India - Trillion-dollar company head recalls saviour principal

29 December 2023
India - Trillion-dollar company head recalls saviour principal

(ANS – Guwahati) - In a rare case of rags to riches story, an Assamese entrepreneur heading a trillion-dollar company in the U.S. recalled his principal’s intervention in retaining him in school. The man in the case is Siddhartha Chowdhary, the founder of Credence, a consulting organization based in Washington DC. At a felicitation held at Press Club Dispur in his home city Guwahati, on December 22.

Introducing him was his former principal at Don Bosco School Guwahati Fr V. M. Thomas who said, “Sid graduated from Don Bosco, Guwahati in 1986 and is one of the most successful past pupils I have ever met.” Sid did not hesitate to acknowledge the role Father Thomas played to help his education, when his father died and his mother could not afford to pay his school fees and came to take Transfer Certificate to put him in a government school. Speaking at Press Conference Fr Thomas said, “Sid’s case proves that hard work and intervention of providence makes miracles happen.”

Earlier President of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu at IIT Kharagpur presented Sid “Distinguished Alumni Award 2023” for his creative and innovative work as the Founder of CREDENCE, a Consulting Company of about 4000 employees, based at Washington D.C. in 69th Convocation Ceremony of the Institute.

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