Dr. Daniel Babu Paul

BABU PAUL

Achievements

Babu Paul's hallmark is farsightedness and determination. The term 'impossible ' is not there in the dictionary of Babu Paul same as in the lexicon of Napolean Bonaparte. Innovative ideas and dynamic execution set him apart while in the civil service.

· Founder-Managing Director of Kerala Handloom Corporation, he prepared a master document which laid down guidelines of growth route, which is deemed valid even now, after 30+ years.

· Completed Idukki Project, a Canada-India venture, plagued by labour trouble and contract failures.

· Conceived the idea of the proposed International Transshipment Terminal at Cochin.

· As Port Chairman started work on the present container terminal, commenced computerisation in a volatile port in 1980s ensuring cooperation of even communist trade unions (then opposed to computerisation), kept the port strike free for almost five years.

· As District Collector ensured violence free harvest season in an extremist-infested area in Palakkad in 1970.

· As CEO of Titanium Products registered record production, profit, bonus to workers and dividend to Government.

· As CEO of Road Transport Corporation led a strike-free office for four years.

· As Fisheries Secretary introduced regulation of marine fishing and also welfare measures for fisher-folk (like a special bus for women fish sellers).

· As Finance Secretary managed the limited resources of the state carefully ending each year without overdraft from the central bank of the country.

· As Member, Board of Revenue made a six-fold increase in revenue collection over a 4-year period. As Tourism Secretary initiated backwater tourism and many other imaginative schemes.

· As Secretary for Cultural Affairs won universal acclamation among Malayalees for the numerous imaginative and innovative programmes initiated over a decade.