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and assess HR professionals and is
collaborating with International bodies. By any
means it has done a great service to young HR
professionals. It has given opportunities to
many young managers to test out their
leadership potential and has helped a number
of young professionals to acquire HR
knowledge and set their careers in the right
direction.
Strengthening the Academic Base: The
Academy of HRD The Academy of HRD is an
education and research centre set up by the
National HRD Network. It is an autonomous
institution with its own members. It's founding
members consist of organizations like SAIL,
Voltas, Tata Steel, Crompton Greaves, Gati, Dr.
Reddy's Laboratories, Visakhapatnam Steel,
Satyam Computers, ILFS etc. corporations. It is
located in Ahmedabad and its campus
eventually planned to be in Hyderabad on a
ten acre land donated by Dr. Reddy's
Laboratories.
It has done remarkable work in its initial stages.
Though its pace has slowed down in the recent
years, it has been contributing silently through
its Doctoral and certificate programs.
AHRD contributed a great deal so far to Human
Capital Formation among HRD Professionals
in India. However, there was much more scope.
AHRD could have been a globally recognised
institution and would have been considered
the only place to go or main place to go for
scholars across the world. The great dream
still remains a dream - the great dream was to
have its own campus, data-bank, and library,
residential accommodation furnished for
scholars to visit, write, renew and disseminate
their work. The relevance and need for such
an institution still exists today. Its doctoral
programme could have become a flagship
programme and would have contributed a
great deal to HRD knowledge.
In the last 20 years, NHRDN has grown vastly.
The seeds for its growth were sown and
foundation was laid in the first three years. The
agenda of learning from each other continues.
The annual or biannual conferences and the
chapter meetings for learning from each other
and networking continued. The chapters have
grown in number. The culture of publishing
papers to be distributed during conference
continues.
The Future
Division kills and Integration builds. It is high
time that all of us recognized the need and value
of integration: integration of "Personnel and
HRD" or "OD and HRD" or "Business and HRD"
or "AHRD and NHRD" or "NIPM and NHRDN."
Integration and collaboration is the only answer
for future success. Overemphasis on separate
identities and ownership, especially for
professional bodies and institutions whose
owners are all professionals and not any one or
few individuals, is dysfunctional. Divisive
thinking is detrimental.. The future of the HRD
movement is in realizing that we have not even
touched the most important sectors like
education, health, infrastructure, government
etc. where HR interventions are most needed.
We need to pay attention to these strategic
sectors. The spirit of HRD lies in learning from
each others: teachers, managers, doctors, nurses,
in fact all citizens involved in the pursuit of
change and development.
References
• Pareek, Udai & T.V. Rao (1998). Pioneering human resources development: The L & T System, Hyderabad: Academy
of Human Resource Development. 165p.
• Rao, T V (2004) Future of HRD, New Delhi: Macmillan
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