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Invitation to the Workshop the resource persons at the workshop Partha, the lead resource person taking the participants through the formation and the management challenges of FPOs in detail Olaganathan introducing the management practices and principles Subbbu sharing the compliance challenges and accounting processes Prasanna sharing the opportunities for the FPOs in the Social Entrepreneurs space Ram introducing the programme to the participants  CEO of one of the FPOs sharing their concerns Consultative Meeting Ram, Samanvaya giving a memento to Prof. Stephen of Holy Cross College

It was in 2004, perhaps in the month of September that we released our small publication, " Indian System of Management - An Introduction ". The publication was released in the Goethe Institute, Chennai (the old building at that time, not the current new location) during a workshop on the same subject. At that time, Samanvaya intended to bring out several follow-up publications on the subject as a series. However, subsequent developments took us further and further away from this much needed work. An attempt was made in 2014 to revive the same through a series of workshops in Chennai, unfortunately, this too had to be given up as there were far too many practical difficulties. For those who don't know, Indian System of Management (ISM) was a new body of knowledge that emerged in the 80s and 90s as part of the movement to try and articulate "Indian" view of everything - we had "Indian" science & technology, "Indian" psychology, etc., c...