Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will be there as guest of honour on the first day as his counterparts from Rajasthan, Assam, Bihar and Orissa mingle with top corporate executives and professional managers from India and five Asian countries at the 34 th National Management Convention here.
And Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is equally welcome to join the deliberations, said Sanjiv Goenka, the convention chairman and vice-chairman of RPG Enterprises, warding off a question on the possibility of bandhs.
The gathering of nearly a 1000 CEOs, senior managers, academicians and students, is being held in Kolkata from September 6 to 8 to deliberate the theme “Managing New India” under the banner of the All India Management Association (AIMA) and the Asian Association of Management Associations (AAMO).
Why Kolkata, despite its bandhs? Goenka said the city is leading from the forefront as far as the industrial initiatives are concerned, so an all India management convention is the right thing to do now. The convention will be hosted by the Calcutta Management Association.
“The very fact that you put Kolkata in the limelight, that you get the world to focus on Kolkata, you get India to focus on Kolkata, is important,” Goenka said.
The inaugural session will be addressed by Pranab Mukherjee, the Union minister for external affairs, while the first session on Day 2 will be the chief ministers’ conclave, to be chaired by JJ Irani, director of Tata Sons. On the final day, a session on “Managing New India : Striving for Inclusive Growth” where the speakers will be SK Roongta, chairman and managing director of Steel Authority of India Ltd, and Nachiket Mor, deputy managing director of ICICI Bnk.