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Speaking on the latest trends in the corporate world, CEO of SREI SAHAJ e-Village Ltd. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Panigrahi says that transparency and data are the powerful tools in e-Governance; data is going to decide how you are going to do business. He also said that no business plans are perfect and they need to be changed regularly. He was speaking at the 'Youth to Business Forum 2010' organized by Manipal University in association with CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad and SOIL, India on 18th September 2010 at the TMA Pai Convention Centre. "Entrepreneur is born, not made; you need to find the passion and fire within you , it is better to find it early because, if you fail you can always go back" says Mr. Ashwin Ramesh, CEO OrganicApex, the youngest CEO in India. "Don't do something which you don't understand; to become a successful entrepreneur you should always have the passion and love for whatever you are doing" says Mr. Ramesh. He also said "

April 21, 2010 In a large public gathering Mr Pranab Mukherjee, Finance Minister, Government of India, today announced the disbursement of loan amounting to Rs 1. 25 lakh each to five Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) of Srei Sahaj e-Village Ltd. Srei Sahaj e-Village Ltd is a private sector organization which has taken up the task of providing wide array of government services through the Common Service Centre (CSC) framework across rural India. The loan was disbursed by S. Sridhar, CMD - Central Bank of India at the inauguration of a Central Bank branch by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at Margram in West Bengals Murshidabad district. In the presence of the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Srei Sahaj CEO Dr. Sabahat Azim, COO Lt. Col. Sinha and CMO Major Ashutosh, Mr. S. Sridhar announced, Central Bank of India and Srei Sahaj have partnered to provide loans to 3,300 VLEs in the state of West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh within 3 months. This would be an active step in the im

Srei Sahaj e-Village Limited, a subsidiary of Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited, has joined hands with the State Bank of India (SBI), today to ensure financial inclusion of rural areas by offering SBI Banking services through Sahaj Rural Development Foundation (SRDF) through its Common Service Centres (CSCs) that Sahaj is setting up in the states of West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and Tamil Nadu. Through this initiative, Sahaj will bring the biggest bank of the country to the doorstep of rural people. Srei Sahaj is committed to the task of eliminating the rural-urban divide and to make it happen, it has joined hands with State Bank of India to assist in financial inclusion by helping the rural population to enter the formal financial system by extending to them SBI banking services. Sahaj will offer its technology platform and its network of CSCs to the State Bank of India for Banking Correspondent SRDF. Sahaj will also provide other services like Insurance, Mutua

Dhirubhaism No 1: Roll up your sleeves and help. You and your team share the same DNA. Reliance, during Vimal's heady days had organized a fashion show at the Convention Hall, at Ashoka Hotel in New Delhi. As usual, every seat in the hall was taken, and there were an equal number of impatient guests outside, waiting to be seated. I was of course completely besieged, trying to handle the ensuing confusion, chaos and protests, when to my amazement and relief, I saw Dhirubhai at the door trying to pacify the guests. Dhirubhai at that time was already a name to reckon with and a VIP himself, but that did not stop him from rolling up his sleeves and diving in to rescue a situation that had gone out of control. Most bosses in his place would have driven up in their swank cars at the last moment and given the manager a piece of their minds. Not Dhirubhai. When things went wrong, he was the first person to sense that the circumstances would have been beyond his team's contro

eअहमदाबाद से करीब 30 किलोमीटर पूर्व आणंद के सोजित्रा में किसानों की आम हलचल देखकर आपको आश्चर्य में पड़ने की जरूरत नहीं है। वे सेडान की सवारी करते हैं , दोमंजिला बंगले में रहते हैं , अपनी बाइक से घूमते - फिरते हैं और अपने परिवार को लेकर अहमदाबाद या वडोदरा के बिग बाजार में शॉपिंग करने जाते हैं। इतना ही नहीं शॉपिंग के बाद वे प्लास्टिक मनी से काउंटर पर भुगतान करते हैं। अगर आप उनसे सवाल करेंगे कि कैसे हैं , तो उनसे जवाब मिलेगा , मजे में। दोपहर में गांव वालों की हलचलें देखते ही बनती हैं। सभी किसान भावेश पटेल के घर जुटे हुए हैं क्योंकि पटेल ने अपने नोकिया ई 75 से फोन कर यह जानने की कोशिश की कि क्या आज पानी आएगा ? एक ग्रामीण ने पूछा - क्या पानी आ रहा है ? हमें बताया गया कि किसान दस किलोमीटर दूर एक जलाशय से खेतों में पानी छोड़ जाने का इंतजार कर रहे हैं। पटेल ने कॉल पूरी करने के बाद मोबाइल फोन से ही खेत में लगा पंपसेट स्टार्ट कर दिया।   वे इसे दरअसल नैनो गणेश ( छोटा गणेश ) मानते हैं। इस मोबाइल फोन के आविष्कारक ने पहले इसका नाम गणेश रखा था , बाद में टाटा द्वारा नई लखटकिया कार लॉन्च करने के ल

In this the concluding part of the interview, N R Narayana Murthy, co-founder and chief mentor of Infosys Technologies talks about the best business decision he ever made, the reason why the core Infosys team has been together for all these years, the Satyam fiasco, what money means to him and what aspiring entrepreneurs need to succeed. What would you say has been your best business decision? My best business decision is clearly sitting down with my younger colleagues and together coming to the conclusion that our objective must be to seek respect from every one of our stakeholders -- respect from customers, respect from employees, respect from vendor partners, respect from investors, respect from government of the land, and respect from society. . . I can tell you that that is the best decision that I have taken. We had a four-hour-long discussion in 1981. Somebody said we must be the company with the most revenue, somebody else said we must be the most profitable. Finally,

चीन में इंटरनेट पोर्नोग्राफी रोकने के नए नियम आ गए हैं। इन नियमों के तहत पोर्न मटेरियल इंटरनेट पर डालने पर अदालतें उम्र कैद तक की सजा दे सकती हैं। इस बीच चीन का ये फैसला भी विवादों के घेरे में आ गया है कि 1 जुलाई के बाद चीन में सिर्फ वहीं कंप्यूटर बिकेंगे जिनमें पहले से पोर्नोग्राफी रोकने वाला सॉफ्टवेयर लोड होगा। ये नियम विदेश से आने वाले कंप्यूटर्स पर भी लागू होगा। अमेरिका के कई कंप्यूटर निर्माताओं ने बुधवार को चीन से इस फैसले पर फिर विचार करने को कहा है। लेकिन चीन के विदेश विभाग के प्रवक्ता के कहना है कि अगर आपके बच्चे हैं या होने वाले हैं तो आप समझ सकते हैं कि गलत कंटेट को लेकर चिंता कितनी वाजिब है। (फोटो-AFP) आगे जानिए कैसे लगेगा इंटरनेट पर पहरा?... अरे...आप अपना ज़रूरी काम निपटा पाएंगे। बस पोर्न वर्ड्स और इमेजेस की सर्च करना मुश्किल हो जाएगा। चीन की सरकार चाहती है कि पर्सनल कंप्यूटर बनाने वाली कंपनियां पीसी के साथ ऐसे सॉफ्टवेयर बंडल करें जो इंटरनेट कन्टेंट को फिल्टर कर सके। नहीं समझे?...अब इसे साइबर सिक्योरिटी कहिए या इंटरनेट की आज़ादी पर पाबंदी की तैयारी... से इस तरह के फिल्