Urgent need to Augment India's Creaking Infrastructure‚ Urges Tuhin Sen at IMT Ghaziabad

"India is currently facing a severe crisis of governance and the governments at the Centre‚ State and municipal levels are unable to meet the people's legitimate expectations‚" said Tuhin Sen. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) September 13, 2012 - "India is currently facing a severe crisis of governance and the governments at the Centre‚ State and municipal levels are unable to meet the people's legitimate expectations‚" said Tuhin Sen‚ an integrated communication campaign specialistand Lead Strategist for policy outreach at the Global Development Network (GDN). He was addressing students of the 201'-2014 batch of the Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad's Foundation Module on the 29thof June.

GDN is an independent international organisation that globally allies researchers and institutes for development. "Crisis of governance apart‚ there is an urgent need to augment India's creaking infrastructure so that growth can get a fillip"‚ said the master campaigner who was instrumental in the launch of the Santro‚ which effectively propelled Hyundai's operations in India. After 16 years of experience in formulating and implementing strategies for organisations and brands across the private and social sectors‚ he believes said that India's social fabric is on the verge of disintegration and that social cohesion was the need of the hour. Citing the 'Red Manifesto'‚ he felt that in the long run it is extremely divisive. "We can't have a superpower status with a house divided‚" lamented Tuhin‚ who has helped the UK High Commission in India promote its Public Diplomacy Initiative and has also assisted the UNESCO in formulating its strategy for The Heritage Passport Programme in India.

Commenting on business perspectives‚ he told the students that the road ahead as far as India is concerned lay in being globally competitive. Governments and democracies across the world are increasingly being run by coalitions and he expressed concern at the limitations and compulsions of coalition governments‚particularly in India. Saying that unemployment in India would be a major issue in the next 10-15 years‚ he said that India's overdependence on agriculture could be a problem because if agriculture failed due to the vagaries of the monsoons‚ then where would the jobs come from? Speaking to a spell-bound audience‚ Tuhin said that it was good that real estate development had taken off in India but rued the fact that it was limited to the major cities. "Real Estate is bulging in the Delhi NCR region. Currently‚ there is a demand-supply gap at the prices offered. There'll be yawning gap by 2015‚ when a huge number of projects will reach completion‚" he warned.

Talking about the Indian work-force and especially senior management‚ he said that Indian managers were unhealthy and almost 30 per cent were afflicted with diabetes and hypertension. He also put the blame for that on India's public health system‚which he believed had failed to deliver. Commenting on the growth stories of the two Asian giants‚ China and India‚ he said growth in these two countries was fundamentally flawed and that we should open our eyes to the southern part of the world a bit more. "South- chemistry is what India must gun for‚" he urged.

Prior to working with GDN‚ Tuhin has also worked as a consultant to the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate of the OECD in Paris on the Global Industrial Competitiveness Project. For DFID‚ he has conceptualised and implemented a climate change communication strategy with a South Asian footprint.Currently managing a large agricultural policy research project spread across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia at GDN‚ he is responsible for strategic programme management‚ building new alliances‚ seeking new revenue streams for the organisation‚ budgeting‚ contract management and policy outreach. Tuhin Sen's address was an eye-opener for the students‚ who got incisive and novel insights into some major issues.

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