Corporate Talk For CHRIST Fraternity

There was a corporate talk by Mr Ramchandra Rao for CHRIST fraternity on 10th August 2019 in the Management Block, Lavasa. Mr Rao is a Mechanical Engineer (VRCE Nagpur, 1977) with an experience of 42 years in manufacturing engineering industry (Diesel Engine, generators & Auto Components). Since 2013 he had been working with Indo Schottle Auto Parts Pvt Limited, Pune as Managing Director. Mr Rao has been a member of the board at Eaton India, Hindustan Composites and now at Indo Schottle. He had the distinction BN to have worked as Sr VP and SBU Head at Kirloskars, and as Executive Director at Eaton Corp, India. He has set up an EOU plant for a global business of Ford, USA at Ahmednagar, India. At present he is a part of executive committee and Chairman, Raw Material Committee of ACMA. Mr Rao has been Member of Board of Studies at University of Pune during 2003-04. He was also part of advisory board of MIT, School of Business, Pune.

Dr Ambju Gupta gave a brief introduction about Mr Rao. Mr Ramchandra Rao was highly impressed by the flexibility of arrangements and addressed the teachers who attended his session. He expressed his utmost respect to CHRIST fraternity and considered it a pleasure to be among them.

Mr Rao was also appreciative of the eco system, infrastructure and facilities offered to students in this beautiful campus. He articulated that such factors contribute to the success of a college.

He began his lecture by going down the memory lane to cherish memories of school days and mentioned that such moments offer a much needed break from the routine life which revolve around industry or customer relations etc.

Mr Rao narrated some personal anecdotes and shared lessons learnt from the industry. He expressed the need to train students for practical experience and inspire them to be well prepared for real life situations. He mentioned that he always advises the new professionals not to shy away from working hard. Their knowledge of facts or an analysis of basics will be much better if they work hard and explore in a given field.

Mr Rao also mentioned how students go through an evolved process of selection and their thoughts and deeds decide where they wish to go in life. As a very practical advice he informed the teachers to engage their students constructively and creatively. They should be given candid feedback and be taught how to do things differently. Mr Rao further pointed that choice of subjects is important to form a base but real learning comes from experience. Despite excellent PPTs, data research on various aspects of an industry, the students have to indulge in an in-depth study of the market and industry.

Mr Rao strongly asserted that belief in people should never be wavered. Despite challenges or differences communication should be maintained. According to him mutual respect is paramount and one must never doubt good intentions of people. He further motivated the teachers to instill faith in students while being firm and fair in their dealings. Mr Rao also stressed upon the need to nurture value system and ensure it is followed to the core. Mr Rao spoke in a calm and composed tone and answered all the questions during the interactive session at the end of his talk.

In all it was quite an informative and an enlightening talk. The teachers thanked him profusely. The corporate talk was arranged by CRM, Gp Cpt JK Pandey and he gave a vote of thanks on behalf of Director & Dean, Fr Jossy and the entire teaching staff.