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Pradeep ViswambharanCEOSPEAK Pradeep Viswambharan
A billion votesA billion votesA billion votesA billion votesA billion votesa decisive mandatea decisive mandatea decisive mandatea decisive mandatea decisive mandate
Politics, as it is practiced in ourcountry, is not my cup of tea. How-
ever, if politics, as defined in MerriamWebster’s Dictionary is to be taken asa guideline, I am all for it. Webster’sdescribes politics as the art or science
of governance, the art or science con-
cerned with guiding or influencing
government policy, and the art and
science concerned with winning and
holding control over a government.View it from any of these three anglesyou like, the recently held general
elections and its outcome will tell youthe story of a nation coming of age,and a billion-strong electorate that
constitutes the world’s largest democ-racy, attaining maturity enough to tellthe world that, yes, India is finally readyto endorse the art and science of goodpolitics, not wholly or in full measure,but very substantially, to quote fromJawaharlal Nehru’s Tryst With Destinyspeech!
It was Winston Churchill who infamous-ly remarked prior to us winning free-dom that Indians are not fit to governthemselves; they will only make a mock-ery of democracy. Unfortunately for us,
it turned outto be pro-phetic, sev-eral timesover the pastsix decadesof our histo-ry. The willof the peoplee x p r e s s e dthrough elec-
tion after election did not translate intothe good of the aam admi, the commonman. And finally, the first half of the
1990s changed it all forthe better when India took courage
and unshackled itself from wornout
ideologies and opened up itself for the
world to come and join in its re-dis-
covery. Destiny had painstakingly pre-
pared a discoverer in the person of Dr.
Manmohan Singh, who as Finance Min-
ister under Prime Minister P.V. Narasim-
ha Rao, helped awaken India from its
slumber, the outcome of which is there
for all of us to see, partake of and
benefit from, especially so for us in
IT, for whom a whole new world has
been opened up to experiment with.
The recent elections, the result of
which has ensured that India has po-
litical and administrative continuity,will go down in history as a landmarkin our quest to seek and enhance
change. A gov-ernment of thepeople, by thepeople and(hopefully) forthe people canperform wellonly if there are
no roadblocks in its path. While, dur-
ing the past five years, Dr. Manmohan
Singh’s bandwagon of governance was
slowed down by road blocks, in this
second turn he has no such hiccups to
fear from. People of India have cho-
sen well, and most of the members of
the lower house of our parliament are
well educated, dedicated, and com-
mitted to the cause of politics, which,
as I said earlier, is the art or science
of governance, policy making and win-
ning, and controlling the levers of pow-
er.
At long last we have proven Winston
Churchill wrong. However, our lead-
ers and administrators should contin-
ue to strive to prove Boise Penrose also
wrong, who in 1931 wrote in Collier’s
weekly: Public office is the last ref-
uge of a scoundrel.
This is their best chance to prove it.
Let’s wish them Godspeed in the task.
Winston Churchill
Team Manmohan soon after taking office in May
Accentia’s Bhubaneswar unit successfully completed 2 years of operations onJune 1, 2009. These two years have been highly productive, with plenty tolearn and good support provided by everyone in Team Accentia globally, reports
Mr. S. Pankaj, Dy. Production Managerin the unit. ”Accentians in Bhubaneswarexpect plenty more to happen in theyears to come, and are committedtowards providing quality service to alltheir clients”, he adds. ”At thisjuncture, we want to express delightfor the privilege in working witheveryone in Accentia and wouldcontinue to seek guidance wheneverrequired to achieve the vision set forus.”
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EDITORIAL
An Accentia Technologies Update
Managing EditorPradeep Viswambharan
Editor in ChiefRajeev Viswambharan
Executive EditorC.K. Sooraj
Editorial ConsultantMathukutty J. Kunnappally
Associate EditorSheeja Shivkumar
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A breath of fresh airA breath of fresh airA breath of fresh airA breath of fresh airA breath of fresh airand Kand Kand Kand Kand Kargil rememberedargil rememberedargil rememberedargil rememberedargil remembered
The global economy is still in tailspin mode. No one knows when it
will stabilize, whether share priceswill move northwards or dividends willhappen to spread a smile of cheeraround. Mega corporations are shy andreluctant to come out with their an-nual results simply because there isnothing much to show by way of prof-its or returns. This is especially trueof the IT industry where the crisisseems to be deepening day after day.
It therefore was welcomed as a breathof fresh air when Accentia’s Board ofDirectors, after due deliberations,approved a final dividend payment of20% on face value to its shareholders,based on the company’s performancein 2008-09. This proves that there is
room for hope even in the season of
adversity was how The EconomicTimes, India’s premier financial daily
Editor in Chief
qualified our growth story.AccentiaTech.Com congratulates every-one on Team Accentia for making thisnear-impossible story possible throughdiligence, dedication, and intelligenthard work. A detailed news analysis onpage 5 of this issue.
Remember Kargil War? The blatant vio-lation of our Himalayan borders by aneighbor that led to fierce fighting andthe loss of several precious lives?Though India won the war, the scar ofthat wound remains. Sathyajit K.K. of
Accentia-Trivandrum looks back as theanniversary of Kargil approaches, witha piece appropriately titled ‘Lest weforget.’ Is there room for laughterbehind all those serious messages onTV and Radio advertisement jingles?Nagma Tabassum of Accentia, Banga-lore employs some imagination andcreativity to tell us that, indeed thereis a lot of laughter behind those hid-den persuaders.This much and more await you in thepages that follow.
1054 Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)
1776 Declaration of Independence - U.S. gains independence from Britain
1837 Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opensbetween Birmingham and Liverpool.
1840 The Cunard Line’s 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britanniadeparts from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the firsttransatlantic crossing with a scheduled end.
1906 Great Britain, France and Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia .
1865 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published.
1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco
1884 Statue of Liberty presented to U.S. in Paris
1886 The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of theUnited States.
1918 Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendardate).
1934 Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
1946 After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule, the Philippines attainsfull independence from the United States.
1947 The “Indian Independence Bill” is presented before British House ofCommons, suggesting bifurcation of British India into two sovereigncountries – India and Pakistan.
1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Actinto United States law. The act goes into effect the next year.
1976 Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all butfour of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized byPalestinian terrorists.
1976 American people celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Declarationof Independence
1997 NASA’s Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
July 4 in HistorJuly 4 in HistorJuly 4 in HistorJuly 4 in HistorJuly 4 in HistoryyyyyWhy is July 4 a date so important? Because it happens to be the
Independence Day of the USA of course!. But besides that, July 4 hasalso gone down in history as a noteworthy day for so many other reasons.Here are some of the more significant among them:
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GROWTH STORY
Mumbai: Board of Accen-tia Technologies Ltd, theMumbai based, BSE list-ed Healthcare Receiva-bles Cycle Management(HRCM) major, operating
from Technopark-Keralaand other centers acrossthe country and abroad,has recommended a finaldividend of 20% on theface value of its Rs 10shares for the financialyear 2008-2009. This isdespite the fact that ow-ing to the current globalrecession, BPO/KPO com-panies are faced withchallenges leading to ex-treme measures includ-ing large scale pink slipsand other cost cuttingsteps.
“The recession in the USeconomy, on which wetoo depend for our ma-jor contracts, has had lit-tle effect on our volumegrowth in FY 2008-09”,Pradeep Viswambharan,CEO of Accentia Technol-ogies said in a statement.“In fact our performancein 08-09 in comparison tothe previous year showsthat there is room forhope even in the face ofadversity”. Whereas the
20% annual dividend20% annual dividend20% annual dividend20% annual dividend20% annual dividenddeclared for 2008-2009declared for 2008-2009declared for 2008-2009declared for 2008-2009declared for 2008-2009
Accentia breaks the recession barrier!
net sales for 07-08 were Rs.519Million and net profit Rs.148.6Million, the figures have grownto Rs.804.6 Million and Rs.245.5Million respectively.” AccentiaTechnologies, over the past two
years hasshown re-m a r k a b l egrowth in itsoperations.From just 2p roduc t i oncenters in2008, it todayhas 17 pro-duction unitsspread across
India and abroad. Accentia cur-rently operates from Bangalore,New Jersey, Portland (Oregon),
Ft Lauderdale (Florida), UAE,Trivandrum, Cochin, Hyderabad,Calcutta, Chandigarh, and Bhu-baneshwar. Berggruen Holdings,a $ 3 billion fund hasacquired 14% stake inAccentia, making itpossible for the HRCMleader to go aheadwith its acquisitionand expansion plans.Accentia plans to in-crease its global em-ployee base by 60% inthe current fiscal toexecute the orders inhand. Accentia has in-itiated an organiza-tion-wide process andcost-restructuring toincrease the profita-
bility even in the presentchallenging market condi-tions, and it is ,definitely,showing positive results.
Trivandrum: The man who playeda key role in the computerizationof post offices all across Kerala andTamilnadu will now steer forwardthe computer-inspired IT revolu-tion in God’s Own Country, as ChiefExecutive Officer of Technopark,Trivandrum.
Precisely with that mission as hischallenge, Mr. Mervin Alexander, till recentlyDirector General-Postal Services, Coimbatoretook over the reins of the World’s GreenestElectronics Technopolis, which is also India’sfirst full-fledged park for IT and ITES enter-prises.
“I already have the work cut out for me”,CEO Mervin said while formally taking overfrom Mr. Siddhartha Bhattacharya, who wasin charge here while also serving fulltime asCEO-Infopark, Cochin. “The second and thirdphases of Technopark and the proposed Tech-nocity, all these in various stages of develop-ment, are challenges that call for time-bound
MerMerMerMerMervin Alevin Alevin Alevin Alevin Alexanderxanderxanderxanderxandernew CEOnew CEOnew CEOnew CEOnew CEO, T, T, T, T, Technoparkechnoparkechnoparkechnoparkechnopark
action. Besides, we also have theresponsibility to launch KollamTechnopark by July 2010, with in-vestors beginning operationsthere”.
In addition to creating space andenvironment, the new CEO will alsohave to sell the extensive infra-structure in the global market.With the tentacles of a global re-
cession strangulating the economy of devel-oped nations, it is going to be a tough callfor him and Team Technopark.CEO Mervin Alexander belongs to the 1987Indian Postal Service batch and has held keypositions in the Department of Posts in Tamil-nadu, Kerala, and New Delhi. He has alsoworked as Chief Vigilance Officer in CochinShipyard & Cochin Port Trust and served asConsultant to the Asia Pacific Postal TrainingCentre, Bangkok. He has to his credit severalpapers on postal management, transparencyin administration, and vigilance administra-tion.
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KARGIL REMEMBERED Sathyajit K.K.
Lest we forget….Lest we forget….Lest we forget….Lest we forget….Lest we forget….
Ajay Ahuja, Amol Kalia, Manoj Kumar
Pandey, Anuj Nayyar,Padhmaphani Acharya,Vikram Batra, Vishwa-nathan….. do thesenames sound familiar?
Of course, in a land withcraze for movies andcricket, they would belesser mortals, but thesebrave men have immor-talized themselves in ourhistory in no less way.
Yes, Squadron LeaderAjay Ahuja, Captain AmolKalia, Lt. Manoj KumarPandey, Captain AnujNayyar, Major Padh-maphani Acharya, Cap-tain Vikram Batra, Lt.Col. Vishwanathan, arejust a handful of namesamong the hundreds ofbrave soldiers whofought valiantly and paidthe supreme sacrifice inone of India’s greatestwar victories on thesnow-clad mountains of
Kargil, ten years ago.
It might be called a diplomaticor technological victory, but nowords can pay enough tribute tothe courage of our Indian sol-diers who fought in the tough-est of conditions against an en-emy sitting on a hilltop and notvisible.
Taking advantage of the peaceinitiatives undertaken by India,Pakistani militants aided by Pa-kistan Army regulars occupiedstrategic peaks in Kashmir, witha sinister motive to cut off Kash-mir from the rest of India. What
followed was a long, strainingcombat in the treacherous Hima-layan terrain. The army cameunder heavy fire from the top,but came out victorious, finallyrecapturing all the peaks. Op-eration Vijay, as it was called,was one of India’s most well-planned and well-executed mil-itary operations.
Even as India celebrated, ourhearts went out to the familiesof those who didnot return.Their tales ofvalor spread rap-
idly acrossthe coun-try. Peoplet h r o n g e dtheir homesto have alast glimpseof theseyoung menwho laiddown theirlives for the country. Their fu-nerals were attended by thou-sands, and their families, in theirtime of grief, were supported bythe whole society.
Who were they? Youngsters of anaverage age of 25, some who hadjust got engaged, some waitingto return home for marriage,some whose leaves were can-celled for the call of duty, somewho were expecting their firstchild. The stories go on, eachand every one a tale of grit andvalor, of families receiving thelifeless bodies with pride in theireyes, wives and fiancées control-
ling their emo-tions in front ofall, small chil-dren having to
light the funeral pyres oftheir fathers, familieswho sent all their chil-dren to war, colleagueswho had to escort friends
draped in tricolor. Theirdeeds have become folk-lore.
July 26th each year iscelebrated as Vijay Divas,when we captured thelast peak from the infil-trators. These men, I amsure, would not want anymega cultural shows orcharity work in theirmemory; just a silentprayer from our hearts,remembering them andthanking them for whatthey did for us, wouldjust suffice to keep theirmemories fresh in ourminds.
Capt. Aditya Mishra, Capt. Haneef Uddin, Capt. Jintu Gogoi, Capt. Vishwanath Vikram, Lt. VijayantThapar, Major Manoj Talwar, Major Vivek Gupta, Capt. Amol Kalia
Capt. Anuj Nayyar, Capt. Vikram Batra, Lt. Col. Vishwanathan, Lt. Manoj K. Pandey, Major Padhmapani Acharya, Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja
Sathyajit K.K. is from Produc-tion Wing, Accentia-Trivandrum
“aye mere vatan k“aye mere vatan k“aye mere vatan k“aye mere vatan k“aye mere vatan ke logone logone logone logone logon
zara aankh mein bhar lo paanizara aankh mein bhar lo paanizara aankh mein bhar lo paanizara aankh mein bhar lo paanizara aankh mein bhar lo paani
jo shaheed hue hain unkijo shaheed hue hain unkijo shaheed hue hain unkijo shaheed hue hain unkijo shaheed hue hain unki
zara yaad kzara yaad kzara yaad kzara yaad kzara yaad karararararo qurbaani…”o qurbaani…”o qurbaani…”o qurbaani…”o qurbaani…”
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JEREEN’S COLUMN
Managing a Large Staff EffectivelyManaging a Large Staff EffectivelyManaging a Large Staff EffectivelyManaging a Large Staff EffectivelyManaging a Large Staff EffectivelyJereen Mathew
Watching a team growcan be both exhilarat-
ing and terrifying. You en-joy the pride of being aleader of a bigger team aswell as think of increasedearnings coming with theresponsibilities, but alsoworry about keeping upwith the demand of manag-ing this bigger team. Whenyou have a team or depart-ment growing it gets prettyintense in managing withoutfacing too many team orpeople related issues. Howcan a leader keep up withthe pace of growth? Pay at-
tention. It’s easy to focuson your own work when youhave a large and able staffsupporting you. But if youneglect your people for toolong, you could be in trou-ble. It’s important to payattention to how your peo-ple are doing. Are theyovertaxed — consistentlyworking long hours and/orunder too much pressure?Are you articulating theteam objectives in a waythey understand?
Learn how to tolerate
growing pains. Before youcan withstand the pangs ofgrowth, you must ask your-self questions like, “Is myteam/department ready forgrowth?” “How can I pre-pare my employees forgrowth?” “What kinds of
problems do I foresee, and doI have adequate resources tohandle them properly?” Ac-commodating growth doesn’toccur overnight; you mustbecome comfortable with theprocess of managing yourgrowth.
Implement a system for per-
formance management. Nomatter how skillful your staffmay be, you must always pro-vide a mechanism for employ-ee feedback. With a smallstaff it’s easier to conductinformal reviews, but as youadd more people, this taskbecomes more challenging.You need to ensure that per-formance reports are moni-tored and feedback given ina regular manner
Match people with projects.
With a large staff, it’s easy(even tempting) to assumepeople are doing their appro-priate tasks adequately. Let’sface it: it’s not easy to keepup with what’s on everyone’splate. One way to avoid los-
ing track is to make sure youmatch people with the rightprojects/activities. If some-one is mismatched with aparticular task that couldslow down the whole teamat the same time compro-mise the quality of servicedelivery. Effectively aligningyour resources with the ap-propriate function adds tothe efficiency of your team.
Commit to training and de-
velopment. Identifying ap-propriate educational op-portunities, and makingthem available, lets yourpeople know that you’re in-terested and invested intheir professional develop-ment. Providing them withthe tools to do their bestwork will keep them moti-vated and increase their loy-alty to the company. If youare head of a team or a de-partment then continuouseducation on the instruc-tions or process changesshould be informed to your
team in atimely fash-ion.
Create a collaborative and
friendly culture. It’s just afact of life: the more peo-ple you have, the greaterthe chance of conflict. Cre-ate a workplace character-ized by mutual trust and re-spect. High ethical stand-ards should be the norm,and those who cannot abideby company rules shouldface the consequences. Beconsistent and firm but re-spectful, too. Communi-cate what’s expected, anddemonstrate your commit-ment to that standard.
Simulate a small staff en-vironment when you can.Occasionally, you mighthear someone grumblingabout the size of your staff:“I don’t know anyone any-more” or “Who’s that?” Youcan’t stop growth (well,you can, but you probablydon’t want to), but you cansimulate a “small office”ambiance. Get everyonetogether for spontaneousevents such as birthdays,weekly meetings or any so-cial gathering. Use plat-forms such as our monthlynewsletter to let everyonewithin your department orother departments know ofactivities in your team/de-partment.
Santosh Kumar & SabitaMr. Santosh Kumar Sahu (Accentia-Bangalore), son of
Smt. & Sri Lakshmi Charan Sahu married Ms. Sabita,
daughter of Smt. & Sri Kali Charan Panda on May 6, 2009
at brides residence, Berhampur, Orissa.
Manjunath & VedavathiMr. Manjunath A, (Accentia-Bangalore), son of Mr.
Appaswamy and Mrs. Jayalakshmi married
Ms. T Vedavathi, daughter of Late Venkatappa and
Mrs. Rathnamma on May 20, 2009.
Athira & NevinAthira (Accentia-Trivandrum), daughter of Mr.
Raveendran and Mrs Lathika Raveendran and Nevin
(Accentia-Trivandrum), son of Mr Morris Fernandez and
Mrs Cadpona Morris were married in Trivandrum recently.
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GREETINGS
These are the Bangaloreans who celebrate the big day this month:
Asscent Division
RAMESH K: JULY 1, KALAREKKAL BIJJU: JULY 1, JULIA PADMINI I:
JULY 2, SANTOSH KUMAR SAHU: JULY 2, INDULEKHA: JULY 3, JIBI
B PRASAD: JULY 5, P INDUPRIYA DARSHINI: JULY 10, GAJALAKSHMI
K: JULY 14, R FREDDY RAJAN: JULY 14, MADHU L: JULY 14,
KOTRESHA C.H.M: JULY 16, SHEELA K.K: JULY 21, ASHWINI P
DESHPANDE: JULY 21, REKHA P: JULY 22, SNIGDHA BOSE: JULY
24, SURESH KUMAR R: JULY 24, RAVI SANKAR: JULY 27, PRADEEP
M: JULY 28, RUPINDER SINGH: JULY 29
Accentians in Trivandrum with the big day in July 2009:
VISHMA KUMARI J: JULY 1, MANOJ S: JULY 5, NISHA GEORGE: JULY 7, SMITHA M PILLAI: JULY 8, INDU S: JULY 9,
VISHNU KUMAR S.L: JULY 10, SOUMYA K: JULY 11, JIJI. J.B: JULY 11, INDU. U: JULY 11, ASHISH S.P: JULY 14,
SUJIN JOSEPH: JULY 16, SHAIJU M S: JULY 16, JINI JAYACHANDRAN: JULY 17, ANITHA.A: JULY 17, UNNIKRISHNAN
A: JULY 17, SHEEJA SHIVKUMAR: JULY 19, REGIN PRASAD: JULY 20, JAYASHREE: JULY 21, LAKSHMI. P.R: JULY
21, ANU DANIEL: JULY 23, SONI VARGHESE: JULY 24, RANJITHA NAIR: JULY 25, NIMYA JOSE: JULY 26, DENSIL
NAZUMUDEIN: JULY 29, MOUNA T: JULY 31, SHREEJA BIJU: JULY 31
JULY BIRTHDAY BOYS AND GIRLS OF HYDERABAD AND BHUBANESHWAR
WASEEM SULTANA: JULY 1, MOHANA KRISHNA V: JULY 1, DANISH RAZA KHAN: JULY 1, AJIT KUMAR PARIDA:
JULY 1, PRADEEP KUMAR D: JULY 1, CHNDRA SHEKAR: JULY 1, RAMA KRISHNA G: JULY 1, SHIRISHA KODURI: JULY
1, GAUTAM KUMAR PARIDA: JULY 2, ANNAPURNA M: JULY 4, UMALATHA M: JULY 4, SURYA KANTA SINGH: JULY 4,
ARJUN TRIPATHI: JULY 4, CHANDRA SHEKHAR G: JULY 5, BIKRAM KESHARI BEHERA: JULY 5, PRAVAT KUMAR DAS:
JULY 5, SHAILAJA N: JULY 6, RAVI KUMAR BALLA: JULY 6, NANDA KISHORE YADHAV: JULY 6, HARI KRISHNA REDDY
P: JULY 6, SWATHI: JULY 6, SUCHARITHA J.N: JULY 7, SAHU SANTOSH K: JULY 7, KALPATARU MOHANTA: JULY 8,
VENKATESH MURTHY C.R: JULY 9, KALYAN KUMAR G: JULY 10, NAGARAJU N: JULY 10, VIJAY RAJU G: JULY 10,
ANIL KUMAR RAY: JULY 11, SOUJANYA VEMANA: JULY 11, ANITHA AENNU: JULY 12, PRASHANT K: JULY 13,
SHANKAER YADAV L: JULY 14, NIHAR RANJAN CHHUALSINGH: JULY 14, SANGRAM KESHARI RAY: JULY 15, VINAY J:
JULY 15, HEMALATHA P: JULY 16, SHAKEEL MOHAMMED: JULY 16, NAZIYA SHAIK: JULY 16, JAGDISHWAR G: JULY
17, BISWADEEP PATRA: JULY 18, TAPAS KUMAR SWAIN: JULY 19, TAPAS RATH: JULY 19, SHIVA KUMAR P: JULY 20,
RAMESH T: JULY 20, RAMESH BABU B: JULY 20, PRADEEP KUMAR ROUT: JULY 21, NEERAJA REDDY K.R: JULY 22,
MAHESH KUMAR P: JULY 22, KOTESWARARAO CHENNAMSETTI: JULY 24, ANAND K: JULY 25, BIKASH SINGH: JULY
25, KARTHIK UGGIRALA: JULY 25, MARY SOWJANYA E: JULY 25, QUDDUS: JULY 26, AHAMMAD BABU SHAIK: JULY
27, MANOJA STEVENSON: JULY 28, NATRAJ GOUD K: JULY 28, CHANDRA SHEKAR GOUD P: JULY 28, ZOHERLIANA
LUNGTAU: JULY 30, SYED IFTHEQUAR AHMED: JULY 30, SHRAVANTHI D: JULY 31, ABDUL SALEEM: JULY 31
And, here are the Cochinites in celebration:
RATHEESH NATH: JULY 3, NISA ASLAM: JULY 4, ABRAHAM: JULY 23, SIMI: JULY 24,
LATA MADHUSUDHAN: JULY 28, DR. RENU DINESH: JULY 28
Thunga Division
SHRI LAKSHMI C.R: JULY L, KASHIF AHMED:
JULY 3, HUSSAIN SHARIFF: JULY 10, PRADEEP
S GADAD: JULY 12, PARAMESHWARI: JULY 13,
THRIMURTHY K: JULY 14, SYED SADIK: JULY
18, UMESH JANTLI: JULY 27, MADHAVA
VENKATESAN K: JULY 28, KIRAN K.R: JULY
29, MADHAN KUMAR V: JULY 29, SUMA B.S:
JULY 30
CORPORATE AFFAIRS CORNER Ravi Sankar
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AAAAAccentia all set to enter Leelaccentia all set to enter Leelaccentia all set to enter Leelaccentia all set to enter Leelaccentia all set to enter LeelaInfopark, Kochi with new facilityInfopark, Kochi with new facilityInfopark, Kochi with new facilityInfopark, Kochi with new facilityInfopark, Kochi with new facilityKochi has been a major
offshore production cen-tre for Accentia for the lastfew years. Realizing the po-tential of the large pool ofcollege graduates interestedin pursuing medical tran-scription as a career in thiscity and the excellent resultsshown by the Team Accentiain Kochi, the managementhas decided to further ex-pand the pro-duction capac-ity here. Thiswill be by add-ing more seatsin the existingfacility as wellas creating anew centre in Leela In-fopark, which is a specialeconomic zone situated in-side the Infopark Campus.We are also developing theexisting training facility inKochi by adding more seats.
Ravi Sankar is Accentia’s Sr. Vice
President–Corporate Planning,
based in Bangalore
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Nagma Tabassum is from Batch 33, Accentia-Bangalore
Nagma Tabassum
What does a donkey bray afterkicking a man?“Ho shuru har din aise
Ho shuru har pal aise”
What does a bull inching towardsa fight scream?
“Give me red”
How would you react if your dogeloped with the neighbour’s bitch?
“Neighbour’s envy, Owner’s pride”
What does an unsatisfied hen sayafter laying 3 eggs?
“Yeh dil Maange more”
What do you think is the anthemof the blood suckers?
“Thodi si pet puja kabhi bhi,
kahi bhi”
What do the licesing to the hairs?
“Har pal saath
nibhaye”
How does anelephant cheatedin love cry?
“Har shyam ka
saath, mein aur
meri whicky”
What is thep r e l i m i n a r yinstruction thatall cuckoos in achoir groupfollow?
“Vicks ki goli lo,
kich kich door karo”
Kochi, known as queen of theArabian Sea, is a major desti-nation for IT and ITES compa-nies. Kochi was recentlyranked by NASSCOM as the sec-ond-most attractive city in In-dia for IT-based services. Avail-ability of cheap bandwidththrough undersea cables andlower operational costs com-pared to other major cities inIndia has been to its advan-tage. Various technology andindustrial campuses includingthe government promoted In-
fopark, CochinSpecial Econom-ic Zone and KIN-FRA Export Pro-motion IndustrialPark operate inthe outskirts ofthe city. Severalnew industrialcampuses for re-search, tradeand develop-
ment in biotechnology, elec-tronic hardware and informa-tion technology are in variousstages of con-struction in thesuburbs of thecity. The nineSpecial EconomicZones in the out-skirts of the city,sanctioned in pri-vate sector bythe Governmentof Kerala recently are expect-ed to boost the IT investment
in the area. The proposedKochi International Trade andExhibition Centre would rankamong the tallest buildings inIndia at 500 meters(100 floors) upon completion.The Kochi International Air-port is also in the process ofsetting up an aerotropolis.Already in Accentia-Kochi, 70seats in the ground floor wererecently added to the produc-tion facility situated in Valan-jambalam. The interiors havebeen done up in the usual
blue and white colors of Ac-
centia. Another space of ap-
proximately 1500 sq. feet in
the top floor of the building
is also being done up to ac-
commodate another 70 seats.
With these additions, the staff
strength of 130 is expected to
cross 250 within the next few
months.
At present, the 30-seater
training facility is situated in
Anjali Complex, adjacent to
the production facility. The
production centre at the pres-
tigious Leela Infopark, which
comes under the Cochin Spe-
cial Economic Zone, will be a
5000 sq. feet, 180 seater fa-
cility when completed. This
facility will have both produc-
tion as well as training under
the same roof.
The Kochi centre is headed by
Sojan Sebastian and under his
able guidance, we are sure
the team will scale new
heights in the coming months.
Sojan Sebastian
Production in progress in Kochi centre
Leela Infopark, Kochi