HR DIRECTORS' CONCLAVE

                               

The Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS)  Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized its 1^st Annual HR Directors’ Conclave’15 on March 13, 2015 in the Main Auditorium, Scope Complex. The theme was ‘Building an enabling Eco-system for success of ‘Make In India’ & ;Skilled India’. It was a day-long programme from 0945 to 1800 hrs. The gathering contained mainly industry people dealing with the human resource matters. Important among them were S/Shri Padmashree Dr. Pritam Singh (former Director, MDI, Gurgaon), Ms Saloni Malhotra (Associate Vice president, Paytm), Ms Jayanika Dave (Non Executive Director,Ingersoil Rand India), Navin Coomar (Hon. Advisor, BRICS CCI), Saurabh Nigam (Vice President, (Human Resources – Scrapdeal), Rakesh Seth (Senior Vice President, HR Group, Lloyd Group), Rajiv Bhadauria (Director, Group HR,Jindal Steel and Power) and Col. Prashant Dhingra (Vice President, HR, Citi Cable Network Ltd Zee Network)

They lamented that skill development is not possible without proper training institutions and out of 100 top universities in the world none is an Indian. Some suggested that the industries should have a close contact with universities so that they could spell out their requirements and tell the institutional authorities to include the same in the syllabus. India has skilled labour only in numbers and not qualities. It was pointed out that under the ‘make in India, programme, the country needed 50 crore of skilled workers. For that the hinterland should extend to villages and that is possible only when out of 6 lakh villages there should be one training centre for every two villages. Though it was a gigantic task, the speakers hoped that with commitment, the country can achieve.

Some of the HR experts threw light on other aspects as well. According to them, the employers should understand that only pay package was not enough to instill a sense of belonging in the workforce as they need other facilities as well to lead a reasonably good life style. One of them said that an industry HR leader should remember that he can buy an eight-hour duty schedule and not an 8-hour motivation.  For this objective, involvement of employees in policy making is an essential success mantra. The host had arranged a sumptuous lunch and tea.