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BUSINESS LEADER TRANSFORMING INDIA
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Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Group:
Mr Mittal can be labelled as the most ambitious telecom entrepreneur in India. A former student of Harvard Business School, he graduated from Punjab University. Mittal introduced the push button phones to India, replacing the old fashioned, bulky rotary phones that were in use in the country then.
Sunil Mittal has changed the face of the Indian ICT space and has innumerable successes to his credit. For his contributions he has been honoured with several awards. He was chosen as one of the top entrepreneurs in the world for the year 2000 and amongst 'Stars Of Asia', by 'Business Week', he received IT Man of the Year Award 2002 from Dataquest and CEO Of the Year, 2002 Award (World HRD Congress).
He is the member of National Council of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), Chairman, Indo-US Joint Business Council, Member, Advisory Committee constituted by Ministry of IT. Mittal has to his credit the breaking up of the 100 year old monopoly of state run companies to operate telecom services in India.
Now he heads a successful empire focused on different areas of business through independent Joint Venture companies with a market capitalization of approximately $ 2 billion, employing over 5,000 people and still growing.
Bharti Foundation has funded over 50 schools in Madhya Pradesh and also donated Rs 200 million to IIT Delhi for building a Bharti School of Technology and Management.
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