Mr Ranjan Mimani gave the opening remarks and mentioned various achievements over the year like laying of the foundation stone of TCS.

Mr Chetan Tamboli, Deputy Chairman CII Western region addresses the athering and shared his views on the them topic “Leading change-Getting ready for the future”. Mr R Mukundan chairman CII Western Region also addressed on the theme. He said that everyone should strive for perfection and not excellence as excellence can be achieved when we aim at perfection. Give the example of Mahabharata and said that leader should have qualities of all 5 Pandavas  i.e. morality, strength, focus, skill and eloquence.

Dr Ajit Ranade, Chief economist, Adtya Birla Group was one of the chief guests. He spoke about 4 areas where leadership is necessary to get ready for the future. The areas are energy, capital, skills and water. Shri P K Dash, Additional Chief Secretary, Commerce, Industry and Employment, Govt of Madhya Pradesh was the guest of honour. He shared his views on several achievements that Madhya Pradesh can claim like better water availability, power surplus, warehousing strengths etc. He implored everyone to think beyond their own industry and to work towards inclusive growth.

His addressed was followed by a panel discussion including panellist like Mr Govindraj Ethiraj, Founder India Spend; Professor Rishikesh T Krishnan, Director IIM Indore and Mr K P Fabian, former Indian Ambassador to Italy. Dr Ajit Ranade and Mr R Mukundan were also part of the panel discussion.  The panel discussed various challenges faced by the new age leadership and explored solutions.

The public session was followed by business session where Mr Ranjan Mimani presented a review of activities done by CII throughout the year. Mr Mukundan and Mr Tamboli appreciated CII’s work in the state. Mr Mukundan announced the names of new office bearers for the year 2014-15. Mr C E Fernandes, CMD, GEI Industries is the new Chairman and Mr Girish Mangla, MD, Magla Enterprises is the Vice Chairman of Madhya Pradesh State Council for the coming year.

Brief Profile:

Mr. C E Fernandes with an idea to develop on his own - Indian substitutes for imported parts and to provide Innovative Engineering Systems and Solutions, established a partnership firm in the year 1970 by the name and style of ‘General Engineering Industries’.  This Firm developed products based on heat transfer technology, to provide Indian substitutes for imported parts like finned tubes etc. Thereafter in 1975, it established an engineering set up for developing cooling systems for motors, generators, transformers and turbines one after another and became a leading supplier of equipment to Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.

 

In the decade of nineties, GEI entered the field of Air Cooled Heat Exchangers, which are used in Natural Gas Processing and Crude Oil Refineries. In its continuing path of progress, GEI developed Air Cooled Vacuum Steam Condensors in 2002, which help Thermal Power Stations to reduce their Water Consumption. Also in 2002, GEI developed LNG Vaporisation System --- A First in the world.

 

Mr. Girish Mangla is a first generation entrepreneur having done his Bachelors in Industrial Engineering from SGSITS, Indore. Possessing 25 years of experience in running the small scale industry for manufacturing of pumps at Dewas, he also holds the post of Chairman, CII Malwa Zonal Council and also Chairman, Institute Management Committee of ITI Dewas.  His company has received the ‘Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award’ by the hands of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh in 2004.