320/CP13.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Farewell meeting / dinner at TAPMI Manipal in Nov 2014</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_eT3uz4qn61R3d3RmOCmuAZfSLwAu0RlfgDTTq7Qu4sCtzv4aLdupLCHFb_zijC9oH5njnbTld8opBHk1oNgMt5tDvZ3BoJcF_53I6zx89wXLqer9zCaOT1IWxnVy_d-FdJY03NSB5rsTHMWdrRlJnLfL55zm9Y_FvHNhR9R37aqOEWl_lZ2zWWNn/s1280/CP93.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1280" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_eT3uz4qn61R3d3RmOCmuAZfSLwAu0RlfgDTTq7Qu4sCtzv4aLdupLCHFb_zijC9oH5njnbTld8opBHk1oNgMt5tDvZ3BoJcF_53I6zx89wXLqer9zCaOT1IWxnVy_d-FdJY03NSB5rsTHMWdrRlJnLfL55zm9Y_FvHNhR9R37aqOEWl_lZ2zWWNn/s320/CP93.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNofyw8XnPhrx53DEFrnGbzw-iDKVKx5a_KXTizpQW_jWgSRLKi0Hp4c9EGb9yvKjXRB7XUEub3MH1zFlzs2_lokEaRbEteFsg-1VzmpaQj-L0E8xkCusfUkfP_qeyX3IIan7UYjRt6-Jghpjx6DLZXrr-g8HRUGf4K57IHgoIkizCu1WmN4PrxxkY/s1280/CP94.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">12.5 In Feb 2012, Peer level Team of AACSB re-visited TAPMI for accreditation as the earlier visit in 2011 was unsuccessful. For all the spade work done by all Teams, we were happy to get our mission accomplished in April 2012 as second B-School in India, next to ISB-Hyderabad. A few more new faculty members with good qualifications and experience joined TAPMI and new programs like PGDM in Health Care Management, Banking & Financial Services were added, while e-Governance was discontinued. PhD Program was also introduced later. </span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">12.6 Dr Siva Kumar and I attended the annual event of Indian Management Conclave organised by MBAUniverse.com in New Delhi and TAPMI won a Golden Award in August 2013. The following year, I presented on Admissions at TAPMI in the same Conclave and got a Silver Award. We got AAA grading by the CRISIL at State and National level. We got several such all-India level awards and accolades for Faculty too. Our Best B-Schools Ranking was also going higher and higher which was widely publicised for increasing our Admissions to different programs. Visibility of TAPMI was also increased in the print and electronic media during this period. Dr Durga Prasad and I attended a two-day AACSB Conference in Casablanca, Morocco in the year 2013. I presented on Admissions at TAPMI in the 5th Indian Management Conclave of MBAUniverse.com in New Delhi in August 2014 and received a Silver Award at National level: <a href="https://www.mbauniverse.com/imc2019/retrospective-2014.html" style="text-align: left;">10th Indian Management Conclave 2019 (mbauniverse.com)</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRQ40tfKKQkNL8vWbc-GOS-Dh7R6LUp0cVYHEblLgZgS-as61ph8GqmCpaDQXXaVf1Igxxh_2PRFicYu6BTPPfB28Rte7x9aFtCvXaobAdSStfbK2YH8qq5PJdBw8qtOfO8M2tzsqS28azKQjw1JISdU25LfCbqmEsY6FH2ZwmzzLdSFxY4dHWiFRL/s315/CP47.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="315" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRQ40tfKKQkNL8vWbc-GOS-Dh7R6LUp0cVYHEblLgZgS-as61ph8GqmCpaDQXXaVf1Igxxh_2PRFicYu6BTPPfB28Rte7x9aFtCvXaobAdSStfbK2YH8qq5PJdBw8qtOfO8M2tzsqS28azKQjw1JISdU25LfCbqmEsY6FH2ZwmzzLdSFxY4dHWiFRL/s1600/CP47.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Visit to TAPMI Manipal in January 2009 for Polemic, Atharva</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxKy1zQJ7HCSD91Kq4L5gNk9lVqurPHpSqLbyX23QyuhhQygGzBr50bUMzpFgSYFbHAY5RcYvDhv-D2OS-51O4AfrEa8j1sqhdRd-kEUVr1-d0IykG_UWffFdu9YPHXL5B7megtP8vaRIiIKRC_oomT7CN4Q6CoYbeIeG9wYyaYz3jl7MKLKDWcZkJ/s960/CP26.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxKy1zQJ7HCSD91Kq4L5gNk9lVqurPHpSqLbyX23QyuhhQygGzBr50bUMzpFgSYFbHAY5RcYvDhv-D2OS-51O4AfrEa8j1sqhdRd-kEUVr1-d0IykG_UWffFdu9YPHXL5B7megtP8vaRIiIKRC_oomT7CN4Q6CoYbeIeG9wYyaYz3jl7MKLKDWcZkJ/s320/CP26.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5bZCT7Sdi_wcrsHb0lcEVRHqoY5gBG9XefrYL8gy4NQZcaq0xl-uYYCvouhYmVe8YrxH7UVh22IBJzouHCzzZQ04lrdT5ZgOrkQyAZJbjFudajL2wW8OG1RYSIrUSO_9SLmT0PzVY7D42aBVFehCk2UYhUXPiKf80wz_0NNpEEYNQdiii5H1vsI6a/s315/CP54.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="315" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5bZCT7Sdi_wcrsHb0lcEVRHqoY5gBG9XefrYL8gy4NQZcaq0xl-uYYCvouhYmVe8YrxH7UVh22IBJzouHCzzZQ04lrdT5ZgOrkQyAZJbjFudajL2wW8OG1RYSIrUSO_9SLmT0PzVY7D42aBVFehCk2UYhUXPiKf80wz_0NNpEEYNQdiii5H1vsI6a/s1600/CP54.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My best friend and colleague Dr Gururaj Kidiyur of TAPMI Manipal </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8igxsziK278vf-ARyW9ong7BtRvjYoLtd5NMzYXSvCo3b-dXQMDD9V14uFMzZFXqJXPvzJviN3H3okZ33LLeew5cBT76HoNJLP74E0d7PkogQdgkcKPiVAJfdUDqL3cxqgdSBdk86kUPffEAuFGQi7KaZtbUth63j5rphNHeqN52KuL2Fwn-yZj0p/s315/CP72.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="315" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8igxsziK278vf-ARyW9ong7BtRvjYoLtd5NMzYXSvCo3b-dXQMDD9V14uFMzZFXqJXPvzJviN3H3okZ33LLeew5cBT76HoNJLP74E0d7PkogQdgkcKPiVAJfdUDqL3cxqgdSBdk86kUPffEAuFGQi7KaZtbUth63j5rphNHeqN52KuL2Fwn-yZj0p/s1600/CP72.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Attended AACSB Program in 2013 at Casablanca, Morocco</div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">12.7 A new 3 Bedroom Flat in Nandi Woods, in South Bangalore was purchased by us in early 2011 in joint names of myself and daughter Sravanthi by availing a Housing Loan from SBI, Jayanagar branch. On my personal front, my top priority was Sravanthi's marriage since after completing her MBA in 2009, she started working with Ramco, Chennai but posted in Bangalore and shifted to Manipal Informatics in Bangalore. In July 2014, we finalised an alliance with Melbourne-based Telugu groom Mr Krishna Kumar Rao, who originally hailed from Adilabad, settled in New Delhi and migrated to Australia. He was working in NAB. Engagement was done in October 2014 and the wedding was fixed to be held in April 2015. This development triggered me to look out and I landed in IFIM, Bangalore in November 2014 as Dean (P&D). <a href="https://about.me/ifimbusinessschoolindia" target="_blank">IFIM B-School, Bangalore </a> It was a big relief to me and my family to have reunion in Bangalore so that all preparations for the wedding in April 2015 will be carried out in a well-planned manner. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpi48Tt8_Cgt66oyZrdblm_YkpjC4YT_uD3g0GBu0ReGGbCN2CbwW-O7JNaFpvNvtinm4jfZoycOxkDMOSqCdZzTcY912UNZ4Sc6wbtyF-43n8Oh50mKXhGDoYR5RZNEAhxcGlg2VZEfnM--P0WKgic4ABWpsNBblE_gI962usBJWEZjESY7jO0Oty/s1280/CP4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="1280" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpi48Tt8_Cgt66oyZrdblm_YkpjC4YT_uD3g0GBu0ReGGbCN2CbwW-O7JNaFpvNvtinm4jfZoycOxkDMOSqCdZzTcY912UNZ4Sc6wbtyF-43n8Oh50mKXhGDoYR5RZNEAhxcGlg2VZEfnM--P0WKgic4ABWpsNBblE_gI962usBJWEZjESY7jO0Oty/s320/CP4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With all our family members (except Sister Jyothi) in April 2015</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjauuvrRjqMsN9fJ8HmBaoB-8o0TwfxJ8npPeny54vnpmTpfu1AyvRYodTVjmbHFPdfYtk3021o3sZaBtHTLTCVrBfSrZCgqxRGs7UeaY3JcSi0KeAb6h83nVjtJyDB85jMH1PY4tLNdKX7kR9JpWwxfIs4gGyt2PeaNCGPrTc72CfRaiDAOKi6YdM9/s1138/CP87.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="1138" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjauuvrRjqMsN9fJ8HmBaoB-8o0TwfxJ8npPeny54vnpmTpfu1AyvRYodTVjmbHFPdfYtk3021o3sZaBtHTLTCVrBfSrZCgqxRGs7UeaY3JcSi0KeAb6h83nVjtJyDB85jMH1PY4tLNdKX7kR9JpWwxfIs4gGyt2PeaNCGPrTc72CfRaiDAOKi6YdM9/s320/CP87.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Wedding of Our daughter Sravanthi with Krishna Rao in April 2015 in Bengaluru</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">12.8 I joined IFIM, (now renamed as Jagdish Sheth School of Management </span><a href="https://www.jagsom.com/" style="text-align: left;">Jagdish Sheth Business & Management School | JAG</a><span style="text-align: justify;">SOM) Electronics City-1, Bangalore as Professor cum Dean (Planning & Development) in mid-November 2014. Dr Harikrishna Maram joined IFIM in a senior advisory role. Dr Madhumita Chatterjeee was the Director. She was with IFIM for about 12 years in different capacities. Prof Sathish Kalra was Chair of Banking, Sri VM Mohan was Placement in Charge, Prof Anand Narasimha of Marketing area relinquished as Dean (P&D) to take over as Dean (Academics). Dr A Sridevi was Professor of Finance working with IFIM for about a decade. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">12.9 There are other faculty handling different courses and roles. Smt Sowmya Prasad, earlier working with me in Alliance, was in the Placements department. Smt Surekha Shetty, of Alliance joined IFIM in November 2014 as Director-Admissions. We both reviewed the brochures for Admissions and Publicity and updated them for distributions, aiming at Admissions 2015. I also took up Courses in Banking for teaching Second Year Students. I can confidently say that numbers and quality at IFIM improved, and visibility increased.</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZNqon7l4RyFbRYRQyEUUgAHF8AEMtuPXep75JF1zOegu0WrOpeYYAFnI14oM9qWUl5da9lJTKIXw36Cd5IzBf6aZGCMvdqIdo4iujCKU7vpZFSXRmIQXf-1cEhigNHTdz6m35nn9-Br_nO1rBvqQaBUDGZp0Yzpfw39QGFvCZdbgXPbQifkp1zilg/s2048/CP4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZNqon7l4RyFbRYRQyEUUgAHF8AEMtuPXep75JF1zOegu0WrOpeYYAFnI14oM9qWUl5da9lJTKIXw36Cd5IzBf6aZGCMvdqIdo4iujCKU7vpZFSXRmIQXf-1cEhigNHTdz6m35nn9-Br_nO1rBvqQaBUDGZp0Yzpfw39QGFvCZdbgXPbQifkp1zilg/s320/CP4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxIekb3nKxW3mWMMERNZx0Ug2HevWFMnJ3SiOTlMxsXPj3ueMR3tJnw8MYiQpfgVu055x3EaFPcDmBJ5sK8xTWlvZzj_0421Qu5RkHSjXmwLd0soLJpIU1_N3JQwAnEpELxvxK7VUXX33weEDfTRZwfOalIywXt7keqW91wQUwi1fRGvsweJApHRP/s414/CP5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxIekb3nKxW3mWMMERNZx0Ug2HevWFMnJ3SiOTlMxsXPj3ueMR3tJnw8MYiQpfgVu055x3EaFPcDmBJ5sK8xTWlvZzj_0421Qu5RkHSjXmwLd0soLJpIU1_N3JQwAnEpELxvxK7VUXX33weEDfTRZwfOalIywXt7keqW91wQUwi1fRGvsweJApHRP/s320/CP5.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWV5IGc4A2DDgCupUUTvJU7ok_SZ7NIqLdaQEd1MBf-iA0LxyfTFriVDDESWRabXb3yc7KaTTPukqLISCpc4kh8KCHbNx1xg13B_iWdf6JKoTOOEHaxFQEeHckJNbKlFdEajYxF_-qBkzo49aRD8Ky14uaivnECTcQfP2e3IaHIy80e85O6cZ_jlGb/s414/CP6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWV5IGc4A2DDgCupUUTvJU7ok_SZ7NIqLdaQEd1MBf-iA0LxyfTFriVDDESWRabXb3yc7KaTTPukqLISCpc4kh8KCHbNx1xg13B_iWdf6JKoTOOEHaxFQEeHckJNbKlFdEajYxF_-qBkzo49aRD8Ky14uaivnECTcQfP2e3IaHIy80e85O6cZ_jlGb/s320/CP6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFs0PtobLDZqnnY9Obz2qNzfo0gAjCF-IvXxW4Zel5xFBXOTgOW4DCiIMmqHYyGEgjHBsSrE4Qavf3eJbaBWsBr4B_wsZXGYDHG3ru9EQ_qaRaXHsPnza2M4gbQU5T_BfppZvOpm8K1vAYZPRRyY7iQqp2eQuKfVWuusr2J3m0ke91lx3ccZ6LlUUQ/s2048/CP7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFs0PtobLDZqnnY9Obz2qNzfo0gAjCF-IvXxW4Zel5xFBXOTgOW4DCiIMmqHYyGEgjHBsSrE4Qavf3eJbaBWsBr4B_wsZXGYDHG3ru9EQ_qaRaXHsPnza2M4gbQU5T_BfppZvOpm8K1vAYZPRRyY7iQqp2eQuKfVWuusr2J3m0ke91lx3ccZ6LlUUQ/s320/CP7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></li><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Inaugural of new PGDM Batch 2015-17 at IFIM, Bengaluru </div></li></ol><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">12.10 Our Promoters are Padode family. Our Chairman Shri Vijay B Padode lived in Mumbai and his son Mr Sanjay Padode, a techie and entrepreneur was handling day to day affairs as Secretary. He was very aggressive to take IFIM, which was founded in 1995 to greater heights in offering quality programs, running group colleges, seek better rankings, increasing admissions and of course provide excellent placements to our students. He sponsored me to attend a 10-day Senior Level Management Program organised by NHRD, New Delhi in Sanghai, China in December 2014. The key faculty was Dr Pritam Singh and participants were from about 25 top level PSUs and Others from all over India. It was an excellent learning opportunity for me. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVZiHd9JiTTWngRpIcErtf9HGTdTnBuivTTzIbn6THJUBv9V4-f7SEimVVk4bOragRgcQO1c813KlMI0ddVjWSc42mKmA-60R4Bu3g3aCRv8uuGKxGJs1XQYwk6HYx0M-FKN_GdwhLubFHVPQHXNaKeszHYbvG-WgrTaeX_Sazh8_3MAYQdxd5S_a_/s960/CP10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVZiHd9JiTTWngRpIcErtf9HGTdTnBuivTTzIbn6THJUBv9V4-f7SEimVVk4bOragRgcQO1c813KlMI0ddVjWSc42mKmA-60R4Bu3g3aCRv8uuGKxGJs1XQYwk6HYx0M-FKN_GdwhLubFHVPQHXNaKeszHYbvG-WgrTaeX_Sazh8_3MAYQdxd5S_a_/s320/CP10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With Shri Anantha Kumar, Union Minister and other colleagues of IFIM, Bangalore</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> at the annual Kanyathon event in 2015</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">12.11 Myself and Surekha started campaigning and screening applicants for our three PGDM Programs with an approved strength of 360, commencing with a trip to Tirupati in December 2014. Later, Ms Marushka and Balaji joined in the support team. We covered all India in many centres, in particular in Northern India viz., Patna, Delhi, Jaipur, Chandigarh, etc and got excellent response. IFIM received first global accreditation from SAAQS and embarked on groundwork for AACSB in 2014. IFIM celebrated its 20th Anniversary Program in a grand manner in 2015. The AACSB accreditation finally was achieved in 2017. My elder brother Sri Nageswara Rao, who retired from Andhra Bank, Hyderabad died in 2015 after a prolonged illness. Fortunately, by then he got all his three daughters married happily. I was invited by the Management of Vishwa Vishwani Institute of Management, Hyderabad to be on their Institute Development Council as a Member: </span><a href="https://www.vishwavishwani.ac.in/InstitutionalDevelopmentCouncil.php" style="text-align: left;">Vishwa Vishwani</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQcE1IRoaFl1q7IZspwmrGD4pW44CyeLiTCp7BMBERMXxDc7J48_W2tGWRhJW2cO6X1fAXrcNS7om5QEPpcpRKuiHZjTkkAA7TT6HXpqPYbtwsmykRzO1i-jGGA_cH66O4FjwLzt4c6hlFbgbMv0k-q7It9-ERcNBQuSQypm5PeBUJvJmRovviihGQ/s315/CP37.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="315" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQcE1IRoaFl1q7IZspwmrGD4pW44CyeLiTCp7BMBERMXxDc7J48_W2tGWRhJW2cO6X1fAXrcNS7om5QEPpcpRKuiHZjTkkAA7TT6HXpqPYbtwsmykRzO1i-jGGA_cH66O4FjwLzt4c6hlFbgbMv0k-q7It9-ERcNBQuSQypm5PeBUJvJmRovviihGQ/s1600/CP37.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">With Dr Athish, Director-JAGSOM, Bangalore, Mr Ashwini Mehra, ex-DMD SBI, and others</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">12.12 I handled Branding, Ranking, Accreditation work besides teaching, Academic Administration, Faculty Recruitment, Curriculum Revision through its newly constituted high-profile Board of Studies, officiated as Registrar. Many more initiatives, Personality Enhancement Program (PEP), Social Immersion Program (SIP), Kanyathan, Design Thinking, Toastmasters Club, Convocations, Alumni Relations, etc were carried out by me. I was also publishing the monthly Newsletter of IFIM and associated with its half-yearly Research Journal. Dr Madhumita quit as Director in March 2016 and Dr KS Srinivasa Rao, who joined as Dean (Academics) in February 2016 also quit in August 2016. With the appointment of my successor in August 2016, I</span><msreadoutspan class="msreadout-line-highlight msreadout-inactive-highlight" style="text-align: justify;"> quit IFIM in <msreadoutspan class="msreadout-word-highlight">September 2016</msreadoutspan>. </msreadoutspan></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><msreadoutspan class="msreadout-line-highlight msreadout-inactive-highlight">12.13 At this stage, I had no intention or desire to take up any new assignment. With two deaths of immediate elders in family in two past years and having completed my daughter's wedding responsibilities, it is time to take rest. I was a Life Member of IIBF, AIMA, and IIBF besides being on the Boards of Studies of Siva Sivani and Viswa Vishwani Management Institutes in Hyderabad, I was keeping myself engaged and spending time. </msreadoutspan></p><p style="text-align: right;"><msreadoutspan class="msreadout-line-highlight msreadout-inactive-highlight">Continued ......... 13</msreadoutspan></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p><br /></p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-49445628128463351712022-10-21T05:24:00.021-07:002022-12-07T03:40:48.428-08:00<p> <b>11. Recall to TAPMI, Manipal for a Second Stint</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">11.1 Whatever said and done, the quality and standards of private higher education and life in Manipal is par excellence. In particular, TAPMI had the highly competitive admission process, fair selection mechanism, fee structure, curriculum design, pedagogy, evaluation and grading, general discipline of students in class room attendance, submissions, participation, assignments, rigorous screening, mentoring, students committees and overall learning, participative management by faculty members, faculty selection / promotion / compensation, faculty advisory system, placements, alumni relations, top management governance mechanism, social endeavour engagement by students, and many other aspects of campus life are almost as good as any other IIM in India. Having spent over seven years and played key role in many initiatives, I was looking for delivering same standards in any other Business School of competitive level. To me, it all begins with highly structured and fair selection of students in the admissions (Input).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">11.2 In August 2008, Director of TAPMI vacated his position after having attained superannuation age of 65 years as per AICTE norms. By then, possibly he set up a record in India to have served by any Director (17 years) of a Management Institute. He brought many dynamic changes by almost imposing IIM standard, with a triple 100% conditions in Classroom Attendance, Campus Living in Hostels and Placements for students. He was also instrumental in construction of a 42-acre campus with modern facilities and hostels, in Badagubettu, 5 kms away from main town of Manipal. This campus was informally launched in January 2009 when Dr AS Vasudeva Rao was officiating as Director cum Dean-Administration. Dr Simon George was Dean-Academics. The top management of Manipal, asked the duo to bring back the old glory to TAPMI, if necessary, by recalling the faculty like me who worked hard and contributed for the growth of the Institute. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">11.3 Dr Rao and Dr Simon visited Bangalore and held discussions with me in December 2008 when I showed my inclination to rejoin TAPMI, Manipal by next Academic year. In mid-January 2009, I was invited by the Students Committee of Atharva to visit the new Campus and be a Moderator for Polemic event on Banking Sector Reforms. The Panelists at the event were GM-Corporation Bank, VP-Axis Bank and CGM-RBI, Mumbai. It was a marathon evening discussion on the contemporary topic of Banking Reforms and Crisis in the industry, which went on for over two hours, beyond Schedule. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxjzMsxHrQrC0fbbg-cZ1qcTBOLY-CwPZ" style="text-align: left;">TAPMI Atharva Polemic 2009 - YouTube</a> <a href="http://www.bellevision.com/index.php?action=topnews&type=3326" target="_blank">BrandScan @TAPMI Manipal </a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qgcrAvnX_eA" width="320" youtube-src-id="qgcrAvnX_eA"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">TAPMI Atharva 2009 / Polemic 1/7 on Banking Sector Reforms </div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGUOkVkCvFv6IiDuepBBuPynqCeXVgnmZuOb5fRNSbnNMphJWvQ1b3r2jvqd6etpgDpyim7W0eQp1ms2M_htr6rfoyro7ag1lJxPE1v4W8dQTT7FNAkrRWlgXgNatFCxjZOAhsUt94wgz0JiQ-k_wKuJ2kKOufcyZ31f46eMhaQV3dcZvIdf17lHKJ/s500/TAPMI%20Campus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="500" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGUOkVkCvFv6IiDuepBBuPynqCeXVgnmZuOb5fRNSbnNMphJWvQ1b3r2jvqd6etpgDpyim7W0eQp1ms2M_htr6rfoyro7ag1lJxPE1v4W8dQTT7FNAkrRWlgXgNatFCxjZOAhsUt94wgz0JiQ-k_wKuJ2kKOufcyZ31f46eMhaQV3dcZvIdf17lHKJ/s320/TAPMI%20Campus.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">New Campus of TAPMI Manipal, Badagubettu in 2010</div><p style="text-align: justify;">11.4 In April-May 2009, I completed all required formalities for my appointment as a Professor in TAPMI, Manipal as a second stint. I quit Alliance Business School, Anekal, Bangalore in May 2009 and went back to Manipal in June, leaving behind my family in Bangalore to enable them to continue to pursue their respective employment. Ganga was with St Mira's High School and Sravanthi joined Ramco. I started living in my own flat at Premier Park, Manipal for over a year. In July we got a new Director in Dr Saji Gopinath from IIM Kozhikode on deputation for two years. With change of leadership style, our branding and ranking work took new heights. I shifted my residence to Faculty Apartments in the TAPMI Campus but living alone. TAPMI started organising Leadership Lecture Series as part of our Silver Jubilee Celebrations. AICTE was approached for our offering new programs with increased number of students intake. AACSB accreditation work was escalated. I was elevated / designated as Dean (Planning & Development) in October 2010.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkqpoU1-BU7zSdu00PbdKKaAW4PHrvryRVG6kwrpqmoDjA32gDPCu8OYvS6COS_cNdi4MCWMoxR9eqOE29xy4ca5juJ9PIo8Y-zEPA3TJZl30-9dMYH4VnFBxGgreyDmQr91UWwTqcLiyuo-KRbeTUah5JDPwtyTDnPQV-kRmIskCjgRwclkUXp_y/s302/TAPMI%20President%20Dec%202010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="302" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkqpoU1-BU7zSdu00PbdKKaAW4PHrvryRVG6kwrpqmoDjA32gDPCu8OYvS6COS_cNdi4MCWMoxR9eqOE29xy4ca5juJ9PIo8Y-zEPA3TJZl30-9dMYH4VnFBxGgreyDmQr91UWwTqcLiyuo-KRbeTUah5JDPwtyTDnPQV-kRmIskCjgRwclkUXp_y/s1600/TAPMI%20President%20Dec%202010.jpg" width="302" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Formal inauguration of TAPMI Manipal new Campus </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">by President of India Smt Pratibha Patil in Dec 2010</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QY7gtN9XP4" target="_blank">New Campus inauguration by President of India, Dec 2010</a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij-HhUdjDo6ry3YunyBctp8jIdFS9Y-drkLCXLH-h1wQ-XSmEz-CoZIEEVaicJMOYak1KIJPeBdRzcKhkArfw7iZWypJxSrXZwslnZlDOGt12yiq42zUb3Kpf8vSDS09BB-63BmCHuV_uGh5WtQVtUIr7y84pOvfPZbgCc-tUGPsRUxmtuXvfrc25E/s720/TAPMI%20Alumni%202011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="720" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij-HhUdjDo6ry3YunyBctp8jIdFS9Y-drkLCXLH-h1wQ-XSmEz-CoZIEEVaicJMOYak1KIJPeBdRzcKhkArfw7iZWypJxSrXZwslnZlDOGt12yiq42zUb3Kpf8vSDS09BB-63BmCHuV_uGh5WtQVtUIr7y84pOvfPZbgCc-tUGPsRUxmtuXvfrc25E/s320/TAPMI%20Alumni%202011.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Monthly Newsletter of TAPMI, Manipal edited by me</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUt9FehC-uKC3IBycpLqb7tOYaPbtGP0W9aYN1o9CjEGFir-Lh88l68jCdeNlPfIk5ASqp1V4luzk4o6FFJQZ1LNzQwkWh5k9-zNlCNs2qK5eS5XFZRRebC3D1iDp15MvbN4Nj0ZwdemnYFNeJ3r4PZlL2BaasB6bMcU4BI-KuMtR5vqFgJTWTcgcd/s685/New%20Campus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="685" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUt9FehC-uKC3IBycpLqb7tOYaPbtGP0W9aYN1o9CjEGFir-Lh88l68jCdeNlPfIk5ASqp1V4luzk4o6FFJQZ1LNzQwkWh5k9-zNlCNs2qK5eS5XFZRRebC3D1iDp15MvbN4Nj0ZwdemnYFNeJ3r4PZlL2BaasB6bMcU4BI-KuMtR5vqFgJTWTcgcd/s320/New%20Campus.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aerial view of new campus of TAPMI, Manipal</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1LvTJamo_wwWRq7-EFmzqhhE4NTVDQQJmOSpk7N5XAIIHgaiRhXGyjgaIulr0eBeixT0bqPbhCinScQQpr-THaZU555BA-l9tHP1kicC1EvSNmYy2Jw5YsjrYTin-CZobMPBo4Qdb_JNJ2n6PWxmWlJr_0Krce1VYAdPoI3JyUtO5FnDVsyakOBgU/s267/Pratibimb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="189" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1LvTJamo_wwWRq7-EFmzqhhE4NTVDQQJmOSpk7N5XAIIHgaiRhXGyjgaIulr0eBeixT0bqPbhCinScQQpr-THaZU555BA-l9tHP1kicC1EvSNmYy2Jw5YsjrYTin-CZobMPBo4Qdb_JNJ2n6PWxmWlJr_0Krce1VYAdPoI3JyUtO5FnDVsyakOBgU/s1600/Pratibimb.jpg" width="189" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Quarterly Newsletter of TAPMI Manipal Students edited by me</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgreXZMMovevNCMoAgpej9jTEXGsQQ96chSku5tzWzeWm8yGnmioHV0Vlzq8noXq8x5f-RVb8wLOZmdRPOpNurS2Q3NWwucaIiA4sHdixdHdgYNGA-yUaKTtQC_DDiPOSAdkL5k0JQ6GPeFiUH5ExBA9QmGzKaRTesnjhxI34RsHd28ACcqmhC2DqtT/s480/TAPMI%20Abhijna.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="339" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgreXZMMovevNCMoAgpej9jTEXGsQQ96chSku5tzWzeWm8yGnmioHV0Vlzq8noXq8x5f-RVb8wLOZmdRPOpNurS2Q3NWwucaIiA4sHdixdHdgYNGA-yUaKTtQC_DDiPOSAdkL5k0JQ6GPeFiUH5ExBA9QmGzKaRTesnjhxI34RsHd28ACcqmhC2DqtT/s320/TAPMI%20Abhijna.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Newsletter for Alumni of TAPMI Manipal edited by me </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ3kS_1nDssopq1UAjiOeiTi-MzrhhHYMBQFZM63Zz1og4z-t-lzttqf0ToNYVQ0jKIyyZFuPmjD2aIn6zmV-_YjA_3xLxZmhWO9_lbfxq9eb5nNH5gCHRJuEfDIwzaK2DnoWZuaxccD0gGWQ_6X3VZL_vnt63f5cafFx9qIitD4aP9S5-3o66YMj1/s1500/Update.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1055" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ3kS_1nDssopq1UAjiOeiTi-MzrhhHYMBQFZM63Zz1og4z-t-lzttqf0ToNYVQ0jKIyyZFuPmjD2aIn6zmV-_YjA_3xLxZmhWO9_lbfxq9eb5nNH5gCHRJuEfDIwzaK2DnoWZuaxccD0gGWQ_6X3VZL_vnt63f5cafFx9qIitD4aP9S5-3o66YMj1/s320/Update.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Annual Magazine of TAPMI released at the Convocation </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrRUj7Ii0rqvuNYULfFWkgKksiKEOEt587pN4M4lTFoavTv-ScSET4UDnww_KPI2i8AfJ-vMKcC0qpmkf8hsNNI5ejTPBE_yxvnorf0xkGIXuLbY7nnihCupAl2neOE0q85R-QKC_OASJ7JdQKR7qFSTTUdrqi-ZGpi2iPPYomblaAjTlE2_H05rN4/s653/MBAU%202013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="653" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrRUj7Ii0rqvuNYULfFWkgKksiKEOEt587pN4M4lTFoavTv-ScSET4UDnww_KPI2i8AfJ-vMKcC0qpmkf8hsNNI5ejTPBE_yxvnorf0xkGIXuLbY7nnihCupAl2neOE0q85R-QKC_OASJ7JdQKR7qFSTTUdrqi-ZGpi2iPPYomblaAjTlE2_H05rN4/s320/MBAU%202013.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Received a Gold Award for TAPMI from Dr Shashi Tharoor, Union HR Minister </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">at Indian Management Conclave 2013 organised by MBAUniverse, New Delhi </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvXs8MlJ98cAlmh19Z1Hgn6FNsAY2qc6qriCLEiSykh7dP0imEAPxkx0i7Vac3sTiHrVdZvs1nNT2LcYJGxn9UqMcIm5wBjFfwWtPC5py4D2Tk0rEPeb-LMxihCdtyq5mntouNYNzHQyNh0PHx3Hj6ckwVPwJBe90QbJdy9XrIQE0kZs9Tbr_SvzmT/s371/TAPMI.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="136" data-original-width="371" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvXs8MlJ98cAlmh19Z1Hgn6FNsAY2qc6qriCLEiSykh7dP0imEAPxkx0i7Vac3sTiHrVdZvs1nNT2LcYJGxn9UqMcIm5wBjFfwWtPC5py4D2Tk0rEPeb-LMxihCdtyq5mntouNYNzHQyNh0PHx3Hj6ckwVPwJBe90QbJdy9XrIQE0kZs9Tbr_SvzmT/s320/TAPMI.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Receiving Silver Award in August 2014 for TAPMI Admissions from Dr Subramanya Swamy </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">at the Annual Management Conclave of MBA Universe, New Delhi </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Won Silver Award for
a <b>Case Study titled “Experience TAPMI</b>”
presented at the 5<sup>th</sup> Indian Management Conclave 2014 held on August
8 & 9, 2014 at New Delhi by MBAUniverse.com. It was published in a book “<b>Envisioning the Future of Indian Management
Education</b>” by McGraw Hill Education and edited by SR Singhvi and Amit
Agnihotri in 2015</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I was one of the Guest Speakers at the Ascent, Asia Pacific HRM Congress, Bangalore in 2014 <a href="https://www.asiapacifichrmcongress.com/about-past/2014/asia-pacific-about-past.html" target="_blank">https://www.asiapacifichrmcongress.com/about-past/2014/asia-pacific-about-past.html</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">Continued ......... 12</div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-90963253895046228762022-10-21T04:18:00.015-07:002022-12-09T01:23:21.207-08:00<p> <b>10. Back in Bangalore / Alliance Business School 2006</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">10.1 I never expected that I will shift from Manipal seeking another employment, because I was doing very well in my job of teaching and academic administration. In fact, we also purchased two flats in Manipal from Premier Builders, Udupi. Sravanthi completed her School studies of Xth in 2001 and XIIth Standard from Little Rock Indian School, Brahmavara by 2003 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Indian_School" style="text-align: left;">Little Rock Indian School - Wikipedia</a>. She joined BE in Bio Medical Engineering and was to pass out by 2007. Ganga was also working with Manipal Informatics Ltd., a BPO, as a Team Leader / Captain. She was a member of Manipal Mahila Samaj and was a President in 2003. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">10.2 Similarly, I was an active Lions Club Member / Director / Treasurer / Secretary in the ccompany of elite local Konkani / Tulu friends like Dr Ganesh Pai, Dr Rajagopal Shenoy, Mr Ramesh Kini, Vincent Pinto, Benjamin Kunder, Santhosh, Sandeep, Shashi Ranjan, Dr Pratap Kumar and many others. We were engaging in Blood Donation camps, Eye check-up camps, donation of artificial limbs, Tree Planting, visiting Orphanages, Old Age Homes, etc as part of Social Work as also in picnics, cultural programs and Weekly meetings. For some inexplicable reasons, a big bunch of faculty members<msreadoutspan class="msreadout-line-highlight msreadout-inactive-highlight"> quit TAPMI during <msreadoutspan class="msreadout-word-highlight">2006</msreadoutspan>.</msreadoutspan></p><p style="text-align: justify;">10.3 I got two Offers to join viz., ICFAI and Alliance Business School (ABS) in Bangalore <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_University" style="text-align: left;">Alliance University - Wikipedia</a> and I chose the second. In 2003, Dr KS Srinivasa Rao, a PhD in Statistics from Andhra University, Vizag AP, joined TAPMI as Associate Professor, but after one and half years moved out to take up as Director of KLE Institute of Management in Belgaum. He worked there for a year up to 2006. He was offered the<msreadoutspan class="msreadout-line-highlight"> position of a Professor cum Associate Dean at <msreadoutspan class="msreadout-word-highlight">ABS</msreadoutspan>, Bangalore, while I was given as Professor cum </msreadoutspan>Registrar. Both joined together and were engaged in improving the quality of academics of the PGDM Program of ABS. We both have also beena engaged in writing Research Papers and Publishing / Presentation at National and International Conferences, the topics being Management Education, Banking, Financial Services, Entrepreneurship, etc. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQwrxS4Lvp3BC5f8nGGMVBd6L_QhE-50JI8ZkEKGNw04V6qGpoBrkrriN2OXfycBlg0bxQqYwoGmLCO4xEgW_xyM3ophFpTo-Bpji0VIaPjAEfb1EfuAL_patC-gJS8kwxf79Bq2iuaTrNBYXfXZB6Vfaeset46dbqdkby6YNvRQSBTcO4N2SJMtbS/s1280/ASB%202009.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQwrxS4Lvp3BC5f8nGGMVBd6L_QhE-50JI8ZkEKGNw04V6qGpoBrkrriN2OXfycBlg0bxQqYwoGmLCO4xEgW_xyM3ophFpTo-Bpji0VIaPjAEfb1EfuAL_patC-gJS8kwxf79Bq2iuaTrNBYXfXZB6Vfaeset46dbqdkby6YNvRQSBTcO4N2SJMtbS/s320/ASB%202009.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFoP4ZhEfLBUyZBxjEl4fYN5mZnrQlijsu0vuHmSBXbJ_uiHGFBky9LrN8Nhyx3M27ag2yE-nEkzzFYAJv22typL1d09R1_78U5aRORECgE8Bc-eQVzjFnm3H-fw9aaLKPTE4RDHeD6NskNMM2VTy9XASu3fVlM-rBOKxw23HzSjAUTg15CenxGUtx/s1280/ASB%20Bangalore.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFoP4ZhEfLBUyZBxjEl4fYN5mZnrQlijsu0vuHmSBXbJ_uiHGFBky9LrN8Nhyx3M27ag2yE-nEkzzFYAJv22typL1d09R1_78U5aRORECgE8Bc-eQVzjFnm3H-fw9aaLKPTE4RDHeD6NskNMM2VTy9XASu3fVlM-rBOKxw23HzSjAUTg15CenxGUtx/s320/ASB%20Bangalore.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz1JJjCAgJPbvJIYIPc5-n6rqAnBheYfhLdm7hugbKgxCCA1njjT_MTIuzE1OsW5SbvKFwUAQQvBg_5diAkYv46yOayAzxhYZ6PK1WPWdHByxAz3yIcJeHb4fWEaD1NLirmRrjyZzlwGJonPltTwff8OKe7kJeZVZ6yjZSpeta8C8-pmm2H0VLq_J-/s310/AU%20ASB.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="310" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz1JJjCAgJPbvJIYIPc5-n6rqAnBheYfhLdm7hugbKgxCCA1njjT_MTIuzE1OsW5SbvKFwUAQQvBg_5diAkYv46yOayAzxhYZ6PK1WPWdHByxAz3yIcJeHb4fWEaD1NLirmRrjyZzlwGJonPltTwff8OKe7kJeZVZ6yjZSpeta8C8-pmm2H0VLq_J-/s1600/AU%20ASB.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">10.4 ABS is an extension of Alliance Business Academy founded by Prof Sudhir Angur, who is an alumnus of IIT-Mumbai and IIM-Ahmedabad, with good corporate and academic experience. His elder brother Dr Madhukar Angur is an alumnus of NIT-Karnataka (Suratkal) and IIM-Ahmedabad with a PhD in Marketing from USA. He was a Professor in the US wanting to expand ABA and hence started ABS. Both brothers and other family members came together to establish Alliance University in Anekal in a huge campus of 40 acres with modern amenities, hostels, and offering programs in Management, Engineering and Law. ABS was offering a 2 year PGDM, week-end PGDM for working professionals and another program in Singapore. <a href="https://zdocs.pub/doc/commercial-banking-2009-o3plelnkng19" target="_blank">Course on Commercial Banking 2009</a> <a href="https://cupdf.com/document/priority-sector-advances-in-indian-banking.html?page=1" target="_blank">Priority Sector Advances in Indian Banking</a> <a href="https://vdocuments.net/women-entrepreneurs-network-abstract.html?page=1" target="_blank">Women Entrepreneurs Networking Paper 2008</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">10.5 Senior Professors with high academic credentials and corporate experience were engaged as Faculty. Myself and Dr KS S Rao worked hard to give our best, seen through the transition from BTM in Bangalore to Anekal Campus but quit our jobs by mid-2009. We had scholarly faculty members in Dr GR Narayana, Prof Venkatesh, Dr Kishan Rao, Dr Baskaran, Dr Catherine, Dr Kavitha Chavali, Prof Ray Titus, Dr DNS Kumar, Dr P Janakiramudu, Dr Subrat Sahu and others in our team handling different courses in an efficient manner. A Research Journal was also published then.</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">10.6 In mid-2007, Ganga and Sravanthi also left Manipal and joined me in BTM, Bangalore and we stayed in the accommodation provided by ABS. Sravanthi joined MBA program in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore offered by Marshall University, USA and completed with Marketing specialisation. Ganga took up as Vice Principal at St Mira's High School, Dollar Colony, BTM 1st Stage, very close to our residence and ABS Bangalore. Life was going smooth, but nothing is in our control. </p><p>10.7 Dr Rao came in contact with an agency 24x7 in Ulsoor, Bangalore offering Online teaching of 2-Year PGDM Courses for a Delhi based and reputed Institution. He took up Quantitative Methods course and asked me to teach Business Laws Course, which I was already teaching at Alliance. We used to develop contents for sessions of one hour duration, through PPTs and hand over to the Agency on Friday which will be uploaded in their server ready for teaching on Sundays. It was a very exciting experience.</p><p style="text-align: right;">Continued ......... 11 </p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-70415896496612591642022-10-20T06:17:00.034-07:002022-12-08T15:56:59.895-08:00<p> </p><p><b>9. Switch to Academics and shift to Manipal in 1999</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqpn9ck9L5h2ypSTb2w5KK3shLG5blamOhxIyOQtiMuZsl8giz0MT0zkO9iXGk9LAPDDf5Qf2Z2prVgxC4m38VIj6lBO4kqj1yMZ6x0Frb6RhyHPWgWKjDmpEf954plTdTW_HOzf36mfcoZh6HU33MIO-xWfsMK6e_hCJMjwA4_nGg_3MARJqFetZf/s275/Old%20Campus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqpn9ck9L5h2ypSTb2w5KK3shLG5blamOhxIyOQtiMuZsl8giz0MT0zkO9iXGk9LAPDDf5Qf2Z2prVgxC4m38VIj6lBO4kqj1yMZ6x0Frb6RhyHPWgWKjDmpEf954plTdTW_HOzf36mfcoZh6HU33MIO-xWfsMK6e_hCJMjwA4_nGg_3MARJqFetZf/s1600/Old%20Campus.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">TAPMI Manipal old campus in 1999</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-2MY63JriUSOmpMIU2pvs_1c3vAFdRAioDPMoMeDicnCDFYEa-ts_h7WUkXLc2qtc9OFcnaLWJdavSqztyTsnqwVeYVfZTLw5gc3ngBFG4-P-s08Yqc5xhuIGnEPkeusX8_WqNBE1POtwwCGxQupmQPzS6ffFK65FmeJEo1uOhOUMMos0ONha5UyH/s273/DNB.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="185" data-original-width="273" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-2MY63JriUSOmpMIU2pvs_1c3vAFdRAioDPMoMeDicnCDFYEa-ts_h7WUkXLc2qtc9OFcnaLWJdavSqztyTsnqwVeYVfZTLw5gc3ngBFG4-P-s08Yqc5xhuIGnEPkeusX8_WqNBE1POtwwCGxQupmQPzS6ffFK65FmeJEo1uOhOUMMos0ONha5UyH/s1600/DNB.jpg" width="273" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dr D Nagabrahmam, Director TAPMI, Manipal </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">9.1 After my preliminary discussions with Director TAPMI, Dr Nagabrahmam and visit to Manipal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipal" style="text-align: left;">Manipal - Wikipedia</a> in April 1999 along with family to see the Institute, Place, School and other facilities thereat, I was offered an appointment as Associate Professor. <a href="https://www.tapmi.edu.in/" style="text-align: left;">Top Management Institutes in India, Best Business Colleges in India for Management Courses (tapmi.edu.in)</a> He stated that MBA Education was unique and Faculty with industry background would certainly add value to students learning. He also indicated that I would handle admin position as Chairman-Admissions. Mr NG Nayak was to help me in settling down in Manipal. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsiHR7PYyjopPyHegXBiXZ51tkRRlYzkvhEMS3ux18v6FdFn6L95OfSMpwG2O21cBzlSLzjj6AYwvi_U0SNll0KO33X1YCTLN7nyw8P9fRqhgp7XaQJqlN_iKFwXzlNWsYUac1Ygz3c5QGt5FjDOBCEwpXx-U6RuDphHiSxEiRClzxTiZReN9uxslV/s225/TMAPai.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsiHR7PYyjopPyHegXBiXZ51tkRRlYzkvhEMS3ux18v6FdFn6L95OfSMpwG2O21cBzlSLzjj6AYwvi_U0SNll0KO33X1YCTLN7nyw8P9fRqhgp7XaQJqlN_iKFwXzlNWsYUac1Ygz3c5QGt5FjDOBCEwpXx-U6RuDphHiSxEiRClzxTiZReN9uxslV/s1600/TMAPai.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t_cx104B8DM" width="320" youtube-src-id="t_cx104B8DM"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">9.1.1 I joined in mid-May 1999 and started understanding my role. I read all the files and books provided to me regarding TAPMI, Manipal, Udupi, etc. Dr TMA Pai was a Medical Doctor who played multiple roles as a Physician, Educationist, Entrepreneur and a Philanthropist to create Manipal. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._M._A._Pai" style="text-align: left;">T. M. A. Pai - Wikipedia</a><span style="text-align: justify;"> His nephew Sri T A Pai, was a Banker, who headed Syndicate Bank Ltd., LIC, FCI and then Union Minister for Civil Supplies, Finance, etc during 1970s. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._A._Pai" style="text-align: left;">T. A. Pai - Wikipedia</a><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPE_nXk-n9pL1k2Vozfpa4eUihikglE6kfqmqQn19hpVJkVBK0K505PRgCZv-ppszXcWSbmQ8wA25xFCKVaoSzVNBGZOQdu96n_YagO_D1gwMR76vMHH7AKi8otJ7O5KXYejknNvz5jkviJhTO1Rt4w3RCQ3x0--EKikwe2tkm_LAzGKJGG_-RyfOO/s405/TAPai.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPE_nXk-n9pL1k2Vozfpa4eUihikglE6kfqmqQn19hpVJkVBK0K505PRgCZv-ppszXcWSbmQ8wA25xFCKVaoSzVNBGZOQdu96n_YagO_D1gwMR76vMHH7AKi8otJ7O5KXYejknNvz5jkviJhTO1Rt4w3RCQ3x0--EKikwe2tkm_LAzGKJGG_-RyfOO/s320/TAPai.jpg" width="237" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GS0vNoEdMxA" width="320" youtube-src-id="GS0vNoEdMxA"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">9.2 The Pai family renamed the MIM founded by him in 1980, but died later, as T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) in 1984. TAPMI also entered into an MOU with SBI to distribute / sell our Admission Application forms / Brochures at their branches all over India with some terms and conditions. Already MOU was signed by TAPMI with IIMs regarding use of CAT Scores by non-IIMs for Admissions to 2 Year PGDM Program. I also started preparing two Course outlines for Management of Banks and Financial Institutions (MBFI) and Financial Services (FS), two Elective Courses for Second year students. </span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">9.2.1 Later, it was decided that I will be sharing courses in Accounting and Managerial Communication for First year students. (Now, TAPMI is part of MAHE, Manipal <a href="https://manipal.edu/mu.html" style="text-align: left;">MAHE - Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Admissions open for 2022 (Formerly Manipal University)</a> Subsequently, I also taught courses like Business Laws, Entrepreneurship, Retail Banking, etc. Having started with Chalk and Black Board teaching, we moved to White Boards and Multi-Media.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijBPxcDmYY21k1bzPyfVWW2e_naz6IyWWx9uHx9xd-TKlHStpbIwoO9YXRoetzdPG95TfEzDqwWK-gTeYG7Or_MaVEp3C8PtqNQ05TLj5OXHnTwuGnjVlzkbRn51kjMWMNwWsacvGn9JHhHtXJWN4zVK6aWyFl4LMP7Loc3Vu8hyWqNX8eC3PQg_W_/s417/CP86.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="417" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijBPxcDmYY21k1bzPyfVWW2e_naz6IyWWx9uHx9xd-TKlHStpbIwoO9YXRoetzdPG95TfEzDqwWK-gTeYG7Or_MaVEp3C8PtqNQ05TLj5OXHnTwuGnjVlzkbRn51kjMWMNwWsacvGn9JHhHtXJWN4zVK6aWyFl4LMP7Loc3Vu8hyWqNX8eC3PQg_W_/s320/CP86.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUgazJYa-dnBKmNtuuYOz4uaz9mMEjntVdMXSZGV0LKBhjdYlfwZXdzGnHqgjmcn6i6yqRonsNGrZSZinUie3BngxQGglnsXXJLfZ4NEamoXoyKqumnzd7pOFlXiCVrrmZiHAxLe5ccsD-f7J93OyI1fvLo1fUCAwHhsmE3UJat6FdiJoC3pH02PCj/s960/TAPMI%20Fac%20Retreat%202003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUgazJYa-dnBKmNtuuYOz4uaz9mMEjntVdMXSZGV0LKBhjdYlfwZXdzGnHqgjmcn6i6yqRonsNGrZSZinUie3BngxQGglnsXXJLfZ4NEamoXoyKqumnzd7pOFlXiCVrrmZiHAxLe5ccsD-f7J93OyI1fvLo1fUCAwHhsmE3UJat6FdiJoC3pH02PCj/s320/TAPMI%20Fac%20Retreat%202003.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">TAPMI Annual Faculty Retreat to Soan's Farm in 2002</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO9hlG_c-WIflvLpPjxK2FlO3qAMQkcH7tvTiKQ_ohq10XSFgxw2sah7-ywWsd7pRh_LdRoEMQwQ5042HibSWxNqtE-CS8blBIg95ZGbAX-3DDQY_J_v6_YfYhKeDaWuisGZB97r8q4EiFLvBw9n_Hpw_dwhcJDfrq5e-v3gekxEoQlGfohU1NOfiD/s960/CP26.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO9hlG_c-WIflvLpPjxK2FlO3qAMQkcH7tvTiKQ_ohq10XSFgxw2sah7-ywWsd7pRh_LdRoEMQwQ5042HibSWxNqtE-CS8blBIg95ZGbAX-3DDQY_J_v6_YfYhKeDaWuisGZB97r8q4EiFLvBw9n_Hpw_dwhcJDfrq5e-v3gekxEoQlGfohU1NOfiD/s320/CP26.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With Prof Raghunath Rudran, Raspal Singh and Students of TAPMI in Mumbai</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfKwhTQ9pHr2HXAdJkFggAkw2X5GDIEYh2PEB5TWKTNeNrWaViesocQIp21fflB1VtshlBaM8QjIUATzEXPTA4irXvEcQ6fkxbopWPr6d2VfMmblH4bvV0XwRdN4DrRmKICQbG8ArCzMzGXK7x9kMkXvP5uIy3miK6r4xkLLZPBpVz49dd6l97RQv/s315/CP70.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="315" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfKwhTQ9pHr2HXAdJkFggAkw2X5GDIEYh2PEB5TWKTNeNrWaViesocQIp21fflB1VtshlBaM8QjIUATzEXPTA4irXvEcQ6fkxbopWPr6d2VfMmblH4bvV0XwRdN4DrRmKICQbG8ArCzMzGXK7x9kMkXvP5uIy3miK6r4xkLLZPBpVz49dd6l97RQv/s1600/CP70.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With Prof Avinash Paranjape of Mumbai, Visiting Faculty @TAPMI </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN8JOiJm83GP32vGZ3nTmtoKwesozbYBUZ8fhKeMXOFHf4FB9OF-3gRv1v52YWagkjQlVLCJSoi8QqcM6ED2lIz-lSit8LNFqaC9Vvf2h600fKphwJ6V-FNQAPSkcNEB0l4hFKLmOjXodbT8uGr0IeJTYQm2mb2QwQ5zq4IT1VEGwk9qcq-UBGPesx/s472/CP77.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="472" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN8JOiJm83GP32vGZ3nTmtoKwesozbYBUZ8fhKeMXOFHf4FB9OF-3gRv1v52YWagkjQlVLCJSoi8QqcM6ED2lIz-lSit8LNFqaC9Vvf2h600fKphwJ6V-FNQAPSkcNEB0l4hFKLmOjXodbT8uGr0IeJTYQm2mb2QwQ5zq4IT1VEGwk9qcq-UBGPesx/s320/CP77.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Special Session on Future Banking at Manipal Press with Mr Dhingra </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">of Syndicate Bank and Mr Bhat of Corporation Bank </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3eKbCq58eZf0cyXTKwXh9pRIl67rmL2QRlf_JsPifQua7RqlFdoxXnVnbLRWvdbwbVV9BoH1HJ10ZUj_routMBS02Nkvl6SxdAy6Jy0gZtLhGD7QiH-6jXXDAGrzApdFkS8Ie4tgzD-ykK4sFLQUrrD4kkFzop9FHamwSp16_njsOe8SAEqSvodMu/s480/CP85.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="320" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3eKbCq58eZf0cyXTKwXh9pRIl67rmL2QRlf_JsPifQua7RqlFdoxXnVnbLRWvdbwbVV9BoH1HJ10ZUj_routMBS02Nkvl6SxdAy6Jy0gZtLhGD7QiH-6jXXDAGrzApdFkS8Ie4tgzD-ykK4sFLQUrrD4kkFzop9FHamwSp16_njsOe8SAEqSvodMu/s320/CP85.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On getting AACSB Accreditation to TAPMI in 2012</div><p style="text-align: justify;">9.3 During the summer of 1999, myself, Dr Ashis and Prof Gururaj attended one week's course on Case Method Teaching at IIM Kozhikode. Prof RC Natarajan and Prof Mohan joined as senior faculty members subsequently. We also had workshops on preparing of Mission / Vision 2005 Document for TAPMI. Director also asked me to accompany Dr Sunil KP, Professor in charge of Placements to visit Mumbai and interact with Corporates. We stayed in hostels of IGIDR, Goregaon and spent about 10 days working like Salesmen, canvassing for TAPMI Manipal and its graduate students. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">9.4 Two senior Faculty Members handling Academics and Administration portfolios were Dr Rajagopalan and Dr AS Vasudev Rao. The other senior most faculty member in Marketing area was Dr Simon George. Prof S Balasubramanian joined next year to play a key role in Branding, Placements, etc. TAPMI revised its Mission Statement, changed its Logo and finalised Vision 2005 Document after due deliberations. All these steps were taken towards TAPMI applying for global accreditation by AACSB International. <a href="https://www.aacsb.edu/about-us" style="text-align: left;">About Us | AACSB</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">9.5 I played a very successful and effective role as Chairman Admissions and achieved excellent results year after year for 3 years in succession. The number of applications increased in geometrical progression due to sincere efforts of myself, the Admissions Committee, SBI tie-up, introduction of innovative methods of GD / PI, support from Admin Staff like Parimala, Sakuntala, Suneethi, Jyothi, Nayak, Bharathi, Varalakshmi and others, aggressive communication with applicants over phone, emails, Website and engaging Visitors and Alumni sharing their experiences. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">9.6 This multi-pronged approach raised the applications from around 2,500 in 1999 to a record 10,000 in 2003 for the approved number of 120 seats for PGDM Program. Due to administrative reasons, I was asked to assist the Dean-Admin and take up as Hostel Warden when Dr Simon succeeded me. After two years, Prof Gururaj who incidentally hails from Udupi and an alumnus of TAPMI (1987-89) took charge of same. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7h_6JazzpjkpeZT-qEg6ubw43TZF7uL8uphJ9faXHTLb1hdSckgNOqMOpeMifucQ58l2iDLAG4QdxvPDgoAzdpH7jPY49dJZcsA1GNbbIEejC2pmOWKImYsbSBWTKxYl4LKTkQdvUV4JrA-2wmkRJE6hM9rslsaKbm1DsH2lRXUuBilak5gb4Lyqr/s275/IMG_1703.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7h_6JazzpjkpeZT-qEg6ubw43TZF7uL8uphJ9faXHTLb1hdSckgNOqMOpeMifucQ58l2iDLAG4QdxvPDgoAzdpH7jPY49dJZcsA1GNbbIEejC2pmOWKImYsbSBWTKxYl4LKTkQdvUV4JrA-2wmkRJE6hM9rslsaKbm1DsH2lRXUuBilak5gb4Lyqr/s1600/IMG_1703.JPG" width="275" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Enjoying Singing Fun with Students on their Induction in 2011</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4QANMb8CrN3AlAXZdRncnM0LLdo9lw_hZiJkBPii9qOCrljWH-rOIb427q2VNNdzuSIo-LTnO88AoWe4EGk6VAREs1Kfj_w316TyExUsq1bOpix079qp1-X36qnDltO8NoVA80uZX4Lse5xLu5rl2xmduZIMRcPjsIiA80METWFca2lYBwRiYRFXw/s3264/IMG_0386.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4QANMb8CrN3AlAXZdRncnM0LLdo9lw_hZiJkBPii9qOCrljWH-rOIb427q2VNNdzuSIo-LTnO88AoWe4EGk6VAREs1Kfj_w316TyExUsq1bOpix079qp1-X36qnDltO8NoVA80uZX4Lse5xLu5rl2xmduZIMRcPjsIiA80METWFca2lYBwRiYRFXw/s320/IMG_0386.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Performing at Students Cultural Program at TAPMI in 2012</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGc8lE9djl3-Wa7vPTwXIajFjYyGonwlfXvqTKL5bCyzhU_ulxXxZMi0YpOoM7MIFZMaHSxRk0fS22Yih7oUruowiZd_DVmRegACntTDpJ_p7_Scyb4Ih8mopZlNSLW2O2Mgi2DLMalNSo9p17er5EOCbaQyO5MDZc5-4QqTEOOlgvKkPJg-ZxUM4Q/s3264/20150915_064928.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1836" data-original-width="3264" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGc8lE9djl3-Wa7vPTwXIajFjYyGonwlfXvqTKL5bCyzhU_ulxXxZMi0YpOoM7MIFZMaHSxRk0fS22Yih7oUruowiZd_DVmRegACntTDpJ_p7_Scyb4Ih8mopZlNSLW2O2Mgi2DLMalNSo9p17er5EOCbaQyO5MDZc5-4QqTEOOlgvKkPJg-ZxUM4Q/s320/20150915_064928.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With Manjunath (Chief Librarian), Dr KS Srinivasa Rao and Prof R Raghunath Rudran in 2003</div><p style="text-align: justify;">9.7 Life and Career in Academics at TAPMI, Manipal is more like my third innings, after Banking service in SBI till April 1993 and later in private sector till May 1999 as my first and second innings. I was engaging in Academics, Administration, Alumni Relations, Writing Research Papers, Attending Seminars / Conferences etc., in the Institute. I started many innovations in Admissions at TAPMI. In my teaching also, I made the banking courses contemporary. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">9.8 One memorable initiative was when Harish Iyer, a CA with vast experience in Singapore and use of technology was invited to share a few sessions in my course for Retail Banking Sessions. Once, he prepared a ppt and handled a session from remote home in Hyderabad, while I was interpreting in IT Lab to my students to the shock and surprise of our Director. Ganga was busy with her work at Manipal Informatics and Social Work with MMS and Sravanthi was pursuing her higher education in Little Rock Indian School, Brahmawara / MIT Engineering College, MAHE, Manipal. We had two close Telugu Family Friends in Prof Alapati Vittaleswar of MIT and Prof J. Venkat Rao of Manipal Pharmacy College, MAHE. Besides, I was engaged in Social Work in Lions Club International, Manipal. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">9.9 Five major annual events at TAPMI worth experiencing and mentioning are 1. Induction Program for new batch, 2. BrandScan (Marketing fair and a Credit Course), 3. Atharva (inter B-School competitions) 4. TA Pai Memorial Lecture on January 17 and 5. Annual Convocation. All these activities are passionately taken up by all Faculty Members, Management, Students, Alumni and Industry Professionals. Of course, the Admissions GDPIs, Area-wise Conclaves and Conferences, Outbound Program, Sports Events, Festivals, Placements, Alumni Reunions, Guest Lectures, MIP work, Faculty Advisory System, Toast Masters Sessions, Committees like Social Endeavour Group, etc also are given top priority. Every student on campus undergoes enormous experience in each of these events. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisdy2pmQ4QWnKCOS3I8vvjlfMJYZgHNMgArnVnGW6Ory3ODViaOhU7KkK67i-uFP-bxeHWx4gLdPot5fX9PtIDAQyz53LHwduiNg4Nsx7IHyv78T_lMRtPbB4eWxwu2ZYTsX3YPV7mDrvBV0m8n6dQd_WwCVVZk9kC2Ggoq_CZc_bgZoMluHLs79hq/s2048/CP31.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisdy2pmQ4QWnKCOS3I8vvjlfMJYZgHNMgArnVnGW6Ory3ODViaOhU7KkK67i-uFP-bxeHWx4gLdPot5fX9PtIDAQyz53LHwduiNg4Nsx7IHyv78T_lMRtPbB4eWxwu2ZYTsX3YPV7mDrvBV0m8n6dQd_WwCVVZk9kC2Ggoq_CZc_bgZoMluHLs79hq/s320/CP31.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">@TAPMI Students Cultural Event in 2012</div><p style="text-align: justify;">9.10 Number of Seats and programs also went up during that time. So also, Faculty strength at TAPMI. We had an arrangement with Essae Chandran Institute in Bangalore for a second PGDM and one more PGDM program on Entrepreneurship was introduced. Placements were going on well. Besides Ranking of B-Schools by various agencies added strength to TAPMI and Prof Raja was working on preparing our application for AACSB accreditation process. Circumstances changed during 2005-06 and I quit TAPMI in August 2006 only to join Alliance Business School, Bangalore as Professor cum Registrar. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">9.11 As is the requirements in Academics, I started writing articles on Reforms in Banking 2001 which was published. My next Conference Paper was co-authored with Prof Meghdoot in 2002. Later, Dr KS Srinivasa Rao and myself authored series of papers on Public, Private, Foreign Sector Banks in India and presented at International Conferences in Hyderabad and elsewhere. I also authored a Research Paper on Retail Banking along with two of my Senior Banking Students in 2005. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">9.12 I received an invitation from Chairman, Corporation Bank, Mangalore to handle a Session on Cross Selling & Retail Banking for half-day to their Senior Executives, which I did along with Dr A Siva Kumar, Professor of Marketing. It was well received, and we were offered another Consulting assignment to study their Priority Sector Lending with a handsome honorarium which we both carried out during June-August 2006 and submitted to the Top Management Officials, supported by huge data. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">9.13 I moved out from Manipal first in September 2006 from TAPMI to Alliance Business School, Bangalore followed by Ganga and daughter Sravanthi. By April 2007, our daughter completed her BE in Bio-Medical Engineering from MIT, Manipal (MAHE) and later joined MBA Program of Marshal University, USA offered by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Bangalore. Ganga also took up as Vice Principal of St Mira's High School, in BTM-1, Bangalore in early 2008. </p><p style="text-align: right;">Continued ......... 10</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-77949419518766964842022-10-18T18:54:00.023-07:002022-12-07T23:05:51.462-08:00<p><b> 8. Private Sector jobs and Entrepreneurship:</b> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">8.1 I met my friend Mr PKR (elder to me by 8 years and married with two children) in February 1981 at SBI ADB Jangaon, Warangal Dt., where both of us were posted as Field Officers. I reported from SBI, Machilipatnam, Krishna Dt after completing my assignment as Accountant successfully. I wanted to be in a Hyderabad City branch, but the Regional Office could accommodate me only in <b>Jangaon,</b> which is within their administrative control. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">8.1.1 The place is about 85 KMs away from City and is well connected by road and rail. My friend came from Secunderabad, with some understanding that like many other staff in the district, it is easy to commute to City every day. We shared the accommodation and were not very happy with the state of affairs at the branch or in the town. We parted ways after about a year but continued friendship for next few years, even after I moved to Mumbai in 1984 and he quit the Bank's service on VRS in 1988. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">8.2 Mr Reddy started a Private Limited Company/ 100% EOU for Granite processing and exports to Japan, Singapore, Australia and USA, by investing his own and family resources. It was a family business concern and was doing well. For all his overseas travels on business, he used to go via Mumbai and visit / stay with me. He availed loans from SBI in Hyderabad and was to expand by opening a Partnership firm. Two of his brothers-in-law and young son were actively handling the production related work. They also owned a furniture making business handled by one brother-in-law. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">8.2.1 I was invited to join the business to handling mainly Day to Day administration and was designated as Vice President (instead of as Director, as discussed earlier). Very soon I realised that things were not so rosy as was projected. There seem to be no expansion plans like going Public or diversifying into other business areas gradually. I started looking for outside opportunities as I did not see the need for my continuing in their business anymore. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">8.3 As an interim measure, my elder brother CNR asked me to invest in a large agricultural land in Bommala Ramaram village towards Bongir. The adjoining land belonged to him with an existing garden and irrigation facility. A watchman and family were engaged and located in the site. I didn't take up any agricultural activity but sold the property after a few years while I was in Manipal. Another investment I made was to join hands with my ex-SBI Senior colleagues viz., SV Chetty, BRK Murthy, T Venkateswarlu and T Appa Rao, who started Twin Cities Permanent Fund, a Nidhi Company in SBI Staff Colony, New Bakaram, Hyderabad very close to my Ashok Nagar flat in 1994. The group also opened an NBFC and a Chit Company in the vicinity. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">8.3.1 Later, TA Rao and others also requested me to associate / invest in another Nidhi Company called PDPF in Ongole (Prakasam Dist), his native place. All these investments were made as Share Capital in the name of Ganga, my wife whose savings from Mumbai job were used. In due course, all these have gone dry for various reasons. I quit my friend's granite business in January 1996 to join <b>Leafin Financial Services, Hyderabad an NBFC Company as its Vice President at Hyderabad</b> being taken over by my Mumbai friend Mr Surendra Kumar Hegde but quit the same in April 1996 to proceed to Bangalore for another better assignment. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">8.4 In response to an advertisement by The Vysya Bank Ltd inviting applications for President of their Housing Finance subsidiary in Bangalore, I sent my application. Leasing Finance and Housing Finance subsidiaries were the brainchildren of Sri Ramesh Gelli, the then Chairman of Vysya Bank. When I attended the personal interview by the Board in March 1996, they offered me to take up as Vice President of their Leasing subsidiary in Bangalore, which I did in April 1996. Sri Sadashiva Gupta (of SBI) was the Chairman and Sri G Mallikarjuna Rao (GMR) was Board Member. VBLL was headed by Mr SV Ramana, a CA as President, who is also a DGM in the Bank. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore" target="_blank">Bangalore / Bengaluru (Karnataka State)</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">8.4.1 Within a few months' time, Sri K Rama Murthy of Corporation Bank took over as Chairman of Vysya Bank Ltd., after Gupta went back to SBI. NBFCs in general, were passing through tough challenges in carrying out their non-banking business due to unfavourable economic environment. Banking industry already experienced tough times during 1992 Stock Market Scam coupled with introduction of Financial Sector Reforms by GOI in 1993. More than doing the normal business, I was handling inspection of leased assets, recovery and legal proceedings against several defaulter customers located all over India. Lot of travelling across the country was involved. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">8.5 Leasing business in general, they say is like riding a Tiger. No doubt, it is lucrative both to the Lessor (lender) and Lessee (borrower) in quick asset creation, business expansion, availing of Income Tax benefits and in terms of yield and increase in production etc. But unfortunately, if the lender has no thorough knowledge of markets or goes through financial brokers and spreads his business far and away from headquarters it is difficult to collect monthly lease rentals. Inspection and Insurance of Assets is very essential. There is also a danger of double financing against the already existing assets, wrongly shown by the borrower to more than one lender (Banks or NBFCs). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">8.6 All these multiple omissions or constraints affected VBLL recoveries, and the Balance Sheet was seriously impaired, which the Board did not take kindly. All lending was done much before my joining and I landed only to recover the dues. After about three years, I made up my mind to move away and in course of my visit to Mangalore / Manipal in late 1998, I happened to meet Director, TAPMI who was my teacher in OU in 1975.</p><p style="text-align: right;">Continued ......... 9</p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-19694738104807069342022-10-17T01:38:00.017-07:002022-12-07T03:59:30.856-08:00<p style="text-align: justify;"> <b>7. At Sangareddy Branch, VRS and thereafter</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">7.1 Back from SBI, Corporate Office, Mumbai upon my reporting, the Hyderabad Circle Management posted me as Chief Manager of SBI Sangareddy Branch, Medak Dist., Telangana. It is located at about 65 KMs from Hyderabad and was a Semi-urban Centre / District Head Quarters located on the Bombay Highway. For all the staff from Hyderabad and Secunderabad Cities, it was a prize posting and much sought after for completing rural assignment. But to me, after having already served in three rural branches in the Naxalite-prone Warangal district <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warangal" style="text-align: left;">Warangal - Wikipedia</a> (Parkal, Jangaon and Wardhannapet ADBs) earlier under very trying conditions, it was very disappointing. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">7.1 I was looking for a change and good break in my assignments. The branch had a huge premises, with adequate staff, an Agri Banking Division with Field Staff and two Jeeps and large number of villages being covered. There were other bank branches too. It was a new challenge to me. I had easy access to Dist Collector, Dist Judge and Superintendent of Police of Medak Dist for all types of liaisons. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">7.2 Somehow, I feel I have had a peculiar connection with some regional or national events of unrest during my educational and employment times. Communal disturbance in university colleges in 1967 affected my PUC, The Telangana Agitation of 1969 hit my B.Sc. degree college studies, Bangla Desh war in 1970-71 got me into Banking service, 1975 Emergency helped me complete my B.Com examination with flying colours, 1984 assassination of Indira Gandhi, then PM pushed me to SBI CO Mumbai, and the 1992 Stock Market Scam sent me back to Hyderabad, while Babri Masjid Rath Yatra times made me travel to Sangareddy to take up a new assignment very unwillingly. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">7.2.1 Besides my passing through bad times then, in Mumbai City and Goregaon (West) was in turmoil due to some communal disturbances where my wife and six years old daughter were locked up as guests with my friend's family in Malad (West). They were in the grip of fear every day to attend work / school in the very same area. We had no mobile or internet services in those days. Life was very scary when we watched TV news! I asked my wife Ganga also to quit her job in Mumbai and come back to Hyderabad along with our daughter! In fact, I was passing through tremendous mental trauma on various counts. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">7.3 I took full charge from Sri Jyothiprakasam, CM around Christmas of 1992, celebrated New Year 1993 with staff and started Customer Service meets in a big way. My experience at Corporate Office level gave me new ideas to handle the staff who commute daily from Twin Cities and manage the business / customers who expect top class service. RM supported all my initiatives, supplied large number of New Year 1993 Calendars (Telugu and Urdu) and Silver Coins / Gifts, brought a popular Telugu movie star and ex-SBI Colleague Mr <b>Kota Srinivasa Rao for deposit mobilisation campaigns</b>. There was an excellent response from all quarters, but I was feeling gloomy. I was deputed to SB Staff College, Gurgaon (located in MDI Campus) for a Senior Management Program in January end. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">7.4 Whatever was going on in my mind, I had private discussions with an ex-colleague cum entrepreneur and close friend in Hyderabad about joining his export venture and submitted my papers to Bank. I had completed 20 years of service with the Bank and was eligible to seek <b>Voluntary Retirement with Pension</b> benefit. I was overconfident that I can leave the stable and prospering bank job and survive outside in private sector on my own! I got tempted to stay in Hyderabad permanently with my family and look after my mother and brother too. I did my <b>calculations wrong both in financial needs and career prospects for years to come</b>. I did all my predictions wrong for my daughter and family then. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">7.5 I am not too sure but may be the LPG (Liberalisation, Privatisation, Globalisation) environment in Indian political and economic set up might have had serious influence on me. Late Shri PV Narasimha Rao, a long-standing politician from Warangal / Telangana took charge as PM in most unexpected circumstances in 1991. He took Dr Manmohan Singh as his FM to embark on Financial Sector / Economic Reforms in India. That was a historical moment as these two ventured to change the winds to bring in radical developments in all spheres. May be I had too much belief and was optimistic about Private Sector, even though I shifted from my first job in Andhra Bank in private then to SBI in 1971. Besides, I relied too much on my trust and faith on Friendship! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">7.6 When I served my three months' notice, not many close friends, colleagues, relatives or well-wishers were consulted as to the likely opportunities or consequences of leaving a steady career in SBI. RM advised me to think seriously and withdraw my notice. I was very adamant, so he processed my request. The papers moved from Regional Office, Hyderabad to LHO to Corporate Office Mumbai in the usual process. Within a month, on second thoughts, I rushed to Mumbai in February to meet my colleagues in Corp Office to withdraw the notice. The matter went out of hands by then for everyone due to my reckless or hasty decision. It was decided that I <b>leave SBI by April-end with Pension benefit.</b> None could help change my fate!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">7.7 When I went to seek blessings, my mentor and role model Shri YRK, Dy.MD from Hyderabad Circle at Corporate Office, Mumbai commented and cautioned me that I will be haunted by the thought of a successful and secure career in SBI. In retrospect, I should admit that his words of warning or caution that I would regret lifelong about the wrong step I took to leave SBI. Annual Closing of Accounts was due on March 31, 1993. SBI Staff Union and SBI Officers Association gave a combined call to observe total strike on 30th and 31st March with some serious demands. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">7.7.1 I was a member of both associations during my service, but as a CM of Sangareddy, I experienced a memorable gesture from all cadres of the bank then. Banking business was badly hit on both days as there was no mobile or internet banking those days, but to my wonderful experience, they worked unofficially day and night to balance the books and close the accounts for Financial Year 1992-93. By then, all staff had known that I was leaving the bank service by April end. What an extraordinary gesture? I can never ever forgive myself for the blunder I committed in 1993.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">7.8 I hardly spent over four months as CM of SBI Sangareddy branch but left good footprints with staff and customers. I recall quite often the manner in which I attracted NRI deposits from gulf customers by rendering express service in collection of cheques and converting in to Fixed Deposits by the Muslim community customers in and around. I also recall the Village tours with staff and organising recovery camps from rural borrowers. All my staff used to enjoy working in the environment I created for them.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">7.8.1 Parting from the branch and bank permanently in search of unknown goals and uncertain future was very painful to me and my family, who by then joined me from Mumbai. April 30, 1993 was really a Dooms Day in my career and life but how can I forget the grand farewell they gave me with Poorna Kumbham and a Shawl. I left like a defeated soldier heading for upcoming disaster in life. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">7.9 My profile in the bank and achievements post my voluntary retirement in academics, culminating with an Honorary Doctorate in Commerce, Specialisation in Banking in Dec 2018, awarded by University of Swahili, Panama, Central America in Bangkok, Thailand has been captured in the SECOND INNINGS:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://issuu.com/profchowdariprasad/docs/second_innings_september_2019__1_" target="_blank">Honorary PhD in Banking 2018</a><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;">Continued ......... 8</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-88976063779736676532022-10-12T05:21:00.079-07:002022-12-07T23:02:31.482-08:00<p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"> 6. Work and Life in Mumbai</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEaHLsPqIWJOA9i96tPhMFLQFNBIhiadafBGU5oJjqhrUsqvQCty4g_2ExNa3aa0_igcERljyZdLTydrgclc__MzyDAxpYapqLSNarewGX0CB9EGpAJixHHi4lTi2R2SK1OxvE8q7Ser1ZWrjvyz_8omPNrLAuxq7_FVzvlXM5jkHwAFYPsy1gshCl/s912/SBI%20CC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="912" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEaHLsPqIWJOA9i96tPhMFLQFNBIhiadafBGU5oJjqhrUsqvQCty4g_2ExNa3aa0_igcERljyZdLTydrgclc__MzyDAxpYapqLSNarewGX0CB9EGpAJixHHi4lTi2R2SK1OxvE8q7Ser1ZWrjvyz_8omPNrLAuxq7_FVzvlXM5jkHwAFYPsy1gshCl/s320/SBI%20CC.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b style="text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj25tDT13kZMcvlBjQccUeRncZ1rSqrOAWq1T6-m_BfE70JDVpvowsgJCMaavn0N2ERvXB2c3iSvZySOpjbvRHr43_1hIhpmBKeI7jy86kM7CDfn6_H0VuImvX28vLRfeFovt-COKRcFt6jqmpAXXkx6woP--CzN291W8RAb0xUiRVIsTj9wIpj1sll/s1600/CP8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj25tDT13kZMcvlBjQccUeRncZ1rSqrOAWq1T6-m_BfE70JDVpvowsgJCMaavn0N2ERvXB2c3iSvZySOpjbvRHr43_1hIhpmBKeI7jy86kM7CDfn6_H0VuImvX28vLRfeFovt-COKRcFt6jqmpAXXkx6woP--CzN291W8RAb0xUiRVIsTj9wIpj1sll/s320/CP8.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Me with Sravanthi, Mythri and Sanju</div><p style="text-align: justify;">6.1 My tenure of 8 years in SBI CC Mumbai was between November 1984 and November 1992, when my age was 32 and 40 years. It is a rare and pleasant privilege to have been posted at SBI's Corporate Office in Mumbai, closely working with local Staff and Officials of different levels from all over the Country. SBI had 13 Circles at that time (now 17 and after merger of all 7 Associates). Working of the Top Management and Central Board, Policy Making, Economic Research, Legal Decisions, Approvals of Circle proposals, Collation of all-India data on various banking matters, liaising with Central Govt / RBI / IDBI / SIDBI / NABARD / ECGC / DICGC and other national bodies is of paramount importance. Commuting to Office daily is a mixed experience for each one of us, irrespective of cadre. Knowledge of Hindi / English is sufficient and of Gujarati or Marathi would be of additional advantage. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai" target="_blank">Bombay / Mumbai (M.S.)</a> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh88ilcelJNdpzKeCM_0kk_RIKeIC2vpJfPqaFfxHjMUvPfcsqN0Kc8ybngTQ1pTzj8_n_UqH1SIXxPyel2rCJQynhw2ahvWRWk54ED0HZbwzt-joqezfgwTl7pNAhXVXbeM11dxnSvc8f77FClqkyF4tGJ3OT6e1-Pk4BPZzZRibN_xNI4nKRZSdCD/s1600/148177848_5768253623192084_1145956428535550114_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh88ilcelJNdpzKeCM_0kk_RIKeIC2vpJfPqaFfxHjMUvPfcsqN0Kc8ybngTQ1pTzj8_n_UqH1SIXxPyel2rCJQynhw2ahvWRWk54ED0HZbwzt-joqezfgwTl7pNAhXVXbeM11dxnSvc8f77FClqkyF4tGJ3OT6e1-Pk4BPZzZRibN_xNI4nKRZSdCD/s320/148177848_5768253623192084_1145956428535550114_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With daughter Sravanthi in Bangalore in 2013</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbh_rKz4sOCf-gvNPx_v6Q1mv118uMqE6iCJN89HYXNLZDGqEaUTcc3mEi0E2kjpWZBr1_ie1kCZED3R5TBhkpp2YJudpaNnux0L6002MZRGma5Nc2fDCI34GNHKd0snYCgzatGocn8icP0RuiXaxAzAO1JS6HjRAZ1zkmjrLIawiozyVeSoxwcjcc/s2048/CP59.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbh_rKz4sOCf-gvNPx_v6Q1mv118uMqE6iCJN89HYXNLZDGqEaUTcc3mEi0E2kjpWZBr1_ie1kCZED3R5TBhkpp2YJudpaNnux0L6002MZRGma5Nc2fDCI34GNHKd0snYCgzatGocn8icP0RuiXaxAzAO1JS6HjRAZ1zkmjrLIawiozyVeSoxwcjcc/s320/CP59.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Me, Ganga and Sravanthi in arms in Mumbai in 1985</div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">6.2 Apart from birth of my only daughter in July 1985, I purchased my Bajaj two-wheeler in 1986, Flat in Hyderabad in 1989, Maruti Car in 1992, learnt to invest in Shares including that of SBI, and made a good number of friends from all over. I completed my Certificate Exam in Industrial Finance of IIBF in 1984, CAIIB in 1985, PG Diploma in Training & Development in 1992, part of PG Diploma in Computer Science in 1987 and two levels of Hindi (Official Language) Exams Praveen and Pragya held by GOI / SBI, all of which helped to move higher in my professional career in SBI and outside later. Having closely worked with Economists (Specialist Officers) of ERD helped me in carrying out some all-India studies and submit Reports to Top Management. I was also organising Seminars and delivered Guest Lectures at BTC-RBI, Mumbai SBI STC, Bandra and SBIRD, Hyderabad on various topics. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">6.3 On the family front, Ganga's two elder sisters, Uma and Rama were also stationed in Bandra and Santacruz respectively during the same time. Their spouses Raja and Sukumar were working at ONGC and IDBI/SIDBI in senior positions. All their Children (Vanaja, Vandana, Vatsala, Giri, Sumathi and Deepu) were attending schools and grew up there. We all used to indulge in spending quality time during festivals and occasions. Navi Mumbai took shape just around 1988-89 and we used to frequently visit our relatives Mr Ganapathy of Reliance Industries and others. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">6.4 One colleague in ABD of SBI Mr Uday Godse used to live in Goregaon West (Bangur Nagar) and was a good family friend discussing about old Hindi movies, stars and stuff as also taking excellent photos. One historical and unforgettable event I witnessed towards the end of my stay was the 1992 Scam, (Banking or Stock Market Scam) perpetrated by Mr Harshad Mehta of Bombay Stock Exchange, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harshad_Mehta" style="text-align: left;">Harshad Mehta - Wikipedia</a> which hit not only the market and banks but many top management officials of SBI and other Banks. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">6.5 Living in SBI Officers' Apartments (Manish, Vidyanagar and Matru Chaya complexes) in Malad (West) was a wonderful / memorable experience. Officials from all over India including Maharashtra / Mumbai Circle lived as a community. Besides families from Hyderabad, we had some close friends like Pradeep Khosla (Patna), CL Khanna (Lucknow), Thampy (Bhopal) from other Circles too. Well-knit Andhra families, of course were that of N Sreedhar, BSR Prasad, TVS Murthy, TVLN Chary, T Appa Rao, PP Krishna Rao, for a variety of celebrations and support too. Chary suffered serious health issues and with timely support of the Bank and all well-wishers, survived and was promoted to Scale IV in 1991. Sreedhar got shifted from Personnel Admn Dept, CO to SBI Capital Markets and by middle of 1992, was selected as IBO and posted to our Toronto Branch. He moved with his family consisting of wife Mani and children Sudha and Stacky. Eventually, he quit SBI service as Asst Gen Manager and took up a new job and settled in Toronto, Canada. TVS Murthy and Vijaya were almost foster parents to our daughter Sravanthi (Sweety). We used to begin our day with playing Shuttle Badminton at 6 am, and then get prepared to leave for Office by Bus or Train by around 8.30 am to reach by 10.15 or so. Office routine was purely administrative, and lunch was at Mess and we return at 6 pm and reach at 8 pm. Saturdays were half-days but on almost all days, we used to have friendly meetings at home. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">6.6. Work at Office was very professional. Your vast experience in the Circle either at Branches or Administrative Offices came very handy to handle the corporate culture from the angle of Top Management / Central Board. There was no difference in cadres / grades of Officers nor from which part of the Country you come from. Everyone used to think and display all-India or national perspective. Working or discussing with senior bosses was always a knowledgeable experience. Fear had no place in putting forth your views and interpretations taking into cognisance of pros and cons. My confidence level increased in travelling to other Circles for Study of Rural Branches either for ERD Study or accompanying Sri Solomon Raj, Dy Managing Director to Kerala and Lucknow on Official work. Great learning experience indeed.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">6.7 The Indian Economy, Politics and Banking Industry was on move towards modernisation under the then PM Sri Rajiv Gandhi. Later part of 1980s witnessed emergence of new outfits like CRISIL, NHB, SIDBI, SHCIL etc., while NSE and SEBI were yet to emerge. Bombay Stock Exchange experienced an ugly Stock Market cum Banking Scam perpetrated by Harshad Mehta, called as Big Bull. Almost all Commercial Banks including Cooperative and Foreign Banks were involved in wrong investments in Stock Market and incurred heavy losses. SBI was no exception. Its main branch in Mumbai was the focal point during mid April 1992 but Treasury Department at Corporate Office was terribly affected. Several Top Management Officials heads rolled in these banks and financial institutions. Mr MN Goiporia was SBI Chairman (he was an outsider) and other seniors paid the price facing RBI enquiries.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">6.8 For some administrative reasons, the Top Management of the Bank took stern decision to repatriate all those Officers with long stay in Mumbai. One after the other started leaving to their parent circles. In my case, I was to be posted as Chief Manager of Charminar Branch, Hyderabad, but due to delay in getting relieved, missed the opportunity. When in November 1992, I moved from Mumbai, Ganga and Sravanthi stayed back for completing the Academic requirements till March 1993. TVS Murthy and family came to our rescue in accommodating the two for three months, since I vacated the flat. To my utter disappointment and inconvenience, I was posted to Sangareddy branch in Medak Dt., which was 65 KMs away from Hyderabad. Branch was in good shape, thanks to outgoing CM, Shri TR Ananthan, Accountant and Staff Members. Shri T Appa Rao, my senior and friend in Mumbai was the AGM / Regional Manager and it was a mixed feeling to work under the peculiar circumstances at that time. </p><p style="text-align: right;">Continued ......... 7</p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-32125560527229909242022-10-07T05:16:00.052-07:002022-12-07T03:51:37.883-08:00<p><b>5. Training and Postings (1977)</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">5.1 The bank later posted me to Secunderabad, ADB Anantapur, Kakinada, Visakhapatnam branches and LHO-Hyderabad for training during the two-year period 1977-79. Secunderabad is not new to me and was a large branch. But suddenly some Officers of our batch were deputed to <b>Kanchikacherla</b> branch in Krishna Dist then, to serve the Cyclones 1977/78 which affected Tobacco farmers and later to <b>STC Alipore, Kolkata </b>for Training. The duration was for about a month. I, TVLN Chary, Sreedhar and others were deputed to Kolkata. Besides Banking, we underwent training by eminent faculty on topics / case-based sessions covering vigilance, management and behavioral science topics also.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">5.2 It was the best time of my career and bachelor life going to places and learning new skills in banking like Personal / Commercial / Agri / SSI & SB / Foreign Exchange as also Administration. Experience at ADB Ananthapur was very different and memorable under <b>Mr N. Ganapathy, BM</b> a native of the place and <b>Dr T Ashok Nair, RDO</b> belonging to Secunderabad. My only stint in Rayalaseema rural banking was impacting on me. As an Officer Grade-I on probation, I exercised passing powers and involved myself in the Annual Closing work in December 1978 as also at a crucial time of shifting of premises.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">5.3 My fourth branch training was divided between Kakinada and Vizag. In Kakinada, I worked under Sri A. Sankar; met my old friend Bodi Radhakrishna and Mr V Jaganmohan, PO of Hyderabad. I also met Mr Vuriti Jeevan and others in this branch. Next in Vizag, I reported to Mr YRK again to learn a lot as also reunion with batchmates Sreedhar, Rammohan, BSR Prasad and others. After LHO training as last leg and upon confirmation on 31st Aug 1979 as OG I, I was deputed for two months to Vijayawada, Gandhinagar, Moghalrajapuram, Masulipatnam and other Krishna Dist branches for Deposit Mobilisation work awaiting final / regular posting. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlh72TQW6RT1LmxVYoO303vOAR-EiQOsf6HSZO3r6udut--VBKE1GSE6uZ5q3LcXNpDqR6oV9HcZVC4-brFoUIM6E24PB_GPik02QClB6qYFkdl0O2BxIm5DBzmGA2enudlioNHaput50q13Gr9EzdVcwDVycI9yfVhpHyy8F6SxIYTngCXy6XAueo/s1600/SBI%20ATP%201978.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlh72TQW6RT1LmxVYoO303vOAR-EiQOsf6HSZO3r6udut--VBKE1GSE6uZ5q3LcXNpDqR6oV9HcZVC4-brFoUIM6E24PB_GPik02QClB6qYFkdl0O2BxIm5DBzmGA2enudlioNHaput50q13Gr9EzdVcwDVycI9yfVhpHyy8F6SxIYTngCXy6XAueo/s320/SBI%20ATP%201978.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Myself, K Rammohan Rao and Pratap in Mysore in 1978</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZmWXiXlhaFYsGmdboKRuSTAmNIUBXmAMFegzI5lhufTn6GmfRo9ukBLE1LQLVAHiavFpinKAXh-yMGAp58YLvbvNhmXg9NJmrOxVORvLFyMck0aPLFa25UveDDRT4EDYQbLInBX2ZjdyxnZ_snTX96f_McJco7m00quEVm6_2UGDdXHIz01Ncii77/s1600/Anantapur%201978.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZmWXiXlhaFYsGmdboKRuSTAmNIUBXmAMFegzI5lhufTn6GmfRo9ukBLE1LQLVAHiavFpinKAXh-yMGAp58YLvbvNhmXg9NJmrOxVORvLFyMck0aPLFa25UveDDRT4EDYQbLInBX2ZjdyxnZ_snTX96f_McJco7m00quEVm6_2UGDdXHIz01Ncii77/s320/Anantapur%201978.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Myself with Prasad, Rammohan and Pratap in Lepakshi in 1978</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">5.4 My elder brother was married in mid-1979 and was working in Andhra Bank in AP Branches. I was posted in November 1979 as Accountant at <b>ADB Parkal in Warangal Dist,</b> Telangana where I worked with Mr Sailanath, BM and S/Sri Govind Reddy and P. Somasekhar, RDOs. I handled Annual Closing in Dec 1979, faced a Central Office Inspection and was transferred to <b>Masulipatnam Branch in Krishna</b> Dt, as Accountant in Feb'80. I relieved my senior Mr Chintha Gangadhara Sastry, from whom I learnt a lot. Mr V Ramakrishna and Mr KV Prasada Rao were Branch Managers during that time. Branch had Personal and SSI&SB Divisions and was an old large establishment. The branch premises was of British times and handles Dist HQ / Treasury business but had some typical union rivalry among the staff members. It was a very challenging and learning experience to work in this branch for one year. </span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeNGL6z3sp8DloJn4ezgYAG2am2vrnJtR2zme4mBWxap9uxpUNTJQ-SQmULqHTsmOp3-K32vro7trXrAUgCFYYygKAUkTr1J2vz6L72qsA1eSzjdJrqYPoqt_WccbQVRlxfVquZ8LKWV2IcFDxHCPZFrUb1LRw6y4HSX8X4E-GmvBC8OgM6y_ao8nr/s2048/Jangaon%201980.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeNGL6z3sp8DloJn4ezgYAG2am2vrnJtR2zme4mBWxap9uxpUNTJQ-SQmULqHTsmOp3-K32vro7trXrAUgCFYYygKAUkTr1J2vz6L72qsA1eSzjdJrqYPoqt_WccbQVRlxfVquZ8LKWV2IcFDxHCPZFrUb1LRw6y4HSX8X4E-GmvBC8OgM6y_ao8nr/s320/Jangaon%201980.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Myself with Murali Mohan Reddy, SW John, Bal Reddy, Purnachandra Rao,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">CP Prakash and staff @SBI ADB Jangaon, Warangal Dt in 1981</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5.5 I was transferred to <b>ADB Jangaon, Warangal Dist </b>as Field Officer in Feb 1981. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jangaon">Jangaon - Wikipedia</a>. Here, I was working with Mr SW John, BM and others. Mr P K Reddy of Secunderabad was posted at the same time as a Field Officer for rural lending. It was 85 KMs away from Hyderabad City and was much sought-after branch for the Hyderabad city staff so that every day they can commute. I vividly remember how a sincere Officer of the branch, commuting every day, went through hell in his personal / family life went to the extent of resigning from the job. I carefully resolved the crisis then. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">5.6 However, state of affairs at the branch were in an <b>unsatisfactory stage,</b> and I had to face an awkward Central Office Inspection while officiating as Branch Manager. Village surveys and adoption was imperfect, credit appraisal / sanction / documentation / disbursement / inspection / insurance / recovery and balancing of books of accounts were not in bad shape. Before joining at the branch, I got an opportunity to appear for <b>Junior IBOs</b> (for foreign branches) selection process, thanks to the recommendation by Sri N Ganapathy, Dy Personnel Manager, LHO but I was unlucky. Mr Raja Reddy replaced Mr John as Manager, but things did not improve. It was a frustrating experience in my career. </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcI_8OMVmYkxrKS3lNJw0IMmHSxzNwSahJ7dOIPaS1K2XolgqiljM3rWT6omyk9SwWh2afzmK0E7i4m22rLDXWdNfw3Thyw7ocxVil9OGnSriMGb7ACpmLuKw9aG8aGcEhH5BvgZaocmkeWo9cFgkE06NMZ3iBRoVksk7V1S810c5HpRE5elJg0aip/s2048/CP11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcI_8OMVmYkxrKS3lNJw0IMmHSxzNwSahJ7dOIPaS1K2XolgqiljM3rWT6omyk9SwWh2afzmK0E7i4m22rLDXWdNfw3Thyw7ocxVil9OGnSriMGb7ACpmLuKw9aG8aGcEhH5BvgZaocmkeWo9cFgkE06NMZ3iBRoVksk7V1S810c5HpRE5elJg0aip/s320/CP11.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With B Ramdhan, Dr Md Sajid Ali, Mallikarjuna Rao, Hanumantha Rao and </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Staff @SBI Wardhannapet ADB, Warangal in 1984</div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">5.7 In Feb 1982, I was posted as first BM of <b>ADB Wardhannapet,</b> Warangal, which was about 30 KMs away from Warangal. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardhannapet" style="text-align: left;">Wardhannapet - Wikipedia</a>. Even though the Branch was located on the highway from Warangal to Khammam, the basic facilities like housing, drinking water, toilet facility, telephones or transportation were at the least eventhough it was a Taluq / Block Head Quarters. Local residents and customers supported us affectionately. Branch of SBH was already serving the area, and was headed by Mr Sekhar, who became friendly with us. Also, the dedicated service rendered by Dr Sajid Ali, RDO, Mallikarjuna Rao, Head Cashier, Ramdhan, Hanumantha Rao, Janakiramaiah and others (in the picture above) in rural lending and administration is laudable. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">5.7.1 I experienced many challenges in personal life and career at this branch till April 1984. In 1982, my sister Jyothi was married to Dr I Sankara Rao, a PhD in Nuclear Chemistry from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. I got married to Ms Ganga Patnaik of Bhubaneswar in March 1983 and we had a memorable living experience at this semi-urban location without proper housing, water, transport facilities. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">5.8 The monsoon experience that year was deadly when the nearby Vagu (stream) overflowed. Wardhannapet witnessed very <b>heavy rains and the bridge on highway over the vagu collapsed</b> affecting regular road traffic. Telephone lines were also affected severely. Unfortunately, I met with a serious scooter accident then while on duty and was unable to walk. I could not get relief or leave replacement. On Sundays, I used to cross the vagu with some help and go to Warangal for my treatment. Please click to read a brief profile of Smt Ganga Prasad, on page no.18 of LEKHA <a href="file:///C:/Users/chowd/Downloads/Lekha_July_2022_%20(1).pdf" style="text-align: left;">Lekha_July_2022_ (1).pdf</a>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQwBeS4bRj2Ia-ZcJV1gZgDp7NAdXebrHpfvyK6YqW_baWC-vvtXPJWE_wZyACmQrlhMc9fOmt81Box0iOddGH2DG2YBVXWtaG9B5zdS1N0BRxgiUUYmgnTzz4zXIv6VHx-rVadL47tZ6MYHwiKzlASgt-qdSmqegIRTZXj3gPapzVJ8Czgj05kuoz/s1156/CP2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1156" data-original-width="867" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQwBeS4bRj2Ia-ZcJV1gZgDp7NAdXebrHpfvyK6YqW_baWC-vvtXPJWE_wZyACmQrlhMc9fOmt81Box0iOddGH2DG2YBVXWtaG9B5zdS1N0BRxgiUUYmgnTzz4zXIv6VHx-rVadL47tZ6MYHwiKzlASgt-qdSmqegIRTZXj3gPapzVJ8Czgj05kuoz/s320/CP2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">With my wife Ganga Prasad in 2021 at Nandi Woods Apartments</div><p style="text-align: justify;">5.9 After a brief stint of six months in <b>Region II, RO, Hyderabad </b>under Sri Bandaru Ramachandra Rao, RM / AGM, I was posted to Corporate Centre / Central Office, Nariman Point, Mumbai, but again in Agricultural Banking Department. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Bank_of_India" style="text-align: left;">State Bank of India - Wikipedia</a> On October 31, 1984, Smt Indira Gandhi, then PM of India was assassinated in New Delhi by her own Security Guard. Whole country was shocked and was in deep mourning. Around same time, I was relieved from SBI Hyderabad RO and travelled along with Ganga and transported my household items. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">5.9.1 I reported to Sri <b>S Chintamani, Chief Officer (belongs to Patna Circle) and Sri MS Yadava</b>, Additional Chief Officer (belongs to Bhopal Circle). Both were senior Officials from whom I learnt a lot. Subsequently, I worked with Sri N K Jain, Chief Officer / Dy General Manager (also from Bhopal Circle) and had different experience / relationship. Mr Jain was kind enough to be friendly even after I quit the bank and visited us in Manipal and Bangalore. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">5.10 Bank provided decent 2 bedroom plus residential furnished accommodation in <b>Malad (West),</b> which is about 30 KMs away from Nariman Point, Mumbai. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malad" style="text-align: left;">Malad - Wikipedia</a> There was hardly any telephone facility to us in those days. Transportation was either by Local Train or Contract Bus. Commuting to Office and back every day is a different experience. And then, work culture in Corp Centre, is entirely new and different to me compared to the highly dedicated and challenging work at branches and in South India. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">5.11 Thankfully, our batchmates <b>Nayani Sreedhar, BSR Prasad, K Ramamohana Rao, TVLN Chary </b>and others like T Appa Rao, PP Krishna Rao, BVV Rajeswara Rao, G. Sambasiva Rao, TVS Murthy, N Ramesh, S Narasimha Rao and many others also stayed in the residential flats in Malad and elsewhere. Many more senior officials of Hyderabad like S/Shri Sitaramam, NN Prabhakara Rao, Smt Rama Devi, C Sundershyam, Nagabhushana Rao, Santhanakrishnan, DRK Patnaik, Mohd Yunus, B Ramachandra Rao, Y Radhakrishnan, and many others were also posted at Corp Office. It was rare and golden opportunity to learn administrative work. Interactions with cross section of colleagues from different Circles was a great learning.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">5.12 Three promotions came in during my stay in Mumbai till November 1992. I was elevated to MM II in 1984 Merit Batch (released in 1986), MM III in 1985 (Special Batch) and SMG IV in 1990 before I was transferred as <b>Chief Manager, Sangareddy Branch near Hyderabad </b>on my revert to Circle. One more opportunity came in for selection as IBOs during the stay but could not be converted. On the personal front, my daughter Sravanthi was born on 10th July 1985 in Vizag and I could also build / buy a flat in Ashok Nagar, Hyderabad with the help of my colleague and batchmate TVLN Chary in 1989 with an Individual Housing Loan at SBI, Vidyanagar Branch, Hyderabad. Ganga also started working as a Chemistry Teacher in a nearby School in Goregaon (W) handling high school students. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">5.13 My father late Sri Shanmukha Rao retired from service as <b>Deputy Director (Planning), M&H Dept.</b>, Govt of AP in August 1989 and was appointed as Secretary to the newly created AP Vaidya Vidhana Parishad for a period of one year. Unfortunately, he <b>died due to ill-health in June 1990</b>, while I was working in Mumbai. My friend Mr N Hanumantha Rao, took all care of my sick father in his last days. With no frequent airlines facility or trains connecting even Hyderabad, I travelled by a private bus service for about 24 hours to reach for a last darshan and perform his last rites. My elder brother was able to arrive at a short notice from within the State and my sister could also come along with her husband (my brother-in-law, Dr Sankara Rao) while youngest Babu was at home only. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUseQcOqq9JNfnxMbBQWBTpYyBIkkXpoxvuZjLRpbv1rcpmOj4eUC2zxwhKaCWJVTkzZKjOJiSfHesetbnfp322vZxHBSu3TDNvhBw2oCymc3bWQhHIviKHpyrtfOamzSNKHPkcmpfRf4H_dWdQ5MwSoV3eIaxgUAoPdTjG9ZUBv5FGohnEYrjB_5M/s960/f337ad1a-0f96-4355-ac32-753a916ba0bb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUseQcOqq9JNfnxMbBQWBTpYyBIkkXpoxvuZjLRpbv1rcpmOj4eUC2zxwhKaCWJVTkzZKjOJiSfHesetbnfp322vZxHBSu3TDNvhBw2oCymc3bWQhHIviKHpyrtfOamzSNKHPkcmpfRf4H_dWdQ5MwSoV3eIaxgUAoPdTjG9ZUBv5FGohnEYrjB_5M/s320/f337ad1a-0f96-4355-ac32-753a916ba0bb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our father late Sri Ch Shanmukha Rao (1929-1990)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiY93xHjaP_XpOEvssJz4OIGrWqCPzO1ONqTZSv6yJ4xbBiktRp2ib4Qbg1kffY63krCZ4eXQNMGUGideGPpvOPP93j9jiSOJG03CVZgdvdQa5yJMKrag9Y0doMp0CUDJDXZkqLKy24QFdFRJfkM4gNvXeXcynnbjswz7ULy5khw416TZAXT3zkCnh/s1431/5f5dc1b3-d5a8-43e1-9ed5-99cf756d7345.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="805" data-original-width="1431" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiY93xHjaP_XpOEvssJz4OIGrWqCPzO1ONqTZSv6yJ4xbBiktRp2ib4Qbg1kffY63krCZ4eXQNMGUGideGPpvOPP93j9jiSOJG03CVZgdvdQa5yJMKrag9Y0doMp0CUDJDXZkqLKy24QFdFRJfkM4gNvXeXcynnbjswz7ULy5khw416TZAXT3zkCnh/s320/5f5dc1b3-d5a8-43e1-9ed5-99cf756d7345.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our parents @Saidabad Colony, Hyderabad in 1980s</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">Continued ......... 6</div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></p></div>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-14110437294147793922022-10-06T05:37:00.076-07:002022-12-06T22:53:51.231-08:00<p><b>4. AB and switch to SBI (1971)</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">4.1 In August 1970, <b>The Andhra Bank Ltd</b>., (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra_Bank" style="text-align: justify;">Andhra Bank - Wikipedia</a> <span style="text-align: justify;">in Private Sector then, and since merged into Union Bank of India in 2020) which had its <b>Central Office in Hyderabad</b> was to modernise and expand all over India, under the Chairmanship of Sri Kalluri Gopala Rao and General Manager Sri MV Subba Rao. Andhra Bank advertised for a large-scale recruitment of staff. While sitting idle at home, I asked my father his permission to apply. I also got encouraging advice from our neighbour Ms S Naina, working in the Staff Dept. I was asked to attend a typical written test in English and Mathematics, which I cleared easily. The Bank took a decision to further screening and administer a second special test for all qualified 450 candidates to be conducted by <b>NIBM, Pune</b> (</span><a href="https://www.nibmindia.org/" style="text-align: left;">NIBM_PUNE (nibmindia.org)</a> <span style="text-align: justify;">set up in 1969). It was a Test first of its kind in Indian banking industry, comprising English Language / Numerical abilities, Logical Reasoning, etc. No clear information or coaching or guidance of any sort was available in the market or with the Bank staff. To my pleasant surprise, I could successfully qualify with ease and highest score among the 450 participants. I then faced my first ever Personal Interview for a job in January 1971 before a Selection Board headed by Chairman himself. I was selected in April 1971 and joined Andhra Bank at a young age of eighteen years and six months.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNChkz9I6dJ13iloJCrL3YbBCJ2UUK4NerV-M3xT9-4tB5_LCAE38n4ld-_elYv-DkIjHrIaN6CHEhSrQ8ZmIqxxcjgJd3_pS8YYOAvPyG-17-ofzxkgJcqJ206_TdXd8ifWzjtU5lkwjt9eNTmz4tpIryx27oy7nvJ6LBE9XqEUEeg8NuRT3Kyl1T/s468/The_Old_logo_of_Andhra_Bank.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNChkz9I6dJ13iloJCrL3YbBCJ2UUK4NerV-M3xT9-4tB5_LCAE38n4ld-_elYv-DkIjHrIaN6CHEhSrQ8ZmIqxxcjgJd3_pS8YYOAvPyG-17-ofzxkgJcqJ206_TdXd8ifWzjtU5lkwjt9eNTmz4tpIryx27oy7nvJ6LBE9XqEUEeg8NuRT3Kyl1T/s320/The_Old_logo_of_Andhra_Bank.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span>4.2 My friends, family and relatives were very happy that I got a bank job against stiff competition at all India level. I had no choice but to accept the offer quitting my <b>unfinished B.Sc. studies</b>, after getting consent from my father, with a promise to pursue my academic studies in part-time. The starting salary was a <b>handsome Rs. 330/-</b>, which was supposed to be high and decent. I was posted in Staff Department, HO, Hyderabad after due formalities and training. I enrolled as Member of Indian Institute of Bankers (IIB), Bombay immediately. It was a memorable experience to have worked with stalwarts like Sri A Balakrishna Murthy, AGM, Sri Simhachalam, Personnel Manager, Sri Sripada Narasimham, Staff Superintendent, Sri Papa Raju and Sri Venkatadri. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>4.3 I also remember some of our bright colleagues like Ashwini, Kulkarni, Ashok Kumar, Mohan, Kashyapa, J Patanjali Sastry, P Prabhakara Rao, and others. I vividly remember our carefree days as young staff of a Private Bank and the first and best movie we saw in a group, the Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan starrer, ANAND directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and music by Salil Chowdary with a theme of FRIENDSHIP. One more job offer from SBI made me quit the first job in Nov. 1971 by paying penalty of one month's pay. With me to quit were three colleagues, ie., Kashyapa, JP Sastry and Joseph Mathew. Click to know all about SBI: </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Bank_of_India">State Bank of India - Wikipedia</a></div></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm4p5cCd4POPJt8gKf4dIIAmU4lUd3VxL9Fgxi2G0KyUSmhXw_NvoQeFALL6TvbnYADtU7TkJbsMswPkmwc3LAitvnFV8_ODWw5gJdPVksI3jXEZmeGObwrRUtaQhh3c6xnCpExVCpFjn9LW-r6GRxmZkgRiDNkox50gDDxlwzsESy03BUa7WRNZee/s316/SBI%20logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="316" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm4p5cCd4POPJt8gKf4dIIAmU4lUd3VxL9Fgxi2G0KyUSmhXw_NvoQeFALL6TvbnYADtU7TkJbsMswPkmwc3LAitvnFV8_ODWw5gJdPVksI3jXEZmeGObwrRUtaQhh3c6xnCpExVCpFjn9LW-r6GRxmZkgRiDNkox50gDDxlwzsESy03BUa7WRNZee/s1600/SBI%20logo.jpg" width="316" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">4.4 Thus began my second employment in India's giant public sector bank, <b>SBI on November 5, 1971</b>, when I joined the Main Branch in Bank Street, <b>Hyderabad</b>. I started my baby steps of banking under guidance of Sri AV Rajarathnam, C Ramaswamy, KP Subrahmanyam (all of IBI) and I Veerabhadra Rao. My colleagues were Mr SV Sudarsan and Mr JN Pawan, at Sub-Offices Cell. Hyderabad branch was overseeing seven Sub-Offices (or Pay Offices) at ECIL, Padmaraonagar, Bible House, Red Hills, Gowliguda, Shamsheergunj and Choutuppal. I was just 19 years old then, and an under-Graduate. But on the advice of elders, I started appearing for Part-I of CAIIB and cleared in 2 attempts by October 1972. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">4.5 I decided to forego my unfinished B.Sc., three years study and join B.Com (3 YDC) at VV Evening College, Hyderabad. Thanks to two of our Dy Managers, Sri G Upendra Sarma and T Venkateswarlu, I balanced my time between work and studies in learning banking work and studying for B.Com / CAIIB Part II. It was very difficult for me to sit for three more years in a graduation course classes, when I had already passed the two language papers during B,Sc., and important subjects like Accountancy, Banking, Economics, Business Law, etc through self-study. I was fortunate to have got into a very affectionate group of colleagues at work in SBI in V Venkateswarlu, RL Nageswara Rao, N Hanumantha Rao, B Radhakrishna, SP Narasinga Rao, U D Kumta, BSR Prasad, PP Krishna Rao, Tangirala Srinivasa Rao, Sarma, Sastry besides many other seniors and juniors, male and female, Officers and staff members. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicf83IznuJBZ362SNod6ntUunnDEkljceMESJW_sTWtulqyTSlLNQn5RmKPw5xyuUFIYKln97sxM4C0vgYIxF_ku8W2eBYWYhq79yPYQWlHBpSzbdE60cn6RnUKXNSwbgmyFzRY6crCDve1QoODzr9Ior5ziLINgAw6kY98TdBgpd7_tB-8bcClMB8/s1024/SBI%20HD%20Tour%201973.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicf83IznuJBZ362SNod6ntUunnDEkljceMESJW_sTWtulqyTSlLNQn5RmKPw5xyuUFIYKln97sxM4C0vgYIxF_ku8W2eBYWYhq79yPYQWlHBpSzbdE60cn6RnUKXNSwbgmyFzRY6crCDve1QoODzr9Ior5ziLINgAw6kY98TdBgpd7_tB-8bcClMB8/s320/SBI%20HD%20Tour%201973.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Picnic with SBI Hyderabad friends to Hampi, Karnataka</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheB6wn-oPwCk91Gsi1lGh4YdgoC-TuenJGK76Dpkog_g8ibhba2oPe0OSrUZ-0JS-Gv8LnNjCWyiIc2URUSw7OF48FAUXG38-DFlwaRtqGKRiEzcjdEoeQ7J0evPIOTJwh7hxhgolHbJNMxaDrW4aehOYo0ZwDJ975CEuElsFS4bX4yHjSxtWQJgES/s1024/TB%20Dam%201973.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheB6wn-oPwCk91Gsi1lGh4YdgoC-TuenJGK76Dpkog_g8ibhba2oPe0OSrUZ-0JS-Gv8LnNjCWyiIc2URUSw7OF48FAUXG38-DFlwaRtqGKRiEzcjdEoeQ7J0evPIOTJwh7hxhgolHbJNMxaDrW4aehOYo0ZwDJ975CEuElsFS4bX4yHjSxtWQJgES/s320/TB%20Dam%201973.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With Mr N Hanumantha Rao of SBI, Hyderabad</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioW2h7sCX7NrK5PSUpnxS-X1HGeCeKRwcShsbxb-Jux3c47IOwSdDfeNcOfaNFX8GYlFd0feQ84QQGXLAJxZIUOiR3rq0sptLh-t9H-li_yqkpWyjPOq2o5p0SbS5eLW0K8MoRY1eXFogt754MWLv2HztW9axG4CMaoIePwLHIw5xiYnkps_VS7ccQ/s960/CP75.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioW2h7sCX7NrK5PSUpnxS-X1HGeCeKRwcShsbxb-Jux3c47IOwSdDfeNcOfaNFX8GYlFd0feQ84QQGXLAJxZIUOiR3rq0sptLh-t9H-li_yqkpWyjPOq2o5p0SbS5eLW0K8MoRY1eXFogt754MWLv2HztW9axG4CMaoIePwLHIw5xiYnkps_VS7ccQ/s320/CP75.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Farewell party to me and BSR Prasad on our promotion as Trainee Officers in 1977</div><p style="text-align: justify;">4.6 Interestingly, I was also active in SBI Staff Union, Hyderabad during 1973-76 and was elected as Representative of A/cs Dept of SBI, Hyderabad. Shri PV Sastry and Shri P Lakshminarasaiah were President and Secretary at the State level. Mr Ganti Seshagiri Rao, Mr J Venkat Rao, Mr P Siva Sankara Reddy, Mr N Hanumantha Rao, Gopalakrishna, GMK Gandhi and others were some of the active union members then. I worked with two bosses Shri Seshadri Rao and Shri K Raghunatha Rao, Managers. By April 1975, the political disturbances in Telangana region subsided and Osmania University, Hyderabad appointed Justice Jaganmohan Reddy, Retired Supreme Court Judge as its Vice Chancellor. He took control of the state of affairs to curb the malpractices in exams. Coincidence was that at all-India level of politics, Central Govt imposed National Emergency in June 1975 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India)" style="text-align: left;">The Emergency (India) - Wikipedia</a>. Exams were conducted with strict discipline. My hard work and wait for four years to become a Graduate yielded result. I passed B.Com. with 63% marks in First Division and obtained Fourth Rank in the University Merit Order. What a big relief that I fulfilled my promise to my father!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">4.7 All my well-wishers appreciated my achievements in academics and career. I enrolled myself immediately for M.Com., in Evening Sessions of PG Centre (Nizam College), Hyderabad. I was offered Merit Scholarship by the GoI, which I didn't avail of. Here I met a good number of intelligent friends like M Lakshman Kumar, Giridhar Gopal, Vijaya Simha Reddy, Suryanarayana, Ramesh et al as seniors and Niranjan, Krishna, Ramdas, Buddha Kumar, Kameswara Rao, Guru Linga Chary, Purnima, Rajalakshmi, Mythili, Bhaskar Rao, AA Qureshi, Ravi Prakash Singaravelu, CJ Singh, Srirama Murthy, Jagga Rao, Sekhar and others as classmates. My Elective subjects were Cost Accounting, Personnel Management and Industrial Psychology. In all curriculum standards, the degree was equivalent to MBA.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">4.8 We all completed M.Com. in 4 Semesters by April 1977 and me with 65% and 6th rank in Osmania University. Sadly, four of our batch (Ali Asim Qureshi, Ravi Prakash Singaravelu, Ramdas and Bhaskar) died prematurely in later years and most of the remaining are friends even on date through WA Group. Sri Dakoju Nagabrahmam, a young faculty member taught us Labour Relations in our Ist Semester. He quit his job to join the Fellow Program (equivalent to PhD) of IIM Ahmedabad and later worked as Associate Professor in IRMA Anand. We bid a simple farewell to him in 1975. I met him after a long gap in 1998 in Manipal when he was Director of TAPMI only to join as Associate Professor in May 1999. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmbUN6pH4WKcfj-yFzLw8OHX9F7Xup3W-ntH4ZAyXM0b5g_7E2fjbePowafff5GFYR3zLSuujsxXNDRUoJp3SRO57ZG6VZ15uR-q3YiBjwlVppVMCUNiZibvJ_eIHBk4ms7_D2pTIMsRT-_dfoPB0KDzT1RVKkIoIkUPJdiaGUguNsCoJku5iE-6Jr/s2048/CP60.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmbUN6pH4WKcfj-yFzLw8OHX9F7Xup3W-ntH4ZAyXM0b5g_7E2fjbePowafff5GFYR3zLSuujsxXNDRUoJp3SRO57ZG6VZ15uR-q3YiBjwlVppVMCUNiZibvJ_eIHBk4ms7_D2pTIMsRT-_dfoPB0KDzT1RVKkIoIkUPJdiaGUguNsCoJku5iE-6Jr/s320/CP60.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">M.Com. 1975-77 batch of Hyd Evening College, Farewell in 1977</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibM-5n4u9DvLZBl50zmB9aWcp1yIRNjMXrScDYODwRyLvz0FeIEolHgzSo98oBB-W1R5IfW0vj7cRJSJBdzO25mewdKd3waXfwq4HSyAs2YunnYo2MuQs9eGEwieax3wT6NhdKZrTj7mNtEIGi5Y2Xb8obtZDxin1kFc7s3NwjZqtpzOix1lYKv3RL/s2048/MCom%202019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibM-5n4u9DvLZBl50zmB9aWcp1yIRNjMXrScDYODwRyLvz0FeIEolHgzSo98oBB-W1R5IfW0vj7cRJSJBdzO25mewdKd3waXfwq4HSyAs2YunnYo2MuQs9eGEwieax3wT6NhdKZrTj7mNtEIGi5Y2Xb8obtZDxin1kFc7s3NwjZqtpzOix1lYKv3RL/s320/MCom%202019.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Re-union of M.Com batch in Secunderabad in October 2019</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">4.9 After a gap of 42 years, at least nine of us could meet for a dinner at Secunderabad Hotel in October 2019 and recalled our golden years of 1975-77. Dr Gurulinga Chary (SSIM-Hyderabad), ST Krishna (Standard & Chartered Bank, Dubai), P Niranjan (SBI-Hyderabad), L Buddha Kumar (Consultant), Jagga Rao (PNB), Jayawant Singh (SBI-Hyderabad), M Srirama Murthy (Air India-Hyderabad), K Kameswara Rao (SBI Hyderabad) from USA and I (Bangalore) attended on that day. Each one excelled in their respective professions / organisations in the past over four decades and happily retired. </div><p style="text-align: justify;">4.10 To my luck, SBI decided to reduce eligibility criteria for Trainee Officers selection in 1975. I started my preparations to appear for my first attempt in 1976, while simultaneously attending M.Com classes / exams. God was kind enough that I cracked the TOs Test and faced the GD/PIs only to be selected in the then smallest batch of 23 Officers in Hyderabad Circle. My other colleagues were TVLN Chary, ChBV Sarma, Y Bhaskara Rao, BSR Prasad from Hyderabad Branch and others like KS Prakasa Rao, MVR Sainatha Rao, BBRK Durga Prasad, S Krishnan and Nayani Sreedhar. The 2 years Training cum Probation commenced from 1st of September 1977, which on completion bestowed us to become Grade I Officers in SBI. I was less than 25 years of age then and the youngest in the batch! I reported at Vizag for my 1st branch training. I spent seven months and worked under Shri Nambiar and Shri YRK. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">4.11 Of the 23 batch of SBI Hyderabad Circle Trainee Officers of 1977 I belong to, BSR Prasad retired as General Manager, MVR Sainatha Rao as Dy General Manager, and remaining in different positions. Nayani Sreedhar retired voluntarily as AGM and settled down in Toronto, Canada. I also retired voluntarily as Chief Manager of Sangareddy Branch, Medak Dt.,<msreadoutspan class="msreadout-line-highlight msreadout-inactive-highlight"> Telangana on <msreadoutspan class="msreadout-word-highlight">30th April 1993</msreadoutspan> to take up private sector engagements and academic assignments in later </msreadoutspan>years. Three colleagues, TVLN Chary, G Avataram died due health reasons and SSSV Nageswara Rao met with a road accident and also had premature death. Y Bhaskar Rao took philosophical route and vanished from active life while R Narayana Swamy died in April 2022 post retirement. We all are meeting occasionally in Hyderabad and Online as also keep in regular touch on daily basis in our WhatsApp group. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihY113Z3VyAPNi6O4mxsFvOaqogP7Nxe9dxYs0JeGHYHS2FExJbuhCSuSkRvYRGzpnXRa4jeYSyvyrjJclE8JZaK_sJQklcwW6owrXd7jQmE5VCegVByODeNXz6Ce4ewRzSrDA5Us5VEiWWCOvNOeOW8UWvmhP-gJyhsE6WK9Ji0k_rL-PUlf014xi/s960/CP61.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihY113Z3VyAPNi6O4mxsFvOaqogP7Nxe9dxYs0JeGHYHS2FExJbuhCSuSkRvYRGzpnXRa4jeYSyvyrjJclE8JZaK_sJQklcwW6owrXd7jQmE5VCegVByODeNXz6Ce4ewRzSrDA5Us5VEiWWCOvNOeOW8UWvmhP-gJyhsE6WK9Ji0k_rL-PUlf014xi/s320/CP61.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">TOs 1977 of Hyderabad Circle on confirmation as OG I in August 1979</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">Continued ......... 5</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-88300782614560390552022-10-06T02:38:00.082-07:002022-12-07T22:58:34.965-08:00<p><b>3. Migration to Hyderabad, School / College Studies: </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">3.1 We lived in two rented houses between 1959 and 1964 and then moved into our own house in Saidabad Housing Board Colony, which was very close to our Malakpet Colony School. Our Schooling was not affected due to these shiftings. Meantime, my younger sister Jyothi and brother Venkateswara Rao -were born and all four of us studied in the same School. My father continued his part-time post graduate studies in Public Administration and Industrial / Personnel Management and grew in his Official positions. He was also Secretary of the Saidabad Colony Residents Association and AP Sistakaranam Association Hyderabad (Regd), besides his professional and family responsibilities. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">3.2 We had a big group of Sistakaranam families viz., Dabbiru Narayana Rao, Patnayakuni Venkat Rao, Muddukrishna (PV Patnaik), P Suryanarayana, Chowdari Lakshmana Rao, Chowdari Govinda Rao, Behara Satyanarayana, and others in Malakpet Colony. A few more names to recollect were Sri Kondavalasa Krishna Murthy garu, ex-President APSKA Sri BMM Bhujanga Rao, Sadasivuni Prasada Rao, Salur Prasada Rao, (Labour) Prasada Rao, P Bhaktavatsala Patnaik - ex-President APSKA, Justice S Madhusudhan Rao, Vinod Nath Patnaik, (Bata) Narahari Rao, Justice ND Patnaik, Dr Raghunath Patnaik and others. Most of these men were in govt service. In fact, my father has been my role model in several facets in my life. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsbCg0ubq_6m6AvGHJcDlZymk6LVS95J2mJN9DuBkdoFBL8ulO9SWNxRMcOg3H15Cl3S_1vKKdqVkVUDnmUSx55viyrXWwJ9u8NeSDVK_dLLrs1iYZDWy-6Xs4ipx2cGQpkckbVMhj4XQ07pmgDAqjYOIFrJwNjZ2xCGaxCb8mjPIl-k-Ir1JP6jBx/s1040/74860129_3815395578477908_2195900354766307328_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="780" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsbCg0ubq_6m6AvGHJcDlZymk6LVS95J2mJN9DuBkdoFBL8ulO9SWNxRMcOg3H15Cl3S_1vKKdqVkVUDnmUSx55viyrXWwJ9u8NeSDVK_dLLrs1iYZDWy-6Xs4ipx2cGQpkckbVMhj4XQ07pmgDAqjYOIFrJwNjZ2xCGaxCb8mjPIl-k-Ir1JP6jBx/s320/74860129_3815395578477908_2195900354766307328_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">About our School - Page 2</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8fgRp88EbdQdzNmMfuEVM8-Sx7m2YKEu8dJQAImf2Vmb4SGotn1KK9cXRX4vY_6MuAKj2Qnxns9BqS-jMbsm7bO4bjdOSE59gvWsDF7s8dfjTO5ZP79umwpWed4f3VnNVeYprdTnZ6yt1ZuZiF3EyUaAfoOq1DBji1tbYQkDGfoouUpppUV7ediVg/s960/GHS2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8fgRp88EbdQdzNmMfuEVM8-Sx7m2YKEu8dJQAImf2Vmb4SGotn1KK9cXRX4vY_6MuAKj2Qnxns9BqS-jMbsm7bO4bjdOSE59gvWsDF7s8dfjTO5ZP79umwpWed4f3VnNVeYprdTnZ6yt1ZuZiF3EyUaAfoOq1DBji1tbYQkDGfoouUpppUV7ediVg/s320/GHS2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dinner meeting of trio me, Purandhar and GSR in Secunderabad in 2012</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhngOhddvziHji3SCz_NVoV6WQqhavW3SHTFgRTfXP9_9Kb22A063L62W_hoRwNa1f4xOQ_FUmCdv3FuKTtVCh8RWoXT9m_c3UuW9zNuCxvXFmLhRUDRiktiwce2AbusBki8RSdoQesix2OGGPyXw6Brm_3WXCvsd6bmtDDOxROAbn1Z7xLkxWPZtxe/s1280/GHSS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhngOhddvziHji3SCz_NVoV6WQqhavW3SHTFgRTfXP9_9Kb22A063L62W_hoRwNa1f4xOQ_FUmCdv3FuKTtVCh8RWoXT9m_c3UuW9zNuCxvXFmLhRUDRiktiwce2AbusBki8RSdoQesix2OGGPyXw6Brm_3WXCvsd6bmtDDOxROAbn1Z7xLkxWPZtxe/s320/GHSS.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitRyjz9_V2-A0Y9a34n69pXjZLREtU035j-M4Ww9TRmvbPhgvj-rFjbLwl1qGqdy2gvnmdtnxf4Qg02ZI1ubmKApDp9aUDfWbR51WxAgSZ0-3qazdaDKnLVASzvYkwl9kuHtUlXB43m-LBT-c4aRQCXpfxjZH1YT_FaC7gOKN81daziLiYccgBUUcG/s1040/CP122.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="780" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitRyjz9_V2-A0Y9a34n69pXjZLREtU035j-M4Ww9TRmvbPhgvj-rFjbLwl1qGqdy2gvnmdtnxf4Qg02ZI1ubmKApDp9aUDfWbR51WxAgSZ0-3qazdaDKnLVASzvYkwl9kuHtUlXB43m-LBT-c4aRQCXpfxjZH1YT_FaC7gOKN81daziLiYccgBUUcG/s320/CP122.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our School : Page 1</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBYbjQ4KGHayQiUXjtbwEPleSFAwfPk15Hu3fETGcmDtk5Az6UoLDIP4qWJF4-yHuYe6nCVh3JnUJSXI8Ev6mkopyIk0YNw_yZEqPFcfJVt95uJ05zAOFQqglgRz3KCQ9sYy9C5A0gLGZdZfnVqAPROygJWNw4GaPkC-J9xL6YOyFLQrIGQJ95KeS/s1280/CP125.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBYbjQ4KGHayQiUXjtbwEPleSFAwfPk15Hu3fETGcmDtk5Az6UoLDIP4qWJF4-yHuYe6nCVh3JnUJSXI8Ev6mkopyIk0YNw_yZEqPFcfJVt95uJ05zAOFQqglgRz3KCQ9sYy9C5A0gLGZdZfnVqAPROygJWNw4GaPkC-J9xL6YOyFLQrIGQJ95KeS/s320/CP125.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">3.3 The youngest in our class was Y Purandar (in the picture above), who turned to be one of the bright stars in career. After serving for long years in ECIL on the Scientific field, for the past decade or so he is into Academics as a Dean in Hyderabad based Engineering College / University. He remembers and can recall names of any student or teacher or any incident or facts and figures about our School even now. We keep meeting regularly. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxaq2Uni6oeoV4abJdb01WosKWytBuwCgLnD36CIftvaItiy3e0dACQtunp7Zllz89EdWDEJQI3NG7StyWohNuMaDuWpaT5wV6HnSPB7eCGCsqsWwbHQ9Gle2QsP_LIxXXuXK92uiqHIelK7jct6nWYnyBhH1svMeLQj7Yq-5tvidWwzjc0VW9yx2K/s2048/Our%20Family%201967.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxaq2Uni6oeoV4abJdb01WosKWytBuwCgLnD36CIftvaItiy3e0dACQtunp7Zllz89EdWDEJQI3NG7StyWohNuMaDuWpaT5wV6HnSPB7eCGCsqsWwbHQ9Gle2QsP_LIxXXuXK92uiqHIelK7jct6nWYnyBhH1svMeLQj7Yq-5tvidWwzjc0VW9yx2K/s320/Our%20Family%201967.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our family : Father, Mother, Elder & Younger Brothers and Sister in 1970</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">3.4 I joined Science College, Saifabad (OU), Masab Tank, in Hyderabad for my PUC (with MPC) in June 1967 based on my marks in HSC exams. It was about 12 KM from home, and I had to travel via Kothi in / change two RTC Buses daily. Moving from School to College at less than 15 years of my age, I started wearing full pants and pursuing English Medium studies. New friends, new environment, Science Labs and NCC Classes were new experience. National Cadet Corps (NCC) was compulsory for all College students, due to the reason we just went through two wars with China in 1962 and Pakistan in 1965. The annual NCC Camp I attended in December 1967 at RK Puram, Secunderabad is still fresh in my memory. My elder brother visited me in the Camp to check my welfare. </div><p style="text-align: justify;">3.5 At home, I was an active member of Saidabad Colony Youth Club engaging in extra-curricular activities like Library Work, Chess, Carroms, Cricket, Volleyball, Ball Badminton, Tennikoit, and Light Music. I took up membership of USIS Centre (American) Library and John F Kennedy Science Film Club. Mr Sitaram Yechury (CPM) was our friend then. Unfortunately, the OU Colleges were affected in some Student Union rivalries and communal clashes in the year 1967-68, which affected our college studies and eventually the exams. The results naturally were very disappointing and hit my career. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">3.6 I joined B.Sc. (3 YDC) with Maths, Physics and Geology at NB Science College, Hyderabad under Osmania University in June 1968. In Geology, we started studying Minerology, Petrology, Crystallography and other subjects of interest. I was participating in Cultural activities like Debating, Mock-Assembly and unsuccessfully contested for the post of President of Telugu Literary Association of the College in 1969. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmania_University" target="_blank">Osmania University, Hyderabad </a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">3.7 Unfortunately, the Separate Telangana State agitation that stirred in early 1969 took worst turn and affected our studies again. No classes, no examinations and total uncertainty making me sit at home and idling for about two years. The political movement was controlled by GOI, but as many as 350 students lost their lives then. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Telangana_Agitation">1969 Telangana Agitation - Wikipedia</a>. I learnt English Typewriting and passed Lower and Higher-Grade exams in first class. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">3.8 When the University held the B.Sc. 2nd year exams, I attended and cleared the Languages Papers, with highest marks in College. The University syllabus and scheme was that examinations were to be held only at the end of third year covering all three years portions, Science Lab Work, etc. In the normal course, I could have got my B.Sc degree in hand by March 1971 only to decide about future career of studies or employment. But it didn't happen. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;">Continued ......... 4</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1119938787029858342.post-6245045592115678892022-10-06T01:16:00.040-07:002022-12-07T22:49:40.567-08:00<p><b>2. Grand Parents and families </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">2.1 Polaki village and Mandal HQ in Srikakulam Dt of AP is my mother's (late Smt Ch Sugunavathi) native place. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaki,_Srikakulam_district">Polaki, Srikakulam district - Wikipedia</a>). The distance between my paternal hometown Kotabommali and Polaki is about 26 KM. My maternal grandfather, late <b>Sri Kasimahanthi Bhanu Murthy</b> was working in SE Railways, in <b>Kharagpur, West Bengal</b>. All his four sons (maternal uncles S/Sri Jayarama Murthy, Narasimha Murthy, Bhaskar Rao (Babu Mamayya) and Dakshina Murthy (Baba Mamayya), were employed in SE Rly. in Kharagpur. He also had a widowed sister, whom we used to call Appa, living with them. I remember that I visited Kharagpur in May 1964 along with my elder brother, Nageswara Rao. I was eleven years old then, and my grandfather was no more.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZtH4Kb99lCpqhE-mRbtL2nUc6LxtFYbBIcF6ikgoTS02At_7v47c0fVK5HYGBb4iQIQkgy4tlhNvuZWSwnYIvJKnnFkjbxfQRXjomJOGIehhnN8eb-RCFUtGOkobHQ0re3lBv_Ays4zYqZVeJZJAjwf5YSgZXucvO_7YDBsHOBGlUdJpYEU-Kj3DE/s2048/Me%20Baby%20and%20Mom%201954.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZtH4Kb99lCpqhE-mRbtL2nUc6LxtFYbBIcF6ikgoTS02At_7v47c0fVK5HYGBb4iQIQkgy4tlhNvuZWSwnYIvJKnnFkjbxfQRXjomJOGIehhnN8eb-RCFUtGOkobHQ0re3lBv_Ays4zYqZVeJZJAjwf5YSgZXucvO_7YDBsHOBGlUdJpYEU-Kj3DE/s320/Me%20Baby%20and%20Mom%201954.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In my mother's arms as a toddler </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeqVFqHR8xk8Z026UMRAliFDynLTRHHEPLDxN1gCZhLspWxIGbILVlXNGX8UOYyoKGXT0JOMN_E9T9ZoL2JlJGgbFzwKjcppllNUgXY42989TmopR-LwXnl6iqw56untWccBiPUav9Yjukbt3-4W9CMUf4eJIcj5EWAilYKybNqFaBLPvrcwThAfwl/s1280/Ch%20Sugunavathi%20(1934-2016).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeqVFqHR8xk8Z026UMRAliFDynLTRHHEPLDxN1gCZhLspWxIGbILVlXNGX8UOYyoKGXT0JOMN_E9T9ZoL2JlJGgbFzwKjcppllNUgXY42989TmopR-LwXnl6iqw56untWccBiPUav9Yjukbt3-4W9CMUf4eJIcj5EWAilYKybNqFaBLPvrcwThAfwl/s320/Ch%20Sugunavathi%20(1934-2016).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My mother late Smt Ch Sugunavathi (1934-2016)</div><p style="text-align: justify;">2.2 My mother might have been married in the year, 1949 to my father when they were 15 and 20 years old respectively. My elder brother was born on 20 October 1950 in Bobbili both in Srikakulam Dt, AP. Around that time, my father was working in Education Department of Andhra Government and was posted in Srikakulam Dist. During 1953, my father was selected / appointed in Medical & Health Department and was posted in <b>Madras (now Chennai),</b> the then combined State Capital. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai" target="_blank">Madras City / State (Chennai / TN)</a> He went alone to that far off place leaving the family (wife and 2 young children) with my maternal grandfather. I have a photograph showing my Aksharabhyasam at my grandfather's house. I have no idea when my maternal / paternal grandfathers expired. But I vaguely remember some stories of village life.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqwHa9fQlMk0wtQPfW0Q4Per9onHpQOCAbvKpeBvmwjSInEpm6KuC3i_Jgvc1QV_PYXumWLAOc1MlLjB9FKSco93zLRY5UCyMLJZqsLqONqsaVCrTdeVUdh6aFZg-5QGnR-RUvh4sJpxruTxyf2e6qmmu8dnGfUpysnL6TqJg4cCOVHaNJnguayys/s1024/f1c954d8-f65f-453c-bd08-2d5322d027c0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqwHa9fQlMk0wtQPfW0Q4Per9onHpQOCAbvKpeBvmwjSInEpm6KuC3i_Jgvc1QV_PYXumWLAOc1MlLjB9FKSco93zLRY5UCyMLJZqsLqONqsaVCrTdeVUdh6aFZg-5QGnR-RUvh4sJpxruTxyf2e6qmmu8dnGfUpysnL6TqJg4cCOVHaNJnguayys/s320/f1c954d8-f65f-453c-bd08-2d5322d027c0.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My parents late Sri Shanmukha Rao and Smt Sugunavathi in 1990</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuTP8ZU8sUilWh_u7bEZYiOEnih7UzGNPgQ5T3SSWOPW1YfgRxzw1AoFkbGdDUzfs2u2UZkcDz6c0w21o9oA0B5JN_Bnihgn25kz9-2uGxY7p7ebGhIWClWLQXeycsGchP0NOhKEaeZ6X8ne4IXBttiTzSUt-fcA9Rmux2zbhZuzkKod-Ake3qjwod/s1431/1c9dc902-dd52-40e0-98db-71026068a67c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="805" data-original-width="1431" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuTP8ZU8sUilWh_u7bEZYiOEnih7UzGNPgQ5T3SSWOPW1YfgRxzw1AoFkbGdDUzfs2u2UZkcDz6c0w21o9oA0B5JN_Bnihgn25kz9-2uGxY7p7ebGhIWClWLQXeycsGchP0NOhKEaeZ6X8ne4IXBttiTzSUt-fcA9Rmux2zbhZuzkKod-Ake3qjwod/s320/1c9dc902-dd52-40e0-98db-71026068a67c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My grandmother late Smt Sundaramma with our daughter in 1986 in Tirupati AP</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnAagtUP8KbLMAjSIOOKBomIhV_73Ji0-VVgBFmo5QcMHEZZctNb7NkX1_wcrwxuN7HpHjRtbiMKfXIdmupcCePElOfgWWK9PtjQl9e0_Xli07t2kxLboTBPL5C7e9X0VpTVbc-oHazr9deybxHZtjTwriYCwPU7ED2X0ICrAwiBP8TBNsBycVZ3jh/s1102/ab1f3048-66f1-4ec6-87d4-950e52bf120d.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnAagtUP8KbLMAjSIOOKBomIhV_73Ji0-VVgBFmo5QcMHEZZctNb7NkX1_wcrwxuN7HpHjRtbiMKfXIdmupcCePElOfgWWK9PtjQl9e0_Xli07t2kxLboTBPL5C7e9X0VpTVbc-oHazr9deybxHZtjTwriYCwPU7ED2X0ICrAwiBP8TBNsBycVZ3jh/s320/ab1f3048-66f1-4ec6-87d4-950e52bf120d.jpg" width="314" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My grandmother late Smt Sundaramma </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">2.3 My father had an elder sister Smt Nagarathnam and three younger brothers, Vajrala Rao, Madhava Rao and Narasinga Rao under his responsibility. Sister was married and lived in a nearby village. She became a widow very early, with two daughters. They had cashew plantation as property and source of income. My three uncles were not well educated and the first one took up employment in Araku Valley near Visakhapatnam and was married. Two younger brothers were my father's direct responsibility, besides his widowed mother, sister and of course his own family. Later, the second brother Madhava Rao died very young, and the youngest Sri Narasinga Rao Patnaik was employed in King George Hospital, Vizag, married and settled in Pendurthi, near Simhachalam, Vizag, AP. </span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">2.4 In 1956, when the new AP State was formed, with a temporary capital at Kurnool, my father was shifted to Hyderabad, Telangana the permanent capital in later years. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad" target="_blank">Hyderabad / AP / Telangana </a> In 1958-59, he was deputed to Guntur to set up a Regional Office of Medical Dept and we joined him thereat. I faintly remember to have lived in Kankaragunta and went to some School for a year. In 1959, he was posted back in Hyderabad and at the Directorate's Office. We accompanied him to Hyderabad and my formal education started in Govt High School, Malakpet Colony, when as a six plus years old, I was admitted directly to Standard IV. My brother joined Standard V in same School. Here is a <b>photo taken in 1964,</b> when I was studying VIIIth Standard. I can recall a few names like Kesavulu, Papi Reddy, Upender, Sathish, GMS Rao, M Ramakrishna, Gopala Chary, D Ramachander, P Chandrasekhar, Y Purandhar, Sathya murthy, Adinarayana, Subhadra, Suchetha, Suryakantham, Rani, Savithri, Vasundhara, Padmavathi, Padma Jyothi and others with our Class Teacher Sri Suryanarayana and HM Sri Alapati Venkateswarlu. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2tNM3_mDe--YkqGV05sZ_fLq-Ppo2lJZef9wkVb_kxizY5VTd9Sgelc0JhrcaVODXdnqpKfWMnIDEc51tzYDcbLeoCuqbHoXo_cHUUzJca3QxAaqclyKb1g8Mj9eDFGUwoNjhfhecZJCReobf1q1pb1GIPJG6pL50ZxBS66LqWpTtyCBWk-HACHCd/s960/CP102.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2tNM3_mDe--YkqGV05sZ_fLq-Ppo2lJZef9wkVb_kxizY5VTd9Sgelc0JhrcaVODXdnqpKfWMnIDEc51tzYDcbLeoCuqbHoXo_cHUUzJca3QxAaqclyKb1g8Mj9eDFGUwoNjhfhecZJCReobf1q1pb1GIPJG6pL50ZxBS66LqWpTtyCBWk-HACHCd/s320/CP102.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Me standing in the 4th row, next to GMS Rao (at second position from left)</div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">2.5 I studied in Telugu medium till my XIth standard (HSC), which examination I passed in first division in <b>April 1967 at the age of 14+ years.</b> During my studies between 1959 and 1967, the school had worked under four Headmasters, Mrs BA Richards (1957-61), Sri Vishwapathy (1961-63), Sri Alapati Venkateswarlu (1963-65) and Sri D Rama Rao (1965-). Sri Rama Rao taught us English in our Xth and XIth Standard classes in 1966-67. Sri Seshagiri s/o D Rama Rao was teaching us Mathematics and Somayajulu, his other son was my junior in School. We were good students but were also indulgent sometimes. In 1965-66, I was singing one day in class, waiting for teacher to come. Suddenly, new HM walked in and shouted at us. After some days, when the HM corrected our English Test papers, and announced the result, he was shocked that I was topper, which information leaked to me even before through his son Somayajulu. Somayajulu was a brilliant student, who passed his M.Com, CA and CS with high merit and was a professional in Hyderabad. Unfortunately, he expired prematurely.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">2.6 He maintained good friendship with me till his death three years ago. We do remember some names of teachers who taught us Mathematics, Science, English, Telugu and Hindi. In fact, some of our classmates are in touch even now after 55 years of passing out in 1967. Prominent among students from both A and B Sections we maintain contact now are (mostly residing in Hyderabad) Ratna Mala, Purandar, Muralidhar, K. Murali Narayana Rao, Gopala Chary, GMS Rao, T. Sanath Kumar, Ramakrishna, Siva Ramakrishna, P. Chandrasekhar, S. Chandrasekhar, D. Ramachander, TP Haridas, et al thanks to Social Media Networking. As recent as on 8th Oct 2022, our School organised a get-together for all old students, which of course, I could not attend.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_xW1Mmnwbqwj3Jj0qTw-vjxnoGdE4Axqkc4alU-ky-kUXiAM3u84zvmpNDmPdfOjz4ftIfzxvIq0yaUTzIaMQcmzAlNlLUx-oa72hv_pWB1xGKD-Iq42kWihG1F2m8jgbAIR0LOJ4joaE0B7cr0rImKo0U6jH5kusLfuvHcANtuoKAAPykgYFipx/s315/CP38.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="315" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_xW1Mmnwbqwj3Jj0qTw-vjxnoGdE4Axqkc4alU-ky-kUXiAM3u84zvmpNDmPdfOjz4ftIfzxvIq0yaUTzIaMQcmzAlNlLUx-oa72hv_pWB1xGKD-Iq42kWihG1F2m8jgbAIR0LOJ4joaE0B7cr0rImKo0U6jH5kusLfuvHcANtuoKAAPykgYFipx/s1600/CP38.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Re-union of our 1967 batch in Secunderabad in October 2019</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">Continued ......... 3</div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Dr Chowdari Prasad http://www.blogger.com/profile/16105185062650471401noreply@blogger.com0