Kathmandu, February 8:

Dr Bhagawan Koirala, director of Sahid Gangalal National Heart Centre has been awared with Manager of the Year Award-2007, while Sangeeta Niroula, president of Swati has been conferred with Woman Manager Recognition Award-2007 by Management Association of Nepal (MAN), today.

Speaker of Interim Legislature Parliament Subash Nembang today presented the awards at a function organised to mark the 27th National Management Convention and annual general meeting of MAN in Kathmandu.

The meeting held during the first half of the day was followed by a brainstorming session on management development scenario in Nepal. The leading management experts, corporate heads and entrepreneurs as well as officials of the World Bank attended the programme.

The meeting included presentations of a theme paper on ‘management challenges for building Nepal in changing times’ by Director of Jyoti Group Saurabh Jyoti and Managing Director of Unilever Nepal Ltd Kamran Bakr. While the World Bank sector manager Ijaz Nabi made a presentation on ‘South Asia Growth Story’ and senior economist at the World Bank Dilip Ratha discussed global issues on ‘Migration and Remittance’.

Later in the evening, Lal Krishna KC, Ravi Sainju and Thakur Prasad Sharma made a joint presentation on the management development scenario during the year 2007.

In his presentation, Bakr emphasised on the need for leadership development by bringing about a reverse brain drain besides identifying and encouraging the local talent in Nepal. According to him, “the only way to survive will be to industrialise.” It was the onus of the business leaders to convince the government that “foreign assistance should provide Nepal with jobs through service-oriented industries and not make it dependent on perpetual injections of aid.”

Jyoti too felt management practitioners in the country needed to actively participate in the process of framing of a new paradigm of state, economy and society by providing intellectual inputs towards building a new Nepal.