Why Aditya Birla group is big in my life?
An Indian conglomerate with operations spread across 34 countries, history of Aditya Birla group dates back to before Independence. Now it has active presence in 14 industry sectors and has achieved global and National leadership in several businesses. Being a civil engineer Aditya Birla group has always been special to me. Yes. You guessed it right! ULTRATECH CEMENT! Every site I visited during the graduation, UltraTech cement was used for construction. The fact that 0.1 million mt of UltraTech cement went into the construction of Mumbai’s Bandra-Worli Sealink, you can imagine the impact of ABG on any Indian in one way or another. I was more concerned about the environment and sustainability during the college days. India’s cement industry is very vital part for its economy and India is second largest producer of cement. For every one tonne of Portland Cement, approximately 1000 Kg of CO2 is released. My college project was based on this fact and this was the reason I researched more about UltraTech! When it comes to sustainability, ABG is playing key role in finding effective and responsible ways to preserve the environment. It has a power generation capacity of 58 MW through waste heat recovery system which is expected to reach 121 MW by 2020. More than 85% of its power consumption is met through captive thermal power plant and waste recovery system. Also, with the help of rainwater harvesting and recycling, UltraTech meet half the water requirement in manufacturing. While researching about UltraTech, I discovered lot of new things about Aditya Birla Group. Different products, supply chains, great work culture, leadership program only made me like ABG more. I wanted to work in ABG and first step to do it was to crack CAT and get into Top B-school.
Part B
After graduation, I was working in construction field and like many of the engineers, I wanted to get into one of the best B-schools in India. But with core profile and not so relevant experience, it was difficult to convert the calls. So, I left my core job and joined early stage startup as an operations manager. This was the huge risk but I learned lot of new things and got an opportunity to work with one of the trending startups in India within 9 months. Since this startup was in expansion phase, I was given lot of responsibilities and had to manage multiple teams from different cities. During this time, I had to travel to different cities as well for the expansion. This is where the real struggle lies. With lots of travel and huge workload, it was difficult to get a time for studies. Being in Operations, there were new challenges everyday which was only added to my study time crisis. But I did not give up on my dream. I used to study from my mobile phone whenever I used to get free time. I used to solve various problems in flights, cabs, etc. I scored well in CAT and currently studying in NITIE, Mumbai. I can understand the efforts by working students and their struggle in managing time for studies and this is the reason I feel it worth sharing.
