Being, one of the three biggest private-sector conglomerates, there would hardly be anyone in this country of 1.3 billion people, whose life hasn’t been touched by the Aditya Birla Group.
Their Freshwrapp aluminium foils have always kept my food fresh, be it having lunch for school, carrying food in train, or ordering it from a nearby restaurant. Their metals flagship company, Hindalco Industries Limited has been an integral part of my hometown Sambalpur with one of the most sophisticated rolling mills in the country. Aditya Aluminium has a smelter-power plant at Lapanga in Sambalpur and it is also very active in their CSR activities for women empowerment in and around Sambalpur.
Their numerous fashion brands under Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited (ABFRL) (earlier known as Madura Fashion & Lifestyle) like Allen Solly, Louis Phillipe, Van Heusen, Peter England (which people do mistake as being international brands) and their multi-brand fashion outlet ‘Pantaloons’ combined, host India's largest fashion network with over 11,000 points of sale outlets.
This along with Ultratech cement, Idea Cellular Limited (now Vodafone Idea Limited) and their Financial services have always provided me and my family the best investment and insurance options especially their ABSLI Guaranteed Milestone Plan. Also, their ‘More’ store was the nearest supermarket store during my college days and it made my life extremely easy by providing me with everything required at the same location.
Aditya Birla Group’s vision to become a clearly focussed premium global conglomerate along with their mission to deliver superior value to all its stakeholders and the society at large through passion, integrity, speed, commitment and seamlessness has helped in improving not only themselves but also the nation as a whole across various sectors and adding values and purpose to life.
How did I overcome challenges to achieve my ambitions in life so far?
I have faced many rejections or failures in life. Be it getting good marks in my high school or getting into a good graduation college or scoring well in my graduation exams. In the beginning, I used to get very demotivated and disheartened by my failures and couldn’t learn from them. But slowly and steadily, I started to look beyond the failures and look them as stepping stones of success and have tried no never commit those mistakes again. And I also have started to learn from other’s mistakes so that it benefit me even further. This has helped me greatly and has been an integral part of what I have achieved today.
Along with this I even had stage fear and had fear of public speaking during my school days. It prevented me from speaking up and interacting with the people around me. But during my graduation, I was part of many group projects, internships and assignments in which we had to do a lot of presentations and extempore speaking. Along with this, I had to interact with a lot of people and manage a lot of different teams under various projects during my tenure as a Graduate Engineer Trainee in one of the largest automobile manufacturing firms of the country. All these small yet significant steps taken by me during my life have been extremely fruitful and have helped me improve the personality that has benefitted me and will hopefully benefit me in the future.
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