Aditya Birla Group
We come across and use many brand products in our life. The company which has stepped into diversified businesses and established it’s a brand name for services providing more than a century is Aditya Birla Group. Founded in 1857, and lead by six generations of people to continue their value creation for the products in the world. How popular and familiar are the ABG group of brands? I would say massive, spread across various industries. Copper and aluminum which used in railways, electrical transmission through cables, in our making of cars, etc. The place which you live right now might constructed with the Ultratech cement. ABG is so big in our life from even providing quality and state of the art education from Birla Institutes all over India.
In this fast-moving technology driven people, IDEA made our lives easy for connecting people. ABG is also helping to make the difference by working in 5,000 villages, reaching out to 7.5 million people annually through Aditya Birla Centre for community initiatives and Rural Development. The values and principles instilled in an organization which reflected in its company’s core operational activities in around 34 countries have made the lives of people simple.
ABG had seen the fashion trends long back in 1947 by entering into textile manufacturing. With increasing innovations, product line enhancements, ABG is the leading global player in VSF(Viscose staple fiber) biodegradable and easily blendable fiber which uses in home textiles, apparel, etc. How much is ABG into fashion retail segment? You have the formal business meeting to attend, go to pantaloons, choose the brands Louis Philippe, Allen Solly, Peter England or Van Heusen whichever suits you.
Does ABG is such big and has become part of your life? Yes, you travel daily, and your traveling is safe due to carbon black in tires of vehicle prevents you from skidding. You need money for the construction of a house, education loan, Aditya Birla Finance is with you. ABG always was, is and will be playing a big role in my life.
Challenges faced in my life:
I came from a typical middle-class family where parents, relatives, and friends feel getting an education is like a divine thing. During my initial years of school, whenever I used to top in the class, I used to with full of joy not because that I learned something useful for life but because my parents would feel proud about me, they can happily disclose that their son is topper in school. I had stayed far from activities, events, sports, and thought these were the barriers for education. This phase of the school had shaped me as a person who is very much into myself. My parents were happy that I was doing good, all things were going fine and insisted me to change the school for quality education where parents felt that I would crack premier engineering entrance examinations. I changed school, joined the hostel, and studied away from home. Staying away helped me as a person to be more dependent on myself, not relying on others and made me getting out of my little space and spending effective time with the people around me. But during this period, fear of expectations that parents, people around me put on me would happen to me, was the frequent haunted notion used to be always in my mind. I was in a similar state of mind until I landed into one of the premier institutes in India for engineering in electrical (not by choice).
In my four years of engineering, I lived a life with minimal expectations of how my career would be after completion of graduation. No proper clear goals but had the confidence that I would get some job that I would do after four years. Enjoyed, explored the new places and made friends, memories which helped me to push my boundaries more and given me the confidence to enter into a real world out there as a professional.
After joining in the manufacturing firm as an electrical manager, I was responsible for the company in whichever work is related to me. I got the good exposure to the working of the business and can relate the concepts which I learned in graduation, and it’s applications in the firm. One day I realized the thought which I had in school is completely false, and education is not showing to others that you are a topper, but it is to know what you are learning. I received well in the company for three years of my work, and I wanted to change my career and shift completely in a new direction to explore and learn new things. I decided to do an MBA, prepared for it, and cracked it. I got into IIM Nagpur and trying to push my boundaries more.