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FICCI
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) is a non-governmental trade association and advocacy group based in India. History Established in 1927, on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi by Indian businessman G.D. Birla and Purshottamdas Thakurdas. It is the largest, one of the oldest and the apex business organisation in India. It is a non-government, not-for-profit organisation. FICCI draws its membership from the corporate sector, both private and public, including SMEs and MNCs. The chamber has an indirect membership of over 250,000 companies from various regional chambers of commerce. It is involved in sector-specific business building, business promotion and networking. Currently, it is headquartered in the national capital New Delhi and has a presence in 12 states in India and 8 countries around the world. Allied organisations Confederation of Indian Food Trade and Industry Confederation of Indian Food Trade and Industry (CIFTI) caters to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subhrakant Panda
Subhrakant Panda is an Indian industrialist and Managing Director of Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Ltd, producer of ferro alloys in India. He is a past president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry and was only the third Indian to head the Paris-based International Chromium Development Association (ICDA). He is also a columnist on notable news portals like The Economic Times, Business Line, and The New Indian Express Early life, education and career Subhrakant Panda was born to Bansidhar Panda and Ila Panda in Cuttack, Odisha. He has completed his schooling from Stewart School, Bhubaneswar and Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram, Delhi. In 1993, Subhrakant Panda graduated with honours from Boston University Questrom School of Business with a dual concentration in Finance and Operations Management; and was named to the Golden Key International Honour Society and Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society for Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naina Lal Kidwai
Naina Lal Kidwai (born 14 April 1957) is an Indian banker, chartered accountant and business executive. She was a Group General Manager and the Country Head of HSBC India. She is also a former President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). She was the first woman appointed on this post. In 2015, Kidwai received the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award. Early life and background Naina Lall Kidwai was born into a Punjabi family on 14 April 1957. Kidwai's father, Surinder Lall, was the CEO of an insurance company. Kidwai's mother was the daughter of Karamchand Thapar, founder of the Thapar Group of companies. Kidwai has one sister, Nonita Lall Qureshi, a golfer and an Arjuna Award winner in 1989, who is married to Pakistani golf champion Faisal Qureshi. Education Kidwai holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, a woman's college in University of Delhi, and belongs to the batch of 1977. Fund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amit Mitra
Amit Mitra is an Indian economist and politician and the current Special Advisor to Chief Minister of West Bengal on Finance. Previously he was the Finance, Commerce & Industries Minister of the government of Indian state of West Bengal. He was the incumbent MLA in the West Bengal state assembly from the Khardaha state assembly constituency. Cited as a giant killer in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election defeating Asim Dasgupta, the former West Bengal Finance Minister. Mitra previously served as the Secretary general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Family Son of Haridas Mitra, an independence activist and former Deputy Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly and Bela Mitra. His maternal grandfather was Suresh Chandra Bose, elder brother of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Both Suresh Chandra Bose and Haridas Mitra were part of the secret service team of Azad Hind Fauj. Bela Mitra took charge of the secret service of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajan Mittal
Rajan Bharti Mittal (born in 1960) is a first-generation Indian entrepreneur serving as vice chairman and managing director of Bharti Enterprises. Rajan graduated from Punjab University and completed his master's at Harvard Business School. Rajan Bharti Mittal, along with his brothers Sunil and Rakesh, set up Bharti Enterprises, an import business, in 1980. Rajan was honored with the "Indian Business Leader of the Year Award" in 2011 by Horasis. In the same year, he was also awarded the "Leonardo International Prize" by Comitato Leonardo. Rajan is on the Board of Trustees of Brookings Institution, President of ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) in India. In 2009–2010, he was the president of FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry A federation (also called a federal state) is an entity characterized by a political union, union of partially federated state, self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a #Federal governments, fed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sangita Reddy
Sangita Reddy is an Indian businessperson who works as a Joint Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals. Career Sangita Reddy is Joint Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprises and the president of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). She was elected as a Member of the Steering Committee on Health for the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017) by the Planning Commission, Government of India. She successfully spearheaded many of the sectoral and industrial initiatives of the FICCI's State Council from 2010 to 2016. She was formerly the chairperson for the FICCI Health Care Committee, New Delhi, and a member of the Rockfeller Working Group, where she was responsible for private healthcare development. She is board member of several organizations. Awards * IMA Mediko Award 2019 –Best Female Healthcare leader Family She is the youngest daughter of Prathap C. Reddy. She is married to Konda Vishweshwar Reddy and has three sons including Anindith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwyn Didar Singh
Alwyn Didar Singh is a former Indian civil servant and former secretary general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Education He graduated from the University of Birmingham with a master's degree in development administration in 1996. In addition, he holds a PhD on the policy and administration of e-commerce from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He is an alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi. Alwyn Didar Singh was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of the University (DUniv) by Birmingham University in 2014. Career Singh was appointed secretary general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in 2012 and served till August 2017. Singh was secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs from 2009 to 2011. He was finance member for the National Highways Authority of India from 2007 to 2009. He has served as joint secretary in the Government of India's Ministry of Heavy Industri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bengal
West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of as of 2011. The population estimate as of 2023 is 99,723,000. West Bengal is the List of states and union territories of India by population, fourth-most populous and List of states and union territories of India by area, thirteenth-largest state by area in India, as well as the List of first-level administrative divisions by population, eighth-most populous country subdivision of the world. As a part of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata, the List of metropolitan areas in India, third-largest metropolis, and List of cities in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divya Gokulnath
Divya Gokulnath (born 1987) is an Indian entrepreneur and educator who is the co-founder and director of Byju's, an educational technology company founded in 2011 in Bangalore, India. Early life and education Divya was born and raised in Bangalore, Bengaluru. Her father worked as a nephrologist at Apollo Hospitals, while her mother was a programming executive with Doordarshan an Indian Government broadcasting company. Divya is the only child of her parents. During her childhood, Divya's father taught her science. Divya, a graduate of The Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore, Frank Anthony Public School, went on to receive a Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology from R.V. College of Engineering, RV College of Engineering. After her graduation in 2007, she met Byju Raveendran, her instructor for GRE preparation. Byju encouraged her to become a teacher due to her questions during breaks between the classes. Her career as a teacher began in 2008 at age 21. In 2020, she told ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATA Carnet
The ATA Carnet, often referred to as the "Passport for goods", is an international customs document that permits the Tax exemption, tax-free and Duty-free trade, duty-free temporary export and import of nonperishable goods for up to one year. It consists of unified customs declaration forms which are prepared ready to use at every border crossing point. It is a globally accepted guarantee for customs duties and taxes which can replace the security deposit required by each customs authority. It can be used in multiple countries in multiple trips up to its one-year validity. The acronym ATA is a combination of French language, French and English language, English terms "Admission Temporaire/Temporary Admission". The ATA carnet is now the document most widely used by the business community for international operations involving temporary admission of goods. The ATA Carnet is jointly administered by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purshottamdas Thakurdas
Sir Purshottamdas Thakurdas (1879–1961), , was an Indian Gujarati cotton trader, banker and industrialist from Mumbai, India. He had served as the Sheriff of Bombay in 1920 and succeeded Sir Mathuradas Vissanji in 1922 as President of Cotton Association of India (later the Cotton Corporation of India). He was a member of the Acworth Committee and a member of the Hilton Young Commission. He along with GD Birla then established the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry in 1927, on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi. During the early 1930s there was a swing among the Indian businessmen towards a policy of more substantial compromise with the Raj, and they found Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, anxious to meet them half way: ''"The 'liberal' and 'moderate' leaders, including the prominent Bombay businessman Purshottamdas Thakurdas, issued a statement from Bombay welcoming Irwin's declaration"''. On 12 November 1935, he was elected a member of the Local Board for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hari Shankar Singhania
Hari Shankar Singhania (20 June 1933 – 22 February 2013) was the President of J.K. Organisation, a leading Indian industrial group, which has its roots extending nearly 100 years, and is one of the largest industrial groups in India. It has multi-business, multi-product and multi-location operations. Most of the companies in the group are public limited entities, with more than 40,000 employees. The group has more than shareholders, with a nationwide sales and service network of over 10,000 distributors and many retailers and service centres. The group has export interests in nearly 90 countries across the globe. Mr. Singhania was the architect of most of the J.K. Organization group of companies which currently manufacture a large range of products including automotive tyres and tubes, paper and board, cement, V-belts, oil seals, power transmission equipment, woolen textiles, readymade suits and apparel, food and dairy products, hybrid seeds, steel engineering files, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishna Kumar Birla
Krishna Kumar Birla (11 November 1918 – 30 August 2008) was an Indian industrialist of the Birla family. Biography Born at Pilani in the northwestern Indian state Rajasthan on 11 November 1918, Krishna Kumar Birla was the second son of Ghanshyam Das Birla. He had one older brother, Lakshmi Niwas Birla, who was the son of Ghanshyam Das Birla by his deceased first wife, Durga Devi Birla. Krishna Kumar was the elder of the two sons born to Ghanshyam Das Birla's second wife, Mahadevi Birla, the other son being Basant Kumar Birla, father of Aditya Vikram Birla. Krishna Kumar also had three sisters, all of whom were born to Mahadevi Birla. Birla's birthday coincided with the Hindu festival of Gopashtami, which is associated with the Hindu god Krishna and thus led to the selection of his name. Krishna Kumar's father, Ghanshyam Das Birla, was the founder of the Birla Group and he was one of India's richest businessmen. He was also a staunch follower of Mahatma Gandhi and a major f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
