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ABGLP WOO ME - IMT Ghaziabad

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Sayan Samanta
Sayan Samanta

Part A

Aditya Birla Group is one of the biggest conglomerates in India. It has a diverse variety of products and has had a big impact on the lives of many people in India. Their range of products include cement, textile business, finance services, telecom services.

To begin with the impact of the ADGP the most significant change in my life has come once I switched my mobile network to idea cellular. Before that, I was a user of some local mobile network provider and didn’t get proper network coverage due to which I missed a lot of important calls I had to pick. After I changed my network to idea cellular, I never regretted about my change thereafter. I had the network coverage everywhere I go and I never missed any important call thereafter.

Building our own house was a big dream for our family. My father has been saving for many years to make our dreams come true. When we started building our own house my father has chosen the UltraTech cement which is a subsidiary of the ADGP. Even after years of passage of the construction, the building was as strong as a hill and we never had any cracks in the wall of water being leaked through the walls from the outside. The building still stands strong today and looks like a new one even today.

Apart from that My closet is filled with ABG products. Be it Peter England, Allen Solley, Van Huesen or Louis Phillipe, I have been a regular user.  My first suit was from Louis Philippe. My most of the formals are from Van Huesen. I have full trust on these products.

I couldn’t ask for any better and these are my personal stories in which Aditya Birla Group had an impact.

Part B

After the flood in Malda I called a friend who lives in one of the affected areas.

He told me about the catastrophic situation of his village, Shripur

The whole area was submerged in water and most of the homes were washed away.

 Most of the villagers took shelter on the roof of their houses or trees and had no provision of food or water.

The locals were agitated by the carelessness of the administration and the situation is worsening.

I was moved by the situation and immediately contacted other students for raising fund to help them.

Most of them wanted to donate the fund to a NGO or in government’s relief fund but that will take time so I insisted to help them on the field as quickly as possible.

I took the initiative and formed a team to go there and helped them.

I even asked two medical students to come with us for medical help.

We asked the students and alumni to contribute and 266 alumni contributed more than 140000 through paytm and netbanking.

We have organized several flash mobs with the dance club at prime spots and the people donated a significant sum.

 I have contacted a local departmental store “more” to provide food items, tents and blankets at a lesser price.

The store owner agreed to provide the old stock at half price.

We inspired other students to help to make 4000 packets of biscuits, parched rice, essential medicines, water bottles and blankets (wrapped in sheets).

We contacted a transport company whose owner is from Malda and requested him to take the relief packages at lesser price.

We arranged trucks to deliver the packages to Malda town.

We contacted with the villagers and some of them had come to our help to transfer the relief to Sripur halt by train.

The village is 10 minutes walk from the station but the whole area was under 3 feet of water.

When we reached some local political leaders came and argued that no relief work could be done without their involvement.

They asked us to donate the packages to the panchayat.

We sensed corruption in relief work and disagreed irrespective of their threatening.

We arranged 2 boats to distribute packets.

In the first day, we delivered almost 2000 packets mostly to the people who have taken shelter in station and schools and rescued some struck in their homes.

In the next two days, we were able to deliver packages to every one of that village.

I observed the severity of the situation and felt the commitment to contribute more to society.

I collaborated with some other students with the same mentality and started going to a nearby slum area.

We have been distributing clothes and blankets and raising awareness of hygiene.

We distributed dustbins to the 26 families of that area and they started using them.

 teach children after college.

I inspired my friends and juniors to join.

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ABGLP WOO ME - IMT Ghaziabad