ISSUE 02 | FEBRUARY 2020
With the success of Polaris India, Polaris Inc.
decided to acquire the luxury motorcycle brand
"Indian Motorcycles" in 2011. And in 2013 it got
launched in India too with the models like
New Chief Classic
Chief Vintage
Chieftain.
I was given the responsibility to head this
vertical also in India as a Country Head &
Managing Director.
And since then, under my leadership and my
team's effort, we are growing rock steadily in
India.
It's not that I have not failed in my journey.
In November 2015, Eicher Motors and Polaris
entered into the JV business and came with a
new company named "Eicher Polaris Pvt Ltd.
I was appointed as a CEO & Whole Time
Director.
Despite my and the team's best effort, the
business was not viable, and we had to take the
painful decision of terminating the JV, and I
announced the same in March 2018.
The JV with Eicher gave me a great learning
experience of working as a board member with
the like of Siddharth Lal, Chairman Eicher group,
Mike Dougherty, President International, and
other top leaders at Polaris Inc & Eicher.
We had to shut down the operation due to
viability issues. Amicably settled all vendors,
dealers & white-collar employees with virtually
no legal issues. These 4 years gave me immense
knowledge as I learned a lot more about the dos
and donts in automobiles.
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Throughout my journey, I have achieved a lot and
got failures too, but that's the part of life.
This is not over yet...
With the practice of Goals with Timelines, I could
reach this far, but still, it's not over yet. "Picture
Abhi Baaki Hai Mere Dost."
I have two big dreams in my life to achieve.
I am a singer by hobby, but now I want to take it
professionally and have a goal set to enter into
playback singing in Bollywood by 2024, and for
that, I have started taking the classical singing
classes.
And my ultimate goal is to eliminate poverty from
our country, and I have put a timeline of 2040.
I know it's a big goal, but I am confident that this
will be achieved too. This requires the
participation of youth of the country, the next
generation, and I am devoting time to ignite the
fire in them.
I also feel the key is that all Indians should be
educated. Poverty can also be eliminated by
inclusions and the contribution of females in the
economy, and for this, all the females need to be
educated.
We at Indian Motorcycle India have initiated the
Girl Child education program and have
conducted many activities under "Beti Bachao...
Beti Padhao" initiative of the government of India.
We have had many Indian Bollywood celebrities
who supported our initiative by participation and
contribution to this big cause, for, eg.
R.Madhavan, Sunny Deol, Rohit Roy, etc.
Pankaj dubey
MD. POLARIS INDIA
INDIAN MOTORCYCLE
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