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It is generally said and believed that ones achievement is always the virtual culmination of ones dreams. Dr. R.C. Tiwari, the Chairman cum Managing Director of The Jute Corporation of India Limited, who had dreamt that consistency in the performance of the Public Sector is necessary to meet future global challenges, eventually emerged as a great philanthropist. He joined the Corporation in April 2005 on accomplishment of quite a brilliant Academic career of M.Sc., LLB (Hons), MBA and Ph.D. His thesis on "Impact of Globalization on Productivity in Public Sector Enterprises and its Future Implications" had received nation-wide accolade. His study on Public Sector Enterprises suggests that their restructuring is necessary to face future challenges and to discharge a number of socio-economic obligations with internal resource generation for finance plan, contribution to public exchequer foreign exchange earning and to generate surplus with improved technology.

In an exclusive interview to <whispersinthecorridors.com>
Dr. Tiwari has spoken in broad details how he proposes to go about the job of implementing Functional and Financial Restructuring of JCI to make it a financially sound organization.

1/ How do you think your study could help in resurrecting a unit from a state of decline?

A. You see, what had started as a study of sorts, became a conviction eventually. We have implemented a revival plan for the revival of the textile mills of NTC (MP) and now with the additional charge as MD, NTC (WBABO), we are well in the process of modernizing Aarti Cotton Mills, Kolkata with a financial budget layout of Rs. 40 crore.

2/ What are the short term and long term strategies that you are planning for JCI?

A. It really had been a challenge for us and we have turned a fresh leaf in the working ethics of JCI by implementing Functional and Financial Restructuring Plan of JCI approved by the Government of India to make it a financially sound Corporation to play a proactive role by conducting Commercial Operations to ensure fair remunerative price to jute growers. JCI is also working as a Nodal Agency to conduct Minimum Support Price operation, i.e., purchase raw jute in the MSP price declared by the Government of India every year. Whenever there is a downward trend in raw jute prices and it falls below MSP, JCI undertakes MSP operations through its 171 purchase centres along with 80 purchase centres of state level Co-operative Societies to provide MSP to jute growers. The Commercial Operations thus undertaken by the Corporation has also helped in arresting the downward trend in jute prices, especially in jute harvesting months, and in the process jute growers are able to realize good price for their raw jute.

3/ How long has JCI been in existence?

A. The Jute Corporation of India Ltd., was established and christened in the year 1971 under the Company Law by the Government of India. The Corporation today commands 171 Departmental Purchase Centres and 16 Regional Offices in all the 7 Jute Growing States viz, West Bengal,Assam, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh,Orissa,Meghalaya,and Tripura.
The Head Quarter is in Kolkata.

4/ How did you arrange your order of priority?

A. Prior to the Financial Year 2005-2006, JCI had been conducting MSP operations in cycle of 3 to 4 years, based on demand-supply situations. However, from 2005-2006 onwards we have started the Commercial Operations of the Corporation to gainfully utilize its infrastructure maintained for MSP operations. Through dedicated efforts JCI has generated about Rs. 12 crore towards its overhead cost. The Corporation has, therefore, become financially sound and able to generate profit

5/ What are the spasmodic plans for the Corporation in the immediate future?

A. Yes, indeed! The Corporation has further plans to go "Contract Farming" wherein, jute growers will be extended finance by the Nationalized Banks under buy back guarantee to be provided by JCI. This will help the jute growers in a big way to avoid exploitation by unscrupulous middlemen. As a part of the future plan, JCI will also play an important role as Nodal Agency in implementing the scheme of Mini Mission - III of the Jute Technology Mission for development of marketing infrastructure in jute growing states

6/ Could you please throw some light on the very concept of the Jute Technology Mission ?

A. Under Mini Mission - III of the Jute Technology Mission and with a budget layout of Rs. 38 crore, JCI will develop 10 Marketing Yards, 20 Departmental Purchase Centres, 50 Retting Tanks and other facilities. The objective of the scheme is to conjure up improved marketing infrastructure of raw jute. JCI today is conducting demonstrations of new techniques of jute retting to improve the quality of raw jute and thereby helping the jute growers to increase their income with better quality of jute. The Corporation further supplements in distribution of certified jute seeds for the benefit of jute growers

7/Q. What is the present scenario of raw jute and how do you plan to promote its use?

A. Raw jute is a natural fibre which is extremely eco-friendly. Jute plant is grown mainly in the eastern part of the country with West Bengal alone accounting for 65%of the total followed by Bihar contributing 13%, Assam with 12%, Andhra Pradesh with 5%, Orissa with 3% and the balance 2% contribution coming from Meghalaya and Tripura. The Government of India has enacted Jute Packaging Materials Act to make use of jute bags compulsory for packaging of food grain and sugar. This has been done with the objective to promote the use of jute as packaging material as jute is a natural fibre and environment friendly. By virtue of the different measures taken by Govt. of India, interest of more than 40 million jute growers and 2 lakh workers of the country is protected.

8/ What are the initiatives being taken by the Ministry of Textiles?

A. I am, indeed, grateful to the Ministry of Textiles for having taken new initiative towards the jute sector for approval of functional and financial restructuring of JCI to make it a financially sound organisation to work more effectively for the interest of jute growers. The Government has approved a Jute Technology Mission with a budget layout of Rs. 355 crore and JCI has been given the responsibility to implement the same in the next 5 years in its capacity as a Nodal Agency. The Technology Mission again gestates the following 4 mini missions:1. Towards R&D on Agriculture.2. Towards Improvement in the Quantity ofProduction.3. Towards Up-gradation of market linkageof Raw Jute.4. Towards Modernization and Up-gradation of Jute Technology, to augment Diversification of Jute Products.

9/ At the Jute Corporation of India (JCI) how the mechanism of Minimum Support Price functions?

A. The GoI declares Minimum Support Price(MSP) for raw jute every year. JCI has been appointed as the Nodal Agency to conduct MSP Operation as and when raw jute prices fall below the Minimum Support Prices. It is necessary to provide support to the jute growers during such period when there is no other takers of raw jute in the market. JCI through its 171 Departmental Purchase Centres (DPC) and 16 Regional Offices in 7 jute growing States, viz., West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh Tripura and Meghalay, with headquarters at Kolkata undertakes MSP Operation. 80 State Co-operative Societies also work as agent of JCI to conduct MSP Operation so that maximum quantity of raw jute can be purchased from the jute growers.

10/ Is JCI going to extend any market support to the farmers other than procurement centres?

A. 171 DPCs of JCI are in the villages and they provide all the necessary support to the jute growers at the centres. JCI also conducts demonstration camps to demonstrate new retting techniques of raw jute to improve its quality and in turn add income to the jute growers. JCI also provides necessary information regarding ruling market prices to the jute growers and also maintains BIS standard of different grades of raw jute which helps in marketing of raw jute.

11/.What steps have been taken to augment jute yield and adding value to jute?

A. JCI has also started distribution of certified jute seed from the year 2005-06 through its DPCs which helps jute growers in getting certified jute seed at a reasonable price as also in increasing yield and quality of raw jute. JCI also disseminates knowledge to jute growers in respect of jute quality and improvement in yield through better techniques which are being developed by various institutes working in the field.

12/ What will be the share of jute from India in the global market by the year 2010?

A. Raw Jute is mainly grown in India and Bangladesh. The consumption of raw jute is more in India as compared to Bangladesh because of concentration of most of the jute mills in and around Kolkata. As far as quality of raw jute is concerned, Bangladesh produces better quality compared to that of India owing to availability of more floating water for retting of raw jute. Therefore, India is importer of good quality raw jute. Therefore the Govt. of India has announced National Jute Policy 2005 and also approved Jute Technology Mission with lay out of Rs.355 crore wherein various measures have been suggested to increase productivity of good quality of raw jute and modernization of jute mills. Modern jute mills are producing diversified raw jute products which are being mainly exported in addition to other jute products. The Govt. of India has kept a target for increase in export from the existing Rs.1000 crore to Rs.5,000 crore by 2010. Our present share in export market is only about 10% which is gradually increasing by taking various measures stated above.

13/Do you think that the JCI has been established as quality leader in raw jute?

A. JCI maintains the BIS quality standard during purchase and grading of raw jute. It is normally expected in the market that the quality of raw jute being supplied by JCI is one grade higher than that of the private trader raw jute. JCI started its commercial purchase Operation from the year 2005-06 and maintained quality standard which has established that it is the leader in supplying quality raw jute to the jute mills.

Q. The Govt. of India has given you an additional charge of CMD, NJMC in October, 2006. What are your achievements and plans for NJMC?

A. NJMC has six jute mills - 5 in West Bengal and 1 in Bihar. Production of these jute mills have been stopped since 2003. Since then idle wages were being paid to the workers. The Cabinet had approved a proposal of Rs. 978 crore in March 2005 to provide VRS to all the workers of NJMC and also revival of two jute mills. Implementation of the same was since then pending. The undersigned after taking over the charge has taken up the matter on priority and resolved all the issued. NJMC relieved about 15,000 workers under VRS in the month of January, 2007. With implementation of this, NJMC has saved about Rs.8 crore p.m. towards idle wages and salary and at the same time the workers are now getting their all dues including pending gratuity, PF, ESI and VRS benefit. This has improved the image of NJMC in Bihar and West Bengal who have taken care of the workers and paid their dues. Other issues regarding revival of jute mills will now be taken up.

Who will replace B K Chaturvedi ?

Though the present Cabinet Secretary BK Chaturvedi is left with enough time for retirement, discussion on who would replace him have already begun. The three senior 1969 batch IAS officials said to be in the race are Ashok Jha, AK Mishra and Pradipto Ghosh.

Balram Sharma to be JS Telecom !

Balram Sharma is being tipped to be Joint Secretary Telecom in the Government of India. He is 1987 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

Swiss Bank Accounts

The over Rs.30000 crore seizure in Swiss Banks may have been the biggest haul by the Enforcement Directorate(ED),due to which Indian Finance Ministry Officials are gloating over it. In a glee they have forgotten that the Swiss authorities had reportedly informed
them that there are 1500 Indians who through trusts hold accounts in Swiss banks and total money held by them is second to the Jews since World War-I.

Ms Sankaran and Ms Satyanarayana to be ACS

Two 1972 batch IAS officers Dr Ms J Sankaran and Ms Neela Satyanarayana are being promoted to the rank of ACS in Maharashtra in a week or two.

Tenure of Vinod Vaish to expire this month end

Tenure of Member,Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal, Vinod Vaish is coming to an end on March 31. He is retired 1966 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh.

Pay revision a mirage for GOI staff

Pay revision seems to be mirage for staff members of the Central Government because Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram in his budgetary speech had announced to reduce expenditure by further 10 per cent. The announcement has not gone down well with associations of employees' of the Centre. This means that there will be further downsizing of bureaucracy, while the staff will have to forget that their salaries may be hiked in the wake of 6th Pay Commission having been set up earlier.

PMO and DoPT take note of Rly Board recommendation

DOPT and PMO have taken note of the discrepancies in HAG panel (IRSS/Stores) sent by the railway Board and finally decided to drop one name from the panel, for weeding out the incompetents. But one other officer who was not meeting the standards for HAG promotion, has been cleared. His case was processed separately by Railway Board for favourable consideration, which is not as per the DOPT norms. Who was the force behind this instance??? Anybody taking note of this.

Fire in Mumbai school doused by top brass

A cabinet member of the Indian Government and ex Chief Minister of Mahrashtra were recently busy personally calling , from local firemen of the Juhu area to the DGP , to ensure that a case of negligence was not registered against a school. A fire had broken out in a Mumbai school, last week which sent top brass scurrying, to rescue its authorities.

Uday Shankar likely to quit Star

Is Uday Shankar CEO of the Star on his way out? Grapevine has it, he going to quit star and will be joining Peter Mukherjea in his new venture.

SP to pay in the same coin

Counsels of Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav are busy preparing a petition. The petition is expected to be filed against all top aides of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, while claiming that they possess assets disproportionate to their known sources of income. It is alleged that at least half a dozen aides of Ms Gandhi are major stake holders in Mukesh Ambani led Reliance group of Industries.

IAS officer Maroo is now doing second Ph D

Dr Pukhraj Maroo, Principal Secretary Revenue, MP Government, besides administration has a penchant for reading, writing and 'more and more studies'. Having done BA with Hindi, Sanskrit and Geography as his subjects and MA in Hindi Literature, he is also a masters degree holder in Sociology from Bhopal University. Besides Maroo who has been a topper in Bachelors course in Communication and Journalism also has to his credit a degree of LLB (Bachelor of Law) from Sagar 1998 and is at present doing PG Diploma in Human Rights Law from Natioanl Law University, Bangalore. This 1980 batch IAS officer also has a PhD in Hindi Literature from Sagar 2004 and doing one more PhD in Primitive tribes of MP . He also has interest in cultural field and has acted in SAMAR - best feature film of 1998 besides working as a B grade Folk Artist in Radio. He has also been awarded for Comupterisation of Land records by Computer Society of India and honoured with 'Samanvaya Shree' of Akhil Bharatiya Sahitya Parishad in 2006. And last but not least, he has written a book 'Gazlein - Dhoop Chhaon Ki'.

Hard times for Congress in media

There are hard times for Congress party-ruling UPA's majority partner in Delhi. This was subject matter of discussion at a high profile party. Consensus was that Amitabh Bachchan-super hero of Bollywood was more visible than Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. Are they aware of this that such scenario would persist at least till Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls commencing next month were over. There is hardly anybody in Congress who can do image building for the party. Those who happen to be from media and are in Congress, are only creating enemies in the media.

CJI -a believer in practice is better than precept

Newly inducted Chief Justice of India (CJI) K G Balakrishnan has brought in a great degree of professionalism in dealing of judges with different law ministers in states and at the Centre. As the grapevine has it that the CJI has requested his brother judges not to encourage law ministers and officials of law ministries, for informal meetings with them. To set a new precedent the CJI himelf does not encourage the Law Minister for informal meetings.

Ignorant George Fernandes

Former Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes's statement on Bofors and then a "u -turn" by him by saying that he was asked by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee not to touch the Bofors Gun deal related file as the Indian Defence Minister, is a subject matter of discussion in corridors of power. For his sake, may please somebody enlighten him that all Bofors gun related files have been in possession of Director CBI ever since the related alleged scam surfaced in late 1980s'. Defence Ministry had no file other than one that pertains to placing of orders for ammunition of Bofors guns around the time action took place under operation "Vijay" in Kargil.

Hunt on for an eve Pak scribe

A hunt has been launched to track a Pakistani lady journalist who is reported to have married an ex Congress Chief Minister. She has recently moved from Pakistan to Middle East and is awaiting for high profile husbad to join her very soon. As the grapevine has it,hunt has been launched by RAW and the IB.

Capt Amarinder's advisor in Canada !

A very high profile Advisor to former Chief Minister of Punjab took a flight to Toronto in Canada,the day recent assembly poll results were declared.Is he trying to seek Canadian citizenship ?.

Punjab CM surprised

Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal was in for a pleasant surprise after assuming the Chief Minister's "gaddi". He learnt that most of the properties of Capt Amarinder Singh , had been transferred to third parties

Brar is PS Badal

Shivendra Singh Brar who is currently on deputation to the Government of India has been appointed Principal Secretary to the Punjab Chief Minister. He is 1977 batch IAS officer.
( We said this on March 7 )

Guru is another PS to Punjab CM

Darbara Singh Guru will be another Principal Secretary to the Punjab Chief Minister. He is 1980 batch IAS officer.
( We said this on March 2 )

IAS reshuffle in Punjab

There is first major IAS reshuffle in Punjab. New postings are :- Mssrs Mukul Joshi Principal Secretary Freedom Fighters,Suresh Kumar secretary Power, Dharamvir Secretary Revenue. Abnash Singh Chhatwal managing director, PIDB, and in addition, member secretary, Fiscal Reforms and Project director-cum-secretary, Shahpur Kandi project. Raminder Singh special secretary Cooperation, Ashok Kumar Gupta Secretary Education and Rakesh Kumar Verma Secretary Coordination. J.M. Balamurugan DC of Kapurthala, Dr Arvinder Singh DC Moga, Dharamjit Singh Grewal DC Patiala, V.K. Ohri DC Barnala, Surjit Singh DC Mansa, Vikas Garg DC Muktsar, Sumer Singh Gurjar DC Ludhiana, and Alaknanda Dayal DC Fatehgarh Sahib. Jaspreet Talwar special secretary Finance ,Dilip Kumar Irrigation and Khushi Ram Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs. S.K. Sharma additional secretary, Elections. Praveen Kumar additional principal secretary to the CM. Gaggandeep Singh Brar is also the additional principal secretary to the CM and in addition to being director, Civil Aviation. G.S. Ghuman secretary, Regional Transport Authority, Patiala and Vinay Bhublani is joint director (Admn), DPI (Colleges).

Bains is Media Advisor to Badal

Harcharan Singh Bains has been appointed Media Advisor of Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal. He will have the rank of Minister of State.

Kudos to Upendra Rai

Upendra Rai ,Special Correspondent of the Star News who broke the story on Swiss bank accounts has become quite popular in the organization.The management has not only doubled his salary but is personally being lauded by Aveek Sarkar-media baron.

FORUM

(The views expressed in this column are necessarily of their respective contributors. We do not own any responsibility, whatsoever, about these contributions).

PM should set a precedent

Prime Minister scouting for IAS officer who has Finance background
Why not limited advertisement for Govt. executives and a free and fair competitive exam? Why ot set a good precedent?
P Kumar

Ms Pannu is the ideal choice

If the PM wants a secretary of the finance background, then why not services of officers from the Finance be utilised? An ideal choice for this post can be Ms HK Pannu, IDAS who is Addl. Controller General of Defence Accounts. She has a very bright background of finance and is an upright officer.

M H Khan

Who will bell the real CAT?

The recent amendments to the Central Administrative Tribunals Act,1985, achieved rather hurriedly, apparently intend reserving high seats of the CAT to the exclusive domain of few. When the legal status of the CAT has not changed, what justifies raising/narrowing qualifications for appointment of its members etc. Further, the amendments literally exclude a huge number of members of various officers of the Central Services / Indian Legal Service have a more wide ranging experience, functionally and geographically. And yet again, these amendments deny the now extended tenure to most CAT members appointed just a few months ago, as against those in for appointment in next few months.
Now the whisper in Mumbai and other CAT cities is to rush to the Court to stall these designs! Since your lips are 'sealed', who will verify and carry forward the whisper?! We solicit reactions!!
Sincerely
Durga S

Aaj Ki Aawaz

The Rs. 35,000 crore tax evasion is not from Race Courses,
It's from the Indian Bourses!!!

Money's been sent out and then brought back via Participatory Notes,
Don't believe that it's just to avoid taxes from totes!!

Why doesn't PC announce an amnesty and mop up money coming indirectly??
Let them bring in the money and invest in Stock and Property Markets directly!!!

P Note money can fly out in a jiffy…… via amnesty money will be shackled here,
And on its flying out there'll be no fear!!

The money would also start generating tax revenue……. bring joy to FM,
PC should talk about this with PM!!!

Of course Commies will say this is encouraging the defaulters….. mantra is being pragmatic,
And of course from the Court also there will be static!!!

Voluntary way is the best way to get money stashed abroad back,
It's the pragmatic way …….. pragmatism is the best attack!!

As Raj Thackrey is following Balasahib's footsteps his anti Bhaiya stance was expected,
But he's not gone to the extent of saying that Bhaiyas from Mumbai should be ejected!!!

Bhaiyas are an important part of Mumbai's service sector,
If only he realized the services they provide he'll turn their protector!!!

And Raj has also said that his Party's doors are open to Balasahib…. what a joke!!!
On his repeating such a statement Shiv Sena want to enforce a rokk (ban)!!!

Raj is desperate and his back is to the wall,
He has two options jump over and join Congress or just fall!!!

Fall meaning surrender and re-enter Shiv Sena…… has to break to fall,
In fact it'll be more appropriate to say that back into Sena he'll have to crawl!!!

Amrinder says that if Akalis trouble his moondas ( boys),
He threatens all who touch his moondas will be made toondas (lame)!!

Amrinder says that there is a Congress Sarkaar in the Centre …. so beware,
In fact he's literally issued a dare!!!

So now Amrinder is a Sarkari Goonda........ he's gone berserk,
Actually all is just empty bravado….. fear that he'll be investigated karr raha hai lurk!!!

Badal's assets have been evaluated by the Income Tax (IT),
Fact is VB's evaluation is Very Biased and IT's is in no way lax!!!

VB's mandate from day one was ki Badals ko karro fix,
But IT's evaluation nails VB's lies and hits VB's evaluation for a six!!!

VB was also known as Vendetta against Badal…vendetta angle cannot be denied,
When it became clear that Congress was losing many in VB to being shifted out applied!!

IBNs' web address should be www.ibnlie.com....... see the warped message sent!!
Badal went courtesy calling and IBN says on help garnering spree Badal went!!!

Mulayam promises the UP Public that if they give him power again,
He'll ensure that on account of power (bijli) they will not suffer any pain!!!

Power for power seems a fair deal,
But additional power he'll not be able to beg or borrow so will he steal???

And if he knew that on account of power UPites suffered,
Then during his term to alleviate the suffering what had he offered!!

Mulayam Singh Ji UP mein hai gumm ( sadness),
Kyon ki bijli yaha aathi hai kumm!!!

George says that Vajpayee told him that in Bofors matter to go slow,
And should we believe that to this order George ne kiya bow!!!

He's a Gandhi family baiter and would have gone slow directly,
But would have ensured that matters progressed indirectly!!!

And then for so long why was George mum??
George ji aap ke allegation mein nahi hai koyi dumm!!!

And would Madam kindly ask Hooda to concentrate on his job,
And stop concentrating ki justice kaise hoe rob!!

At any cost he wants Manu to be bailed out,
And if this happens it will be Justice ka rout!!!

Will Ramu come out with another ludicrous theory…. Manu was in Nepal when murder took place???
After all last time with his Sikh boy theory he tried to muddle the case!!

Like they recalled Pathan can't they recall Sehwag and send Kaif in his place???
For being recalled Sehwag is a fit case!!!

They say to concentrate Sehwag is now doing meditation,
Actually what he needs is some stiff medication!!!

Send him back…… see what this did to Pathan,
In the last match crowds were chanting Irfan Irfan!!!

But Dravid has implicit faith in Sehwag....... don't know why???
Sabh ko kyon karr raha hai Sehwag ke liye defy???

Abbe Sehwag batting karr dil se…… make detractors like me shut up with your bat,
Only via your batting can you give detractors like me tit for tat!!!

Bharat Kumar

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PSU chiefs & vigilance probes

It has become a hot topic of discussion in corridors of power that chiefs of certain Indian Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) are facing vigilance probes. Indian Government has got 240 PSUs. At a high profile conclave it was being felt hat PSUs' top bosses were being asked to run very fast while their hands and legs were tied with ropes of ropes rules regulations. Undisputedly barring a few exceptions, top brass in PSUs finds them as less privileged to their counterparts in the private sector.

Bedi to be ED of Canara Bank

General Manager of the Punjab and Sindh Bank G S Bedi is being tipped to be ED of the Canara Bank.

Japanese Govt to make forays in ship building

The Japanese government is contemplating to enter India for spreading its wings. As the grapevine has it they are going to set up ship building facility in India.

Rai is Director of IFCI

Atul Kumar Rai has been appointed Director on the Board of the Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI),

Trehan is CEO of NDTV Convergence

Sanjay Trehan has been appointed CEO of NDTV Convergence, a separate company under the NDTV Networks.

Rediffusion gets new executive vice president

Bimal Nair succeeds Deb Sen as executive vice president for Rediffusion.

Clinton's protégé to invest in India

Sant Singh Chhatwal -a protégé of former American President Bill Clinton is going to invest in Five & Seven star hotels.He is President & CEO of "Hampshire Hotels & Resorts". These hotels have been planned in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kochi, Hyderabad & Chennai. He is also one of the trustees on William Clinton Foundation for HIV and AIDS.