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== Biography == == Biography ==


Arindam seems not to have stated in public which institution he graduated from or when or in which subject. He received his Post Graduate Diploma in Planning and Entrepreneurship from The Indian Institute of Planning and Management in 1992 - an institute owned and operated by his father. 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 - . Arindam received his Post Graduate Diploma in Planning and Entrepreneurship from The Indian Institute of Planning and Management in 1992. 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 - .


== Awards == == Awards ==

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Arindam Chaudhuri

Arindam Chaudhuri is the son of Dr M. K. Chaudhuri who founded the Indian Institute of Planning and Management in 1973. Arindam is the founder of the charity The Great Indian Dream Foundation and the Planman group of companies.

Biography

Arindam received his Post Graduate Diploma in Planning and Entrepreneurship from The Indian Institute of Planning and Management in 1992. 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 - .

Awards

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
  • Example to Youth award from the Rotaract Club of India in 2004
  • Personality of the Decade Award from the KG Foundation in 2003
  • 50 Leading thinkers in South Asia by Wilton Park in 2001
  • The Management Guru Award from the Om Venkatesa Society, Chennai, India in 2000

Publications

Arindam Chaudhuri has said he has published three books though the publisher and year is not specified in any case:

  • 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 business and policy magazine
  • 4Ps, a fortnighly magazine on corporate news and issues
  • The Sunday Indian, a news weekly in English and 14 other Indian languages
  • The Indian PC Magazine, a monthly magazine licensed from the global PC Magazine
  • The Human Factor, a monthly magazine on human resources and related issues

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 and Dosor in Bengali, Faltu, Rok Sako To Rok Lo in Hindi, The Last Lear, Mithya , and Sunglass. 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.

Controversy

Main article: The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) advertising controversy

IIPM and Arindam have regularly been part of various controversies.

Most of the controversies revolve around false representation of placements (placing students in companies such as McKinsey and HSBC), course content, faculty and affiliations with leading global institutes such as Berkeley and Haas.

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. Setting his sights on Hollywood-Lucknow Times-Cities-The Times of India
  10. The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Taking Indian ideas to the West
  11. The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Delhi and neighbourhood
  12. The Hindu : Rok sako to rok lo
  13. ^ Businessofcinema.com - Cinema Business News and Information
  14. The Hindu : Metro Plus Delhi / Music : The debutante
  15. Sarma, B Mahesh. "IIPM - BEST ONLY IN CLAIMS?". Careers 360. Retrieved 2009-06-18.

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