Aditya Birla Group is one of the premium conglomerates with a clear focus on each business. Every morning we get up, and see the strong wall with UltraTech Birla cement which is not only Engineers choice, but ours too, and we have fresh fruits and vegetables waiting on our table whose shelf life has been extended because of Multi-5. Then you realize you have to get ready, you change from your comfort pantaloons night suit to the Vanheusen suits, call your colleague using your Idea Sim card, and get into your car whose tires are made using Carbon Black and that’s where we understand the roots of Aditya Birla.
They go back to almost a century before India’s independence from colonial rule. Grasim Industries Ltd, the flagship of the Aditya Birla Group, was incorporated on 25 August 1947; just 10 days after India became independent. They also made sure that they do their social responsibility properly by works in 5000 villages and reaching out to 7.5 million people annually across the globe, specifically in India they run 56 schools, operates 20 hospitals, 4500 self-help groups and creating over 300 model villages in rural India.
Not only on a professional level, I got attached to ABG even on a personal level on looking at the news of Ananya Birla who is into micro-financing to women in rural India and Aryaman Birla a professional cricketer. From the hierarchy of augmented business people, they still go where their dreams lie, which is a rare case even in this century.
How you overcame challenges to achieve your ambitions in life so far?
One of the prominent challenges, I faced was pursuing people for my higher education, in my community almost 80% of women do engineering in which 60% work and in that almost 40% quit after getting married. I really didn’t want to be a person in the crowd, wanted to be the leader of the crowd. Even in the fortune 500 companies, there are only 5% of women CEO's. I really want that trend to increase, and the first step for that was CAT exam, interviews and then B-School and giving my 100% everywhere.
When I came up with the idea of higher education, most of the people surrounding me where you had your three years of work experience why do you want to do higher studies now get married get settled. Among all those negative vibes my mom was my pillar of success behind it, I can never forget her words “If you want something go fetch it If you can’t who can.” It made me understand that life is all about what we think of ourselves and how much we are ready to put in our efforts for it.
Another challenge was my fear of water, from my young age I always had a phobia for water. One fine day I was like enough is enough; I had to overcome it and started going for swimming classes. Initially, I struggled a lot because my fear was overshadowing my ability to learn, but practice makes anything possible and the fruit of learning made it all exciting.