Gujarat NRE & The Economic Times Present FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT Sutirtha Roy- +91-9879019880, Korak Basu - +91-9874249448 CRITICAL MASS MULTILINK LTD 22, Camac Street, Block - C, 5th Floor, Kolkata - 700016 Ph: + 91-33 - 22891471, Fax: + 91-33-22891470 Email : [email protected] • www.globalsteel.in ORGANISED BY SUPPORTED BY SUPPORTING ASSOCIATIONS & MEDIA PARTNERS SPONSORS KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS & Ministry of Coal Government of India GROWING ON 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STEEL AND STEEL MAKING RAW MATERIALS FEBRUARY 4-5, 2013 TAJ PALACE HOTEL, NEW DELHI www.globalsteel.in AN INITIATIVE OF ADVERTORIAL AND PROMOTIONAL FEATURE THE ECONOMIC TIMES, MONDAY , JANUARY 7, 2013 T he biggest challenge facing the country is governance. Good governance comes from good laws and implementation of those laws. Governance is not about enacting more legislations and formulating regulations. It is more of implementing the legislations & regulations in its true spirit. Any number of legislation being framed or regulators appointed would not usher good governance, if there is an all encompassing disregard in following and implementing them. We have enough of laws. However, many of our laws are archaic and antiquated as one may put, and should be scrapped or made relevant. In most cases we are governed with century old laws which have outlived their relevance and purpose. Many laws that we follow today have been inherited from our erstwhile British masters, which were framed to suit the need of the Britishers to rule India and are against the ethos of liberalism & trust. During the pre-Independence era, the police used to raid households at odd hours in search of freedom fighters and harass them at the slightest pretext. Today, enforcement agencies bulldoze their way, harass the common man taking recourse to some impractical laws and walk out with their pockets full. The backdrop has only changed - white masters replaced by brown sahibs. Non-compliable provisions in most legislations lead to all being treated as defaulters - differing only in scale. The big evaders can afford to buy the system out, while the genuine ones are unable to match the payout of tax evaders to keep the officials happy, leading to even the genuine ones turning evaders in the longer term. Whenever we talk of reforming the system, we invariably speak of enacting new laws and tougher laws. What we miss in the debate is that tougher the laws, the courts would require stronger evidence to award the toughest of the punishments and is sometimes reluctant to even to award conviction, because of the fear of miscarriage of justice. We strongly require certainty of punishment rather than severity of punishment. Only certainty of punishment can ensure that the guilt is punished and the rule of law established. Gujarat NRE National Integrity Theme Presentation Contest For further details please visit www.globalsteel.in / contestgs2013.html Reform the Old Laws Ensure Certainty of Punishment National Conference on Police Reforms February 6, 2013, New Delhi Dr J J Irani, former director, Tata Sons Naveen Jindal, member of Parliament & chairman Jindal Steel & Power Ltd C S Verma, chairman, SAIL Ajay Mishra, executive director, Hard Commodities, Noble Resources International Dilip Oommen, MD & CEO, Essar Steel Ltd Dr Sanak Mishra, vice-president of Arcelor Mittal and CEO, Greenfield Projects, India V R Sharma, CEO and dy MD, Steel & Syn Fuel Business, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd P K Mukherjee, managing director, Sesa Goa S S Mohanty, director-technical, SAIL Koushik Chatterjee, group CFO, Tata Steel Ltd S K Das, director (Commercial), NMDC Ltd Jayant Acharya, director-Commercial and Marketing JSW Steel Ltd R K Goyal, MD, Kalyani Steels Ltd Jim Lennon, chairman – Commodities Research, Macquarie Capital (Europe) Ltd, UK Gerard McCloskey, founder, McCloskey Group, UK John Johnson, CEO, CRU China, Beijing Jai McDermott, chief manager, Public Affairs, Australia Coal Association, Australia Stephen Galilee, chief executive, NSW Minerals Council, Australia Steven Randall, MD, The Steel Index, UK Andrew Wells, editor, IHS McCloskey Coal Report, UK Jim Nicholson, vice-president, Asia, Argus Media Ltd, Singapore Natalie Rose, manager, Market Intelligence, QR National, Australia John Kearsey, executive director, SSY Consultancy & Research Ltd, UK Lip Ban Soh, lead iron ore analyst, Wood Mackenzie, Australia Julien Hall, editor - Steel Raw Materials Group, Platts, Singapore Peter Zonneveld, MD, Danieli Corus, The Netherlands Anjani Agrawal, partner and sector leader, Mining & Metals, Ernst & Young D R Dogra, managing director, CARE Dr Amit Chatterjee, former advisor to MD, Tata Steel Ltd R P Ritolia, advisor to MD (Coal), Tata Steel Ltd Yatinder Suri, country head, Outokumpu India Pvt Ltd. Dr Neil J Bristow, chief consultant, H & W WorldwideConsulting Ltd, Australia, and conference co-chairman Global Steel 2013 Arun Kumar Jagatramka, chairman, Gujarat NRE & conference co-chairman Global Steel 2013 Sessions of Global Steel 2013 >> Steel Around The Globe — Steel outlook, forecasts and challenges, role of emerging nations >> Crouching Tiger or Burning Bright — Getting Indian steel demand moving again, new technologies >> The Call of The Dragon —The Chinese steel story and its implications >> Steel Making Raw Materials Iron Ore —India and the world >> Steel Making Raw Materials Coking Coal —Australia, Mozambique & India >> The Steel Party Spoilers and Enablers — Land, environment, infrastructure, finance, technology in India and the rest of the world Speakers at Global Steel 2013 STEEL W ith the recent sluggishness of the global markets, in addition to the economic and political challenges facing the major economies of the world, we seem to be entering a more complex and difficult to forecast phase of the economic cycle. The slowing down of the Chinese economy and the not so impressive Indian growth story which seems to be losing its steam, is bound to have a strong impact on the steel and steel making raw materials industry. Coupled with the sovereign debt crisis in the euro-zone, and the potential for further closures of steel mills in Europe that are suffering from structural overcapacity due to a continuous decline in steel demand, steel and raw materials prices have witnessed a steady decline. Against this backdrop, Gujarat NRE and The Economic Times present Global Steel 2013, the 8th international conference on steel and steel making raw materials, on February 4 and 5, 2013 at Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi. Acknowledging the vital role that the emerging nations are bound to play in the years to come and steel being the catalyst of such growth, the theme of Global Steel 2013 has been chosen as ‘Growing on Steel’. The conference would focus and analyse the role of the emerging markets and how they have come of age, to take on the mantle to become the engine of global growth, with steel acting as a panacea of the economy. Global Steel 2013, while discussing the complexities of the current situation, would also focus on the possible solutions of getting out of the crisis, and further assess how the global steel industry could adjust and innovate itself in the current scenario to become a rallying point for economic recovery in India and the world. Don't miss out on this one-of-its-kind confluence of Indian and global steel makers & steel making raw material suppliers. Book your place today! Gold Silver Carbon If ever there was a need as well as an opportune moment to push through police reform and improve policing, it is now, when both the public and, hopefully, the government, are seized of the need to improve law and order. The Economic Times UN chief Ban Ki-moon has voiced "deep sorrow" at the death of the 23-year-old Delhi brave heart who succumbed to grievous injuries sustained while fighting off her rapists, asking the Indian government to implement reforms to deter such crimes & bring the perpetrators to justice. The Times of India Topic Change the Absurd & Antediluvian Laws of the Land to build the India of your Dreams How to Participate Interested participants may send their entries (pres- entation) in a PPT format to the following email id: [email protected] Eligibility It is open to all. Participation of students and the youth is encouraged Selection of Winners The winners would be adjudged purely on the basis of the presentation submitted by them within the last date of submission. Judgment would be done by a panel of judges. Presentations received would be the property of the organizers. The selected presentations would be made into a book for wider circulation. Prize Five selected presentations would be declared as winners. Each of the five winners would be awarded a cash prize of ` 25000. Last date for submission of presentation — January 10, 2013 Please note For further details on the contest, contest guidelines and an insight on the topic, please visit www.globalsteel.in and navigate the Integrity section in the website. M ore than a century has passed, and yet the same shortcomings persist to this day. Indian police are governed by archaic and colonial police laws of 1861. This law was specifically designed to raise a police which would be politically useful and to suit the needs of our then British masters to tame the Indians. However, with over 65 years of Independence, we have not mustered the courage to free the police force and give the citizens a more cordial police whom they can trust and the police a more humane work condition. The British could be forgiven for having maintained a colonial police structure, but what could be the justification for continuing the same for more than six decades after independence? In 1977, Government of India set up a National Police Commission which had submitted eight detailed reports between 1979 and 1981 containing comprehensive recommendations covering the entire gamut of police working. Since then there have been recommendations by many more commissions and committees. But these were given no more than a cosmetic treatment by the central and state governments. A strong vested interest had developed in the maintenance of the status quo, to misuse the police machinery for narrow political and personal benefit. The establishment is not willing to give up their stranglehold over the police. So, the colonial structure continues & the people continue to suffer from an insensitive police force. The police also very often make politicisation as an alibi for their non- performance and even misperformance. The Supreme Court, in a landmark judgment on Sept. 22, 2006, ordered the setting up of three institutions at the state level with a view to insulating the police from extraneous influences, giving it functional autonomy and ensuring its accountability. These institutions are: •• State Security Commission which would lay down the broad policies and give directions for the performance of the preventive tasks and service oriented functions of the police; •• Police Establishment Board comprising the Director General of Police and four other senior officers of the Department which shall decide all transfers, postings, promotions and other service related matters of officers of and below the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police and make appropriate recommendations regarding the postings and transfers of officers of the rank of Superintendent of Police and above to the State Government; and •• Police Complaints Authority at the district and state levels with a view to inquiring into allegations of serious misconduct by the police personnel. The Supreme Court orders, if sincerely implemented, would have far reaching implications for better governance and administration of criminal justice. They would change the working philosophy of the police. The Ruler's Police would be transformed into People's Police.The reforms are not for the glory of the police. The police will be made more accountable to the law and the people. They will ensure better security and protection to the people of the country, uphold their human rights and generally improve the governance as a whole. We cannot afford to lose any more time. The police force must be reorganized, revitalised and given the necessary morale, manpower and equipment. It must also undergo behavioural orientation and project itself and function as a people- friendly force. For further details on the conference please write to [email protected] D R Kaarthikeyan, IPS president, Foundation for Peace, Harmony and Good Governance AVAIL THE EARLY BIRD AND SAVE $ 300 A CONSUMER CONNECT INIT LAT IVE GUJARAT NRE . . . 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