Arindam Chaudhuri

Arindam Chaudhuri(Hindi:अरिंदम चौधुरी ) is the son of Dr Malayendra Kisor Chaudhuri

who founded the Indian Institute of Planning and Management in 1973. Arindam is the
founder of the charity The Great Indian Dream Foundation[1] and the Planman group of
companies.[2].
Contents
 1 Biography
 2 Awards
 3 Publications
 4 Planman group of companies
 5 Great Indian Dream Foundation
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 6 References
 7 External links

[edit] Biography
Arindam received his Post Graduate Diploma in Planning and Entrepreneurship from The
Indian Institute of Planning and Management in 1992 - a business school [3]. Arindam
Chaudhuri was awarded the Academic Gold Medal. He later joined IIPM on completion of
the course, where he is currently the Honorary Dean for the IIPM Centre for Economic
Research and Advanced Studies.[4] He was appointed as a member of the Consultative
Committee for the Planning Commission of India in 2004.[5]
[edit] 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[6][7]
 Example to Youth award from the District Rotaract Council, a part of Rotary
International, in 2004[8]
 Personality of the Decade Award from the KG Foundation in 2003[9]
 The Management Guru Award from the Om Venkatesa Society, Chennai, India in
2000[10]
[edit] 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.
 Discover the diamond in you, a motivational book
 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 five 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
[edit] 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[11] and Dosor[12] in Bengali, Faltu[13], Rok Sako
To Rok Lo[14] , Mithya[15] , and Sunglass[16] in Hindi. Another movie produced by them, The
Last Lear[16] was awarded the National Award for Best Film in English in the year 2009 by
the Government of India. 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.
[edit] Great Indian Dream Foundation
In 2002, Arindam Chaudhuri founded the charity, Great Indian Dream Foundation (GIDF).
As per GIDF, 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.[17]