Rajiv Gandhi Award to Rohit Kochhar

September, 2009 - New Delhi, India

We are pleased to inform you that our National Chairman & Managing Partner, Mr. Rohit Kochhar has been conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Award on August 19, 2009 for being the “Young Achiever & Entrepreneur” at the Rajiv Gandhi Awards function recently held in Mumbai on the eve of the late Prime Minister’s birth anniversary.

It is a matter of great pride for us that Mr. Kochhar is the first and only practicing lawyer in India to have been conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Award since its inception.

As you may be aware, the other recipients of the Rajiv Gandhi Award this year include India’s first Olympic Gold Medalist Abhinav Bindra for being an outstanding sportsperson and Sam Pitroda for being the eminent Global Indian.

Instituted in the year 1995 in the memory of the legendary Late Prime Minister of India, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, the award is presented to those who have achieved excellence in their respective fields, to encourage the Indian youth to explore new frontiers and scale greater heights. Some of the prominent personalities who have been bestowed with the Rajiv Gandhi Award in the past include Mr. Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal of Bharti Enterprises, Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla from the Aditya Birla Group and the cricketing legend Mr. Sachin Tendulkar.


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