Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003 |
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Industry & Economy
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Foreign Trade Task force mooted to revive silk route Our Bureau
Kolkata , Dec. 16 GOOD governance and a `Look East' foreign policy, a revival of the broken trans-border trade relations, widening and internalising of the international Buddhist pilgrim routes and addressing major eco-development issues were some of the signposts on the roadmap to the gates of the 21st century silk route. This was stated by Mr A.D. Moddie, retired IAS, management counsultant and environmentalist. He was delivering the keynote address at a seminar on the role of services and allied sectors in the resurgent East. The seminar was organised by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce as part of its 150th year celebrations. Mr Moddie said that there were few places in the world which could offer such a range of natural beauty in mountains, forests, rivers and plains with rich eco and bio-diversity. All it needs to tap this potential is good governance, good organisation building and a number of vanguard leaders. He said that the East was also the repository of beautiful handicrafts which could be turned into a marketing man's dream business. He suggested the setting up of high quality task forces to implement these plans which involve the de-bureaucratisation of service agencies, deslumming of tourist centres and debugging its urban atmospheres. Mr Moddie said that the road to collective success was through vanguard leaders who know how to work with organisational network, how to integrate and operationalise ideas and how to focus the work of diverse groups. Mr Kisor Chaudhuri , conservationalist and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, while making a presentation on the natural wonders of the East ,underscored the need for building safeguards to protect the fragile ecosystems against the effects of mass tourism.
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