Experience

Buddy4Study.com

• Founder & CEO

  • 2010 - 13 years

  Noida Area, India - Buddy4Study is a scholarship search engine and aggregator that was started in 2011. We help students find scholarships and grants, and we help scholarship providers get visibility to their programs. We have helped over 4 million students to get connected with 5000 scholarship programs worth over ₹ 25000 crore! - We also work with donors / funders, who want to see their money going towards the right cause. In order to ensure that happens, we help them design unique scholarship programs… Show more - Buddy4Study is a scholarship search engine and aggregator that was started in 2011. We help students find scholarships and grants, and we help scholarship providers get visibility to their programs. We have helped over 4 million students to get connected with 5000 scholarship programs worth over ₹ 25000 crore! - We also work with donors / funders, who want to see their money going towards the right cause. In order to ensure that happens, we help them design unique scholarship programs that allows them to stipulate the terms of what they want it to be used for. We find and match the most qualified students and manage the whole process from start to finish. - Our 65,000+ scholars are studying in more than 8000 institutions including all IITs, NITs, IIMs, AIIMS, NLUs, IISc, IISERs, NISERs and few in international ivy-league universities such as MIT, Stanford, UCF. - Total scholarship fund ~₹300 crores managed for our scholarship providers which include Tata Trusts, Aditya Birla Group, Reliance Foundation, Rolls Royce, hp, Tata Capital, Wipro, HUL, Colgate, GSK, Xiaomi, SBI General, IDFC First, HDFC Bank, HT Parekh Foundation, Kotak Mahindra Bank, SBI Foundation, Merck, Mahindra Finance, LIC HFL, Schaeffler India, Legrand, Credit Suisse, Nikon, etc. - Our 2100+ media (print, online and radio) connections are creating timely awareness about scholarships in English & vernacular languages. Examples: The Hindu, Dainik Bhaskar, Amar Ujala, Dainik Jagran, The Tribune, Saamana, India Today, Haribhumi, Gaon Connection, Punjabi Jagran, etc. https://www.buddy4study.com/media/partners New initiatives: Vidya Nidhi for Youth to provide collateral free, interest free education loans for higher education.

• Author: India's 1st Scholarship Guidebook

  • 2014 - 2015

  India's first & its own kind of scholarship directory guidebook useful for teachers, students and parents looking for opportunities for meritorious, talented and deserving students. About the Book: This book has 3 Parts. 1. Scholarship Literature 2. 150+ School Level Scholarship List in 3 divisions as per the student’s class 3. 60+ School Level Entrance Exam List Scholarship List provides a concise detail of every scholarship with its name, purpose… Show more India's first & its own kind of scholarship directory guidebook useful for teachers, students and parents looking for opportunities for meritorious, talented and deserving students. About the Book: This book has 3 Parts. 1. Scholarship Literature 2. 150+ School Level Scholarship List in 3 divisions as per the student’s class 3. 60+ School Level Entrance Exam List Scholarship List provides a concise detail of every scholarship with its name, purpose, eligibility criteria, application mode and the direct link to get detail information. (Also, Same with Entrance exam list with all details.) A must book for all School Students. www.buddy4study.com/books



Buddy4Study India Foundation

• India
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • May 2017 - 6 years 8 months

  Noida Area, India A non-profit organisation setup, with an objective to simplify scholarship corpus fund management for the donor individuals and organisations. It has 80G certificate that provides donor community income tax benefits on their scholarship fund donation. It also has Class 12A certificate for corporations to setup scholarships as their CSR initiative.



Atal Innovation Mission Official

• India
• Government Administration
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Mentor of Change

  • Dec 2020 - 3 years 1 month

  In 2020, after completing 10 years with Buddy4Study, as a new chapter in life, Ashutosh also started helping, supporting and mentoring entrepreneurs with objective (1) to encourage good intent people to pursue entrepreneurship as a way to bring change in society (2) to enhance success chances of early-stage startups and take them towards building sustainable and profitable ventures. Today, Ashutosh is a Mentor of Change under AIM-NITI Aayog. He has conducted more than 100 mentoring… Show more In 2020, after completing 10 years with Buddy4Study, as a new chapter in life, Ashutosh also started helping, supporting and mentoring entrepreneurs with objective (1) to encourage good intent people to pursue entrepreneurship as a way to bring change in society (2) to enhance success chances of early-stage startups and take them towards building sustainable and profitable ventures. Today, Ashutosh is a Mentor of Change under AIM-NITI Aayog. He has conducted more than 100 mentoring sessions with students and founders to help them to overcame their challenges in their journey. He continuously writes articles, frameworks & mental models to simplify complex entrepreneurial world theories and share them with budding entrepreneurs and incubators. Show less



Smiling Star Advisory Pvt. Ltd

• Executive Director

  • Aug 2011 - 12 years 5 months

  Kolkata Parent company which owns and operates Buddy4Study brand.



The Hindu, Prabhat Khabar, Haribhumi, etc

• Scholarship Columnist in Newspapers/Magazines

  • Feb 2013 - Jun 2016

  Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, UP, MP, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, WB To aware students about scholarships on time, a regular weekly scholarship column started in many national newspapers such as The Hindu, Prabhat Khabar, Haribhumi etc. Most of the columns are about current recommended scholarships for students of school & college students.Also, another way to connect to society who are not internet friendly and/or English language friendly.



BP (British Petroleum) Ltd

• Marine Engineer Officer

  • 2006 - 2010

  Worldwide A certified Marine engineer officer, served four tanker ships named MT British Cormorant, MT British Tranquility, MT British Gannet and MT British Mallard.