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BMA jubilee to coincide with convention

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, JULY 20. The Bangalore Management Association (BDA) is celebrating its golden jubilee at its 2003-04 convention on the topic, "Vision 2020: Evolving Management Agenda."

The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Arjun Singh; the Minister of State for Planning, M.V. Rajashekharan, and corporate leaders are expected to attend the convention scheduled to be held at the Ghatge Convention Centre, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL), on July 30 and 31.

The convention will focus on evolving a management agenda in the light of the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's "Vision for Development" by 2020. The convention will deal with several themes from technology to public governance.

The association was established in 1953, earlier than its apex body, the All-India Management Association.

A.K. Saxena, president of the association, noted that management science had not been well explored and his association had played a pioneering role in bringing it to India. The economy was dominated by the public sector then. So, the association was the brainchild of the public sector managers and was started on the premises of HAL, he said.

On its 50th anniversary, the chairmanship of the association has gone back to the Managing Director of HAL, Mr. Saxena.

In the past 50 years, the association has sought to promote excellence in management. It promotes management education among youth and practising managers by conducting workshops, training programmes, seminars, and symposiums by leading names in the field. It also publishes its own monthly journal, Manage.

The association is of the opinion that Indian businesses have the potential to be efficient in the domestic sector and competitive on the international commercial scene. To this end, the Indian managerial tradition needs to be rewritten.

"The Americans are the original gurus of management science," Mr. Saxena said and added: "We have spent the past 50 years in a closed, constrained environment. But now, it is time for innovation."

Mr. Saxena said the best example was the automotive components industry, in which India dominated the global scene.

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