Six members of the India Advisory Panel discussed ideas for Singapore and India to jointly develop a Special Economic Zone in India when they called on Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong at Singapore on 8 February 2006. Members of the India Advisory Panel including the Chairman of the Panel N Kumar, Tata Consultancy Services Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director S Ramadorai and Chairman & Managing Director Mindtree Consulting Ashok Soota, were given a warm welcome by Goh. They also talked about ways to speed up implementation of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, the bilateral free trade agreement signed in June last year.
Senior Minister Goh mooted the idea of a Special Economic Zone – an industrial park area to draw more foreign investment to India – when he met political and business leaders during a visit to the country last month. He envisioned it being built on at least 1,000 ha of land and having a variety of manufacturers and an anchor tenant. At the meeting, panel members and Goh, who has long encouraged businesses at Singapore to look at India, discussed various ways of bringing the Special Economic Zone idea forward. The panel was set up by International Enterprise Singapore in February last year to provide insights on how Indian and Singaporean companies can deepen their economic ties. It consists of 10 corporate bigwigs from some of India’s biggest firms who will advise on strategies for Singapore firms targeting the Indian Market.
Members of the India Advisory Panel when they called on S M Goh. From l to r: Panel Chairman N Kumar, Tata Consultancy Services Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director S Ramadorai and Mindtree Consulting Chairman and M D Ashok Soota.
Poised for major growth in its businesses, The Sanmar Group, has naturally been focusing on enriching its intellectual capital
by identifying the best and most appropriate talent to occupy key positions in the group to take it forward. One such important appointment has been that of Murli Ramachandran who has joined Sanmar Speciality Chemicals Limited (SSCL) as Managing Director. He takes over from Vijay Sankar, who had been holding additional responsibility for SSCL since M S Sekhar’s retirement last year. All SSCL Business Heads and the heads of Finance and HR will report to him. With an educational background in Mechanical Engineering, Management Sciences and Industrial Engineering, Murli has work experience of over 22 years with leading organisations such as L&T, Colgate, Johnson & Johnson, Accenture and KPMG.
Before joining Sanmar, he was with the RPG Group for five years, initially coordinating their Corporate Strategy, and thereafter moving to RPG Life Sciences as Managing Director. His background in Management, Strategic Consultancy, and his exposure to the Life Science Industry, will be of great value to SSCL, which is on the threshold of expansive growth in different sub-specialities.
A general health camp was conducted in November last year at Ramesh Vidyashram Matriculation School, Kunjandiyur, a village near Mettur, by Dr R Kumar, Senior Manager, Medical Services and Dr R Kailasam, Manager, Medical Services both of Chemplast Sanmar and two other medical professionals, Dr K Kalyanakumari, MD, DGO and Dr K Vijayan, MD, DM (Neurology), from Coimbatore.
The employee volunteers from Chemplast Sanmar and the National Social Service students of the school joined hands for the smooth conduct of the full day health camp which focused on checking hypertension, diabetes, neurological disorders and gynaecological problems of the villagers.
There was an overwhelming response for the general health camp and over 500 benefited from it.
Employee volunteers of Chemplast Sanmar
seen with the medical professionals who
conducted the health camp.