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Mrityunjay Athreya is an Indian author, educationist and management advisor, widely regarded as one of the founders and pioneers of Indian Management movement and education. A former professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, the
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and the Strathclyde Business School, Scotland, and a known speaker at various international forums, he is the founder of ''Sampradaan Indian Centre for Philanthropy'', a non-profit
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, serving as a platform for charity initiatives by high-net-worth individuals. The
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honored him, in 2014, by bestowing on him the third highest civilian award, the
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Biography

Mritunjay Athreya was born in 1941, in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu to T.A. Balasundaram Iyer and Narayani Ammal. He was one of six sons and three daughters of his parents. They were of the Athreya Gotra, which would later be added to the name. His mother was of Bharadwaj Gotra from a clan that traced their lineage to Neelakanta Dikshitar. The young Mrityunjay was a bright student and graduated in Statistics from the Loyola College,
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and followed it with the Cost Accountant qualification offered by the
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(previously the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India) (ICWAI) with first rank and gold medal. He also qualified with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of England. For further studies, he joined
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, California, USA, on scholarship, spent one year there and, later, two years at the
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to secure a PhD in
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before returning to India in 1967. Pursuing his career as a management advisor, he currently lives in the Indian capital of New Delhi.


Career

Mrityunjay Athreya began his career as an executive in the Indian office of a multinational company which was short lived as he went over to the USA for his studies. On his return to India, he joined the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, in 1967, as the Assistant Professor and later, became the Professor. He also worked as visiting professor at London Business School and the Strathclyde Business School, Scotland. Athreya's associations with various Government committees started with his involvement with the committee for restructuring Indian Airlines, in 1971, where he worked with Vijay Kelkar. This was followed by another committee, in 1972, for restructuring the State Enterprises of the Jammu and Kashmir. In 1991, the Government of India invited Athreya to head the Telcom Restructuring Committee, which later came to be known as the Athreya Committee, heading a panel of eminent members such as
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; N. Vittal, IAS; V. Krishnamurthy and late M. R. Pai. The Committee made a set of proposals which are reported to have set India's communication revolution rolling. Athreya has also been involved with many other committees, involved with the Reserve Bank of India, the Ministries of Coal and Civil Aviation and Nuclear power. He has also worked with C. Rangarajan,
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, and Y. V. R. Reddy.


Sampradaan Indian Centre for Philanthropy

Dr. Mrityunjay Athreya founded an NGO, Sampradaan Indian Centre for Philanthropy (SICP), a non-profit organization in 1996. The organization, registered as a society, has the objectives to promote philanthropy among Indian people, especially the high-net-worth individuals. It provides a platform for the philanthropists to channel their charity activities. The organization has a mandate to encourage research, documentation and dissemination of information, organize workshops and conferences and place itself as a premier resource centre.


Awards and recognitions

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Padma Bhushan The Padma Bhushan (IAST: ''Padma Bhūṣaṇa'', lit. 'Lotus Decoration') is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 Januar ...
- 2014 * "Bhishma Pitamaha of Indian HR" by NHRDN and NDIM, New Delhi, 2021 * "Dharma Pracharak" by Sri Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Sringeri, 2021 * "Icon of the Year Award" by Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Kolkata, 2014 * Lifetime Achievement Award, Thinkers50 India, 2013 He has also been recognized with various fellowships. * Ford Fellow, Harvard Business School, 1965-67 * Hoover Fellow, Stanford Business School, 1964-66 * Fellow, Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICAI) * Fellow, Institute of Management Consultants of India (IMCI) * Fellow, Human Resources Development Network (HRD Network) * Fellow, Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD) * Fellow, All India Management Association (AIMA) * Fellow, eInformation Systems, Security and Audit Association (EISA), 2005CITATION Award of Honorary Fellowship To Hon’ble Prof. Mrityunjay Athreya
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Works

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See also

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Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta or IIM-C) is a public business school located in Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was the first Indian Institute of Management to be established, and has been recognized as an Institu ...


External links

* Profile on YouTube * Vision and Mission of Indian Professional on YouTube * Dr. M B Athreya - Felicitation Poem by Rajiv Khurana * Institute of Management Consultants of India, Delhi *


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Athreya, Mrityunjay 1941 births Living people Academics of Strathclyde Business School Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education Harvard Business School alumni Indian management consultants Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Indian expatriates in the United States 20th-century Indian educational theorists People from Tirunelveli district