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A story of the rise and fall of an industry empire. Uday Karnik has written this novel very innovatively. His hero in the novel has played a crucial role. Uday gives minute details about various experiences of a person holding an important position in a company. In fact, the proceedings of the novel ...

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Publié par	Srujan Dreams Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India
Date de parution	31 mai 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781910823019
Langue	English

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A COMMITMENT FOR EXCELLENCE
BY
UDAY KARNIK
ALL THE CHARACTERS AND EVENTS IN THIS BOOK ARE FICTITIOUS AND IMAGINARY. ANY RESEMBLENCE TO ANY PERSON OR EVENT SHOULD BE DEEMED TO BE COINCIDENTAL AND UNINTENTIONAL

Book Name : A Commitment For Excellence
Auther : Uday Karnik
Publisher : ANJANA KARNIK
B-501, Utpal Park, D. S. Road,
Mahim, Mumbai - 400 016
E-Book Publisher : Vikram Bhagwat
Srujan Dreams Pvt. Ltd.
A-3, Ashirwad Apartments
Behind Garuda Hotel
Karve Road, PUNE : 411 004
Maharashtra, INDIA
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E-Book Edition : January 2016

Author’s Introduction
Uday Madhusudan Karnik is a law graduate and Fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He started his career with a short stint in a private sector company in Pune. Thereafter he shifted to Mumbai since he realised that the true potential of a Company Secretary can only be appreciated in the vast metropolis. After working for a short while in a public sector undertaking he joined a large petrochemical company as its law officer.
As luck would have it several opportunities of handling diverse portfolios came to him and he grabbed them with both hands. Being a sincere and hard working person he showed total commitment to his work and was soon awarded the ‘Outstanding Performance Award’ for his extraordinary work in setting up a chemical plant at a green field site in record time.
Thereafter he went on from strength to strength and was promoted from Law Officer to General Manager and Company Secretary of the Company within 10 years of his joining the company. He retired from the Company in the year 2008 as Vice President - Legal and Company Secretary.
Uday Karnik is now devoting most of his time in social activities and is an active member of the Rotary Club of Mumbai Shivaji Park which has given him an opportunity to serve the poor people and repay the debt to the society. He continued his commitment for achieving excellence in his work in this field also and was awarded the prize of ‘’Best Rotarian of the year 2010-11”.
He is indebted to his able wife Anjana who not only gave him moraI support but also looked after the family all by herself thus allowing Uday to devote his full time and attention to his job and achieve a successful professional career. The idea of writing this book was inspired by Anjana who herself is a poetess and writer having published four books. Their daughter Mitali is Doctor of Homoeopathy and is practising in Pune and son Amol is a Chartered Accountant and MBA from UK. He is also a successful professional working in a reputed international company.
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This book is dedicated to my father Madhusudan who inculcated a sense of honesty, sincerity and commitment in me and my mother Saral who was herself an epitome of simplicity.

Preface
It is my privilege to write a Preface to the novel, ‘A Commitment for Excellence’ written by my old friend and colleague Uday M. Karnik. I wrote an article in a very famous magazine in Marathi, ‘Antarnaad’ some nine years back on the same subject with a title, ‘Death of a Company’ in Marathi. This article was read by not only by my old colleagues but by Company Secretaries of other companies and many more.
I have been persuading many retired people to write their autobiography. This will give them a nostalgic feeling about their life and also provide some documentation for the future generation. In literature, readers are now tired of reading imaginary novels which have no basis or relation to practical life. They are not interested in reading about platonic love. They want to read a real life experience, may it be a postman’s life or a postmortem worker’s life or carpenter’s life. Such biographies have slowly started coming in the market. I welcome Uday Karnik’s novel as it gives deep insight into the working of a Corporate entity.
Uday Karnik has written this novel very innovatively. His hero in the novel has played a crucial role. Uday gives minute details about various experiences of a person holding an important position in a company. There is one danger in writing such novels based on real life that you are not insulting anyone or defaming anyone. Hence the writer has to take pseudo names. However such real stories, if read in an impartial manner, can give important lessons to an executive starting his career in any organisation.
In fact, the proceedings of the novel are a subject of a very long real life experience, describing different natures of different people and how they ruin an institute for satisfying their ego and fulfilling the goals set for themselves, Sometimes such a report provides a germ to other creative writers. I hope that this novel will serve many such purposes.
I wish the author all the best.
A. P. Deshpande
Secretary
Marathi Vigyan Parishad, Mumbai
Mumbai, 4 May, 2011

RECRUITMENT BY INTUTION
The Mumbai – Howrah Express was rushing through the night piercing the darkness with its beam of light. The First Class Air Conditioned compartment was fairly crowded as the Hon. Minister of Industries of Maharashtra, Shri Jawaharlal Darda was returning to his constituency at Nagpur after completing a successful session of the State Assembly.
Hemant, Rajan and Ajay were relaxing in the compartment after taking the dinner served by the Pantry car of the Express. They were traveling to Wardha, near Nagpur for attending the general meetings of the three rural development societies set up by the Company to implement the various social schemes for the upliftment of the rural population. During the late seventies the Government had announced rebate in income tax to the corporate sector for undertaking rural development work in the rural areas of the country. The Magnum Group of Industries which was headed by Seth Anandbhai Kanitkar, one of the greatest philanthropist of the country was always in the forefront to undertake any such activities even with or without rebates and concessions and hence it was only a matter of time before directions were issued by the Group to all the companies to undertake rural development work in any rural area of its choice.
Pursuant to these directions Galaxy Chemicals Limited, one of the group company decided to undertake rural development work in four different villages in Wardha District. Necessary rural development societies, one for each village, were formed and Madhu Nandgaonkar one of the administrative officer was deputed to Wardha to administer and manage the societies. Hemant, Rajan and Ajay were the trustees of all the societies and hence were proceeding to Wardha to attend the Annual General Meetings of these societies.
Hemant, a legendary figure in Magnum Group had been instrumental in formation and the growth of GCL right from its inception. He had an imposing personality with a flowing beard and was always dressed in spotless white dhoti and Khadi kurta with a white khadi jacket. He had such piercing eyes that every person who met him was always afraid to look at him straight in the eye. He had earned s much respect in the minds of the staff that the moment he used to come and stand at the door of the general hall there was pin drop silence and every employee in the hall put his head down and started doing his work.
“Hemant, I am wondering as to why GCL has decided to choose a far off place like Wardha for carrying out the rural development work when the same purpose could have been achieved by undertaking the same work in nearby Pune or Nasik Districts” Ajay asked Hemant.
“There is an interesting history behind this” replied Hemant.
“At the time in the late fifties when the Magnum Group decided to set up the first integrated plant for the manufacture of inorganic chemicals in India it was Ghorpade, the then Industries Minister of Maharashtra who put the entire State Government machinery at the disposal of Anandbhai for location of a suitable site near Mumbai and ensured that all necessary infrastructure is provided to the Company for expeditious implementation of the project. He also accompanied Anandbhai to Delhi and pleaded the Company’s case with the Central Government for issue of Industrial License which in those times of ‘License Raj’ was a difficult proposition. Since Ghorpade hailed from Wardha, Anandbhai decided to repay the debt of Ghorpade by undertaking rural development work in his home district.” explained Hemant
Since Hemant appeared to be in a relaxed mood Ajay decided to ask him a personal question which had been bothering him since he had joined GCL.
“Hemant I am curious to know as to why there was such a big time gap between the advertisement and interview in my case” Ajay ventured to ask him.
In the year 1978 after Ajay had obtained his professional qualification as a Company Secretary he was looking for a suitable job in the private sector. In the month of April 1978 he saw an ad in the Times of India stating that ‘GCL requires an officer in the Legal Department preferably with secretarial qualification’. Even though at that time he was working as Deputy Secretary in Maharashtra State Financial Corporation – a State Government undertaking he decided to send his response to GCL’s ad more as and by way of routine thinking that even if he does not get selected it will not matter as the position was not up to his expectations. After that there was no response from GCL up to September 1978 and Ajay had completely forgotten about the ad and his response. Suddenly in September 1978 he received a letter calling him for an