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UBUNTU and Corona Pandemic - Unique Lasting Lesson

  UBUNTU and Corona Pandemic – Unique Lasting Lesson S.B.Singh, Chairman Aryavart Bank & General Manager Bank of India Ubuntu is a socio philosophical concept derived from African culture of oneness. The guiding philosophy of this culture is, “I am because we are” thereby focusing on the social living based on the foundations of mutual sharing and caring. A simple anthropological study has eloquently described the beauty of this culture, which goes as: An Anthropologist arranged a game for African tribal children and placed a basket of sweets at a distance of hundred meters from the children. The anthropologist announced that all sweets will be given to the child who runs fast and reaches the sweets first. He commanded ready, steady and go. The response of the children was unexpected for the researcher. What children did was unique? They held the hands of each other and ran together towards the sweets, divided the sweets equally among themselves and enjoyed the prize collective

"Workforce Migration-Emerging Horizons" - Published in Banking Frontiers on 04-08-2020

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  Workforce Migration – Emerging Horizons Reported by:  banking |Updated: August 4, 2020 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp Facebook Messenger Share Workforce migration is the phenomenon, which can be traced with the age-old evolution of the human civilization. In the initial stages, it was because of the biological, physiological and safety needs of group living followed by social needs culminating into developmental economic and actualisation needs, which has very beautifully been described by Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as under: Maslow’s Need Hierarchy   With the growth and development of human societies, human beings keep on aspiring for higher order developmental needs as lower order needs get satisfied thereby unlocking the individual potential of growth and creativity. The context of thesocial and economic developmental needs kept on unfolding itself in myriad ways with two polar extremes: the affluent upper strata and bottom lowest strata of the society. The affluent upper str

Engine of Economic Revival – Indian Agriculture

Engine of Economic Revival – Indian Agriculture S. B. Singh, Chairman Aryavart Bank & General Manager Bank of India Indian agriculture sector is the biggest employment provider with prevalence of disguised and under employment, which is primary source of livelihood for about 58% population with close to 16% contribution in gross domestic product of the country. This sector can play significant role in revival of Indian economic growth with minimum per capita investment thereby limiting the workforce migration to urban and industrial centers and relieving the unban agglomerations from infrastructural bottlenecks due to migrant workforce. The Indian agriculture sector needs four types of interventions to achieve accelerated growth, which are as under: I-                    Management of Food Wastage II-                 Commercialization of Indian Agriculture for Clean Energy III-               Development of Irrigation Facilities IV-              National Scientific Crop