AUGUSTINE P. KURIAS retired as a senior executive and principal of the training college of the Central Bank (RBI) of the country with vast experience in operational, academic, human resources development, development economics, management and administrative areas. His forte was in Development Banking. although he dryly calls himself, a banking bureaucrat.. The Joint Parliamentary Committee (of the Indian Parliament) on the Securities Scam of 1992 has in its report of 1993 hailed Augustine Kurias for detecting and detailing the route map at the incipient stage of the scam, as early as in 1986, well over five years before it blew up as one of the biggest ever scam causing the crash of stock and securities and financial markets and banking business in 1992. With his vast and varied experience in his career and on the boards of banks, financial institutions, companies and trusts and higher educational in institutions, his expertise is well recognized in Banking, Financial, Management & HRD