A memorable trip

Today I visited Seewri Depot and realised that how so called Indian Business Superpowers are surviving on pathetic infrastructure all thanks to cost savings.
It is often said that real life is funnier than any myth or fiction. Here are some excerpts of my trip to prove the same.

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Me (to a vendor): ये Marico का depot कहाँ पड़ेगा?
Vendor: Marico (puzzled) ये क्या बनाती है?
Me: Parachute, Saffola etc.
Vendor: ओह खोपडिया का तेल। ये तो हमारी खोली के पास है। है ना चाचा? (to a old man lying nearby)
Me: और आपकी खोली कहाँ है?
Vendor: HUL के Depot के पास।
Me (frustrated): और दोनों कहाँ है?

Finally I somehow got to know that Marico is popularly known as खोपरा तेल की Company in that locality.
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Me (to an old fellow) : ये खोपरे के तेल की company कहाँ पड़ेगी?
Old: वो तो कब की बंद हो गई है। आज से कई साल पहले।
Me: पर मुझे तो आज ही किसी ने उसका Address यहीं बताया है।
Old: देख लो है तो इसी रोड पर। पर वहां कोई आता जाता तो नहीं है आजकल। किसी भूत का चक्कर तो नहीं?

Evidently it turned out that Marico had a Parachute factory which was later on converted to depot.

Mumbai...Meri Jaan

I have been residing in this cosmopolitan city for past one year but started experiencing it for the past one week only, thanks to my internship. The more you explore it the more you fall in love with it. Everyday you leave your home with high spirit and energy levels which are consumed exponentially in the traffic crawling at snail pace and trains packed with people like knapsacks.
Yet you are expected to hunt for your space in this crowded world. You have to be always with high spirits and on your toes expecting the unexpected to happen.
Still there is a strange force which binds the lives of millions of Mubaikars together in a knit and results in a splendidly woven cloth of life, of hope, of despair, of fear, of joy and above all of integrity.
Here is a city which was ransacked by militants for three days but still dares to assemble in huge numbers at the same spot with assemblage being started by an anonymous SMS. This city gathers daily and sings together with their chants soaring high in the sky in the same locals which have been ripped apart by bombs.
They sing in unison reflecting the true Mumbai's aspiration: "Jai Ho!!".

PGDIE The Road Ahead

PGDIE: The Road Ahead

Hi all friends.

Here I present a plan to revamp the future team structures of PGDIE (starting from batch 39), kindly read it carefully and give your comments/ suggestions for further improvement on the same.

Current Team Structure

* All teams and functions not shown due to space constraints.

Proposed Team Structure

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Team	Sub teams	Prime Responsibilities
Media Team (8)		To create visibility and brand awareness about NITIE in general and PGDIE in particular through various mediums available
Corporate relationship Team	Alum Team (8)	To increase the involvement of alums in various activities and hence foster a long lasting relationship with them. Students will be assigned responsibilities of alum batch wise eg: IE1-10 will be the responsibility of Mr. X.
	Placement Team (10)	To develop symbiotic relationship with corporate and channelize the relationship developed with them so as to achieve “the placement” for all
Student Management Team (8) (Equivalent to Kaizen)		To improve awareness of PGDIE batch so as to make sure that best talent is identified and selected. To imbibe business sense through continous knowledge improvement of batch
Infrastructure Team (8) (equivalent to Event Management Team)		To provide hospitality and infrastructural support to all activities of IE.
Sysco (8)		To provide IT infrastructural support to all activities
Sponsorship Team (10)		To gather financial support for all student activities
Academic Interaction Team (5)		To facilitate interaction between administration and students To bridge the gap between consulting, MDP and UBP programs offered by NITIE and its eminent faculty to ensure maximum benefit from these activities

* Figure in braces indicate the number of students in each team

If I have missed out any other critical function kindly suggest its addition

Other Salient Points:

• Teams requiring core competency like Sysco will have stringent criterion like tests for admitting students
• Performance of each individual will be mapped. The coordinators of each event will be decided by batch consensus and his performance.
• Teams will be flat with no coordinators.
• Each event can evoke any individual from the concerned team for his requirements.
• Last but not the least “the event teams will be abolished”.

Further Details will be provided in subsequent posts depending upon the response to this post.