Editorial
Our dear readers,
Caux Initiatives for Business appears to be buzzing with activity, not only in India but in several countries around the world and all this has given us reason to be very glad.
In this month’s Newsletter, we have brought to you updates of the latest happenings. The most recent of these are the Inaugural Meeting of the CIB Mumbai Chapter and the CIB India Working Group Meeting.
The picture on the cover of this issue – where the Mumbai Chapter meeting and the Working Group Meeting took place – is the large duplex flat that Trust of IofC (India) has on Worli Sea-face in Mumbai. We have also provided a brief on the activities of the various CIB teams in other countries and some information on upcoming IofC programs that we thought may interest you.
We are very grateful for the small yet encouraging feedback we have received from some of you, dear readers. We have thought it good to carry these in this issue, not as a self-congratulatory exercise but more to encourage you to keep writing. Like we have said in the past, your feedback and comments mean a lot to us.
– Ms. Neha Mukherjee
CIB Mumbai Chapter
Inaugural Meeting Report
February 22, 2014
Venue: IofC flat at Kumaram, Worli Sea-face
“I am encouraged with all that has been shared on ethics and the role that business can play to make this possible,” said Ms. Asha Verma, a school Principal, “but how can all this reach the grassroots level?”
This query was flanked between a time of sharing from various individuals on their challenges and victories in running their
business ethically on one side and the poser as to what business and industry can do to promote this mindset to a larger group in society on the other.
Such was the participation from most of the 18 persons who had gathered in the IofC flat at Kumaram for CIB’s Inaugural Mumbai
Chapter Meeting that one left the place with a sense that when like-minded people gather together with a purpose and focus, there is much that can be achieved.
After a round of personal introductions to get the group to know each other, Sarosh Ghandy, Director of CIB explained briefly what CIB is and how its role is to encourage, by gathering others, those who walk this “lonely path”, so that all with like purpose could run business ethically while still remaining competitive. Anil Chopra, VP (SCM-IM), Siemens Ltd., Mumbai and Convener of the CIB Mumbai Chapter then explained the purpose of the meeting before requesting Dr. R. K. Anand, Pediatrician and former Medical Director, Jaslok Hospital to say a few words on the “Charter of an individual” and the conscience of the human soul.