[Assam] Mr. Sangliana, MP --Project Management -PMP

Tue Jun 20 09:00:04 PDT 2006

  ****His ''surprise inspections at night'' were enough for the contractor not to swindle money, rather commit himself to quality work.

  He is a real inspector --thats what Indian schools and other govt run institutions and projects need.

   Incidently I have been acting as a coach to my landlord who is finally taking the exam on June 26 (after preparing for it since I landed at his house Last July) for certificate of PMP - in project management. India does not teach this in any MBA program I think. One think focuses is "Preventive Action" and "Corrective Action" -by the Project Manager --by trying to look for possible/potential flaws and how to prevent them -or if already done how to correct them. 
  My experience in project managemnet is limited to construction of portions of school building incl the tricky part of getting the flooring done of classrooms etc even when the school was in session. His experience has been in world class organizations -such as part of a $80 million software development project at Lockheed Martin -for US Health Care Dept and currently at Booz Allen Hamilton in a senior role.

  Does India need to evolve proper Project Management programs - and not just depend upon ex-cops to threaten contractors with guns -to get projects done in time and no cost overruns or corruption?
  Umesh

Malabika Brahma <malabikabrahma at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
  Mr Sangliana has been a cult figure in Karnataka since the 80s. The ex IPS cop has been famous as a dare devil cop .  More than 3 movies (in Kannadiga originally and dubbed into other South Indian languages) have been made after him.

In South Sangliana is as famous as Quick Gun Muru-Gun .

Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com> wrote:    This is a great story, and really a poitive one at that. Could be our Mizo brothers can show our MPs how the country ought to be run? Congratulations to him for setting such a shining example and people of NE and Mizoram in particular should be proud of him. 

  The story is also good in showing us that Kanadigas can elect a non-Karnataka person without reservations and that they are open minded. 

    >Is India really becoming a nation? :-)

  It always was and is even now. Its only certain elements (and some in Assamnet) who are not able to yet see things clearly :-)

  --Ram

  On 6/19/06, Dilip/Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com> wrote:       Would you believe it? A Mizo MP from Bangalore? Not only true, he is making an impact.
  Is India really becoming a nation? :-)

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  To the Asom MPs
T his is a piece of information for our MPs with a 
note that if they are already aware of it, they would do well to understand its underpinnings. So this is a message too. HT Sangliana, a Mizo and a celebrated former Bangalore Police Commissioner who is now the BJP MP from Bangalore North, has converted a 20-year old dirty track on the outskirts of Bangalore into a 12.5-km concrete road that now looks like a national highway. He has achieved this feat by sanctioning Rs 1.25 crore out of his annual MPLAD fund of Rs 2 crore for the single project  something which other MPs would not do for road projects because no one trusts them and they fail to get such projects approved. However, Sangliana's was an exception: after sanctioning the amount after being able to sanction it, given his credibility and track record, he ''threatened'' the contractor, the ''poor fellow'' as he calls, by making it clear: that he expected ''quality work''. His ''surprise inspections at night'' were enough for the contractor not to swindle money,
 rather commit himself to quality work. A devout Christian who had the secular guts to join an otherwise ''communal'' BJP, Sangliana is an MP for fellow MPs to emulate not because he made a road but because he could spend Rs 1.25 crore in a single road project  he was too confident to account for whatever he would do. The message, then, is that our MPs in Asom should get their things done after proving their credentials and knowing well that they are servants of the people, not masters (because the people are the real masters in a democracy). The only mantra is: where there is a will, there is a way. 

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