Arindam Chaudhuri

Arindam Chaudhuri is an Bengali Indian economist and management consultant, Honorary Dean at IIPM, founder of the charity "The Great Indian Dream Foundation" [ [http://www.gidf.org NGO India Delhi, Non profit organization India, NGO Delhi, Education NGO India, Healthcare NGO India, Environmental NGO India ] ] and the Planman group of companies. [ [http://www.planmanconsulting.com Planman Consulting Services provides Management Consulting, Outsourcing, HR Consulting, Marketing Consulting, Social Sector Consulting from India ] ]

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 - [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/849622.cms]

Controversy

He and his institute, IIPM ran into trouble with a group of bloggers lead by Mr. Gaurav Sabnis and Ms Rashmi Bansal. The bloggers had questioned the tall claims made by Arindam regarding his own acheivements as well as that of IIPM. [http://osdir.com/ml/culture.region.india.zestmedia/2005-10/msg00026.html]

Awards

According to his website, he is the recipient of the following awards:
*The Priyadarshini Memorial Award for Excellent contribution to Management from the Priyadarshini Academy, Mumbai, India in 2006 [ [http://www.rediff.com/movies/2006/aug/29kareena.htm Kareena to get Smita Patil award] ] [ [http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=201976 Priyadarshini Global Awards honours 13 achievers] ]
* Example to Youth award from the Rotaract Club of India in 2004 [ [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040216/ncr1.htm The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - NCR stories ] ]
* Personality of the Decade Award from the KG Foundation in 2003 [ [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/06/09/stories/2003060901250300.htm The Hindu : Of successful personalities ] ]
* 50 Leading thinkers in South Asia by Wilton Park in 2001 [ [http://www.technical-outsourcing.com/profilexxuser_id__17403.htm BPO, Marketing, Research, T&D, Web, Content Management, Media. - Planman Consulting ] ] [ [http://seminars.indiatimes.com/slice/inside/arindam.htm Arindam Chaudhuri ] ]
* The Management Guru Award from the Om Venkatesa Society, Chennai, India in 2000 [ [http://seminars.indiatimes.com/slice/inside/arindam.htm Arindam Chaudhuri ] ]

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. [cite news
first = Suman
last = Mishra
title = Advance Praise
url = http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=58800
publisher = Ahmedabad Newsline, a supplement of The Indian Express
date = July 26, 2003
accessdate = January 4, 2007]

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 [ [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/19797364.cms Setting his sights on Hollywood-Lucknow Times-Cities-The Times of India ] ] and Dosor [ [http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/05/stories/2005100519730200.htm The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Taking Indian ideas to the West ] ] in Bengali, Faltu [ [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060213/delhi.htm The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Delhi and neighbourhood ] ] and Rok Sako To Rok Lo [ [http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/03/08/stories/2004030800450100.htm The Hindu : Rok sako to rok lo ] ] in Hindi; and is currently producing The Last Lear [ [http://www.businessofcinema.com/index.php?file=story&id=2755 Businessofcinema.com - Cinema Business News and Information ] ] (with Amitabh Bachchan and Preity Zinta in leading roles, directed by Rituparno Ghosh), Mithya [ [http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2006/11/23/stories/2006112301250200.htm The Hindu : Metro Plus Delhi / Music : The debutante ] ] (directed by Rajat Kapoor, with Ranvir Shourie in a leading role), and Sunglass [ [http://www.businessofcinema.com/index.php?file=story&id=2755 Businessofcinema.com - Cinema Business News and Information ] ] (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.

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.

References

External links

* [http://www.arindamchaudhuri.com/ Arindam Chaudhuri's website]
* Official website of [http://www.gidf.org/ The Great Indian Dream Foundation]
* [http://www.planmanconsulting.com Planman Consulting's official website]