Ms. Rekha Sharma assumed the charge of Chairperson, National Commission for Women on August 7, 2018. Previously Smt. Sharma held the additional charge of the Chairperson (I/C), National Commission for Women with effect from September 29, 2017. Smt. Sharma has been a Member of the Commission since August, 2015. Before joining the Commission, Smt. Sharma was actively associated with civil society organizations in different capacities. Smt. Sharma has worked extensively on issues impacting women’s lives. She has conducted over 50 inquiries in matters relating to deprivation of women’s rights and liberty. Smt. Sharma has been championing the cause of vulnerable sections of women, including women workers in tea gardens that have been closed, and women in shelter homes. The issues related to female prisoners are particularly close to her heart. She has actively been advocating for improving the conditions of the women prisoners, especially the undertrails. She has been visiting a number of jails and made recommendations for improving the facilities provided to the jail inmates. During her time at the Commission, Smt. Sharma has pro-actively been pursuing the concerns of the Indian women deserted by their NRI husbands living abroad including issues related to child custody. She has also extensively worked on the cases related to sexual harassment of women. Smt. Sharma has also conducted numerous capacity building programmes for police personnel in India. In addition, she has chaired a large number of Mahila Jan Sunwais/ Public Hearings, across the country, in which, over 2,000 complaints have been addressed. Married to an Army Officer, she has worked towards promoting better standard of living and education for wives and children of soldiers to make them more self reliant in order to brave the day-to-day rigors and challenges of the Army life. Prior to joining the Commission, she was a Member of the District Consumer & Redressal Forum in the Government of Haryana. Smt. Sharma has also been instrumental in the establishment of a registered NGO called ‘Haryana Mahila Uthan Samiti’ which works for the empowerment of rural women in the state.

Chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Government of India Ms. Stuti Kacker former Secretary, Disability Affairs, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, has taken over the charge of NCPCR as Chairperson in September 2015.Child protection and development being a major area with possibilities for corporate engagement, CSR VISION took the opportunity to interview her and share her vision with the readers.

Dr. Tapan Kumar Chand (born 17 November 1959) is an Indian mining veteran, executive, and author. He is the Chairman cum Managing Director of National Aluminium Company. NALCO is the largest integrated aluminium unit in Asia and is also one of the largest aluminium complexes of the world. He has been in the mining and metal sector since 1982, earlier serving as the Director Commercial of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited / Visakhapatnam Steel Plant and Director Personnel & Director I/c (Sales & Marketing), of Central Coalfields Limited.

Kuruppasserry Varkey Thomas (born 10 May 1946), commonly known as K. V. Thomas, is an Indian politician from Kumbalangi in Ernakulam district, Kerala, India. He currently represents the Ernakulam Constituency of the 16th Lok Sabha. He was the Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, 2nd UPA Government; a member of the Indian Parliament; and a member of All India Congress Committee (since 1984).

Subramanian Swamy (born 15 September 1939) is an Indian politician, economist, statistician and polymath who serves as a nominated Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Swamy has served as a member of the Planning Commission of India and was a Cabinet Minister in the Chandra Shekhar government. Earlier in November 1978, Swamy was member of the Group of Eminent persons and was called to Geneva, Switzerland to prepare a report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Economic Co-operation between Developing countries (ECDC). Swamy also simplified trade procedures and formulated a new export strategy which became the forerunner of trade reform adopted subsequently. In 1994, Swamy was Chairman of the Commission on Labour Standards and International Trade by former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao. He also serves as chairman of the Board of Governors of the SCMS Group of Educational Institutions in Kerala. He has written on foreign affairs of India dealing largely with People’s Republic of China (PRC), Pakistan and Israel. He was nominated to Rajya Sabha on 26 April 2016.

H. E. KOUMBA Desire is the Ambassador and Plenipotentiary of the Gabonese Republic to the Republic of India, from 4th, April 2008 till date. He was very happy to be a part of the Orientation programme for PGDM 2018-20 batch at Asian Business School, and greeted the PGDM students with “Namaste”, to which the students rose in applause! Management, he said was the need of the hour for all professionals from every field, as it is an individual or a group of individuals that accept responsibilities to run an organisation. Planning, Organizing, Directing and Controlling all the essential activities of the organizations are taught in Management. Science and Technology are radically changing our economy and our society. A firm grasp of new technologies for augmenting traditional business disciplines is what today’s decision makers need. Today business programs emphasize emerging technologies and their combination with core management skills for problem solving. The ability to logically solve problems is one that all business leaders need in today’s dynamic business world. He said Management brings together Men, Money, Machines, Materials, Methods and Markets. He blessed the students and told them to remain motivated and work for achieving the objectives of the organization. He invited all students to Gabon for experiencing the way things are handled there. He wished the PGDM students luck and advised them to learn the ropes well so that they can prove to be assets to the organizations they become a part of after graduating from Asian Business School.

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Shri Surendra Nath Tripathi, Secretary, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs meeting with a Delegation from the Ministry of State for Federal National Affairs of UAE led by H.E. Tariq Hilal Lootah, Under-Secretary in Parliament Library Building on 14.12.2018 who were on a study visit to Indian Parliament from 12-14 December, 2018. Secretary, MPA interacted with the delegation on the functions of Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and its role in the law making process and explained them that how this Ministry works as link in between Government and Parliament specially in respect of Legislative Business to be transacted by both the Houses of Parliament.

Sailesh has taken over as Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India on 12th January, 2016. He belongs to Indian Administrative Service, 1985 batch, Assam-Meghalaya (RR). Earlier he was Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. He has also worked in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Department of Heavy Industries, Ministry of Power and Ministry of External Affairs. He has also served as Principal Secretary, Home & Political in the Government of Assam during 2012-14. Sailesh holds a Masters Degree in Economics from Delhi School of Economics (1982). He has also done Post Graduation in Management from MDI, Gurgaon (1993). He is an alumnus of Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan where he did his Masters in International Development Studies (2003)

Dr. M.P. Narayanan is an eminent administrator and technocrat with a long and successful innings behind him holding important official positions. Dr. Narayanan currently apart from running a prominent scientific NGO also contributes his expertise to various high power think tanks/committees. His strong area of interest is planning for sustainable development. In this quest Dr. Narayanan has been active in projects in areas such as disaster management, environmental rehabilitation, freedom of information, IT for the common man etc. A Mining Engineer by profession, committed to Public Sector Management ethos and a proponent of Innovative Man-Management approach of functioning. Has served the Public Sector and sustainable development over a period of 33 years. After serving the Public Sector in the Senior most capacities for about 33 years, Dr. Narayanan has started his initiatives in developing public awareness in the field of Information Technology. He started involving himself vigorously with 2 NGOs viz. Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) and GIS Development. Apart from his involvement in Information Technology fields, Dr. Narayanan has been very actively involved in the activities of World Mining Congress. He was one among the leading personalities who took part in bringing up a very grand success of World Mining Congress, 2003 held in New Delhi, India. He was also one among the active persons who took part and bringing up successfully World Mining Congresses in Iran, Turkey and Poland subsequently. M.P. Narayanan believes in creativity in work, practices inter-disciplinary approach in decision making and is rooted in Indian tradition and culture. Always in Quest for Excellence.

Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe is the present chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Personal life- Father-Dattatreya sahasrabudhe Mother-Sushila sahasrabudhe Siblings-One brother-Sunil sahasrabudhe- bangalore Spouse- Madhuri sahasrabudhe Children- Son- Ameya sahasrabudhe Daughter-dnyanada sahasrabudhe.

He graduated from BVB College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli under Karnataka University with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and was a gold medalist. Thereafter, he obtained a Masters and Doctorate from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Ninong Ering (born 3 January 1959) is an Indian politician, belonging to the Indian National Congress. He represents Arunachal East (Lok Sabha constituency) in Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament.

Ering was a member of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly representing Pasighat East constituency as an independent candidate from 1990-1995. In 1995, he again contested from the same constituency as an independent candidate, but he was defeated by the Congress candidate Tobar Jamoh. From 1999-2004 he again became a member of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly representing the same constituency as a Congress candidate. From 1999–2002, he was the Minister of State of the Government of Arunachal Pradesh and from 2002–2004, he was the Deputy Speaker of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly. In 2009, he was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha. He was re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha from the same constituency in 2014.

Laxmi Narayan Yadav is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and has won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Sagar (Lok Sabha constituency). In 1978 – 1980 he served as Minister for Higher Education, in Government of Madhya Pradesh.

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Ashutosh Sharma (born 1961 in India) is an Institute Chair Professor and C V Seshadri Chair Professor at the Department of chemical engineering of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is the founding Coordinator of DST Thematic Unit of Excellence on Soft Nanofabrication and Chairman of Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur.[1] He is best known for his pioneering research work in the areas of colloids, thin film, interfaces, adhesion, patterning and in the fabrication and application of self-assembled nano-structures

Hardeep Singh Puri (born 15 February 1952) is an Indian politician, former diplomat who is the current Civil Aviation Minister of India and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in India. He is a 1974 batch Indian Foreign Service officer who served as the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013.

He formerly served as President of the United Nations Security Council and as Chairman of United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee, Vice President of International Peace Institute and Secretary-General of Independent Commission on Multilateralism in New York.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani is an Indian businessman, who is the founder and executive vice chairman of Info Edge which owns Naukri.com, a job portal, as well as the co-founder of Ashoka University.

He attended St. Columba’s School, Delhi and finished schooling from there in 1981. There after, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, (Delhi University) in 1984. He completed his MBA from IIMA in 1989.

Sanjeev after his PG left a job marketing Horlicks at HMM (now known as GlaxoSmithKline) in 1990 to set up two companies Indmark and Info Edge along with a partner.The first company specialized in pharmaceutical trademarks and the second produced salary surveys and reports. In 1993, he and his partner decided to go separate ways. Both partners got one company each. Sanjeev got Info Edge. In 1997, Bikhchandani set up Naukri.com, jobs portal on a server in the United States, and later Quadrangle, an offline executive search business. In 2005, Naukri.com was reported as being India’s largest web-based employment site.

Building up in the websites business, Infoedge later launched other classified sites like 99acres in real estate, Jeevansathi in matrimony and Shiksha in education.

He is also an astute investor, having invested in unicorns like Policybazaar and Zomato.

He won the Ernst and Young – Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2008.