Puducherry comes out with vision plan
With an
agenda to transform Puducherry into a model state, CII and Sriram Charitable
Trust released a 'Vision 2025' document.
With an
agenda to transform Puducherry into a model state, CII and Sriram Charitable
Trust released a 'Vision 2025' document.
By ET Bureau |
CHENNAI: With an agenda to transform Puducherry into a model state, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Sriram Charitable Trust released a 'Vision 2025' document on Saturday. It is aimed at capturing the peoples��� voice by adopting a "bottom-up democracy" approach.
As many as 60 face-to-face interviews and 14 focus group discussions were conducted before finalising the vision document. The face-to-face interviews included ministers, MLAs, ruling party and opposition party leaders, secretaries and directors of key departments, industrialists, leading educationists, various religious groups and NGOs.
About 300 people from a cross-section of the society ��� the spectrum of political leadership, industry, educationists, students, farmers, office-goers, environmentalists, agriculturists, energy conservationists, NGOs, trade union leaders, workers, infrastructure planners and administrators, who have an interest in developing Puducherry participated in the focus group discussions.
Addressing the Vision Summit, CII Puducherry chairman and founder-CEO of Integra Software Services Sriram Subramanya, said "the uniqueness about this vision document is that it will reflect the people���s views and aspirations in Union Territory of Puducherry. It is a result of broad-based consultations with all stakeholders across all the regions of the Union Territory - Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam."
Mr Subramanya highlighted key initiatives from the Vision document, to develop Puducherry in various ways which included making it a knowledge services hub by constructing large and mini SEZs and parks, introducing a governance review mechanism, having greater authority in taking administrative decisions and formulating a capacity building plan for the existing education institutions in Puducherry besides hosting institutions of global repute.
This new document contains several emerging themes with certain action plans for Puducherry, for which the entire study has been carried out by ICRA Management Consultancy Services, he said.
Corporate personalities from different industry sectors, who shared their views on the Vision 2025 included Marg CMD G R K Reddy, McCann Erickson India VP Sunil Thoppil, Neemrana Group of Hotels MD Francis Wacziarj, ICRA Managing Consulting MD Raghavendra Raghuttama Rao and ASAP Management Consultants CEO P G Subramaniam.
As many as 60 face-to-face interviews and 14 focus group discussions were conducted before finalising the vision document. The face-to-face interviews included ministers, MLAs, ruling party and opposition party leaders, secretaries and directors of key departments, industrialists, leading educationists, various religious groups and NGOs.
About 300 people from a cross-section of the society ��� the spectrum of political leadership, industry, educationists, students, farmers, office-goers, environmentalists, agriculturists, energy conservationists, NGOs, trade union leaders, workers, infrastructure planners and administrators, who have an interest in developing Puducherry participated in the focus group discussions.
Addressing the Vision Summit, CII Puducherry chairman and founder-CEO of Integra Software Services Sriram Subramanya, said "the uniqueness about this vision document is that it will reflect the people���s views and aspirations in Union Territory of Puducherry. It is a result of broad-based consultations with all stakeholders across all the regions of the Union Territory - Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam."
Mr Subramanya highlighted key initiatives from the Vision document, to develop Puducherry in various ways which included making it a knowledge services hub by constructing large and mini SEZs and parks, introducing a governance review mechanism, having greater authority in taking administrative decisions and formulating a capacity building plan for the existing education institutions in Puducherry besides hosting institutions of global repute.
This new document contains several emerging themes with certain action plans for Puducherry, for which the entire study has been carried out by ICRA Management Consultancy Services, he said.
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Corporate personalities from different industry sectors, who shared their views on the Vision 2025 included Marg CMD G R K Reddy, McCann Erickson India VP Sunil Thoppil, Neemrana Group of Hotels MD Francis Wacziarj, ICRA Managing Consulting MD Raghavendra Raghuttama Rao and ASAP Management Consultants CEO P G Subramaniam.
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