Gautam Thapar conferred with 'LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA - IIM, LUCKNOW NATIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARD'

Gautam Thapar, Group Chairman & CEO, Avantha Group received the Young Leader Award in the Business category at the prestigious Lakshimat Singhania - IIM Lucknow National Leadership Awards ceremony at Vigyan Bhawan.

New Delhi, Delhi, June 11, 2009 /India PRwire/ -- Gautam Thapar, Group Chairman & CEO, Avantha Group received the Young Leader Award in the Business category at the prestigious Lakshimat Singhania - IIM Lucknow National Leadership Awards ceremony at Vigyan Bhawan. The award was presented by H.E. Shri Hamid Ansari, Honorable Vice President of India.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Gautam Thapar Group Chairman & CEO, Avantha Group, said “It is an honour to be conferred this award. I would like to compliment JK Organisation and the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, for instituting these awards.”

The Lakshmipat Singhania-IIM Lucknow awards honour individuals, exemplary leaders in respective fields, who have exhibited exceptional leadership through pursuit of excellence. The awards are given in three fields: business, science and technology, and community service and social upliftment.

IIM Lucknow is one of the top management institutes providing world-class education. The JK Organisation, founded over 100 years ago, is one of India’s leading conglomerates.

Notes to Editor

About Avantha:

The US$ 3 bn Avantha Group is one of India’s leading business conglomerates. Its successful entities include BILT, Crompton Greaves, The Global Green Company, Avantha Power & Infrastructure, Solaris ChemTech Industries, Salient Business Solutions, and Avantha Technologies. International subsidiaries include SFI, Pauwels, Intergarden, Ganz, Microsol, Sonomatra, MSE Power Systems, Dunakiliti Konzervüzem, Greenhouse and Puszta Konzerv.

The Group has business interests in diverse areas including power transmission and distribution equipment and services, paper and pulp, energy, infrastructure, food processing, farm forestry, chemicals, IT and ITES. Led by Gautam Thapar, Avantha demonstrates strong leadership globally and emerges as a focused corporate, leveraging its knowledge, leadership and operations, adding lasting value for its stakeholders and investors.

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