Why Aditya Birla Group is big in your life?
Birla’s Journey started from hot deserts of Rajasthan by Shiv Narayan Birla the small cotton trader way back in the ’60s and now Birla Group is spread over 36 countries and 70% employees work in manufacturing. Let's take a Journey across the world and see the massive business empire of Birla family's biggest company the Aditya Birla group. In India ABG jointly owns largest and world's second-largest mobile telecommunications network Vodafone Idea. It also owns UltraTech Cement, the largest manufacturer of cement in India and also operates India's largest fashion company that sells 3 garments every second The group owns clothing retail chain Pantaloons and popular brands such as Louis Philippe, Allen Solly, Peter England, People and operates 4000+ department stores and 2,500 brand outlets across the country. The group also own Hindalco, the world's largest aluminum rolling company. India's largest iron ore mining company and largest private sector fertilizer company. Group also operates Chemical plants, digital bank, eCommerce sites, one of the largest mutual fund and insurance company, the other members of Birla family own one of India's largest newspaper, Hindustan Times, India's largest ceiling fans and home appliances manufacturing company, Orient Electric. Century Textile, one of the oldest textile mills in India. They also own the famous automobile company Hindustan Motors was India's largest car manufacturer and used to manufacture one of the highest selling cars in India called Ambassador.
Birla family has not only founded massive companies, but they have also built various institutions and landmarks that include, Libraries, Planetariums, University, Technology and Science institutes, Research institutes, Textiles industries, 'Birla House' or 'Gandhi Smriti', and Over 15 temples that include Delhi's landmark Laxmi Narayan Temple. Group also work in achieving the country’s human development index by working in 5000 villages and treated over 1 million patient, skill training of 95000 people, Immunized 70 million children against polio. It’s not just business that is taking forward but young India as well brings Big on smiles. Along with initiative called Recycle for Good. For every 3 million aluminum bottles and cans collected, Recycle for Good funds a Habitat for Humanity home in its entirety for a deserving family in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Aditya Birla Group has transformed many millions live of Indian.
This is what has impacted me the most it not just delivering the business to people, but also Standing strong beside the country GDP and helps progress alongside in all domains of livelihood.
How I overcame challenges to achieve my ambitions in life so far?
The quote by Sean Hampton “A dream without ambition is like a car without gas… you’re not going anywhere”
Challenges in life come to test your abilities and if we get over this, nobody can stop you from winning. My ambition was to pursue my Master’s degree from one of the top institutes. I was working in Multi-National IT firm for almost 4 years and then thought of pursuing a degree course in MBA. Working and studying is some different sort of play and again concentrating on studies after a gap of 3-4 years was quite tough. I started my journey and opted for one of the weekend classes and started preparing for the exam. Classes were not sufficient for the exam to be cracked it needs a different level of motivation, efforts, and dedication. Patience and Perseverance are the only keys to success, the challenge was to compete with the lakhs of individuals who were already in the process. I started with mocks and the result was not good enough. With continuously analyzing the mocks and setting different strategies. I somehow started scoring well in mocks that untimely boosted my confidence and remained it till the D day. If those keys to success would not have been there I would have almost lost the battle.
I kept working towards my ambition and today I am living my dream, typing this story sitting in the NHB hall of NITIE.
