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Highlighting the benefits of project management

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CVC initially did not know the number of projects taken up for CWG: Vigilance Commissioner
‘Information Technology is the best tool
for effective management'

Bangalore: What was the number of projects executed for the Common Wealth Games? Even the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) initially found it difficult to answer that as none of the government agencies involved in the projects was able to provide this information.

This was disclosed by Vigilance Commissioner R. Sri Kumar on Saturday, while participating in the inauguration of Bangalore Chapter of Project Management Associates (PMA), a non-profit professional body of projects and business managers.

Mr. Sri Kumar, however, said that now the CVC has been able to identify about 890 projects that were executed at a cost of about Rs.33,390 crore. He said the CVC would make public the information when it finalises the statistics.

Pointing out that information technology can be the best tool for project management, he said the CVC has used IT for its ‘Project VigEye', a citizen-centric initiative through which people can easily send information to the CVC using their mobile phone and internet, besides sending photos and videos.

Project VigEye

Mr. Sri Kumar said Project VigEye, which was launched in December 2010, integrates technology with the common people so that management of complaint system becomes easier.

Inaugurating the Bangalore Chapter of PMA, R.C. Panda, Member, Central Administrative Tribunal, said universities should evolve curriculum in which the students could get project management certification, along with the degree, so that the chances of their employability increases.

Mr. Panda pointed out that certified project management has become the order of the day in many countries, including China, which had engaged about 1,000 certified project managers for various projects related to the Olympics.

China's example

Adesh Jain, PMA national president, said China, which had no project managers once, has more of them than India, and many of its universities are offering certified project management courses at undergraduate and postgraduate-levels.

While V.R.S. Natarajan, CMD of BEML, was elected honorary president of PMA Bangalore Chapter, Lakshman K. Badiga, Chief Information Officer, Wipro, has been chosen as vice-president and Vedamoorthy Namasivayam, Senior Director, Deloitte, is the treasurer.

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