VISION

For families we have ADD MORE TO LIFE and similarly we have the pratibha scholarship. My son got the pratibha scholarship when he was doing his engineering from the University of Bhopal.

It’s a group where employees and their families, because of the work life balance that we have feel very good.

25 years in the group is a long journey and what really keeps me in the group is the family atmosphere. Here people treat you as brothers and sisters.

The biggest factor that has ensured that I stay with the group has been the kind of people that I’ve had an opportunity to work with. The atmosphere the camaraderie that exists across our businesses in the Group is something that is so special that I’m sure is not existing in all the other corporations that I’m aware of.

In 2007 Hindalco acquired Novelis and in any acquisition obviously there is some trepidation on part of the Novelis employees on what this experience is going to be like. And what we found in the last 7 years is what was communicated to the organization at the time was that ABG and all of its group companies are value based organizations. Over the seven years since the acquisition it has proved itself to be true

There was not a single boring day for me in Idea and Aditya Birla Group. And emotionally I would say I found my soulmate while working in Idea.

You have to have a little bit of fun at work. We do monthly business reviews and coming out of a particularly poor month our Mill Manager brought his guitar into the business review and he had written a song on all of the challenges that we face and how we overcome them and it was nice for the mill manager to get up and to do that for us and it lifted our spirits and raised the morale and we ended up having a very good month coming out of that.

When I joined Idea I was based out of Meerut. After 3 years I needed a transfer to Delhi because of some family commitments. Within 25 days I got relocated. Aditya Birla Group is very supportive emotionally and professionally, they take good care of their employees.

At Novelis you can see the global corporate responsibility. So we actually have events where we go out and do some community work outside of the business. I think that this is a very strong value and a very important value that we display every day and for eg I was in Brazil last week painting a small kids playground. So we really try to help support the local communities. A fun moment I remember when I first went to Korea. I’m German so that means I’m a little conservative and the Koreans have a tendency to do karaoke. They love karaoke, so the first night we went out to a karoke bar and I think it was the first time that I was singing in public and we learnt a lot of German and Korean songs and had a lot of fun.

Aditya Birla Group is people oriented, ethical and has a very friendly work culture that is driven by team spiritedness.

What binds me in the organization is the fun while doing work and the challenges every day. I have the pleasure to work with multi-functional teams and multi-cultural teams and I just gives me the confidence and the pride which I have to work for the company.

Our organization is involved in a lot of CSR activities. They organize Goonj and Craftegiri in which orphans and handicapped children display their hand made things and we buy those things for their happiness.

In MP Circle Ujjain Zone we have initiated one program we started helping handicapped people of the rural and we started making them retailers of the company. And now theyre earning 2000 – 500 rupees working with Idea Cellular Ltd.