KNOWLEDGE AND LEADERSHIP OF PROJECT MANAGERS COUNTS IN TIMELY
IMPLEMENTATION: MOOKHERJEE
GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT
INAUGURATED
"Timely implementation
of projects in any country depends on the knowledge and leadership
styles of Project Managers who bring in place a plan on paper
into reality in a given cost and time frame." The Minister
of State for Statistics & Programme Implementation, Shri Satya
Brata Mookherjee stated this while inaugurating a Global Symposium
on ‘Taming the Future through Project Management’, here today.
Twelfth in the series,
the annual three-day symposium is organized by the Project Management
Associates (PMA) in collaboration with International Project Management
Association, Switzerland, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme
Implementation and many other organizations.
Underlining the need
of exchanging new ideas on Project Management, the minister said
that findings of these symposia give ideas as to how best we can
organize the project management discipline and make the best use
of limited resources in the present environment of development
in the country. He urge upon the delegates to think of ways to
train the workers and raise their skill levels with latest tools
and techniques.
To highlight the
Government’s efforts Shri Mookherjee stated the fact that cost
overrun in big Central Sector projects, even with respect to the
original approved cost, have come down from 62% in June, 1991
to 22% in March, 2003. This has resulted into avoiding of indirect
dissavings of more than Rs. 1,20,000 crore over a period of 10
years.
He told the gathering
that the Ministry has drawn a standard Contract Management System
as model guidelines for adoption by both client and the contractors
of the projects. It has also made several recommendations on streamlining
process of clearances. The ministry is looking into the redundant
legislations related to project administration to simplify or
abandon them if required. He said that the Ministry has also recommended
a serious of amendments in the Land Acquisition act and suggested
a national level rehabilitation package for adoption as a model.
Shri Adesh Jain,
President of PMA, Shri MS Ramachandran of Indian Oil Corporation,
Shri Hiroshi Tanaka, President of Japan Project Management Forum,
Dr. Martin Barnes from UK and senior officers from the Ministry
of Statistics and Programme Implementation were also present on
the occasion.
