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Pallavi Chakravarti joins Taproot as associate creative director
MUMBAI: Taproot India has appointed Pallavi Chakravarti to the post of associate creative director. This is the first senior hiring in the creative department since Taproot India started. She will be based in Mumbai and will report to the co-founders and chief creative officers Agnello Dias and Santosh Padhi. Her previous stint was with Grey Worldwide.
Chakravarti has eight years of experience in the field and has worked with Saatchi & Saatchi, JWT and Grey before joining Taproot India. She has worked on brands like Rin, Bajaj Allianz, Nutrine, Vimal, Diageo, Ariel, Head & Shoulders, Reliance Communications, Leela Group, IndianOil, Bharat Petroleum, cleartrip.com, AXN and SOTC.
“Apart from both of us, there is a powerful team of 30 odd people who have played a huge role in what Taproot India is today, because we have been hand picking people personally as apart from great work we try and make sure the person is a great human being as well.” said Santosh Padhi “While hiring it was very important for us to make sure the person fits into the existing culture seamlessly,” said Dias.
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Schneider Electric launches One Unit Mission for Women’s Day
Green Yodha 2.0 urges every Indian household to save one unit of electricity daily.
MUMBAI: Schneider Electric just flipped the switch on savings because this Women’s Day the brightest idea isn’t a new bulb, it’s turning one unit off. Schneider Electric launched the second phase of its Green Yodha initiative, ‘One Unit Mission’, on International Women’s Day 2026, calling on every Indian household to save at least one unit of electricity daily. The campaign was flagged off in Delhi by chief minister Rekha Gupta, actor and sustainability advocate Bhumi Pednekar, and other dignitaries.
Rekha Gupta said, “Delhi’s journey towards clean, resilient growth begins with how efficiently we use the energy we already have. Green Yodha 2.0 reminds us that every citizen is a stakeholder in India’s energy future, and saving one unit of power today is an act of nation-building for tomorrow.”
Schneider Electric India zone president, MD & CEO Deepak Sharma added, “India is entering a decade of unprecedented growth, and that growth will require enormous amounts of energy. The real challenge is not just how much power we produce, but how intelligently we use it. If every Indian household saves just one unit of electricity a day, the impact would be equivalent to planting billions of trees or taking millions of cars off the road.”
Schneider Electric India, vice president of marketing Rajat Abbi noted, “Sustainability becomes real when it is simple and measurable. The One Unit Mission is about turning awareness into everyday action.”
In FY 2023–24, India’s energy-efficiency programmes (PAT, UJALA, S&L, SLNP, CAFÉ) collectively saved 53.6 million tonnes of oil equivalent, avoided 321 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions, and reduced energy expenditure by Rs 2 lakh crore equivalent to nearly 6 per cent of national primary energy supply.
The initiative aligns with government efforts on efficient cooling, appliance standards and the Bureau of Energy Efficiency’s state-level SEEI FY 2024 framework, emphasising demand-side efficiency as a cost-effective complement to new generation capacity.
In a nation sprinting toward brighter, bigger tomorrows, Schneider isn’t selling more power, it’s quietly handing every household a daily superpower: the ability to save one unit and help light up a cleaner, more efficient future, one thoughtful switch at a time.
