Saturday, April 9, 2016

The Most Powerful Women of India



Nita Ambani has been named the most powerful businesswomen in Asia by Forbes. She is the director of India's largest private sector company, Reliance Industries.  She is an Indian businesswomen, educationist, philanthropist, and a sports enthusiast. She is married to Mukesh Ambani. She has founded Dhirubhai Ambani Internatioanl School. It has more than 1000 students and 150 teachers, and is ranked as Mumbai's top school. The Reliance Foundation, founded by Nita Ambani in 2010, is entirely funded by the company, not the family. 
After her marriage in 1985, she took a diploma in special education and worked as a teacher for several years. Ambani joined the RIL board in 2014, when the Companies Act 2013 mandated every company to have at least one women director. At the group's newly set-up charitable hospital, Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre, she decided on everything from from the menu for patients to the color of curtains. For over two decades, she has played a pivotal role in Reliance's CSR initiative and has made a significant contribution to India's social sector development. 
Nita Ambani (born on Nov 1, 1963) grew up in a middle class joint family in the suburbs of Mumbai. Her father was a senior executive in Birla and mother is a homemaker. Nita did her schooling at the Rose Manor Garden School and completed her graduation from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics. Since childhood, she always has a keen interest in Indian classic dance and became a trained Bharatnatyam dancer. 
She is the inspiring architect of the Mumbai Indians team, which won the champions League T20 in 2011 and 2013, and the Indian Premier League in 2013 and 2015. She is the founder and chairperson of Football Sports Development Limited that launched the Indian Super League (ISL)in 2014. It emerged as the fourth largest football league in the world in the first season (2014) and the third largest in the second season (2015).   

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