Who are some of the IIT alumni who have really made a mark in the world?

RAJAT KUMAR GUPTA

IIT Delhi - B.Tech Mechanical Engineering, 15th AIR in IITJEE

MBA from Harvard Business School

• First foreign-born managing director of management consultancy firm McKinsey from 1994 to 2003
• Also a board member of corporations including Goldman Sachs, Procter & Gamble, American Airlines
• He is also an adviser to Non-profit Organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
• He is the co-founder of the Indian School Of Business, American India Foundation, New Silk Route and Scandent Solutions.
• Left the Job at ITC limited after B.Tech from IIT,Delhi. He says that he saw an airplane for the first time when he flew to ITC to inform them that he would be attending Harvard Business School.
• He married his 2-year college junior, Anita Mattoo, who was doing B.Tech in Electrical Engineering at IIT, Delhi. They met during college plays and debates and later fell in love. Quite A Score.
• His primary residence in 2011 was a two-acre estate in West-port, Connecticut, that formerly belonged to JC Penney and his family, which was valued at $13 million as per town records of October 2011 .
• Gupta's net worth in 2008 was estimated at $113 million USD.

Now that’s what is called Success.

We need more Alumni like them.

 Two brothers from Rajasthan are showing that great schools don’t only belong in big cities. Meghraj and Ajit Dhakad, who grew up in Sisoda village, have turned their old government school into a top-quality institution.

They donated Rs 15 crore of their own money to rebuild the Kankubai-Sohanlal Dhakad Government Senior Secondary School. Now, the school has a modern three-storey building with smart classrooms, science and computer labs, digital learning tools, and large playgrounds.

Today, the school has 40 classrooms, a big library, and a clean, green, and safe campus. Children in the village now have all the facilities they once had to move out of the village to find.

A happy villager told Asianet News, “Now, we won’t need to send our children away. We never imagined a school like this in our village.”

This story shows how powerful it can be when former students give back. They not only honour where they came from, but also help build a better future for many others.