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Sudarsnam Padam

In this grass-roots memoir, renowned public policy expert and public transport professional Sudarsanam Padam sketches his life from a small village on the banks of Godavari to an exciting life beyond. He studied while working to graduate from the Nizam College, Hyderabad. His first job was at the age of sixteen in the Census of the Taluk Office (1960). From seventeen onwards, he worked in the Bar Council, Telephone Department and Small Industry Training Institute. With constant encouragement from his lawyer-father, he graduated in 1969. He almost made it to the central civil services. He hadRead More...

He had a very rewarding career as a manager in the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC). He describes his life as a young manager in APSRTC, controlling one thousand workers and operating more than a hundred buses—the only means of travel in a big district. He saw blood on the road and the death of hapless poor in accidents, combined with an essential public service. The broadening of human understanding and matching it with moving people across often impassable roads was an education no college could give.

The points of departure in life took Dr. Padam to teach at the Central Institute of Road Transport in Pune, which was not only to teach bus management at the national level but also help transport undertakings to improve the quality of buses. He sensitised senior civil servants and police officers with the help of the Government of India’s Department of Personnel and Training and Bureau of Police Research and Development through structured training programmes at CIRT. He liaised with the European Commission to help establish modern testing facilities for automobile components so that Indian components were export-oriented. He believed that there might not be an Indian automobile on world roads, but there could be Indian automobile components in every automobile in the world.

Following another point of departure, Dr. Padam utilised his higher studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University by joining the faculty of the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), training senior managers of both public and private sectors in strategic management and public policy. Of particular importance was Dr. Padam’s custom-made programmes for IAS officers and scientists of national research and development laboratories. He strongly believed that teachers in universities and scientists in laboratories should step out from their specialisations to institution building and comprehensive long-term pursuit of excellence as institutions like MIT do.

In all, Dr. Padam’s Points of Departure are live examples of what young professionals can do in their own quest for excellence and for sustained institution-building for generations of students and professionals who follow.

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In this grass-roots memoir, renowned public policy expert and public transport professional Sudarsanam Padam sketches his life from a small village on the banks of Godavari to an exciting life beyond. He studied while working to graduate from the Nizam College, Hyderabad. His first job was at the age of sixteen in the Census of the Taluk Office (1960). From seventeen onwards, he worked in the Bar Council, Telephone Department and Small Industry Training Institute. With constant encouragement from his lawyer-father, he graduated in 1969. He almost made it to the central civil services.
 He had a very rewarding career as a manager in the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC). He describes his life as a young manager in APSRTC, controlling one thousand workers and operating more than a hundred buses—the only means of travel in a big district. He saw blood on the road and the death of hapless poor in accidents, combined with an essential public service. The broadening of human understanding and matching it with moving people across often impassable roads was an education no college could give.
The points of departure in life took Dr. Padam to teach at the Central Institute of Road Transport in Pune, which was not only to teach bus management at the national level but also help transport undertakings to improve the quality of buses. He sensitised senior civil servants and police officers with the help of the Government of India’s Department of Personnel and Training and Bureau of Police Research and Development through structured training programmes at CIRT. He liaised with the European Commission to help establish modern testing facilities for automobile components so that Indian components were export-oriented. He believed that there might not be an Indian automobile on world roads, but there could be Indian automobile components in every automobile in the world.
Following another point of departure, Dr. Padam utilised his higher studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University by joining the faculty of the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), training senior managers of both public and private sectors in strategic management and public policy. Of particular importance was Dr. Padam’s custom-made programmes for IAS officers and scientists of national research and development laboratories. He strongly believed that teachers in universities and scientists in laboratories should step out from their specialisations to institution building and comprehensive long-term pursuit of excellence as institutions like MIT do.
In all, Dr. Padam’s Points of Departure are live examples of what young professionals can do in their own quest for excellence and for sustained institution-building for generations of students and professionals who follow.

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