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<ul><li><keyword id="253799" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Yash-Birla">Yash Birla</keyword> has been named as a <keyword id="2493710" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Willful-defaulter">willful defaulter</keyword> by <keyword id="49007" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uco-Bank">UCO Bank</keyword> for non repayment of a loan of ₹676 million. </li><li>Birla’s company Birla Surya Ltd is the one to have defaulted in the payment. </li><li>UCO Bank, before it was nationalized, was founded by Birla’s great grand uncle GD Birla.</li></ul>Indian businessman Yash Birla, who comes from one of the most prestigious families of India, has been <a href="https://www.livemint.com/news/india/uco-bank-declares-yashovardhan-birla-willful-defaulter-1560660742531.html">declared</a> as a willful defaulter by the Kolkata-based UCO Bank. His company Birla Surya Ltd failed to repay loans worth ₹676 million. Birla was sent several notices regarding the repayment of the loan. His company was given a credit limit of ₹1 billion to manufacture multi-crystalline solar photovoltaic cells. Interestingly, Birla has been issued a notice for being a willful defaulter by UCO Bank – the same bank that was founded by his great grand uncle Ghanshyam Das Birla in 1943. The bank was later nationalized by the Government of India in 1969. “Due to non-repayment of dues to the bank, the account was declared NPA (non-performing asset) on 3 June, 2013. The borrower has not repaid the dues owed to the bank despite several notices. The borrower company and its directors, promoters, guarantors were declared as willful defaulters by the bank and their name reported to the credit information companies for public information," UCO Bank said in its <a href="https://www.livemint.com/news/india/uco-bank-declares-yashovardhan-birla-willful-defaulter-1560660742531.html">notice.</a> Yash Birla, head of the <keyword id="169144" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Yash-Birla-Group">Yash Birla Group</keyword>, is not new to financial troubles. Over the years, financial problems have been mounting on Birla, who was also bailed out by his billionaire cousin Kumar Mangalam Birla, in the past. In January 2019, three of Yash Birla’s <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/business/companies/mca-asks-sfio-to-probe-three-yash-birla-promoted-firms-5529347/">firms</a> – Birla Cotsyn India Ltd, Birla Shloka Edutech Ltd and Zenith Birla (India) Ltd – were under investigation for fraud as directed by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. In <a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/sbi-sends-recovery-notice-to-yash-birla-s-firm-117041301197_1.html">2017</a>, the State Bank of India had sent a recovery notice to Birla’s firm for the repayment of ₹178 million in debt. See Also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/from-today-black-money-cases-cant-be-settled-by-paying-up-dues/articleshow/69818885.cms">From today, black money cases can't be settled by paying up dues</a>

Yash Birla declared ‘willful defaulter’ by a bank that was founded by his great grand uncle

<ul><li><keyword id="11618280" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="birla-brainiacs">Birla Brainiacs</keyword> is looking to raise $5-10 million in an external round of funding and is in talks with investors, according to the founder of the company.</li><li>The e-learning startup, which was launched last year in April, is also planning to hire 1500 teachers in the next two years.</li><li>A report by PGA Labs and IVCA says that India’s education sector is poised to grow from the current $117 billion to $225 billion in FY25.</li></ul>Mumbai-based edtech startup Birla Brainiacs is looking to raise $5-10 million in an external round of funding and is in talks with investors, according to the founder of the company. <keyword id="6623023" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="nirvaan-birla">Nirvaan Birla</keyword> — the founder of the startup who is the son of Yashovardhan Birla, the chairman of the Yash Birla group — said that the company is in “the market for funding” and that it has appointed an investment agency for the fund raise. He did not reveal an exact timeline on the closing of the funding round. He also said that the startup has “approached a couple of investors” without disclosing further details. The e-learning startup, which was launched last year in April, is also planning to hire 1500 teachers in the next two years, according to Birla. “In the next two years we plan to hire 1000 plus teachers actually only for the tuition segment. Other than that we will be recruiting 100-200 teachers for other courses as well. Total 1500 teachers will be hired in the next two years,” Birla added. At present it has around 50 staff members onboard with a mix of research and development, subject heads and experts, counsellors, and sales and marketing teams. The platform caters to the needs of students from grade 1 to 12 with live sessions, video content in the form of “Flip Tales” — using cartoons and action heroes to explain the concepts. Other than that, there are also added skill development courses like vedic maths, coding, and communicative English. Due to the global pandemic, some parents have been seemingly expressing their concerns for the safety of their children while sending them to tuition centres. “The idea behind this is to give them the holistic platform on which they can not only progress academically, but also completely replace the needs of tuitions, because I believe after they take the app they don’t need tuitions,” Birla told Business Insider over a phone call. Birla Brainiacs, which was incorporated in July 2019, is registered as Birla Brainiacs LLP. It is a partnership firm with two designated partners — Nirvaan Birla and Narrindraa Mohan Shetty. He told Business Insider that the company, which initially got funded by his sister company, is now looking at an acquisition of a gamification company or a tie-up with them. Birla said he is already in talks with an Australian company, which is in the preschool space, for the same. He did not reveal the name of the firm. The Yash Birla group has been at the centre of a storm in the not-so-distant past. Yash Birla, who runs the Yash Birla Group, was declared a wilful <a href="https://www.livemint.com/news/india/uco-bank-declares-yashovardhan-birla-willful-defaulter-1560660742531.html">defaulter</a> by lender UCO bank with an outstanding dues of over ₹67 crores. During the pandemic-induced lockdown when all schools were shut, most school-going kids stayed at home and learned online. This gave birth to the demand for homeschooling. It is also known as home-education in which parents choose to educate their children at home only rather than sending them to schools. Homeschooling is still a relatively new concept in India. According to research done by the company, big cities like Pune, Mumbai and Hyderabad were the biggest markets for homeschooling. Birla Brainiacs claims to be the first edtech platform to introduce the concept of homeschooling. The homeschooling feature is available only till class 8, which includes all subjects along with development skill courses. When asked about what makes Birla Brainiacs different from other edtech players in the market, he said that, “If you look at other edtech players, they either teach in huge masses where they have one teacher over 100-200 students together or they have one teacher over a student... where one teacher teaches only one child at a time. It’s not a two way interactive class. It's more like pre-recorded classes where the teacher is mainly talking.” It is through collaborative learning style and using Flip Tales for video content that Birla Brainiacs is trying to stand out from other edtech biggies like Byju’s, Vedantu, Unacademy and so on. However, the startup is still a newbie in the edtech sector and still has to go a long way to survive amidst cut-throat competition. Birla Brainiacs currently has around 5,000 paid users out of which 2,000 users have subscribed to the basic package. The company claims that they add close to 2,000 paid users every month and now are targeting 5,000 paid users from next month onwards. “In the next 3-5 years, we’re looking [at a] turnover of ₹4-5 hundred crores and in terms of revenue [growth of] around 50-60% year on year, and we are planning to reach around 10 lakh paid users in the next 3-5 years,” says Birla. Birla also told Business Insider about his plans to get the company listed in the future. “Once we hit our 5 year target turnover and 10,00,000 users… we could probably look to get into [an] IPO,” he added. India stands second after the United States in the number of edtech startups, according to an <a href="https://community.nasscom.in/communities/product-startups/india-and-edtech-a-post-pandemic-potential-growth-story.html">Inc42 analysis</a>. A report by PGA Labs and Indian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (IVCA) says that India’s <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/india-edtech-in-charts-how-the-shift-to-online-learning-meant-money-valuation-and-users-for-the-likes-of-byjus-unacademy-and-others/articleshow/80040270.cms">education sector</a> is poised to grow from the current $117 billion to $225 billion in FY25. 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Nirvaan Birla’s edtech startup Birla Brainiacs plans to raise up to $10 million, to hire 1500 teachers in the next two years

The name of India’s leading industrialist <keyword id="253799" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Yash-Birla">Yash Birla</keyword> is among the Indians with <keyword id="43603" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Swiss-Bank">Swiss bank</keyword> accounts whose names have been publicized by Switzerland's official gazette with reference to the current tax enquiries against them in India. 
 
There are five other names - Syed Mohamed Masood, Chaud Kauser Mohamed Masood, Gurjit Singh Kochar, Sneh Lata Sawhney, and Sangita Sawhney. 
 The Masoods are being investigated for a huge Mumbai based ponzi scheme through <keyword id="2870116" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="City-Limousines">City Limousines</keyword>. Syed Masood’s accounts were already frozen years ago after a request from the <keyword id="6357808" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Enforcement-Directorate">Enforcement Directorate</keyword>. Fresh details about him and about Chaud Kauser Masood have been requested by the Indian authorities. 
 
The accused can file an appeal to the Swiss Federal Administrative Court within 30 days, asking them not to share their details with Indian authorities. 
 
In case of Birla and Sharma, whose details have already been shared, the announcement also mentions their Indian addresses. 
 
Indians has been pushing Swiss authorities for long to share details on account holders suspected of tax evasion in India. 
 
The current announcement comes in light of the new black money law passed by the Indian Parliament. The convicted will now face up to ten years in jail and a penalty of 90 per cent of funds in addition to 30 per cent tax levy. However, there is a relaxation for first time offenders, where the person can come clean by paying 30% tax and 30% penalty. Hope this doesn’t let many a Birla slip through. 
 
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Yash Birla
among others named by Swiss Bank for tax fraud

<keyword id="31278" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Lata-Mangeshkar" source="Orion">Lata Mangeshkar</keyword>, India's most loved singer who had once moved Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to tears, leaves behind a teary-eyed nation of admirers who grew up listening to her immutable voice give wings to the words of poets and the screen careers of legions of heroines. India's Melody Queen, who also composed music for Marathi films and was a producer as well, and had the distinction of being conferred with the highest civilian honours of India and France, passed away on Sunday morning at the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, where she had been admitted because of Covid-related complications on January 11. Lata Didi, as she was known among her family and followers, was 92 and is survived by her siblings -- playback singer and composer Meena Khadilkar, popular singer and restaurateur Asha Bhosale, singer <keyword id="146736" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Usha-Mangeshkar" source="Orion">Usha Mangeshkar</keyword>, and music director Hridayanath Mangeshkar. She never married, but was close to the late Raj Singh Dungarpur, the aristocratic former cricketer and President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) from 1996 to 1999. One of India's most loved voices, Lata Mangeshkar was the recipient of three National Film Awards, seven Filmfare awards, and of course, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1989. She was conferred the Bharat Ratna in 2001, becoming the second singer after M.S. Subbulakshmi to be so honoured, and the French awarded her the Officer of the Legion of Honour. In 1974, Lata Mangeshkar became the first Indian to perform at the Royal Albert Hall, London. She had indeed come a long, long way since the time when the first song that she recorded for a film -- 'Kiti Hasaal' in 1942 -- was dropped in the final cut. Born in what was then the princely state of Indore on September 28, 1929, to the classical singer, Marathi theatre actor and writer of musical plays Deenanath Mangeshkar and his wife Shevanti (Shudhamati), Lata Mangeshkar was originally named Hema by her parents, but they later changed it to Lata after the character Latika from one of her father's musical plays. Lata Mangeshkar's association with the performing arts began when she was five and started appearing in her father's musical plays, and it continued even after her father's premature death in 1942, thanks to his good friend, the actor and director Master Vinayak (Vinayak Damodar Karnataki), who took the family under his wings. It was Master Vinayak who took Lata Mangeshkar to Mumbai, paved her way into the world of Marathi cinema, got her to take Hindustani classical music lessons from Ustad Aman Ali Khan of the Bhendi Bazaar Gharana, and introduced her to Vasant Desai, V. Shantaram's favourite music composer. But it was not until Master Vinayak's death in 1948 that the struggling singer-actor found the person whom she considered to be her "godfather" -- the music composer Ghulam Haider, who gave Lata Mangeshkar her first big break with the song 'Dil Mera Toda, Mujhe Kahin Ka Na Chhora' in the movie 'Majboor' (1948). It was her first big break. Haider took his protege to Shashadhar Mukherjee, the Filmistan boss now better known as Kajol and Rani Mukherjee's grandfather, for his film, 'Shaheed' (1948), but he turned her down because he found her voice to be "too thin". Lata Mangeshkar proved him oh-so wrong just a year later when her song 'Aayega Aanewaala', filmed on the gorgeous Madhubala in Kamal Amrohi's debut directorial, 'Mahal' (1949), became an ageless hit. And in one of life's delicious ironies, Mukherjee's grand-daughter lip-synced the 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge' song, 'Mere Khwabon Mein', which was sung by none other than Lata Mangeshkar, as well as the other numbers picturised on her and Shah Rukh Khan. Since 'Mahal', Lata Mangeshkar was courted by just about every music director of note -- from Anil Biswas to S.D. Burman (and his son Rahul Dev, whose first and last song she sang), Naushad (who had asked her to sing like the then reigning nightingale, Noorjehan), Madan Mohan, Shankar-Jaikishan, Laxmikant-Pyarelal (for whom she's said to have sung 700 songs in 35 years), and Kalyanji-Anandji. And she worked with every contemporary composer of note -- from Anand-Milind, sons of Chitragupt, with whom she had also worked, and Anu Malik, Sardar Malik's son, to Ilaiyaraaja and A.R. Rahman. It is said she worked with music directors from 13 states in her star-studded career. After Noorjehan moved to Pakistan, Lata Mangeshkar became the go-to playback singer for every film producer and music composer. She did not disappoint them. Lata Mangeshkar lent her voice to an endless succession of chart-topping numbers in Hindi cinema, from 'Allah Tero Naam' and 'Rangeela Re' to the 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram' title track, to 'Lukka Chuppi' in 'Rang De Basanti', apart from songs in Marathi (she also composed the music for several Marathi films in her 'Anandghan' avatar), Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Sinhala. In 1974, the Guinness Book of Records listed Lata Mangeshkar as the most recorded artiste in human history, stating that she had recorded "not less than 25,000 solo, duet and chorus-backed songs in 20 Indian languages" between 1948 and 1974. The claim was contested by her long-time rival, Mohammad Rafi, who claimed to have sung around 28,000 songs. After Rafi's death, the Guinness Book in its 1984 edition listed Lata Mangeshkar in its entry for 'Most Recordings', but it also recorded Rafi's claim. Later editions of the Guinness Book said Lata Mangeshkar had sung no less than 30,000 songs from 1948 to 1987. For 73 years, from 1943 to 2015, when she recorded her last song for a film (the Indo-Norwegian production, 'Dunno Y2...Life Is A Moment', which was all about gay love), Lata Mangeshkar commanded a fan following and an inimitable reputation with not many parallels in the Indian performing arts. The late Yash Chopra, who was one of Lata Mangeshkar's favourite directors, said in an article he had penned for BBC.com on the occasion of the singer's 75th birthday (not longer after she had sung the famous 'Veer Zaara' song, 'Tere Liye Hum Hain Jiye', with Roop Kumar Rathod): "I see God's blessing in her voice." We are blessed to have that voice live with us forever. 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Lata Mangeshkar, the ageless voice of India, passes away at 92

In a major crackdown against bank loan defaulters, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday searched more than 50 locations in 12 states and Union Territories, officials said. A CBI official said several teams carried out the raids in 18 cities including the residence and business premises of companies, promoters, directors and bank officials. The searches started on Tuesday morning. India has a huge pile of <keyword id="142154" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="bad-loans">bad loans</keyword> and much of it is unpaid loans from large corporate borrowers. The new bankruptcy laws and escalating regualtory pressure has reduced some of the pressure but still nearly one in every ten rupees in lent is unpaid. "The share of large borrowers (in gross non-performing loans) fell about 200 basis points (bps), but their stress(ed) assets fell 120 bps only. This implies a slower offtake in advances in the segment, rather the recoveries," a recent report by Dolat Capital said. With inputs from IANS SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/anil-ambani-reliance-capital-auditor-pwc-resigns/articleshow/69750766.cms'">The auditor to Anil Ambani firm Reliance Capital says it wasn't allowed to do its job</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/yash-birla-named-willful-defaulter-by-uco-bank/articleshow/69819133.cms">Yash Birla declared ‘willful defaulter’ by a bank that was founded by his great grand uncle</a>

CBI, India's premier investigating agency, has raided corporate loan defaulters in 12 states

Though anticipated, when it became official that the Melody Queen of India, <keyword id="31278" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Lata-Mangeshkar" source="Orion">Lata Mangeshkar</keyword>, is no longer among us, it hit the collective consciousness of the nation like a sledgehammer. The only consolation was that she may have passed on, but her voice, which moved our hearts and provided succour to our souls for more than seven decades, will forever be with us. Like all inspirational stories, Lataji's early struggle to establish herself in the 1940s is one that we cannot ever forget. In those days, she would take a BEST bus and travel from her south Mumbai home regularly to meet Naushad Ali at his Khar West bungalow or in the studios, hoping for a 'singing break' under the legendary music maker's baton. In the vicious Mumbai monsoon, she would come to Naushad's home, wearing her trademark sari, carrying an umbrella but totally drenched, shivering and barely able to speak, let alone sing. The music director would offer her piping hot tea and cookies to soothe her, but no songs ... yet ... . "I felt her voice was not yet 'ripe' for my style of music," said Naushad, the perfectionist, in a conversation with this writer. He was trying to justify not giving her an early break. "To improve her diction and control over words, I advised her to learn and practice Urdu, which she did ... and finally, she was ready to record for me." The first choices of Naushad were the reigning stalwarts -- Noorjehan, Suraiya, Shamshad Begum, Zohra Ambalewali, to name a few. With time, trained by her father, Dinananth Mangeshkar, Lataji grasped the maestro's advice and got her first major hit -- 'Uthaye Ja Unke Sitam' ('Andaz', 1949) -- composed by her mentor Naushad. With it, she 'arrived' in the film industry. Thereafter, top music directors of the era wooed her, and they included Sachin Dev Burman, Husan Lal-Bhagat Ram (brothers), Ghulam Haider, Sardar Malik, Ghulam Mohammed, Jaidev, Salil Chowdhary, C. Ramchandra, Shankar-Jaikishan (partners), Roshan, Madan Mohan, M. Zahur Khayyam, Kalyanji-Anandji (brothers), Laxmikant-Pyarelal (partners), Sonik-Omi (uncle-nephew), Ravi Kumar Sharma or 'Ravi', Sudhir Phadke, Sajjad Hussain, Usha Khanna, and even A.R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Rajesh Roshan, Anand-Milind and Jatin-Lalit, among the younger crop of baton wielders. Producers and directors vied for Lataji's unique voice and style for their top heroines, especially because she could 'mould' her voice to suit most heroines. Without doubt, she had become the first among women singers, a position that Mohammed Rafi enjoyed among the men. Yet, there was a music director who remained aloof from Lataji -- with haughty pride -- and yet rose to the top echelons of the music industry -- the incomparable O.P. Nayyar. "I found Lata's voice too thin, too shrill, which did not suit my compositions," Nayyar had once said, claiming he was "the only music director who succeeded in Bollywood without Lata's voice". He added: "I needed a more vivacious, richer, healthier voice of, say, Shamshad Begum, Geeta Ghosh-Dutt, Asha Bhosale." One woman singer, Suman Kalyanpur, was blessed with a voice rivalling that of Lataji's, but she was content being in the shadows, yet she thrived on enduring masterpieces composed by some of the music directors. As Lataji's singing style matured under master music directors, her voice helped heroines who acted or danced to her tunes catapult to stardom, such as Madhubala, Meena Kumari, Nargis, Ameeta, Beena Rai, Waheeda Rehman, Vyjayanthimala Bali, Tanuja, Sharmila Tagore, Asha Parekh, Nutan, Saira Bano, Sadhana Shivdasani, Babita Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Parveen Babi, Hema Malini, Rekha, Sridevi, Neetu Singh, Madhuri Dixit, and many others in the post-1980s, right down to the youngsters, notably, Kajol, Rani Mukherjee and Karisma Kapoor. After the exit of Noorjehan from India and the fading away of other stalwart female singers, by the late 1950s/early 1960s, Lataji was firmly perched on the top of the heap and brooked no nonsense from anyone -- producers, directors, composers, siblings or contemporaries -- attempting to clamber anywhere close to her roost. Bollywood is full of stories of how Lataji ring-fenced her position till the very end, often raising the hackles of her female peers, although male singers, such as Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, Kishore Kumar, Mahendra Kapoor and Manna Dey (all deceased) and others, chose to maintain a professional rapport with her. Nevertheless, there were tales of how Rafi once bore the brunt of her "other side", or certain composers quivering as she gently declined to sing for them after they allegedly dared to commission some other female singers, for whatever reason. Of course, powerful filmmakers such as Mehboob Khan, Raj Kapoor, Kamal Amrohi, Dev Anand, Shakti Samanta, B.R. Chopra, Yash Chopra and the likes had no time for tantrums. Born on September 28, 1929, as the oldest child of a musically inclined family in Indore (Madhya Pradesh) -- comprising father Dinanath, Lataji, Meena (Khadilkar), Asha (Bhosale), Usha and sole brother Hridaynath -- she was tutored by her dad from the age of five and also acted in his musical stage plays, till death in 1942. Helped by a close family friend, Master Vinayak D. Karnataki, she got a foothold in singing and acting that year with a first Marathi song and a maiden Hindi song in 1943 before shifting to the film industry capital in 1945. In Bombay (now, Mumbai), she learnt classical music and continued singing the odd songs, till her big break with 'Dil Mera Toda, Mujhe Kahinka Na Chhoda' ('Majboor', 1948), with full help from Ghulam Haider, whom she later described as her "godfather". With a colossus such as Noorjehan still around, Lataji continued her with a few more hits -- 'Aayega Aanewala' ('Mahal', 1949) and 'Uthaye Ja Unke Sitam' ('Andaz', 1949), heralding her entry with a bang in big-time Bollywood. Simultaneously, she sang in different Indian languages with aplomb, non-film songs, with her range encompassing classical, tragic, melodious, erotic, melancholic, light, mischievous, depending on the composer, or the heroine, or the song situation. After the seniors passed away or faded out, Lataji sang expertly and easily with the gen next of male singers such as S.P. Balasubramaniam, Amit Kumar, Shabbir Kumar, Nitin Mukesh, Anwar, Udit Narayan and Sonu Nigam, and astounded her listeners with the seemingly "undying" power and youthfulness of her golden voice. Over the decades, she was decorated with a multitude of rewards and honours -- three Padma awards, five Filmfare Awards, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award -- capped by the Bharat Ratna in 2001. More than that, state governments named awards and institutions after her. Lataji sang at prestigious live concerts or charitable events, enthralling global audiences, picked up more overseas accolades, such as France's highest civilian honour, Officer of the Legion of Honour, in 2007, briefly dabbled in high-end merchandise, such as signature jewellery and perfumes, launched a production and music house, and entered into international music collaborations. Death has only removed her physically. The legacies she leaves behind will outlive her for decades. 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Lata Mangeshkar's over 70-year journey from travelling in BEST bus for singing break in the industry to melody queen of India

Aon Hewitt, the global talent, retirement and health solutions business, has announced its list of Best Employers – India 2016. 
 
 
The purpose of Aon Best Employers study, which was first conducted in Asia in 2001, is to gain insights into companies that are creating real competitive advantage through their people, to explore the factors that make a workplace of choice and to identify the Best Employers. 
The most comprehensive study of its kind in Asia Pacific, it is now run in 12 markets: Australia &amp; New Zealand China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand as well as in the Middle East. 
 
The survey done in India this year covered 113 organizations representing 12 key industries, cumulatively employing approximately 950,000 employees. 
 
Below are the names of the jury for the 2016 edition: 
 
· Prof Rajan Gupta, Professor at MDI. 
· Mr. Raman Roy, BPO industry pioneer and Chairman and Chief, Quattro 
· Ms. Renu Sud Karnad Managing Director, HDFC Limited 
· Dr. Santrupt Misra , CEO, Carbon Black Business and Director, Group HR, Aditya Birla Group 
· Mr. Shiv Shivakumar, CEO, Pepscio India 
 
And finally, here is the list of organisations that were recognised as the 2016 Aon Best Employers in India: 
 
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								Accor Hotels India</td>
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								Reliance Capital Asset Management Limited</td>
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								AGS Health</td>
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								Saint-Gobain India Private Limited – Gyproc Business</td>
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								Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Limited</td>
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								SKS Microfinance Limited</td>
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								Bajaj Finance Limited</td>
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								Starwood Hotels &amp; Resorts India Private Limited</td>
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								Becton Dickinson India Private Limited</td>
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								Tata AutoComp Systems Limited</td>
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								Bharti Infratel</td>
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								TATA AIA Life Insurance Company Limited</td>
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								Blue Dart Express Limited</td>
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								Tata Chemicals Ltd.</td>
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								DHL Express (India) Pvt. Ltd</td>
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								Tata Communications</td>
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								Godrej Consumer Products Ltd</td>
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								The Oberoi Group</td>
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								Hewlett Packard Enterprise, India</td>
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								Whirlpool India Limited</td>
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								IndiGo</td>
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								WNS Global Services Private Limited</td>
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								Lupin Ltd</td>
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								YASH Technologies Pvt Ltd</td>
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								METRO Cash and Carry India</td>
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