An Indian conglomerate founded in 1857, today Aditya Birla Group has its presence in 34 countries employing more than 120,000 people across 14 industry sectors, the influence, the group has created in the country and overseas cannot be ignored.
To break the monopoly of the British rule and start cotton and jute business, Seth Shiv Narayan set a foundation which was successfully carried forward by G.D. Birla and then by Aditya Vikram Birla, who successfully launched the group into foreign lands and got India international recognition. In the era of Licence-Raj dominated business in India, the spectacular leaders of Aditya Birla Group diversified in various sectors successfully. Today, Aditya Birla Group has a huge presence in our day-to-day lives in the form of various products from cement to aluminium foil wrap, clothing to glass, insurance to capital firms and many more.
With a reach to around 6 million Indian farmers in the Indo-Gangetic plain through customer centric approach, the ABG group aims to provide complete solutions from sowing to harvesting through BIRLA SHAKTIMAAN. With the merger of Vodafone-Idea, it has become the largest Indian Telecom Company and World’s second largest in terms of Subscribers.
On personal level, I completed my B.Tech from Birla Vishwakarma Mahavidhyalaya, which is one of the oldest and prestigious institution established by Aditya Birla Group. The name Birla Sun Life Insurance has instilled a sense of security in the minds of Indian people including my family. The contributions which ABG have made towards creating the world’s largest statue, the statue of unity in Gujarat is impeccable. Another example is the Bandra–Worli Sea link in Mumbai.
With operating in 34 countries across five different continents, majority of Aditya Birla Group’s revenue generates from its international business. A USD 44.3 billion worth MNC, ABG has excelled in diversifying into various fields.
For me, life is like a river, which never stops but always mends its way through the rocky paths in the form of challenges, missed opportunities, interests and passions which somehow I followed or left them as tributaries. These characteristics seem to be ephemeral.
In the race of sustenance, there is always a trade-off between Life (river) and challenges (rocks), and no matter how big the rock is, the river flows and reaches its destiny (ocean).
Drawing upon this fact, I have had certain challenges in my life, which have molded me into what I am today and there is no doubt that this has been a great learning throughout.
The biggest and important of all the challenges was leaving my comfort zone and moving out to a new and a different city to pursue my goals. The belief that a person has to make some hard choices at some point of time for the greater good has led me stay in the race. This in turn has helped me stay calm and composed during this present hour. Along with this, I always have hoped that there certainly is light ahead and I just have to keep moving.
Apart from this there is another factor that has played an important role in my life is the support that I have got from my family and closed ones, which I am sure, must have been the case with many of us. The fear of falling reduces a bit when you know you have a support from behind and that has been crucial for me.
Just to conclude, for me the road to overcome our challenges is a rocky one and the best we can do is to keep moving with the best of our efforts.