azim premji

Biography
 1. Born July 24, 1945 Achievements Chairman of Wipro Technologies, Richest Indian for the past several years, Honored with Padma Bhushan in 2005.Azim Premji is Chairman of Wipro Technologies, one of the largest software companies in India. He is an icon among Indian businessmen and his success story is a source of inspiration to a number of budding entrepreneurs.Born on July 24, 1945, Azim Hashim Premji was studying Electrical Engineering from Sta .....
Career
 2. In 1966, on the news of his fathers death, the then 21 year old Azim Premji returned home from Stanford University, where he was studying engineering, to take charge of Wipro. The company, which was called Western Indian Vegetable Products at the time, dealt in hydrogenated oil manufacturing but Azim Premji later diversified the company to bakery fats, ethnic ingredient based toiletries, hair care soaps, baby toiletries, lighting products, and hy .....
Personal life
 3. Azim was born in Mumbai India in a Muslim family originally hailing from Kutch in Gujarat.His grandfather was a noted businessman and was known as Rice King of Burma. After partition, when Jinnah invited his grandfather to come to Pakistan, he turned down the request and chose to remain in India.He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree (equivalent to a Bachelor of Engineering degree) from Stanford University, USA. He is marri .....
Education
 4. Education quality is a gargantuan problem in our country, even as education access has been improving. The leading NGO Pratham has been publishing the Status of Education Report (ASER), a credible survey measuring educational outcomes in our country. As the 2012 report recounts In 2010 nationally, 46.3% of all children in Std. V could not read a Std. II level text. This proportion increased to 51.8% in 2011 and further to 53.2% in 2012. For Std. .....
Philanthropy
 5. In 2001, he founded Azim Premji Foundation,a non profit organisation, with a vision to significantly contribute to achieving quality universal education that facilitates a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. The Foundation works in the area of elementary education to pilot and develop proofs of concept that have a potential for systemic change in Indias 1.3 million government run schools. A specific focus is on working in rural areas .....
The Giving Pledge
 6. Azim Premji has become the first Indian to sign up for the The Giving Pledge, a campaign led by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, to encourage the wealthiest people to make a commitment to give most of their wealth to philanthropic causes. He is the third non American after Richard Branson and David Sainsbury to join this philanthropy club.I strongly believe that those of us, who are privileged to have wealth, should contribute significantly to try .....
Family
 7. Azim Premji is married to Yasmeen. The couple has two children, Rishad and Tariq. Rishad is married to Aditi and is currently the Chief Strategy Officer of IT Business, Wipro Technologies. .....
WIPRO Company Profile
 8. WIPRO was initially known as Western India Vegetable Products Ltd, and was started by Mr.M.H Premji. The company manufactured vegetable oil, vegetable ghee and laundry soap.In 1966, upon the sudden demise of M.H. Premji, his son, Mr. Azim Hasham Premji, a 21 year old student of engineering at Stanford University, had to takeover his fathers business. He worked very hard to diversify and expand, WIPRO. The business diversified into fluid power, so .....
Financial status
 9. Azim Premji transformed WIPRO ltd (western India products ltd) from a vegetable oils maker into a robust IT company, which is ranked 3rd amongst Indias computer service providing companies.He took over his fathers business at the age of 21, after he joined WIPRO he slowly and steadily entered into other product lines such as ethnic ingredient based toiletries, hair care soaps, lightning products and hydraulic cylinders. Thereafter he shifted his .....
Achievements and Awards
 10. Achievements He is the second richest man in India. Transformed WIPRO from vegetable oils company to a large software giant. In the year 2001, Premji established the Azim Premji Foundation, a not for profit organization with a Vision of significantly contributing to quality primary education for every child, in order to build a fair, equitable, humane & sustainable society. Member of Prime Ministers Committee for trade and indust .....
Biggest Philanthropist of India
 11. Azim Premji Foundation is a not for profit organization formed 9 years ago and is funded single handedly by him. It is established with a vision to contribute to systemic changes in Indian education that facilitates a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. Active since 2001, the Foundation has engaged with over 2.5 million children in 20,000 schools across 13 States through a dedicated workforce of over 250 professionals and hundreds of .....
Azim premji MY LESSONS IN LIFE
 12. The first thing I have learnt is that we must always begin with our strengths. The second lesson I have learnt is that a Rupee earned is of far more value then five found. The third lesson I have learnt is that no one bats a hundred every time. Life has many challenges. You win some and lose some. You must enjoy winning. The fourth lesson I have learnt is the importance of humility. The fifth lesson I learnt is that we must always .....
Educational Philosophy
 13. The educational philosophy behind the Azim Premji University is based on three key principles.Firstly, the University nurtures and encourages exemplary standards of teaching, learning and research. The learning programmes of the University therefore focus on building depth of understanding, capacity for inter disciplinary learning and research, analytical skills, critical thinking and communication in an atmosphere of academic freedom and integri .....
Guiding Principles
 14. Two key principles guide the process of the Universitys continued evolution. Firstly, the University exists to make significant contributions to education in a manner consistent with social justice, equity, humane values and sustainability within the framework of a secular and democratic Indian polity. This commitment to a specific value orientation is not to be interpreted as a narrowly utilitarian view of the University and is at all times, con .....
Foundation
 15. Azim Premji Foundation is a not for profit organisation that has been working for more than a decade now towards making deep, large scale and institutionalised impact on the quality and equity of education in India, along with related development areas. Any large scale educational change requires significant and sustained effort over many decades and can only be achieved through working at multiple levels as well as on several areas simultaneousl .....
Partnering with Government
 16. Azim Premji Foundation works in collaboration with State Governments and engages with teachers, teacher educators, head teachers, block and cluster level education officials, senior government functionaries and policy makers at the state and national level. .....
State and District Institutes
 17. The Foundation has State Institutes in the capitals of select Indian states and several District Institutes within these states, each having dedicated teams. The work of the State and District Institute is institutional in nature, recognising that long term and consistent engagement is necessary for educational change. These Institutes work at the grass root level, closely engaging with the government education system. The range of work they do s .....
Career Opportunities
 18. The social sector today offers a variety of exciting career opportunities for students, with a desire to contribute to the overall development of the country. Growing public investment, landmark legislations like the Right to Education Act and large government programmes like NREGA, NRLM etc., and the increasing participation of NGOs from policy making to implementation and monitoring, call for talented professionals in large numbers. In addition .....
social work
 19. The mission of the social work profession is rooted in a set of core values. These core values, embraced by social workers throughout the professions history, are the foundation of social works unique purpose and perspective: service social justice dignity and worth of the person importance of human relationships integrity competence. .....
Founder of Wipro Limited
 20. Azim Hasham Premji, founder of Wipro Limited, Indias biggest and most competitive IT company based in Bangalore, was born on July 24th 1945 in Bombay. Premji was forced to leave his studies in computer science from Stanford University, California, USA at the age of 21 to take over the family business of vegetable oils when his father M.H. Premji, suddenly passed away in 1966. He has since after a gap of over thirty years completed his degree in E .....
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