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Former <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Planning+Commission+">Planning Commission</a> member <keyword id="120162" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Arun-Maira">Arun Maira</keyword> has come up with some startling revelations about former <a href="file:///C:/Users/gunja.d/Documents/Septemeber%202015/PM%20Manmohan%20Singh">PM Manmohan Singh</a> which could further spoil his image. He has said that Singh had inducted him as a change management expert but never backed any changes. He also alleged that former <keyword id="51819" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Deputy-Chairman">Deputy Chairman</keyword> of <keyword id="46913" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Planning-commission">Planning Commission</keyword> <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Montek+Singh+Ahluwalia+">Montek Singh Ahluwalia</a> was a reluctant reformer. 
 
Maira is going to make these revelations public via his upcoming book to be released next Wednesday. Maira admitted that he felt let down at the end of his tenure at the Planning Commission as the leadership asked him to find solutions, accepted his ideas, but never implemented them. 
 He further said PM <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> scrapped the Planning Commission during his first seven months in office. He replaced it with Niti Aayog focused on co-operative federalism — exactly the reforms that Singh had in mind but couldn't implement during his ten years in office. 
 
The former PM admitted this to Maira after a parliamentary panel meeting this January after the Aayog was set up, when he thanked the latter for making him 'look good.' 
 
Maira had told MPs in the parliamentary standing committee on finance and planning that the Niti Aayog's charter of working closely with states and being an essay in persuasion was the same vision first enunciated by the UPA PM. 
 
"The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Congress+Vice-President+Rahul+Gandhi">Congress</a> keeps jumping up every time the <keyword id="6360789" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Modi-Government">Modi government</keyword> announces something, saying it was their idea. Well, then why didn't it do anything about those ideas," Maira told ET. 
 
"We were told that the PM would meet us once every month. That never happened. He relied only on Ahluwalia and chaired Commission meetings just once or twice a year," Maira said, adding that they had identified the new paradigm for the Commission, set up by Nehru in 1950, in our first eight months in the job. 
 
But both Ahluwalia and Singh never applied those ideas. Since they were the people with authority on resources of the government, commission, unless they were going to put themselves behind the system, it couldn't happen. Later, they said change things on the side, but leave the core as it is, Maira said. 
 
In his book An Upstart in Government: Journeys of Change and Learning, former <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Tata+group+">Tata Group</a> manager and <keyword id="136162" type="CITY" weightage="40" keywordseo="Boston-Consulting-Group">Boston Consulting Group</keyword> chief Maira traces his story from a single phone call requesting him to join the government as a change agent in the middle of a 2009 holiday in Prague, till his last meeting with the Commission in April 2014. 
 
Singh repeated the same existential questions about the Commission's relevance that he had raised five years earlier. Maira was surprised as the commission's members had identified afresh what needed to be done by their successors. 
 
"The government was besieged by criticism in its last year and was very defensive, with ministers floating 'zero loss' theories about scams. I don't know if Ahluwalia sent forward our view to the PM as a Niti Aayog-type charter is what we had in mind," Maira said, hinting that the UPA was keen not to admit that its style of running the Commission wasn't optimal. 
 "Every time I hear Modi speak, it strikes me that he gets all the things the <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword> leadership refused to accept. Whether it's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Make+In+India+">Make In India</a> instead of a manufacturing policy focused purely on investment enclaves that required massive land tracts, or the focus on job creation," Maira said. 
 
Maira pointed to a major anomaly in the Commission's working - its members have minister of state ranks but none of its staff report directly to the members. 
 
"We had drivers, door-openers, paper-carriers, but no professional staff. Advisors working on our subjects would be transferred or go on leave without us having a clue," he said. 
 
Ahluwalia pursued a move to allow two professionals for each member of the Commission, including himself, but was unable to do it. Finally, Ahluwalia is learnt to have told Maira that he couldn't expedite such government processes, so Maira must seek help from outside the government. 
 
This compelled Maira to talk to Tata Sons' director R Gopalakrishnan and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Mahindra+%26+Mahindra+">Mahindra</a> group chief <keyword id="46425" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Anand-Mahindra">Anand Mahindra</keyword> to lend some managers to the think tank. 
 
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Manmohan Singh’s trusted aide Arun Maira is now calling the Ex PM and Montek Singh ‘reluctant reformers’

<ul><li>A group of veteran leaders, academics and bureaucrats committed ₹300 crore to build Masters’ Union School of Business (MUSB) — where classes would be taught by chief executives. </li><li>The institute will offer a <keyword id="525673" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Post-Graduate-Programme">post graduate programme</keyword> in technology and business management (PGP TBM) — which is a 16-month programme with live projects, <keyword id="771927" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="internships">internships</keyword> and field tours. </li><li>Backers include the director of the University of Oxford, Karthik Ramanna, the former chief economist at the Reserve Bank of India; Narendra Jadhav and Arun Maira, the former chairmen of the <keyword id="136162" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Boston-Consulting-Group">Boston Consulting Group</keyword> (BCG).</li></ul>A group of veteran business leaders, academics and bureaucrats came together to build a model business school. Here, the classes would be taught by chief executives and not lecturers. <div type="image" title="MUSB2" msid="75081496" hostid="261"></div> As many as 19 of them have already committed ₹300 crore to build — Masters’ Union School of Business (MUSB) — where classes would be taught by chief executives and other business leaders. “The element I am most excited about is that the curriculum will be developed dynamically with inputs from leaders in business, leaders from the government as well as leaders from the third sector,” Karthik Ramanna, director of the University of Oxford University and one of the members of the group, said. First-hand look into the day of a CXO The ‘industry-immersed’ curriculum will be led by the leaders to provide a hands-on learning experience. “Masters’ Union will run a CXO shadow programme that would enable students to have a first-hand look into a day of a CXO to experience how organizations are run and business decisions are made,” the institute said. The technology-focused business school aims to formulate an ‘internship style’ academic calendar which will entail boot camps in AI, blockchain, SAAS and cybersecurity. Each student will receive a one on one apprenticeship. “In medical schools, doctors teach students, practicing lawyers teach in law schools, but in business schools, faculty may not have experience with hands-on leadership in the industry. That’s a gap Masters’ Union addresses by getting CXOs, MDs and business leaders to teach and train students,” said Tathagata Dasgupta, founding master at MUSB and former chief data scientist at Viacom. Gurugram and its 600 MNCs Apart from Ramanna, the institute’s founding members include top leaders like Mukund Rajan, former MD of Tata Teleservices; Narendra Jadhav, former chief economist of Reserve Bank of India; and Arun Maira, the former chairman of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The institute will be built in cyber city in Gurugram— with over 600 multinationals in the vicinity. The institute will offer a post graduate programme in technology and business management (PGP TBM) — which is a 16-month programme with live projects, internships and field tours across industries like ecommerce, technology, product and banking. It will also establish a student-run venture fund worth ₹5 crore for investments in areas like real estate and capital markets and a research forum. “The Centre for New Business Models would be a research-based forum that will formulate business opportunities in newer technologies like blockchain, bio-tech, and machine learning,” the official release said. Here’s the full list of the founding masters at Masters’ Union School of Business and their teaching areas. <table style="border-width: initial; border-style: none;"></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Masters </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Teaching areas </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Arun Maira (Former Chairman, Boston Consulting Group) </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Management consulting </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Mukund Rajan (Former MD, Tata Tata Teleservices) </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Brand custodian </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Satish Krishnan (Former MD, Financial Markets, Standard Chartered Bank) </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Financial markets and fintech </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Harsh Mishra (Former Group President, Adani Group) </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Negotiations in the global economy </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Rajiv Gulati (Former MD, Eli Lilly and Company) </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Business of Pharmaceuticals </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Tathagata Dasgupta (Former Chief Data Scientist, Viacom) </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">AI, ML, Blockchain in Business </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Elkana Ezekiel (Former CMO, Samsung Electronics) </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Building a successful brand </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Siddhartha Rastogi (MD, Ambit Capital, Asset Management) </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 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