Dr. Rahul Mirchandani, Executive Director, Aries Agro Ltd, has been appointed as National Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry’s Young Indians (CII-Yi) for the year 2009-10.
Prior being appointed as National Chairman, Dr. Rahul Mirchandani has been associated with CII’s Young Indians as a Vice Chairman. He has been associated with CII’s Young Indians since past 4 years and has led the Yi Youth Affairs activities in Mumbai and later nationally
Dr. Mirchandani has worked with CII-Yi members and mentors 3000 students from 41 educational institutions across India in a wide range of community service, self development and nation building initiatives.
Dr. Mirchandani conceptualized the first CII-Yi- National Young Farmers Network, in partnership with Aries Agro Limited, in August 2007 with an objective of knowledge dissemination across young farmers across India regarding agricultural best practices. The network, currently with 5900 farmers in 8 states, aims to use knowledge as a catalyst to bridge the productivity gap in Indian agriculture.
CII Yi works on a range of key nation building initiatives that include education, employability, healthcare, environment, among others. Dr. Mirchandani has also involved Yi Net students from across the country in a 96 hours Race across India and has played a key role in “Be the Change” – the first ever Yi Youth Affairs leadership summit.
About CII’s Young Indians:
Young Indians (Yi) is an integral part of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), India’s premier business association, formed in the year 2002, with an objective of creating a platform for young Indians to realize the dream of a developed nation. Yi has over 900 direct members in 16 City Chapters, and engages another 10,000 members through its District Chapters, Corporate Chapters, Farmers’ Net and Students’ Net. The Yi membership includes young progressive Indians between the age group of 25 & 40 years. The members comprise of entrepreneurs, professionals and progressive achievers from different walks of life.
“To become the voice of young Indians globally” being the vision of Yi, it provides a platform for young Indians to participate in and contribute to being and integral part of the Indian Growth Story. Yi works effectively for promoting leadership skills for the development of its members through the learning programs; the development and engagement of students in schools and colleges through its 44 Students’ Net platform which engage more than 3000 students from 35 educational institutions across India; and a Farmers Net platform that has enrolled 5903 young & progressive farmers from all across the country, providing them with real time agricultural inputs and know-how. Yi works in partnership with various organisations. These include the Government, Companies, Civil society organizations.
In 2008, Young Indians partnered with CII on the Mission on India@75: The Emerging Agenda, which reflects its aspirational role to facilitate the acceleration in India’s transformation into an economically vital, technologically innovative, socially and ethically vibrant global leader by year 2022. The Yi organisation and activities are today aligned to work towards the goals set in the vision of India@75.
About Aries Agro Limited :
Promoted in 1969 by Dr. T. B. Mirchandani and Mrs. Bala Mirchandani as Aries Agro-Vet Industries Pvt. Ltd., the Company was converted into a Public Limited Company as Aries Agro-Vet Industries Limited in 1994. It was subsequently changed to ‘Aries Agro Limited (AAL)’ in October 2006. The Company started off with a small range of mineral feed additives for animals and birds. In 1975, the Company diversified into nutrients for plant.
The company has 41 brands spread across the entire range of Crop Nutrition solutions, including Chelated Micronutrients, Multi Micronutrient Complexes, Secondary Nutrients, bio-fertilizers and water soluble Major fertilizers. The company sells its products across 22 states of India through a network of 5000 distributors, 69000 retailers and has access to 8 million farmers. The company currently has 6 manufacturing units in India, including India’s largest and most automated manufacturing unit for producing Chelated micronutrients. A company with an ISO certified quality management system, Aries has 107 different crop specific, geography specific and soil specific formulations of its multi micronutrient complexes, recognizing the need to provide customized crop nutrition solutions in different markets that it serves. The company has always been at the forefront of innovation and has taken the lead in creating awareness and markets for several unique nutrition solutions in India. Aries also has very strong partnerships with world class suppliers of specialty nutrients in countries like South America, the Middle East, China, Europe, amongst others.
The company was awarded as a winner of CNBC Emerging India Award 2008 in FMCG, food & agri-based business.
