India's Best CEO 2014

Here is the list of best CEO pick by Business Today-PricewaterhouseCoopers.

GV Bhaskar Rao, chairman and managing director, Kaveri Seed

• Anand G Mahindra, chairman and managing director, Mahindra & Mahindra
• N. Chandrasekaran, chief executive officer, TCS
• GV Prasad, co-chairman and CEO, Dr Reddy's Laboratories
• Arun Kumar, founder & group CEO, Strides Arcolab
• Kapil Mehan, managing director,Coromandel International
• GV Bhaskar Rao, chairman and managing director, Kaveri Seed Company
• Siddhartha Lal, MD & CEO, Eicher Motors
• Bhadresh K Shah, founder & MD/ AIA Engineering
• OP Puranmalka, managing director, Ultratech Cement
• HM Bangur, managing director, Shree Cement
• Salil Singhal, chairman & managing director, PI Industries
• Keki Mistry, vice chairman & CEO, HDFC
• Ramesh Iyer, MD, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services
• Vinita Bali, CEO & MD, Britannia Industries*
  *Stepped down on March 31, 2014
• Harsh C Mariwala, chairman, Marico
• Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao, founder & chairman, GMR Group
• Krishnakumar Natarajan, MD & CEO, Mindtree
• AK Balyan, MD & CEO, Petronet LNG
• Glenn Saldanha, chairman and managing director, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
• Himanshu Kapania, managing director, Idea Cellular

Visit here to the list with Picture and category.

What is Modi's Gujarat Model Exactly?

Now, you may have heard many times about Modi's Gujarat model of development. What it is about? Is it any useful to country or it is just a hype? How do you decide about it?

No one with right mind can say that Modi will implement all policies of his state. As a enable leader, he will decide about anything based on the situation. But MoneyControl has published an article about What is Gujarat model all about. Excerpt from there:

Going by the agri-GDP growth registered at state-level during the 2000s, Gujarat tops the list with 9.8 percent per annum growth, up from a meagre 2 percent during 1990s.

Compare this with the Kerala model, where agri-GDP growth has been zero for the 2000s (down from 1.3 percent during 1990s). Or with UP or Tamil Nadu or West Bengal models, all of which registered less than 3 percent growth in agriculture during 2000s.”
Gujarat environment is business-friendliness.

There is economic freedom. What is it? Read the article. Link is given below.
Gujarat has topped the Economic Freedom of States in India rankings for the third time in a row.
Gujarat has the lowest “Muslim rural poverty rate among all states. Its overall poverty rate for Muslims (11.4 percent) was far lower than for Hindus (17.6 percent).”
Herein lies the critical differentiator with Gujarat. Both Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu did better than Gujarat on the overall growth story, but Gujarat has excelled in agriculture. What it has done is applied trickle down economics to agriculture – and it has worked.
Aiyar’s conclusion: “Gujarat has good governance. It has social and communal flaws. But it is India's top state in economic and agricultural freedom. That's not hype.”
HDI (Human Development Indicator) is low when think about developed state. It is in middle of the rank in country. It is above Karnataka but lower than Kerala, TN, and Maharashtra.

Clearly, this is where the Gujarat model of trickle down is not good enough to lift the really poor – socially and economically – out of their misery quickly. Here, Modi’s critics do have a point. Gujarat ranks 11th among 23 states in HDI .

Gujarat’s tribal population is nearly 15 percent of the total (14.79 percent, to be exact), which is nearly twice as large as Maharashtra’s (8.87 percent) and more than twice as large as Karnataka’s (6.55 percent), or Andhra Pradesh’s (6.53 percent). Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the states with far better human development indicators than Gujarat, have barely 1 percent tribal population.

The return on investment in public enterprises has doubled under his tenure to seven percent, according to state audit reports. While Modi has hived off the state’s electricity utilities he has not privatised them for fear they will not care for non-creamy customers.”

Source: MoneyControl

Meet CEO Rashmi Sinha of SlideShare

Read about Rashmi Sinha of SlideShare. She founder Slideshare along with his husband and his elder brother. Slideshare is like YouTube for Presentation. Another tag attached to Rashmi Sinha is that she is one of the sexiest business women. :)

Rashmi Sinha is from Allahabad but settled in USA. She comes here in India nearly once in a year but her husband visit more here in India as her husband leads technology team.

One office of Slideshare is in San Francisco, USA and another is in Delhi. Technical work is done from Delhi office.

Rashmi prefer email than phone call. For very important reason she receives phone calls or if any near one contacts her. Slideshare CEO love drinking Tea. She loves hiking with her husband on weekend. She feels meditative doing this.

Read more about her:
Inc.com,
Slideshare's declaration of Founders,
Rashmi's Blog.

Most Charitable Companies, Sector wise Charitable Companies and more

I liked this Infographics and thought to share with you. It is cool data about most charitable companies around the world, sector wise charitable companies and more. It has individuals listed in it who are most charitable and popular causes where most charitable money is going.

Read more about it here.

DTH Services in India - Tata Sky Reviews

Very recently I have subscribed to Tata Sky DTH services. Set-top box got is for HD quality. It is working correctly. Picture quality is almost all the time good. and sound quality is also good.

After using DTH (Satellite TV) services for few days, I saw one common problem that is visible everywhere. and that problem is Advertisement problem. Marketing manager want to feed as much advertisement as they can! I am watching TV at home and I have paid for the service but still they are pushing advertisement aggressively. Whenever I switch on the TV, I see ad. It can be regarding TATA's own channel (Active channels) or other promos. Hungama Channels are advertising there days through Tata Sky. Instead it should display the channel I was watching before switching off the TV!

Few other things I want Tata Sky to consider are:

• Sound became louder than it was originally. It should be left as TV settings. Or this just become better in clarity and I should lower the volume! Need to check clearly.
• When I browse channels I can see one channels at a time. It should show 10-15 channels at a time so that I can choose it easily and sooner than going through each channels in long list of channels. 
• While browsing channels, they show TataSky logo in big. While watching the channels (any) they also show Tata Sky logo in big. Why they do these thing. I have already purchased this satellite channel and I am using this service at home, who else is going to see the Tata Sky logo and who will get affected by it! Instead it should show channels name in big font while browsing the channels list, so that I can see the channels name easily from long distance and even when I am not at 90 degree of the screen. 
• After switching on the TV, it should show me the last channels I was watching. and not its own advertisement. 
• Over all there are lots of improvement required in interface for easy navigability. It just say channels not in your plan than showing all channels in my list and telling that this channels is not in you plan. It may happen that this problem will  go away after my free time will end. but chance are less as those channels I cannot watch they are telling that you cannot watch because you are put into this and that package. If they remove all the channels which I cannot watch then I can fast browse channels. They should put all unsubscribed channels in different list so that when I miss something then I can look into that list and subscribe. 
• They must keep in mind the consumer right for their the service they provide.  

This list is not a comparison list among different satellite channels provider. There can be high possibility that other DTH service providers are giving worse service or good service. I have not checked other satellite service provider. Overall Tata Sky has good reputation in Bangalore as I felt after listening few.


Needless Tata Sky big logo and normal size font in big screen, difficult to see from long distance: (picture taken from short distance)

How to use Twitter in a better way?

I have found few very useful articles relating to twitter usage. Those tips are for everyone and not only for marketing person. Learning those is not very difficult but very useful in as the means of communication as you intend to on twitter. These help will spread your words on twitterverse.

Here is a way to search on Twitter or How twitter search works:

twitter search	containing both "twitter" and "search". This is the default operator.
"happy hour"	containing the exact phrase "happy hour".
love OR hate	containing either "love" or "hate" (or both).
beer -root	containing "beer" but not "root".
#haiku	containing the hashtag "haiku".
from:alexiskold	sent from person "alexiskold".
to:techcrunch	sent to person "techcrunch".
@mashable	referencing person "mashable".
"happy hour" near:"san francisco"	containing the exact phrase "happy hour" and sent near "san francisco".
near:NYC within:15mi	sent within 15 miles of "NYC".
superhero since:2009-10-22	containing "superhero" and sent since date "2009-10-22" (year-month-day).
ftw until:2009-10-22	containing "ftw" and sent up to date "2009-10-22".
movie -scary :)	containing "movie", but not "scary", and with a positive attitude.
flight :(	containing "flight" and with a negative attitude.
traffic ?	containing "traffic" and asking a question.
hilarious filter:links	containing "hilarious" and linking to URLs.
news source:twitterfeed	containing "news" and entered via TwitterFeed

The above Data is from Twitter. Check for new entry there!

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Here is the tips and tricks for using twitter in better way. It came after research on how those using twitter behave for a certain kind of tweet. So, you can use these tricks and tips to make you tweets on top of twitter world. As this is not a document provided by twitter but by a analysis of the tweets used in analysis, these depends on tweets used in analysis, methods used in analysis and who collected data.

• Using these words in tweet better your chance of getting retweet:
  ‘you,’ ‘twitter,’ ‘please,’ ‘retweets,’ ‘post,’ ‘blog,’ ‘social,’ ‘free,’ ‘media,’ ‘help,’ ‘please retweet,’ ‘great,’ ‘social media,’ ‘10,’ ‘follow,’ ‘how', 'to,’ ‘top,’ ‘blog post,’ ‘check out,’ and ‘new blog post.’
• Include a link in your tweet.
• Write entertainment tweets for women, opinion tweets for men
• Avoid the self-reference
• Use colons, not semicolons
• Ask for it, what? Ask for retweet, if you want. It works. But do not over use it.
• LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) analysis shows that Tweets about work, religion, money and media/celebrities are significantly more retweetable than tweets with negative emotions, sensations,swear words and self-reference.

Reference:
http://www.briansolis.com/2009/10/the-science-of-retweets-on-twitter/
http://www.source-blogger.com/2010/04/top-10-secret-of-getting-retweets.html
Follow the above links for more information on how to use Twitter.

Bihar Economic Development is Real!

Today's S.A. Aiyar article about Bihar economic development shed light about the current situation on economic status and possible economic development Bihar can see in future. He have mentioned some data that tells that Bihar economic development is true and is well a miracle economy. GDP growth of 8 percent or more is thought to be miracle economy.

Recent statement by few leaders (bad leaders) that Bihar economic development is not a true story but a hogwash is not true and no one has manipulated the growth story of Bihar.
Here you can see the data present in support of the Bihar development:

He not only given CSO data but also thought of the leaders nature and natural process of winning election. For example, he tell that no politician can claim to win election on the basis of economic growth. People's personal experience matter much.

Few more points from the same article:

In Lalu’s time, swaggering goons showed off their guns in public. Today no gunman is visible. The Nitish administration has convicted 38,000 people, including dozens of politicians, some from the ruling party itself — for violating the Arms Act.

The economic miracle has been led by construction, which has averaged a colossal growth rate of 47% per year for the last five years. Government development spending has zoomed from Rs 2,000 crore to Rs 16,000 crore per year.

Most impressive has been the rise in road construction, from 384 kilometres in 2004-05 to 2,417 kilometers in 2008-09. Security plus road and telecom expansion have incubated a boom in small business and domestic construction.

However, large-scale industries has not shown growth. Organized sector output actually fell in the Lalu era from Rs 1,150 crore in 1999-00 to Rs 790 crore in 2004-05 at constant prices, and has stagnated under Nitish. Big industry owner are waiting for election in Bihar. What will be the outcome of
next election will decide the growth of large-scale industries. Many large industries have proposed big investments.

Are you from Bihar? If yes, then you may like to be a member of this Facebook Group!
 Or,
Mr. Anand Kr. (Super 30)




A Glimpse of Changing Bihar

Professional are Blackmailing Goverment

Professionals are doctors and blackmailing government and doing disservice to the society. Doctors are going to strike very easily and too often.

They are not considering the social implication. Doctors do private practice and earn good amount of money.

When economy was in bad shape then govt taken side of Pilots/ Air hostess. That saved lots of jobs. That time news came as many has taken loan and they cannot pay if their jobs will go. Pilots earns between Rs. 100000 to Rs. 200000 per month.

Doctors and Pilots get a high salary and they can think of the society.

Husk Power System Bags Global Business Plan Competition

Husk Power System converts rice husks into energy and supplies electricity to villagers.

Global Business Plan awards sponsored by leading American venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Cisco.

India's Husk Power System would receive $250,000 (nearly Rs 1.20 crore) as investment from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Cisco to help take the technology to the next level.

At present, Hust Power System operates 35 Kw to 100 Kw mini power plants in five villages of Bihar.

For more info:

Bihar-based firm bags Global Business Plan Competition

DFJ and Cisco Announce Husk Power Systems as Winner of Global Business Plan Competition

Bihari entrepreneurs win global business award

Flourishing Bhojpuri Industry May Go Out Of Mumbai

As a side affect of Raj's tirade against North Indian, Bhojpuri film industry can out of Mumbai. Bhojpuri Film industry is over Rs 200-crore. It provides jobs to lots of workers from Maharashtra. With an average output of 75 movies per annum and an over 250 million target audience, the Bhojpuri film industry employs hundreds of unskilled and semi-skilled people from the state in various stages of production and distribution.

The industry, which has around 50 registered production houses in Mumbai, has initiated talks with some state governments like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar for its set up.

Manoj Tiwari said that despite employing a large number of Maharashtrians, the Bhojpuri film industry was still being targeted for "our connection with north India, even though Bhojpuri films have their audiences across the country."

Bhojpuri film is in demand noy only in India but also have a vast overseas market as the Bhojpuri diaspora is spread over countries like Mauritius, Nepal, Dubai, Ghana, West Indies, Fiji, Indonesia, Surinam and the Netherlands.

But why only Bjojpuri Film is going outside of Maharashtra, Hindi film industry should also go from there, as they are targeting Hindi speaking people.

Source: Indiatimes

Business in Nuclear Energy Deal (123 Agreement)

India’s nuclear energy sector has $50 billion potential over the next 1-15 years. Industry sectors have begun to lobby with the government just after the 123 Agreement^# pact to permit private sector entry in the industry. Indo-USA nuclear deal passed the USA Congress floor test on Oct 2, 2008.

Indian Corporate in power sector and heavy engineering started negotiating with foreign companies for nuclear power generation. This 123 nuclear deal will help lots of Indian companies to get business as main player and/or player for ancillary part production. Big multinational companies will get business in providing reactors and nuclear supply. This development will benefit infrastructure and power sector companies such as NTPC, Jindal, Larsen & Toubro, Tata Power and Reliance Power.

High technology sectors such as semi conductors, advanced manufacturing, precision engineering, defense equipment, advanced and specialty chemicals, electronics, sensors, environmental technology, space, automation and robotics, and Parma will be benefited by this nuclear deal. While some sectors will be helped by removal of restrictions on import of dual technology items and technology, others will get an opportunity to tap the potential created by nuclear trade.

IT can help in terms of software services, data management and control & automation. Also, the R&D skills from the Parma sector may play a crucial role. The R&D staff in Parma is well equipped to handle the sensitive technologies which India will get access to. They may also prove crucial in handling the chemical transformations and temperature control in the nuclear plants.”

However, actual contracts could take more than three to four years as varied issues, such as financial assistance and legal, regulatory and safety issues, are spelt out clearly and local capability is developed

State-owned Nuclear Power Corp of India (NPCIL), the monopoly nuclear power generator, has identified four reactor manufacturers — Westinghouse Electric Company (AP1000 series of reactors), GE-Hitachi (ABWR reactor series), Areva (1,000 mw European pressurized reactors, France) and Russia’s atomic energy agency Rosatom (VVER 1,000 reactors) — as among the frontrunners for new projects planned across the country. This is based on “suitability” of technical parameters for placement of orders that will form the first phase of the Center’s plan to build 40,000 mw of nuclear capacity by 2020.

Source: Indiatimes & Economic Times

Many Youth are Jobless Again in Singur

Many youths who got free training from TATA may become unemployed again. Training to lots of youth around the area got job training free of cost from TATA Company. Now their faces are gloomy and minds are aimless.

After coming of Nano plant at Singur, face of village has changed. Various kind of business started blooming. Property, shops’ sale had increased. For supporting numbers of worker of TATA factory new jobs for the villagers had created. But now all those would go. Though only silver lining for youth, who got training at the plant, is TATA has promised to give a job at other TATA plant across India.

TATA Moved out from Singur

TATA has announced the pullout. Now it is final that TATA will not build its Rs 100000 car in West Bengal.

After pulling out off the Singur, TATA has to decide its Nano car plant very soon. Oct was the deadline for the Nano. He has offers for land and other facilities from many states government. Maharashtra and Karnataka seen to be aggressive in wooing Ratan Tata^#.

Reason for your dropped calls: Point of Interconnection (PoI) is higher than benchmark

Point of Interconnection (PoI) parameter signifies the ease with which a customer of one network is able to communicate with a customer of another network. This parameter also reflects as to how effective is the interconnection between the two networks.

For April-June quarter, which said amongst the private service providers Bharti Airtel has the largest number of PoIs having congestion (56 PoIs as of June) followed by Reliance Communications (22 PoIs), Dishnet Wireless (21 PoIs as of March), Vodafone (19 PoIs of March) and Idea (19 PoIs).

The benchmark notified by TRAI in the Quality of Service (QoS) Regulation of July 2005 for this parameter should be less than 0.5 per cent. This means out of 200 calls between two operators only one call should face congestion problem.

The circles/ states more affected due to PoI congestion are Bihar, Maharastra, Gujarat, Haryana, North Eastern states and Himachal Pradesh.


Airtel, RCOM most congested networks: TRAI - The Financial Express

Where is Investment Happening in India?

Infrastructure sectors account for the bulk of investment going into the top ten sectors includes electricity generation, steel, construction, railway transport, road transport, shipping and telecommunications. This is a very good news for long term development in India.

Today the sector attracting the largest investment is electricity. There are 1,141 outstanding projects involving a total cost of Rs 11,65,928 crore. Of these 261 projects are under implementation, while the rest have been announced or proposed. The second biggest investment draw is the steel industry. It has 310 outstanding projects at a total cost of Rs 5,07,986. Construction comes third with 1,483 projects.
The biggest industries are the capital intensive ones of electricity generation, steel and chemicals. The rush of SEZ construction, along with the nationwide boom in supply of real estate, has given big values for construction, clustered around the largest cities. Large values are seen for the infrastructure of transportation and communication (railways, roads, shipping, telecom).

Delving into each of these industries reveals many interesting features.

In the case of electricity, the biggest projects are the nuclear generation plants made possible by the India-US nuclear deal. The table also shows the continued domination of the public sector in electricity generation, thus highlighting the failure of electricity reforms, which have not elicited adequate interest from the private sector. The table with large railway projects is particularly important because of the potential of railways as the most energy-efficient form of transportation.

The writer is senior fellow at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy

Organised food retailing can increase rural income, cut inflation

At an estimated Rs 12.8 trillion in 2006, India's retailing sector makes up close to forty per cent of the country's GDP. Of this, food and grocery (F&G) items account for a significant 74 per cent of total retail sales across both, the organised and unorganised sectors. Only 1% of the food items retailed in India flow through the organised retail channel.

Organised food retailing can increase rural incomes, reduce inflation and increase rural spending power, which would then boost the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate. A CRISIL Research report on the retail food industry says the total avoidable supply chain costs in the Food & Grocery (F&G) vertical, which accounts for 74 per cent of total retail sales in the Indian organised and unorganised sector, are about Rs 1,00,000 crore. About 57 per cent is due to avoidable wastage and 43 per cent due to avoidable storage and commissions costs.

The F&G vertical comprises fresh fruits and vegetables, milk and milk products, fast moving consumer goods and food grains (staples). Within this, staples and unprocessed fruits and vegetables account for 50 per cent of food retail, amounting to Rs 4,70,000 crore, the CRISIL Research paper says. The distribution costs increase due to the presence of several layers in the supply chain and, coupled with the movement of goods across different states or regions, lead to high wastage — caused by inadequate transportation and cold storage facilities.

CII reply to outsourcing debate in USA

Sunil Bharti Mittal with S. S. Mehta, Director-General was addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Saturday after a six-member CEO delegation returned from the U.S.

CII said to American leaders and the U.S. business community that the outsourcing debate should not become an India-centric as it could hurt cordial relations between the two nations.

Mr. Mittal, who is also President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), was recently in the U.S. as head of Indian CEO's delegation. Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal said the Indian delegation told every senior political leader, U.S. government officials and business heads it met how the small issue was being exaggerated.

Indian CEOs have also asked their American counterparts to realize that outsourcing was good for the growth of the U.S. economy, besides highlighting how the reverse outsourcing trend was benefiting major U.S.-based companies. They told that how skilled manpower and knowledgebase is helping USA.

Source: CII highlights benefits of outsourcing

Gulf firms eyeing booming Indian retail sector

With a retail boom sweeping India, private entities from the Gulf region are making a bee-line to invest in the sector but are wary of some challenges in the huge and diverse market, according to experts here.
"Over the next two years, India is planning to develop a staggering 518 shopping malls across the country. Typically every 100 miles, the food and language changes, which means that your communications has to be key," Srinath Sridharan, head of lifestyle business and strategic alliances at Wadhawan Holding Private Limited in India was quoted as saying by Gulf News.
The size of the country is another factor that could deter retailers from investing in India, said Shubhranshu Pani, president, retail services at Trammell Crow Meghraj Property Consultants.

"By 2015 almost 72 per cent of the population would be under 35-years-old, which I think will contribute to the highest number of consumers in the world."

Happy Consumer in India

The Nielsen Company's Global Consumer Confidence Index given Indian Consumer highest point. India came first with 135, followed by Norway on 132 and Denmark on 127, although all three scores were down 1-2 points from six months ago.

Scandinavians were also bullish, while Japanese, South Koreans and Hungarians were among the most pessimistic consumers, according to the survey, which gauges consumers' outlook for the next 12 months.

Neighbours South Korea in contrast came bottom of the ranking, scoring just 50 and down six points from the previous survey. Confidence in Japan also dropped, by 3 points to 68, despite signs of an improving economy.

Consumer sentiment in the United States, the world's biggest economy, dipped 2 points from a previous survey taken in November to 106. However, that was still better than most countries and on a par with China, whose score was unchanged.

Source: India tops global consumer index

Trade in stock market without risk of money loss

Yes, learn trading online without any risk. You will all jobs online now like you will do when you start online trading in stock market. You will be given money for trading in stock market. You and other users will trade in stock exchange. You can buy as much stock as your money and stock availability allow at the time of trading.

One such site is very lovely for those who eat cricket and live cricket. There you will get virtual money your purchasing stock. Here you invest on cricketers. The centers fame will push your stock up in market if you have invested in that cricketer. If you think the cricketer is not playing well and their market will go down then hurry sell their stock otherwise you will you loose your money.
Learn trading online for cricket lover

If cannot hear cricket player’s name that much then for you another good option is trading in words on news. Words are selected from any kind of news: news, politician, celebrities, companies, sport events and others.

For example “Uttar Pradesh” was in news for quite some time in India. Now election in over there, so, this word may go down. But still due to new government that will be in news. These all-online methods will give you all kinds of input for making strategy for investing in real market. Remember: I trendio words are selected from all over the world news.
Learn trading online- Know popular words all over world