With an aim to ease doing business, enable rapid growth and meet global standards or set best practices, various reforms were initiated such as, demonetization, Goods and Service Tax, NPA and Insolvency Code. The reforms will bring the desired changes in long term, albeit slowly and the recent dip in GDP growth is an aberration, as India will gain immensely. All the regulatory authorities, are geared up to promote ease doing business, attract investment and help the country achieve rapid growth, and are continually revising policies and relaxing rules. To keep pace with such regulatory reforms, the members serving in industry are working ardently by learning new concepts and practices. Some of those members have proven their proficiency and achieved exemplary success that is beyond comparison. True Competence and Commitment remain keys to attain the stage of significance in life. People blessed with high commitment and high competency is a gift of God. Their competency makes them shine in limelight and people who come closer to them clearly perceive their qualities of commitment. Many of our members, serving in the industry and business, have proven themselves worthy enough to improve the financial health of the corporates they work with resulting to prosperity of the country. Besides making the stakeholders satisfied, those members made the CA profession also proud. I am glad to know that the Committee for Professional Accountants in Businesses & Industry (CPABI), under the aegis of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), with a view to showcase such excellent works and spread the magic of their magnificent achievements, would recognize those members at a mega event- ICAI Awards, 2017 that will be held on 19th January, 2018 at Nehru Center in Mumbai. It is also heartening to note that this year, CPABI has added a few more categories to cover the members serving in certain specified categories. I compliment and congratulate all the members of CPABI for planning to do it in a grand manner at the commercial capital of the country and hope more number of members will take part in this mega event. I wish every success of the event. CA. Naveen N.D. Gupta |