Dear Friends,

Warm greetings and compliments of the season to you all. It is indeed an honour and a great privilege for me to be elected as the President of CEAI, an office in which I am just starting the two-year tenure. I sincerely hope that all of us start the New Year well after almost a year into the COVID19 pandemic, which has now become a part of our life. We all heard from Shri Amitabha Ghoshal in the last monthly Newsletter that he would be stepping down and taking on the position of the immediate Past-President and hence his rich experience will continue to be readily available to all of us. What is of immediate pleasure and interest is that after the able leadership of Mr Amitabha Ghosal, I have been made responsible for a healthy and strong organisation which is reasonably well financially.

CEAI has an excellent group of hard-working Members serving on the Governing Council with inclusion of additional members. Together they constitute a dynamic group of progressive professionals, ready and active to develop and lead CEAI. To keep the momentum, it is essential to keep the positions of the Executive Committee filled with young, enthusiastic and dedicated professionals.

Over the last two years I have learnt that we as an association have the capability to meet and overcome further challenges, such as:

• Increase memberships on a pan-India basis with more focus on other regions
• Have a rich and award-winning innovative project related publication
• Hold top class symposia, seminar and conferences, online or physical as may be possible
• Communicate, teach and train fellow Engineers to be more responsible in delivering the best in class.
• Become involved in more collaboration with other engineering and consulting associations.
• Improve the association’s value and brand Nationally and internationally.

CEAI must do more to contribute actively in bridging the gaps amongst the various professional groups and disciplines, which means collaboration with those in the sectors of Air, Water, Agriculture, Energy and allied fields, Life Sciences, Space Sciences, Surveying, etc. and increase Regional area activities.

From time to time, I will be communicating with you of our mutual progress through the Website, Newsletter, Viewpoint, etc. As requested earlier, please do send us your stories relating to your professional work in your areas of work.

I wish you a Happy, Healthy and Productive 2021 and hope that I will get to meet you all personally.

Warm regards,

Dr Ajay Pradhan