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PVR was a participant at the National
seminar on "Recent Experiences of HRD"
held at Sea Rock hotel Mumbai by XLRI
and L&T in 1985. coordinated by me as
L&T Professor of HRD at XLRI and Dr.DF
Pereira, CHRO at L&T. I came in touch with
PVR in this seminar. He was working
with Sundaram Clayton as DGMHR.
When we decided to start the HRD
Network, he along with Chandrasekhar of
L&TECC, volunteered to steer it in Chennai.
Since then there was no looking back.
He continued to support NHRDN with his
time and spirit. His contribution was both
in terms of intellectual capital and
continuous rejuvenation whenever the
Chennai Network was in need. When
NHRDN was going down, he volunteered
to rejuvenate it and bring it back on
tracks. At my request the Board appointed
me as Chairman of the
Rejuvenation committee. He assisted a
lot and spear headed the rejuvenation
of Chennai chapter and played the same
role with ISABS at several junctures.
I still remember the several journeys we
used to have from Bangalore to Hosur
whenever he invited me to work with
Sundaram Clayton to introduce the PMS
share with each other our dreams for
NHRDN. We used to discuss more about
NHRDN and its foundations and the future
work. It was in these conversations, we
designed a distance education program
and also the HRD Facilitators program
which we implemented along with ISABS
in Jaipur. It is the funds from these
programs that helped us to start
theAcademy of HRD.
When he told me the story of how he
narrowly missed getting his Fellow title
from IIMC, I felt bad and repeatedly
persuaded him not to give up with IIMC.
He did a lot of work for his fellow program
at IIMC and even met and interviewed
Mrs.Gandhi forhis dissertation work and
also wrote a thesis. As I recollect it did not are over thirty years. He had been a
get the approval of someone and he had
to join back his company and could not
pursue the same. He registered for his
Ph.D. with me with Gujarat University and
got his Ph.D. from the same as a
candidate from IIMA. I can’t forget the
hard work he had put in to collect data for
his Ph.D. We spent a few days together at
my house in Jubilee Hills. I look back with
a sense of satisfaction that I used my early
retirement leave in 1994 to work with him
to get him to write his Ph.D at my house in
Hyderabad. His thesis was on how Indian
Managers learn from various sources. The
work we did with the Academy of HRD
came in handy to collect a lot of data.
Four of us (UdaiPareek, Fr.E.Abraham,
Keith D'Souza and Sethumadhavan)
worked together in a few projects for the
Academy of HRD.
I tried to get him to write a paper on his
thesis as a tribute to Udai Pareek but
could not persuade beyond a point due to
his health. I did not even know that he
was going through serious health issue.
Looks that while he shared joys with us all
he kept his pain to himself.
His association with NHRDN and ISABS
silent worker and a rejuvenator of the
Institutions. He kept them alive with his
contributions.
His most recent contribution to NHRD was
the Journal. What both Udai Pareek and I
had not succeeded in starting, Murthy
had succeeded.
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