Arindam Chaudhuri

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Arindam Chaudhuri
Arindam Chaudhuri

Arindam Chaudhuri is an Indian economist and management consultant, Honorary Dean at IIPM, founder of the charity The Great Indian Dream Foundation[1] and the Planman group of companies.[2]

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[edit] Biography

On completing his Post Graduate Diploma in Planning and Entrepreneurship from IIPM (an institution founded and run by his father while he graduated), Arindam Chaudhuri was awarded the Academic Gold Medal. He joined IIPM on completion of the course, where he is currently the Honorary Dean for Centre for Economic Research and Advanced Studies. He was appointed as a member of the Consultative Committee for the Planning Commission of India in 2004 - [1]

[edit] Awards

According to his website, he is the rec ipient of the following awards:

  • The Priyadarshini Memorial Award for Excellent contribution to Management from the Priyadarshini Academy, Mumbai, India in 2006[3][4]
  • Example to Youth award from the Rotaract Club of India in 2004[5]
  • Personality of the Decade Award from the KG Foundation in 2003[6]
  • 50 Leading thinkers in South Asia by Wilton Park in 2001[7][8]
  • The Management Guru Award from the Om Venkatesa Society, Chennai, India in 2000[9]

[edit] Publications

Arindam Chaudhuri has published three books:

  • Planning India, an essay on how government and society should focus on policies that benefit the bottom 80% of society.
  • Count your chickens before they hatch, a self-help guide.
  • The Great Indian Dream, (co-authored with his father Dr. Malay Chaudhuri) a compilation of essays on how India can grow at over 10% to create per capita income levels of a developed country by 2025.

His Planman Group of Companies also publishes three magazines:

  • Business & Economy, a fortnightly policy magazine
  • 4Ps, a magazine on corporate news and issues
  • The Sunday Indian, a news weekly in English and 4 other Indian languages.

For his book The Great Indian Dream, a public relations company belonging to the Planman group claimed that Arindam Chaudhuri had received a "record seven figure advance of Rs 25 lakh" (Rs. 2.5 million, approx. $50,000). However the publishers, Macmillan India, denied having given any advance to Arindam Chaudhuri, and said that this figure might have been his projection of the expected royalty from the future sales of the book.[10]

[edit] Planman group of companies

In 1996, Arindam Chaudhuri founded Planman Consulting, a management consultancy. In 2001, he founded Planman Motion Pictures, a film production company, which has till now produced movies like Saanjbathir Roopkathara[11] and Dosor[12] in Bengali, Faltu[13] and Rok Sako To Rok Lo[14] in Hindi; and is currently producing The Last Lear[15] (with Amitabh Bachchan and Preity Zinta in leading roles, directed by Rituparno Ghosh), Mithya[16] (directed by Rajat Kapoor, with Ranvir Shourie in a leading role), and Sunglass[17] (with Madhavan in a leading role). In 2004, Arindam Chaudhuri founded Planman I:TES (renamed in 2006 as Planman Technologies), an IT services company and Planman Life, an advertising and television production company.

[edit] Great Indian Dream Foundation

In 2002, Arindam Chaudhuri founded the charity The Great Indian Dream Foundation. It works in over three hundred villages in rural India to achieve its objectives of universal education and employment and eradicating poverty, according to its website.

[edit] References

  1. ^ NGO India Delhi, Non profit organization India, NGO Delhi, Education NGO India, Healthcare NGO India, Environmental NGO India
  2. ^ Planman Consulting Services provides Management Consulting, Outsourcing, HR Consulting, Marketing Consulting, Social Sector Consulting from India
  3. ^ Kareena to get Smita Patil award
  4. ^ Priyadarshini Global Awards honours 13 achievers
  5. ^ The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - NCR stories
  6. ^ The Hindu : Of successful personalities
  7. ^ BPO, Marketing, Research, T&D, Web, Content Management, Media. - Planman Consulting
  8. ^ Arindam Chaudhuri
  9. ^ Arindam Chaudhuri
  10. ^ Mishra, Suman. "Advance Praise", Ahmedabad Newsline, a supplement of The Indian Express, July 26, 2003. Retrieved on [[January 4, 2007]]. 
  11. ^ Setting his sights on Hollywood-Lucknow Times-Cities-The Times of India
  12. ^ The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Taking Indian ideas to the West
  13. ^ The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Delhi and neighbourhood
  14. ^ The Hindu : Rok sako to rok lo
  15. ^ Businessofcinema.com - Cinema Business News and Information
  16. ^ The Hindu : Metro Plus Delhi / Music : The debutante
  17. ^ Businessofcinema.com - Cinema Business News and Information

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