Air India has the competent skills (IIPM Publication)

In an attempt to give its sullied image a good scrub and break the shackles of being dubbed a public sector enterprise, August 2005 saw Air India roping in a public relations agency for its image makeover. Expected to face stiff competition from privately managed companies such as Jet Airways and Air Sahara, Air India has also awarded a $1 million outsourcing contract in August to Sparsh, a domestic call centre of Spanco Telesystems. Moreover, they are on a threshold of changing their long-standing logo. Can these endeavours really help Air India achieve its dream of being ‘a professionally managed company’?


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Source:- IIPM Editorial

Bush stamp of policy - IIPM Publication

Yet another major sector that has seen the Bush stamp of policy is media and communications. Michael Powell, the son of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, is the chief of Federal Communications Commission and to the delight of conservatives, has considerably eased regulatory norms for big media. It will be easier now for large media and communications conglomerates to swallow the small, independent media companies.

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Source- IIPM Editorial, 2006

Policies have left hundreds of millions of people desperately poor and hungry - IIPM News

Instead, these policies have left hundreds of millions of people even more desperately poor and hungry, and even more vulnerable to drought, pests, and soil depletion. Millions die each year, either of outright starvation or from infectious diseases that their weakened bodies cannot withstand. And still, after twenty years of preaching that private markets would pick up the slack, these impoverished communities are further away than ever from using improved seeds, fertilizers, and small-scale water management technologies.

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Source:- IIPM Editorial