SREI International Finance Ltd

Well, this confidence is not all about great financial numbers. It also stems from the fact that SREI has excelled in an area that the larger banks haven’t really entered with a focussed aggression the way SREI has (more on that later). But with the Prime Minister saying that $320 billion is needed for infrastructure in India over the next 5 years, Kanoria admits, “It’s not just one company SREI that would be in a position to capitalise; there are so many other companies who can just come in.” And if larger banks, particularly post-2009, get more active in this segment, it could be indeed difficult for SREI to retain its pole position. The main reason is that banks have much cheaper access to capital & can wreak havoc with SREI’s margins. Its sources of funding are basically restricted to wholesale funding, securitisation & equity issuance. And rising interest rates would make its job even tougher, as it may not be possible to pass on the increase to the customer. Is the company in a position to sustain its dream-run amidst such environmental uncertainties?

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

The River That Dyes

Tirupur, the textile hub of southern India, has crossed Rs.110 billion in earnings from textile exports, according to Tirupur Exporters Association (TEA). But there’s a price for this too! And in this case, the price is something too much to bear. Here it is – the death of river Noyyal, a tributary of the Cauvery. The city which is located upstream, had used water from Noyyal for years for its dyeing industries. It is a known fact that bleaching and dyeing processes are water consuming and highly polluting. It has been calculated that Tirupur has more than 700 dyeing units. All the effluents with salinity and heavy metals from these units find its way into the river Noyyal, shockingly untreated! The water with effluents gets stagnated in a irrigation dam downstream at a place called Orathapalayam. And the consequences have been quite far reaching. Land upto three kilometers on either side of the dam at Orathapalayam have been affected and adding to it the groundwater has also been seriously polluted. All of it has meant death to agriculture in that region and has made way for devastating and debilitating diseases. The water at the dam was blocked for a long 10 years & the silence was finally broken on August 22, 2005 when the Orathapalayam dam (which was filled with polluted water to the brim), was opened and the polluted water ran through Noyyal downstream and the water flushed into the Cauvery. The end result was that the toxic sludge settled on Cauvery’s river bed. “It is estimated that 30,000 acre cultivable land was affected by pollution and has became uncultivable. From Tirupur until it joins Cauvery near Karur... it runs through 57 long kilometres... And all along one can only witness the devastation!” laments a local journalist.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007

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The Indian bureaucracy is well known for designing lopsided development models.

New Delhi is not only the capital of the country, but has also gained the dubious distinction of generating the largest amount of waste among all the metros. According to an Assocham study, “Delhi generates about 6,000 tonnes of solid waste per day as against 5,800 tonnes in Mumbai, 2,800 in Bangalore, 2,675 tonnes in Chennai and 4,000 tonnes in Kolkata.” The study further reveals that in Delhi alone, there are nearly 85,000 rag-pickers who collect around 900 tonnes of waste. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) spent approximately Rs.24 billion for garbage management during 2006-07. But the results are rarely visible and the city continues to stink. Ramapathy of Greenpeace India told B&E, “Currently, there are two ways to manage waste in India – one is landfills and the other is incineration. However, the latter one being a failed method of waste management, landfills is the method which is extensively practised. Although, landfill is a better option than burning the waste, but it is not a foolproof method. Many times the chemical waste seeps into the ground thus contaminating the groundwater.”

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The i-Pod falls flat...

2.7 out of 10! Well, these are not the marks of any of the backbencher in a high school grade but represent the score of Apple in the latest Green Electronic Guide Rankings released by Greenpeace. In simpler words (for all the die-hard Apple fans), Apple has been ranked as the worst electronic firm in the world in terms of its policies and practices of eliminating harmful chemicals from its products.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative