PMI Conference: A National Event

I recently presented a paper in PMI Conference. The event took lot of time, and I tired a lot for various reasons and being sick, still motivated to attend the sessions for one and only one reason. And it was not about presenting my paper. The motivation was because of the way the event was organized.
the curtain raiser was a great presentation following our National Anthem "Vande Matharam". The vision about 2020 talked about some of the great facts about India. India is the country who invented the ZERO, the numbering system. We are the country where World's cheapest cars was made through indigenous innovation. The Session also mentioned about Mahatma Gandhi one of the greatest leaders ever born in this universe. And with many foreign delegates present, there was no hesitation to be proud about our country, including singing both the national anthems, unlike some pseuodo intellectuals who were worried about foreigners getting embarassed about we singing our National Anthem.
Patriotism is something that is the right of all of us. And demonstrating it doesnt need any special forum and any hesitation. Thats where I saluted the event.
While we have our own issues like high population, poverty, lack of education while most of them depending on many others, we are still united and determined to improve. Identifying project management as one of the important driver for the development of this country is very good point and is something to work on.
Personally I feel, the root cause is Population which urges the people to go for short cuts in wherever they needed to compete among toomany players. Thats where the corruption starts. And thats where people ask for reservations without real education. When more people live in less space lot of resources needed to be shared but the urge for survival forces burglary. In addition, the health issues comeup as toomuch population cant assure hygene.
HOWEVER, project management being order of life, some of the issues can be overcome. For example, if I plan my travel properly I dont need to bribe the Ticket Collector for a berth in the train. It also saves you a lot of costs which you may need to pay as premiums while doing the things in the last minute. Cost Management- part of the Project Management can help you improve your reserves and use them in right place. A good quality avoids bad investments and more value for less money in short time (as there will be no rework).
I have seen costs being shot up in events like marriages, just because Project management techniques were not applied.
I will definitely be part of this initiative of cascading the PM culture everywhere. I know it is difficult but not impossible.