IIM-A gold medalist abscond from corporate world to work with Kalam

An IIM Ahmadabad gold medalist for being the best all-rounder student of the 2007-09 batch, Srijan Pal Singh left his consulting job to work with APJ Abdul Kalam on a project that he came up with in his second year in IIM. He kept himself away from the corporate world and works full time at Kalam's office, traveling with him, attending conferences and lectures.

"As students r Kalam had asked us to work on the concept of PURA (Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas) and we had to find possible solutions to achieve it. I had presented an idea where development was looked at with an enterprise angle to it, the whole contention being that development should not be always looked upon as a liability for the government," says Srijan, an engineer from Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Lucknow.

"I am right now working on setting up the PURA enterprise, which would be a network that will link up various rural and small scale enterprises, support a better lifestyle in rural areas through capacity building, skill development and business generation," he added.

If you ask him how, when and why he decided to work with Kalam and not in the corporate world the 26 year old will say if I would not have chosen to do this right now, I would have never done it. The management graduates needs to broaden their perspective beyond corporate world. I hope I can build an organized platform and go head-hunting every year for interns and final placements to colleges and give an opportunity to people who are me. 

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