29 April, 2015 C.No. 13 / Resume No.4 / 2015-16 To: All Members of the Committee All Members Dear Sir, Re: Brief Proceedings of the MCCI Event –‘Jewels of the East’ – held on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at The Lalit Great Eastern, Kolkata Please find attached the Brief Proceedings of the MCCI Event – ‘Jewels of the East’, where the Chamber felicitated Shri R. S. Agarwal, Chairman, Emami Group; Shri Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman, Ambuja Neotia Group and Shri A. K. Chandra, Managing Director, P.C.Chandra Group. The event was held on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at The Lalit Great Eastern, Kolkata. Thanking you, Encl: Attached below Yours faithfully, Muroti Chatterjee (Assistant Director General) Brief Proceedings of the MCCI event ‘Jewels of the East’ held on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at The Lalit Great Eastern Kolkata MCCI organized an event to Felicitate ‘Jewels of the East’ held on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at The Lalit Great Eastern Kolkata . Shri R.S.Agarwal, Chairman,Emami Group; Shri Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman, Ambuja Neotia Group and Shri Arun Kumar Chandra, Managing Director, P.C.Chandra Group were presented Mementos to acknowledge their contribution to Indian Industry and Business Growth. Shri Arun Kumar Saraf, President, MCCI while delivering the welcome address advised ‘conducting a reality check along with the passion as the driver of any business’, ‘balancing the ups and downs of business’,’retaining the reputation’ and ‘detaching oneself from the outcome of the business’ as few of his experiences worth sharing with the new aspirants. He highlighted ‘hunger for success’, ‘inspiration’, ‘diligence’ and ‘persistence’ as the hallmarks of success of all entrepreneurs. Shri A.K.Chandra advocated ‘Obsession for Excellence’, ‘Quality and ‘Diversification’ as mantras for Success in Business. He appreciated MCCI’s historic effort acknowledging the ‘Achievers for Future’. He considered Industry as one of the pillars of Growth creating employment and contributing to National Exchequer. Narrating their 75 year old journey, he stated how Late Shri P.C.Chandra made a humble beginning in 1939 along with his eldest son Late Shri Jawaharlal Chandra where the initial journey was very tough, but they made a very strong foundation with the obsession with ‘quality’ which was very lucrative in the ‘long run’. He recalled the disaster brought to his company by the ban on manufacture of gold jewellery above 14 carat fineness in 1963 Moraji Desai by Late Shri the then Finance Minister of India who had come out with a Gold Control Act in 1962 , which was finally enacted in 1968. Mr Chandra said that ‘bad times come and they make us stronger to fight back and also they inspire’. We should have faith that ‘there is always light at the end of a dark tunnel’. Business never follows a Silk Route. There were turmoils for Business Houses in Bengal and currently the State Scenario is conducive for Business, and Budding Entrepreneurs should take advantage of the situation. He suggested MCCI to create a Fund to aid the families of the victims of Earthquake in Nepal and invite Industry to contribute as a gesture of serving the society. Shri Harshavardhan Neotia, shared few learnings from his lifetime experience – narrating the 1997 Ambuja cement takeover of Modi Cement in Eastern India , a sick company, which had 400 court cases against the company, demoralized workforce, with a paid up capital of Rs 40 Crore and book losses of about Rs 300 Crores, he said his learning experience in Construction Industry to deal with people enabled him to turnaround the company by 2006 into a profit making company with initial no knowledge of the cement Industry’. He continued to suggest that -‘using one’s Intuition to respond to difficult situations determines how far we will go in our life, ’Achieving excellence without being money minded’, and ’Desire to create product for tomorrow’. He explained that wealth is by product of success and most of the successful businessmen aim at value creation and not wealth creation. He has had 4-5 bad patches in life which have been most educative and where he got the opportunity to build meaning and lifelong relationships. He has perceived that work is a subset of life.We need to develop sound body in spirit through Dhyan or Adhyan. Nishkam Karma is essential to develop peace and happiness. The way success is achieved is very important. Shri R.S.Agarwal, proclaimed that ‘Greed must not be your need’ and left everything to Almighty for the success and failure. He advised -‘Non Betrayal’ ;’Dedication’, ‘Conviction and Innovation’, ‘Persistence’; ‘Selling the Products and Not the Business’; ‘Creating and Not Following’; ’Employing the Top Talent of the territory’ ; ‘Being Non Bureaucratic’; ’Lesser Meeting’ as tips for success in Business. Narrating his experience of founding Emami and then taking over of Himani and converting a Rs 25,000 company into a Conglomerate with a Rs 25,000 Crore turnover, he said that only 5% of all Business in the World succeed and 90% fail. Mr Pulkit Baid, Chairman, Internal and Retail Trade Standing Committee, MCCI moderated the session and proposed the Vote of Thanks The event was well attended by over 100 Participants comprising: MCCI Past Presidents, MCCI members, Corporates and Media Muroti Chatterjee
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