Travel Another India, an NGO which is promoting responsible tourism into Rural India, was awarded the Cartier Womens Initiative Award for 2010 as the laureate from Asia. The work done through the organisation "Travel Another India" is laudable. To know more about this initiative click on the link below.
http://travelanotherindia.com/
Travel another India was started by Gouthami who is a fellow IRMA Alumnus. For those who are not in the know, the Institute of Rural Management Anand, is a management institute, set up with help in the form of pedagogy and teaching materials from IIM Ahmedabad and caters to the managerial resource pool of development related organizations. It offers scholarships in return for its post- graduates working for three years in non- governmental organizations and government welfare and development departments. It was also ranked as one of the best sectoral institutes in the Indian Express Survey of Business Schools. In 2004 it was ranked among the top 10 business schools in India by a business magazine.
Its alumni include Raju Narisetti, the Editor of Washington Post, Sivakumar Surampudi of ITC, who shepherded the E- Choupal schemes, Sanjay Tripathi, the Head of Marketing at HDFC Standard Mutual, Ramanuj Shastry, the Natonal Creative Director at Saatchi and Saatchi, Sanjeev Asthana of Reliance Retail, Sivasankaran Nair, who is the Director of Kerala Tourism Promotion Board, G.V.L.Narasimha Rao, who made a name in Market Research and moved onto join the Madhya Pradesh Government as Advisor on Media, Satish Babu of Inapps, Premjith Sodhi at Lowe, Sanjay Sinha of Mother Dairy, Andy Bhanot at BBC World Service, the management teams at Amul, NDDB, various State Milk Marketing Federations, District Cooperative Unions, Oilseeds Growers Cooperatives, NGO's and in the corporate sector.
On behalf of everyone at the Alumni, and from those of us who promote responsible tourism ,we wish Gouthami even greater success.
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