Date: 17th May,2008
To,
The Editor
THE TIMES of INDIA.,Pune.
Subject: Mr.Shrikant Chandane reelected as President of CAD CAM PEOPLE’s Association of INDIA press release.
Dear sir.
This press release is released to inform all media about the Election of CAD CAM PEOPLE’s ASSOCIATION OF INDIA.Pune.Cad Cam association held its five year election for the post of President .Mr Shrikant Chandane is elected second time in this election .Established in 2003 the association has made remarkable work for this field under guidance of Mr.Chandane . During his last tenure he organized various exhibitions ,conferences and seminar on cost reduction of product development and its expansion to get advantage to the Indian industries. It started India’s first CAR DESIGN institute and CAD CAM field engineers and professional took advantage of its activities.
Mr.Chandane has pointed at Autocluster and its failure of serving its purpose.Under the guidance of Mr.Sharad Pawar Maratha Chamber of Commerce ,Industries and agreeculture and PCMC started 127 crore Autocluster project which is called india’s first Autocluster .Mr.Chandane said the initially the purpose of Autocluster was to provide design and testing services at cheaper rates to help small and mediam scale industries.Autocluster neither has a proper management which keeps all systematic management .Nobody understands its operation and working methods.It is observed that upon submitting projects to autocluser it is never given attention and given acknowledgements of the submissions.The reply is not sent to the parties who submitted projects.All answers are given verbally.
The purpose of Autocluster was to provide research education with all industry associations as a partners.But the Association’s CAR DESIGN institute project was rejected by autocluster because of Bank Guarantee which is not made available to non profit organizations .Many students who are interested in learning CAR DESIGN are now kept away from all facilities of autocluster.Whereas the private companies running at autocluster has not provided bank guarantees.Still working from the bigining.The education at Autocluster provided is not of that quality.Profitability is the main Aim of the Autocluster now.The top management officiatials has no sufficient knowledge of design and its processes and software still they are running the show.
On this occasion Mr.Shrikant Chandane has given indication of strict action against it if the facilities will not be made available to the poor students who are seeking quality education at cheaper fees.Under Right to information act the Autocluster will have to give answers to the questions of association.
