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Education and private sector employment
Did Hazel graduate from secretarial college and, if so, which college did she graduate from, and in which year? Also, Hazel discusses her experience working for Kellogg construction company's Canadian division. My research has indicated that she was a secretary and office administrator, but I can not find any written sources - does anyone have any information to confirm this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.119.244.194 (talk) 16:53, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Neutrality and sufficient content
This is quite a glowing article for a fairly divisive figure. The section I marked makes assertations that are not backed up with evidence. In fact, this article reads like even more of a mash note than her official biography. The description of Mississauga as a shining suburban (sorry, "urban") paradise is questionable.

This article needs expansion. McCallion is a colorful, popular, and notorious figure. To claim she is without "ideological pretensions" (with no evidence, of course) is misleading at best. Cleduc 19:25, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * And it turns out: this suspect content was removed once before, and then added back by User:Mikerussell. The same POV issues remain however.  I'm deleting the POV parts now.  Cleduc 19:30, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

I edited to focus on factual matters and remove some of the more glowing bits. SiannaTyrrae (talk) 14:32, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Campaigning
I've heard that Hurricane Hazel hasn't had to campaign for the past little while... that could easily be wrong, but it would be nice if it were true, eh? Kareeser|Talk! 17:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * It very much is true. During the last municipal campaign she took a vacation to China, and asked all her supporters offering donations to give the money to charity instead.  I added a small note about that in the article. Snickerdo 21:40, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Hazel McCallion's "ideological pretensions"
I suppose this is rather belated, by six months or so, but it is the first time I read your comments and they sparked my curiousity. To say that Mayor McCallion has no ideological pretension means she does not closely or recurrently align herself with a clearly defined political party or right or left wing policy framework. You're definition must be different, at least I am assuming, so before I make a revision to the article in the future, I thought I would ask for an explanation to your problem with such an accurate assememnt. In the new edit I will add info on how she has worked with both provincial and federal parties and her own lack of a university education which may be a contributing factor in the absence of an ideological orientation. Also, the fact she is a municipal politician adds much, if not all-to-obvious, weight to her absence of defining herself as a party affliated politician. Quiet frankly, I think you are biasing the article out of your ignorance. --Mikerussell 07:08, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * To write that she has no ideological pretensions or orientations is meaningless opinion and cannot be proven. If it is meant to mean something else, then it should be written another way.  As it was written, I could read it to mean that McCallion holds no ideology above any other -- that, for example, she'd be equally comfortable with Trotskyite Communism and Mussolini Fascism.  If you wish to state "she does not closely or recurrently align herself with a clearly defined political party or right or left wing policy framework" then that's what you should write, and provide sources to prove.  I myself have some doubts on the latter part, and would watch for neutral, reliable sources to back it up (as opposed to original research).  Also, I respectfully request that you refrain from making assumptions about my ignorance on the subject.  Cleduc 19:31, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * It strikes me as biased or POV to interpret the word ‘ideological’ in this article- a civic leader in Mississauga- in the fashion you have in your response. Do you seriously think the average reader would assume she is a Trotskyite? Get a grip on the language used, and not a strict, exaggerated interpretation of the word. We cannot assume every wikipedia reader is a moron; the context under which one writes cannot be debased by some irrational standard applied by a single opinionated contributor. Apart from taking a rather straightforward and frank assessment of your qualification on the topic, namely Mayor McCallion and Mississauga’s governance, too personally, you have failed to offer much in response to counter my original astonishment at the surprise I have at your edit of the article. I will try to add more and replace a picture that as taken down, but overall, unless you really think that it is prudent, logical, or good prose to make certain ‘ideology’ a word coined by Karl Marx and tied to his view of History, a word almost totally divorced from its original meaning, which currently covers a wide spectrum of political opinion, is used in some strict academic fashion, then I suspect we will meet again on the Hazel McCallion page. Thanks for the response. --Mikerussell 00:34, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I look forward to reading your changes on Hazel McCallion, and encourage you to look for sources which document her freedom from ideology. Words are what we have to work with, and they matter. Cleduc 00:53, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't want to pick a fight, but in re-reading this whole exchange I thought I might clarify a point. The reason why I said "Quiet frankly, I think you are biasing the article out of your ignorance" is not anyway intended as an assessment of you or your background- that is why I said you misconstrued it too personally, but perhaps I was not clear. The statement was/is based on my reading of the article and your contributions to it (as seen in history listing) which do not provide any information on what ideological position she does have. My actual comment way back when (6 months ago) was she has 'no set ideological pretensions'- italics now added, which you saw as POV, but you have not ascribed her any ideology either, thus you must be 'ignorant' of what ideology she has, yet certain she has one. Well, what it is it then? You add info about ring tones, but nothing about her ideological views, why not? That is why I claimed you were 'ignorant', it was a 'descriptive' evaluation in my mind of what the article currently states. At any rate, just thought I would make that comment clear because it may be days before I get around to getting a usable picture and updating the article. When I do, I am sure you may have comments. However, you must also be prepared with, in your words, to have "neutral, reliable sources to back it up (as opposed to original research)" to support your own opinions. Thanks for debating. --Mikerussell 05:01, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Just report the facts and site them. There shouldn't be a debate. The process is really not that difficult. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.117.174.82 (talk) 08:33, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Publications
Here are some sources I found at the Toronto Public Library and the Mississauga Library System. Are there any other published sources recommended?
 * Madam mayor the life and times of Hurricane Hazel. Rogers Video, 2001. (available for loan at TPL, MLS)
 * Urbaniak, Tom. Farewell, town of Streetsville : the year before amalgamation. Epic Press, 2002. (''Reference stacks only at TPL; MLS has 16 copies)
 * An Interview with Mayor Hazel McCallion about her career in politics, Mississauga Heritage Foundation, 2001. (MLS Call #: CAN R 971. 3535 INT)
 * Mayor Hazel McCallion. Newspaper clippings. Mississauga Library System. 1980- (MLS, Ref stacks)
 * Moving forward together : a discussion paper. Hazel McCallion, Mel Lastman, Nancy L. Diamond, Barbara Hall, 1996. (MLS Call #: R/352./07135/MOV)
 * Shape the future [2003] : Central Ontario Smart Growth Panel : final report (MLS: Call #: CAN R 338. 9713 ONT)

Noting references
Perhaps we should use the system to footnote these points. Cleduc 04:41, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

oldest
Is she the oldest mayor in the world? Or of Ontario? or something?--Sonjaaa 18:09, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure, but she certainly is the sexiest. --72.57.241.84 22:47, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Hazel McCallion's Maiden Name?
Does anybody have her maiden name? It would be less awkward to write "Hazel McCallion (born Hazel xxxxxx)" in the first section... 64.228.130.138 04:34, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Hazel was accused of racist remarks
Hazel was accused of racist remarks a few years ago, 2001 or 2002 I believe. The nature of the comments were basically an implication that people of ethnic heritage (particularly South Asian) were draining the health care system. She also mocked their "native costumes." I haven't had much luck finding the articles, maybe someone else has seen them recently. This, and Hazel's recent car accident, would give her article a greater sense of balance. 72.137.224.24 01:20 17 October 2006
 * Somebody should remind you what the word "accused" means.--Mikerussell 04:11, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Shanel's valueless deletions on Political Ideology
As a general rule an editor that deletes a whole section of a long standing article should make a claim in the discussion page to the value the deletion adds to the article. I can see none whatsoever, as some info is better than none and reinserted the paragraphs and sections. I found no evidence of any incorporation in the other parts of the article. --Mikerussell 01:33, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Hello. I removed the entire section because it was unreferenced and reads like an election advertisement. It is also POV, in my opinion. In incorporated the paragraph "McCallion is the founder of Hazel's Hope, a campaign to fund health care for children afflicted with AIDS and HIV in southern Africa. Accordingly, she has been lauded as "an international ambassador for the city and a world citizen" by World Mayor, a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization advancing the concerns of cities internationally." into the "Personal" section. I have put the advertisement template on the section for now.-- §hanel  07:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * There are 2 references cited in the paragraph, each with outside links. The first paragraphs about her working with other governemnt is just common sense, and it is included because it shows no clear political party preference. Is she a Liberal, Conservative, or NDPer? That's what can be reasonably infered by a reader with that sentence so it is useful- she is pragmatic more than politically attached to an ideology. She worked with the Harris governemnt and the Perterson government and the Bob Rae government etc., so unless you can source something to suggest she worked better with any one of the three major parties then I hardly think it is outlandish to remain in the article. Her policy of running the city like a business might need to be sourced but all that is requirred is a Fact tag; otherwise, the article is fairly straight foward.

 * As far as advertisement tag- what is this article selling? I don't get it. This is not a consumer good, you are suggesting wikipedia has such power as to effect the voters of Missisauga in 2010, or in the latest election? If you are saying it interferes with others opposing her in the City of Missisauga city counsel, or other municipalities in Ontario, then you might be accused of being POV yourself. This advertisement tag simply does not apply, the notion that this is propaganda is just your own POV opinion, she has won all the awards mentioned, are we suppose to hide that fact? She is suppose to apologize for winning the award or starting a charity or getting the Order of Canada? I think you should try to expand the article if you feel it doesn't mention important facts about her, but you need to better articulate the standard by which you feel this article is propoganda. --Mikerussell 06:31, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Neutrality question (July 31, 2007) By: The Mississauga Muse
I agree with the statements above. McCallion is on record as insisting that Council must look at issues and in reaching decisions from "a corporate point of view". She is on record as saying "We don't operate like the Federal and Provincial government. Thank God.  Thank God I say again."

The Federal government (Canada) and the Provincial (Ontario) have opposition parties. The other thing is all debate at both levels are in the Hansard records. The public can read every word uttered at both levels of government.

Mississauga isn't like that at all. It's, shall we say, "efficient".

One of the more revealing insights into Hazel McCallion's ideology can be found in this 16 minute video on Google Video when she took on Councillor Carolyn Parrish.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5486668015046113293

Perhaps that might be of help in defining McCallion's Mississauga. You know, her own words and actions? Hope this helps.

This is for Mike Russell. I've been reading this debate here with great interest. I also read your bio. It reads, "I was born, raised and educated in Toronto; I have no real expertise or insight on any matters pertaining to my contributions and I don't take wikipedia too seriously."

And we are now supposed to take your contributions on Hazel McCallion seriously? Do you attend Council meetings or General Committee meetings or standing committee meetings? Do you read the agendas and the minutes of each one? At attend Peel meetings too? Do any Freedom of Information research on Mississauga municipal governance to verify statements posted at mississauga.ca? User:The Mississauga Muse July 31, 2007

 * You have failed to contribute much but your own opinion, so it is not helpful. You are attributing quotes to McCallion without references, meaning from legitimate sources where others can read beyond this website, and without context. Moreover, you are unclear about what exactly point you are trying to contest or reply to. You want readers to spend 16 minutes listening to a video or read a Hansard in vain since Mayor McCallion would never be found in any record of the House of Commons or Queens Park- she is a municipal politician. Do you mean Mississauga City Council minutes? Why don't you try explaining what is at issue, before misleading readers and contradicting yourself.--Mikerussell 04:22, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Mikerussell wrote:

"You want readers to spend 16 minutes listening to a video or read a Hansard in vain since Mayor McCallion would never be found in any record of the House of Commons or Queens Park- she is a municipal politician."

For someone writin' about McCallion, you should know that her primary mantra is "Do your homework". You haven't. McCallion HAS appeared on record of the House of Commons (Queen's Park)

Quick easy example:

"Consideration of Bill 130, An Act to amend various Acts in relation to municipalities / Projet de loi 130, Loi modifiant diverses lois en ce qui concerne les municipalités."

http://www.ontla.on.ca/committee-proceedings/transcripts/files_html/2006-11-22_G038.htm#P80_3057

Usually though her name appears in Hansard as it's tossed around by others. Example:

Hansard). Tuesday 26 April 2005. Mardi 26 avril 2005. Speaker.

MPP John Baird:

"Baird: The member opposite has my private line at his desk, I guess, and still gets calls. I got this call from this hysterical woman saying to me, “Mr. Minister, I’ve got a double-barrelled shotgun, it’s blazing and it’s got your name on it.” I said, “Who the heck is this?” Then I looked at the call display, and it said, “City of Mississauga, Mayor’s office,” and I believe it was Her Worship offering her suggestions as to my energy policy. I know she can exert considerable influ-ence, but it’s important that reason prevail, that it’s not just that the person who demands".

The issue is that Hazel McCallion's Mississauga is based on stupifying hypocrisy. While she lauds openness, accountability and importance of public input, Mississauga has NO PUBLIC COMPLAINTS system.

None.

Mississauga Parks and Recreation keep no records of public complaints. Neither does Mississauga Corporate Security. Imagine --security guards who can arrest, handcuff you and there is no complaints procedure.

Freedom of Information confirms that there is not a single record of a complaint made against Mississauga Parks and Recreation or Mississauga Corporate Security?

Hazel McCallion boasts about openness and the important of providing citizens with information. Yet McCallion's Mississauga has but one person in the entire Freedom of Information department.

Just one. And that person isn't doing Freedom of Information full time.

To return to what you wrote:

""You want readers to spend 16 minutes listening to a video"...

No, not people. But certainly the dude writin' up about some person here in Wikipedia. Good grief. Yeah. Listen to some of the Pure Duplicity she routinely spouts.

McCallion can get away with the bull she does because there's no opposition parties at the municipal level. There's no watchdog media with anything resembling guts and a memory. And a joke of a local television "news" show.

Mississauga is a Company Town.

Next you wrote:

"You are attributing quotes to McCallion without references, meaning from legitimate sources where others can read beyond this website, and without context."

What is better than a person's own words?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPztx3Y5Cig

See you at the November 25th Audit Committee, dude?

Signed, The Mississauga Muse

OOOPS... FOUND SOMETHIN' ELSE:

Regarding the entry:

"Her principles are grounded in the belief that a city should be run like a business; thus, she encourages the business model of governance."

During the October 24, 2007 Audit Committee, it became apparent that while McCallion "encourages the business model of governance", she is unable to get staff (also senior staff) to comply to the standards that a reasonable person (as in "reasonable person test") would come to expect.

Staff switch contracts without consulting with Council and even small switches are done without proper documentation. Records in some departments vary from "adequate" to "non-existent" (Happy to provide you with the visuals to support this.  And even audiotapes)

And of course then there's ENERSOURCE. 90% owned by the City of Mississauga (that is Mississauga residents are owners of Enersource). Yet the 10% shareholders OMERS (Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System) can veta anything that the other 90% on anything.

Seems Hazel McCallion's "I run Mississauga like a business" Mississauga signed an agreement on behalf of Mississauga citizens that contained no dispute resolution clause! City of Mississauga was to lower the salaries of the Enersource Board of Directors?

10% OMERS says no?

No it is.

Oh, that's how I'd run a business all right. Municipal employees call the entire shots at Mississauga Hydro and 90% City of Mississauga can't do a freaking thing about it.

"no dispute resolution clause in the agreement"

Here --nothing lengthy. Just a bit over two minutes long.

Hazel McCallion's "I run Mississauga like a business" Mississauga in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guxFljvTmto

Signed: The Mississauga Muse
 * I am still a little mystified at why you have such a misplaced sense of indignation at me, at wikipedia, and MCallion. First and foremost anybody can edit any article on wikipedia. My contributions are no more important than any other's editors. Nor do I believe I have added much info that relates to the daily politics of the city. If you have info that relates to this add it here and elsewhere and the weight of other editors will shape it over time. You really do exhibit a kind of "wacko" unbalanced tone here against the Mayor in my opinion, who is not a totalitarian despot, nor does she run the government alone. If you have reason to cite all this video junk- and it is junk in my opinion because they are out of context and people just have no idea what the point is with them, please explain the issue. Lets be honest- anybody familiar with municipal government will tell you that a few citizens can get very angry with the city. There is a reason why they install plexiglass at a lot of city's bylaw depts and tax depts, if you know what I mean. You seem to have some uindisclosed personal axe to grind, and if you can offer the readers of wikipedia evidence that McCallion is oppressing the civil rights of people who compalin about Parks & rec or whatever- just add it and let the other readers of wikipedia judge. otherwise, you are just wasting your time and making yourself look foolish too.--Mikerussell 02:54, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Whoa, Mike, what a lot of rhetorical and sophistical doubletalk! Are you sure you aren't being groomed by McCallion to replace her as Despot of Mississauga when she croaks? Lol. BidingMyTime2 (talk) 17:11, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Discussion on why re-elected 11 times, at 88
Not to disparage that an 88-year-old is still passionate about politics and her community, but is there any way to engender discussion on why the people of "Missed"-issauga, keep re-electing her, 11 times, ... at her age? It really begs the question: "Do Mississaugans really care? Is it a real community ... or just a convenience?"

You'd think there'd be some passion to their politics, if they are the sixth largest "city" in the country (me-thinks: they are not a city ... they are a suburb !!  Just like Surrey or Laval). But then, the fact that there seems to be simply a "ho-hum" attitude amongst Mississaugans to just continue re-electing Ms. McCallion, over and over and over and over and ...

... well, the fact that she just keeps getting re-elected well into her golden years is, de facto, proof that Mississauga is not a real city but, rather, just an endless collection of ticky-tacky "little boxes" and strip malls. --Atikokan (talk) 04:16, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia is not a place to discuss our dismissive personal opinions of McCallion or Mississauga. Like it or not, the woman is a force of nature, whom the residents of Mississauga quite honestly feel is still doing a very good job. Whether you personally agree with her politics or not, whether you personally think she's an old biddy who should shuffle off into a retirement home or not, it's hardly the case that mass civic disengagement is the only way she could get re-elected — it's entirely possible and valid that her style of leadership is what the people of Mississauga want. But at the same time, it should be noted that she hasn't had any real opposition on the ballot, i.e. nobody with the public stature to be a genuine contender for the mayoralty has dared to run against her, in many years now. Bearcat (talk) 16:39, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Over-detail
I have removed some very considerable excessive detail from the personal life section, as well as some unsourced opinion.  DGG ( talk ) 00:34, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

If Only
If only you won eleven straight elections, if only you had a 92% approval rating, if only you had zero debt and 700 million in reserves, you should be able to write your Wikipedia article any way you want to...--Oracleofottawa (talk) 23:48, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Not running in this election
680 News has reported she is not running in this year's election. Doesn't seem to be mentionned in this article. But will check for an article confirming that she is not running for re-election. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.21.72.195 (talk) 21:38, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Article not current August 2014
Among its other issues, the article needs to be brought up-to-date. I noticed this sentence under "Political views": However, Mississauga may have to borrow money to build new capital projects in 2012.[23].

McCallion is indeed not running for re-election on October 27, 2014. 10 candidates are running to replace her. http://www.mississaugavotes.ca/infoforvoters/whosrunning

Steve Mahoney and Bonnie Crombie led a poll taken on August 3 2014, each with about 30% support. http://www.torontosun.com/2014/08/03/mayoral-race-close-in-mississauga-poll Mathyeti (talk) 17:28, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

 * I've done some work to tidy it up, remove duplicate statements, and otherwise make it appear to be less of a hagiography. However, a lot still needs to be done to flesh out the various events that marked out her early life and political career.Raellerby (talk) 09:31, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Journeaux found dead
found dead inside her home Adshead123 (talk) 22:40, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Hazel Mccalion Deaths
Shouldnt we add how she died i.e of old age, its not clear right now when she died, and how? A Guy Learning and Knowing (talk) 17:08, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

 * Journeaux died of pancreatic cancer Adshead123 (talk) 19:49, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
 * exactly important stuff we needa add it 2607:FEA8:4A9C:9E00:91F7:2EB6:164E:9FAC (talk) 18:40, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

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A. M. Naik

Anil Manibhai Naik (born 9 June 1942) is an Indian industrialist, philanthropist and the Chairman Emeritus of Larsen & Toubro, an Indian engineering conglomerate, and a former Chairman of the National Skill Development Corporation.

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's 3rd highest civilian award, in 2009. In 2019, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's 2nd highest civilian award. Naik is also the recipient of the 'Economic Times - Business Leader of the Year Award, for the year 2008.

Early life

Naik is a Gujarati. He was born to a family of teachers in Gujarat, also referred to as Master Kutumb in Gujarati language. His father, who used to teach at Hansraj Morarji Public School in Mumbai, heeded Mahatma Gandhi's call to revitalise India's villages, and decided to return to his native village along with his family. Young Anil had finished five years at his father's school by this time, and the rest of his schooling was obtained from schools in Endhal and the neighbouring village of Kharel. In June 1958, Naik enrolled at V.P. Science College in Vallabh Vidyanagar, where he would prepare for a year for admission to an engineering college.

He graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya Engineering college in Vallabh Vidyanagar in Gujarat.

After graduation, he went to Mumbai with a note from his father introducing him to Viren J. Shah (another HMPS alumnus) working in Mukand Iron & Steel Works Limited to apply for its engineering programme. Due to his lack of proficiency in English, the personnel manager had asked him to improve his English. So Naik started working on his English skills. In the meantime, he joined Nestor Boilers, which was a Parsi-owned firm. Changes in ownership and management style at Nestor Boilers prompted Naik to turn to L&T.

Career at L&T
On 15 March 1965, Naik joined L&T, as a junior engineer. A rapid rise followed. He was appointed Assistant Manager within three years and 15 days of joining – a record at L&T. He was promoted as General Manager in 1986. He became Member of board of L&T Limited on 23 November 1989. In 1999, he took over as the chief executive officer and managing director. In 2003, he became the Chairman of Larsen & Toubro, the first employee in the company's history to be elevated to this post. At the helm, Naik initiated the transformation process that made L&T into a more entrepreneurial organisation with increased emphasis on wealth creation for all stakeholders. In an interview to McKinsey, Naik explained his reasons for the portfolio rationalisation that he undertook. In 2017, he stepped aside from executive responsibilities, and took over as Group Chairman. In May 2023, Naik was appointed the Chairman Emeritus of the company.

Ring fencing L&T
In the late 1980s, L&T encountered a takeover attempt by a large business group (Reliance group) which seized a substantial stake in the company. The management of L&T staunchly resisted these attempts to take over the company, wanting to maintain it as India's premier, indeed only, professionally run conglomerate. The central government, through various agencies, public sector banks, insurance companies, etc., held a large portion of L&T's shareholding. A succession of governments (as many as seven) held office during this period, but L&T's prestige and standing was such that none of them did anything to contravene the wishes of the board of professionals.

Finally, the predatory investor gave up and sought a settlement. In 2002, the predatory group's entire holding was transferred to a different family-owned business house (Birla group). The following year, this shareholding was purchased by an "employee welfare trust" funded and controlled by L&T itself. In this way, the company not only fended off the predator but also fortified its position as a professionally run company by gaining control of a large shareholding. The way in which Naik thwarted the take-over and fortified L&T against such threats has been widely covered in the media.

The matter thus ended in a 'win-win', with all parties concerned being happy with the outcome. S. Gurumurthy, currently on the Board of the Reserve Bank of India described the events as a 'security threat for L&T being converted into a security ring.' The Employee Stock Options which emanated from the successful resolution of the issue gave financial security to a large section of employees, and allowed them to share in the company's growth.

Shaping L&T into a 'Nation Builder'
Naik's stewardship of L&T is characterised by a sharper focus on sectors of national significance - defence, nuclear, aerospace, infrastructure, oil & gas and power. He has been instrumental in imparting a strong, nationalistic orientation to the company's products, offerings and capabilities, giving rise to its description as 'the company that is building 21st Century India'.

He has retired from Larsen & Toubro Limited on 30 September 2023.

Chairman – NSDC
In 2018, the Government of India appointed Naik the Chairman of the National Skill Development Corporation – the apex body to promote skilling and part of the Skill India mission of the Prime Minister. Making the announcement, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said under Naik's leadership, the corporation apart from its engagement in executing skilling modules, should also be a think-tank providing direction and necessary guidance for creating a demand-based skilling ecosystem in the country. Naik said NSDC has developed a unique model combining skill development with strong industry partnerships. NSDC, under the ministry, aims to promote skill development by catalysing creation of large, quality and for-profit vocational institutions. The organisation provides funding to build scalable and profitable vocational training initiatives.

Philanthropy
In August 2016, Naik announced that he would give 75% of his income to charitable causes over his lifetime, setting up the Naik Charitable Trust for education and the Nirali Memorial Medical Trust for healthcare.

Nirali Memorial Medical Trust had entered into an agreement to set up a Cancer Hospital at Navsari which will be operated by Tata Trusts. In January 2019, the Prime Minister of India laid the foundation stone for the Cancer hospital in Navsari, Gujarat. The healthcare campus at Navsari will also house a speciality hospital for which the NMMT has tied up with the Apollo Hospitals Group. NMMT also runs Nirali Memorial Radiation Centre in nearby Surat, a multi-disciplinary hospital at Powai in Mumbai and provides modern medical facilities at a hospital at Kharel, Gujarat.

Awards and honours

 * Honorary Consul General for Denmark.
 * Senior member of the Confederation of Indian Industry.
 * Member of the Board of Trade, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India.
 * Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers.
 * Former Member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
 * Nominated as the Chairman of the IIMA (IIM Ahmedabad) Society and the Board of Governors, for a period of three years starting 28 March 2012
 * Conferred 'Doctor of Letters' (Honoris Causa) by the Sardar Patel University on 15 December 2011
 * Conferred Doctor of Philosophy from Gujarat Technological University on 19 January 2013
 * Conferred Doctor of Letters from Veer Narmad University of South Gujarat on 26 February 2016
 * Conferred Doctor of Science from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in December 2016
 * Ranked India's Most Generous Corporate Professional by Hurun India and Edelgive Foundation - 2021

Personal life
A.M. Naik is married to Geeta Naik. They have two children, The Daughter is based in the USA: And a son, Jignesh, who works for Google moved back to India, and a daughter, Pratiksha, who runs a private medical practice.

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Regarding this edit, what is the intended meaning of the longer wording and what information does it have that the more concise wording does not? CMD (talk) 02:08, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manual of Style (foreign words and names) (draft)

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was speedy delete. Rob Church Talk 00:40, 1 September 2005 (UTC)  This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was speedy delete, as per author request. Graham 10:06, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Manual of Style (foreign words and names) (draft)
I started this page myself as a draft. I am the only contributor. The material is now at a better place (Proper names). Nobody is every going to search for this, so redirection is futile. Remove this page with all speed! Arbor 08:54, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. I put a speedy delete tag on it. If only a single author has contributed to a page, and the author reasonably requests it to be deleted, it can be speedy deleted. Graham 09:21, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
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Yorketown, South Australia

Yorketown is a town and a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the southern Yorke Peninsula about 91 km west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 70 km south of the municipal seat of Maitland.

History
Yorketown began as a private sub-division in section 85 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Melville in 1872. Its name was declared by the Surveyor General of South Australia as an official place name on 16 November 1995. Boundaries were created for the locality which was given the "long established name" of Yorketown on 27 May 1999. The area associated with Yorketown is known as Garrdinya by the Narungga, the aboriginal people of the Yorke Peninsula.

Government
It is located in the local government area of Yorke Peninsula Council, the state electoral district of Narungga and the federal Division of Grey.

Education
Yorketown Area School accommodates students from Reception to Year 12. First established in 1878 at Weaners Flat (where our town playground is now located), Yorketown Area School has been operating from its current site since 1976. it was merged with Edithburgh State School in 2017.

Media
The Southern Yorke's Peninsula Pioneer was first published in Yorketown on 21 January 1898, and sold at a discounted price due to its late appearance. It was originally owned and established by Ben L. Wilkinson, and later helped by his brother Richard. In Issue 10, on 25 March that year, the newspaper adopted a simpler title, The Pioneer, later becoming part of the Yorke Peninsula Country Times from June 1970.

For thirty years an opposition newspaper, The Southern Yorke's Peninsula Clarion (1 February – 31 May 1902), simplified to the Clarion (7 June 1902 – 21 May 1931), also existed in the town too.

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Sam Baker (writer)

Sam Baker (born July 1966) is a British journalist, author, and broadcaster.

Life and career
Baker was born in Hampshire, and studied politics at Birmingham University. She went on to work as a writer and editor for numerous British women's magazines, including Red, New Woman, Chat, and Take a Break. After re-launching teenage magazine Just Seventeen as J-17, she spent five years as editor of UK women's magazine Company, before resigning to write her first novel, Fashion Victim (described by Time as one of the five break-through first novels of the summer of 2005). Her second novel, This Year's Model, was published by Random House in the US, and Orion in the UK. Her third novel The Stepmothers Support Group was published by HarperCollins in 2009 (The Other Mothers Club / Avon / 2010 in the US). Her fourth novel, To My Best Friends, was published by Harper in May 2011.

She was the editor in chief of Cosmopolitan in the UK until December 2006. She then became editor in chief of Red, owned by Hachette, and a sister magazine to Elle. She resigned from Red in 2013, shortly after Hachette's magazines in the UK were acquired by Hearst. She took a year out researching the future of women's media and launched the website The Pool in 2015, with co-founder Lauren Laverne.

The Pool was described by J. Walter Thompson intelligence at Cannes Lions 2015 as "A new vision of women's media that goes beyond the glossy." The website entered administration in January 2019.

In Spring 2016 she published The Woman Who Ran, a critically acclaimed reworking of Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, described by Marian Keyes as, ‘Wildly gripping and unputdownable. This is a brilliant book.'

Baker also broadcasts on young women's issues. She lives in Winchester, Hampshire, and Paris with her partner, the novelist Jon Courtenay Grimwood.

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Abernant, Rhondda Cynon Taf

Abernant (or Abernant-y-Wenallt) is a small village north-east of the town of Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Like many in the South Wales Valleys, it was once a coal-mining village.

Etymology
Abernant is a shortening of the name "Abernant-y-Wenallt", and the area is recorded under this name in an 1800 lease of the land.

While the place-name element Aber is easily understand as a confluence of watercourses, (here referring to meeting of the Nant y Wenallt and the Cynon) the rest of the name is more debatable. The element -wen may refer to the colour white, or as an indicator that the place was in some way "blessed" or "holy". Similarly, the termination -allt commonly refers to an area of sloping hillside but can also denote the area as heavily wooded. Finally, In the language of South East Wales, nant refers to the watercourse itself, rather than the valley it sits in, therefore the name may be translated as either "the mouth of the white brook on the woody slope" or "the mouth of the blessed/holy brook on the woody slope".

History
Thomas Dafydd Llewellyn states that the river "Nantywenallt" formed one of the ancient boundaries of the four Rhandir of the parish of Aberdare and that there were no workers houses anywhere in Aberdare in 1799. This would change in October 1800, when a lease of the lands and mines at Abernant y Wenallt was signed with the power to "sink (mine shafts), build furnaces, (and) divert water courses" for the next ninety-nine years. This would see dramatic changes to the area with the founding of the Abernant Ironworks and the building of the first workers houses by 1801. Among the earliest structures were the homes at Little Row and Moss Place in Abernant.

By 1819, the works had been taken over by Rowland Fothergill, and later passed to his nephew, Richard Fothergill. The streets of Abernant reflect the importance of industry in the area in the 19th century, with streets named Engineer's Row, Foreman's Row and Collier's Row etc.

Abernant Railway Station opened in 1854 along the Vale of Neath branch line to Merthyr Tydfil. For some time the village was nicknamed The Trap, possibly because the Aberdare Iron Company Tramroad crossed the Parish Road to Abernant. The Marquis of Bute maintained a small cottage hospital in the area from 1875 until World War I, which was later used as the Trap Surgery until it was demolished in 1980.

A number of collieries operated in Abernant, many originally operated by the Aberdare Iron Company. The collieries were: Werfa No.1 (1846–1910); Werfa No. 2 (1879–1910); Mountain Pit (1866–1927); Blaennant Colliery (circa 1840–1927); Forge Pit (1851–1910) and River Level Colliery (circa 1840–1939). In 1896, a flooding disaster occurred at River Level Colliery which killed six colliers. The disaster occurred after it was inundated by water from the abandoned Ysguborwen Colliery. Although the Abedare Iron Company was responsible for the production of much coal in the Abernant area, it was never as well documented as some of the other works in the Rhondda Valley. In December 1912, the village was subject to extensive flooding, the Abernant Road in particular. In the mid-1980s, NCB reported that they intended to reopen a mine in Abernant and exploit anthracite reserves.

The Abernant pit was shut down in 1988.

Landmarks
Abernant House was built by James Birch, cofounder with Jeremiah Homfray of Abernant Ironworks. In 1819 the ironworks were sold and the house was passed to Rowland Fothergill and later his nephew Richard Fothergill. Richard Fothergill was responsible for adding many extensions to the original building and landscaping of the grounds. On March 1, 1892, Emma Talbot of Margam founded the St Michael's Theological College but in 1907 the college moved to Llandaff, Cardiff. Since 1917 Abernant House has been used as the site of Aberdare General Hospital. On September 27, 1929, a fire gutted the main building, destroying its notable interior furnishings too. The hospital later reopened in April 1933, and in 1939 W M Llewellyn funded the construction of a new maternity ward.

Religion
The main active churches are:
 * St Matthew's Mission Church, Church of Wales, opened 1888

There are also defunct places of worship:
 * Bethel Baptist Chapel opened in 1856. Now closed and demolished to make way for 4 houses.
 * Bethesda Independent Chapel (opened 1860, disused by 2004). Now converted as a family home.
 * Nazareth Calvinistic Methodist Chapel (opened 1860, closed 1965).

Notable people

 * Stuart Cable (1970–2010), the late former drummer of the Stereophonics and broadcaster lived in Abernant for a period.
 * Elaine Morgan (7 November 1920 – 12 July 2013) lived with her husband and wrote in a bungalow called Noddfa near Little Row, Abernant.

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Empire Road

Empire Road is a British television series, made by the BBC in 1978 and 1979. Written by Michael Abbensetts, the programme ran for two series.

The series was the first British television series to be written, acted and directed predominantly by black artists. A soap opera, similar in format to Coronation Street, Empire Road depicted life for the African-Caribbean, East Indian and South Asian residents of a racially diverse street in the city of Birmingham.

Cast members included Norman Beaton (Everton Bennett), Corinne Skinner-Carter (Hortense Bennett), Wayne Laryea, Joseph Marcell, Rudolph Walker and Rosa Roberts. The programme also provided early TV exposure for Julie Walters, who appeared in a few episodes. The series was made at BBC Pebble Mill with location work in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.

The eponymously named theme song was recorded by Matumbi and also released as a single in 1978.

The general premise of the series concerns the day-to-day life of a residential property landlord (Norman Beaton) who also owns a minimarket – where his brother-in-law is a junior partner – and sometimes deals with social concerns of the time, namely race issues, family issues and mixed relationships. Problems that arise are usually solved or at least calmed by the protagonist family's patriarch using reasoning based on his life experience, wisdom and common sense. Some of the younger characters affectionately regard him as a benign "godfather" figure. The patriarch's son runs a dry-cleaning business.

Norman Beaton later went on to star in the Channel 4 comedy series Desmond's.

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Aberaman

Aberaman is a village near Aberdare in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales. It was heavily dependent on the coal industry and the population, as a result, grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century. Most of the industry has now disappeared and a substantial proportion of the working population travel to work in Cardiff and the M4 corridor. Many residents also work in the nearby towns of Aberdare and Pontypridd.

History
Aberaman, to the south of Aberdare, was an agricultural area until the early nineteenth century. Prior to the industrial revolution, Aberaman was the home of the Mathew family, local gentry who owned land throughout Glamorgan and who came to prominence in the seventeenth century when three members of the family served as High Sheriff of Glamorgan. The family seat was at Aberaman Isha, later known as Aberaman House (and which still exists in 2014 but is much altered). The last of the Mathew family, Edward Mathew, died in 1788 and the estate was broken up after two centuries and divided between his three daughters and their husbands.

In 1806, Anthony Bushby Bacon, an illegitimate son of Anthony Bacon, a prominent iron master at Merthyr Tydfil, bought Aberaman House. He shared the Hirwaun ironworks with his brother but proceeded to sell his share to his brother and with the proceeds from the sale, he purchased the Matthews estate at Aberaman, including Aberaman House. Bacon, also known as Anthony Bacon II, did not aspire to be an iron master like his father and, in 1814, sold the entire Cyfarthfa estate, which he alone had inherited, to Richard Crawshay. For the rest of his life he used the Aberaman estate as a summer residence. He died there on 11 August 1827.

After his death, it passed to Crawshay Bailey, who owned the ironworks at Nantyglo and Beaufort. Bailey recognised the potential of the rich coal seams of the Aberdare and Rhondda valleys and bought up land in these areas in the 1830s. Amongst the lands he acquired was the Aberaman estate, which he bought from the executors of Anthony Bacon II, together with its mansion, by indenture dated 17 February 1837. It was several years before he began speculating for coal. By 1845, Crawshay Bailey had, in partnership with Josiah John Guest, built the Aberdare Railway and, around this time, the Aberaman Ironworks and a number of collieries associated with it were opened. Bailey remained the owner of the Aberaman Estate but despite the profitability of his colliery activities, the depression in the iron trade (see below) meant that the enterprise did not prove as successful as Bailey had hoped so he decided to sell the Aberaman estate and return to Monmouthshire. He disposed of the entire Aberaman estate including its collieries, ironworks, brickworks and private railway, to the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. by indenture dated 2 February 1867 for the sum of £123,500. Bailey retired to Abergavenny.

Around 1843, the valuable steam-coal seams on the Blaengwawr estate began to be exploited by David Davis, Blaengwawr. Davis was a self-made man whose family firm later became one of the most important in the South Wales coal trade, with interests in both the Aberdare and Rhondda valleys.

During the second half of the nineteenth century, Aberaman continued to grow southwards. During the early years of the twentieth century the area known as Godreaman became built up, meaning that there was unbroken development between Aberaman and neighbouring Cwmaman, which was a settlement dependent almost wholly on the coal industry. By this time, Lewis Street at the heart of Aberaman village had developed into a small urban and commercial core around the Aberaman Hall and Institute (see below).

Demography
It can be seen that the industrial developments of the mid-1840s were the catalyst for the growth of Aberaman as an industrial settlement. The earliest housing in the 1840s took the form of a ribbon development southwards from Aberdare along Cardiff Road. In the 1850s, the settlement grew out from Cardiff Road as, amongst others, Curre Street, Holford Street, Gwawr Street and Lewis Street were built. There were also settlements near the collieries, including Incline Row and Bell Place near Aberaman Colliery, and Blaengwawr Row and Blaengwawr Cottages adjacent to Blaengwawr Colliery.

John Griffith, in his evidence to the inspectors compiling the 1847 Education Reports reported that Aberaman had only been in existence for eighteen months, yet its population stood at 1200. This figure was expected to increase to 4,800 within a year. Fifty carpenters and eighty masons were reported to be employed in the building of industrial housing.

Two contemporary accounts give a vivid description of the conditions prevailing in Aberdare as the area struggled to cope with the population explosion.

On 1 December 2016, following The Rhondda Cynon Taf (Communities) Order 2016, the community of Aberaman was split into two new communities, Aberaman North and Aberaman South, which are coterminous with the electoral wards of the same names.

Iron
Aberaman Ironworks was the last ironworks to be opened in the Aberdare Valley. It was established in 1845 by Crawshay Bailey and the first iron was produced in 1847. However the works were not successful. They closed temporarily in 1854 but re-opened the following year. In 1862 it appears that Bailey sought to sell the works for £250,000 but failed to find a buyer. Following Bailey's retirement the works were eventually taken over by the Powell Duffryn Company but were never worked again following their closure in 1866.

Coal
Crawshay Bailey was also the pioneer of the coal industry at Aberaman, opening the Aberaman Colliery in 1845. This passed for the Powell DuffrynCompany in 1866 after their purchase of the Aberaman Estate. In 1909 the first Mines Rescue Station in South Wales was opened at the Aberaman Colliery and at this time over a thousand men were employed there. The manager of the colliery at this time was E.M. Hann who was a powerful figure in the South Wales coal trade for many years. Powell Duffryn continued to own the colliery until nationalisation in 1947 when it was taken over by the National Coal Board. Aberaman Colliery closed in 1965.

Government
Aberaman currently comprises two electoral wards, Aberaman North and Aberaman South, for the purposes of electing members to the unitary Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council. Aberaman has formed an electoral ward since the formation of Glamorgan County Council in 1889 and Aberdare Urban District Council in 1894.

Language
At the start of the twentieth century the vast majority of the inhabitants of Aberaman, many of whom were migrants from rural Welsh counties, were Welsh-speaking. By 2011 the proportion speaking Welsh had fallen to 9.2%.

Religion
Nonconformist chapels in Aberaman included Gwawr (Baptist), Saron (Independent) and Libanus (Calvinistic Methodist), all of which dated from the growth of the village in the late 1840s. All have now closed.

Culture
Much of the social life of Aberaman was centred on the imposing Aberaman Hall and Institute in Lewis Street. A campaign to develop a Public Hall and Institute at Aberaman dated from 1892 when a public meeting was held in Saron Chapel. Until that point the chapels had been dominant in public life and the development of a secular hall, in hindsight, could be seen as the beginning of their long decline. Many years elapsed before sufficient funds were raised to begin the building work and the ceremony to lay the foundation stone was held on 2 October 1907, on the site previously occupied by the Aberaman Reading Institute. The hall was officially opened by Keir Hardie MP on 14 June 1909.

Designed by an Aberdare architect, Thomas Roderick, and built by John Morgan and Son, the hall's facilities included two billiards rooms, two games rooms, a swimming pool in the basement, Committee Room, a Lending Library and Reference Room, and a Lecture Hall. Its crowning glory was the main auditorium with seating for 1,800 people with a first floor offering additional capacity.

Throughout the twentieth century the hall was the social and cultural centre for Aberaman. It was eventually destroyed by fire in November 1994.

Primary schools

 * Blaengwawr Primary (Gwawr Street/Cardiff Road)
 * Oaklands Primary (Maes Y Deri)

Secondary schools
Aberaman was formerly home to Blaengwawr Comprehensive School, a secondary school in the heart of the community. This school was closed, however, at the end of the 2014 school year due to the establishment of Aberdare Community School.

Sport
The local soccer club currently plays in the MacWhirter Welsh League, Division One. The club was formed in 1892 and was a founder member of the Welsh League in the 1902–03 season. Its home ground is at Aberaman Park, situated between the village and nearby Abercwmboi. The striker, Hannah Lewis has scored 475 goals this season. She even scored one in the Ferny.

Notable people

 * See Category:People from Aberaman

 * Patrick Hannan, journalist and broadcaster
 * Arthur Linton, cyclist
 * Tom Linton, cyclist
 * Jimmy Michael, cyclist
 * Alf Sherwood, former footballer
 * Reg Pugh, former footballer
 * Rhys Shellard, Rugby Union
 * Emlyn Williams (footballer, born 1903)

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Kingsburgh

Kingsburgh may refer to:

 * Kingsburgh, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
 * Kingsburgh, Skye, Highland, Scotland
 * Kingsburgh, California, former name of Kingsburg, California, United States
 * Kingsborough, Queensland, a former mining town in Australia

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