{"id":43997,"date":"2021-07-26T12:24:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T12:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/managing-director-of-airtel-rwanda-amit-chawla-resigns\/"},"modified":"2021-07-28T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T16:35:10","slug":"managing-director-of-airtel-rwanda-amit-chawla-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/managing-director-of-airtel-rwanda-amit-chawla-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Director of Airtel Rwanda, Amit Chawla resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amit took over the newly merged entity on 31st August 2018 where he oversaw the achievements of several milestones within three years. <\/p>\n<p>Among his accomplishments include the consolidation of the brand Airtel after the takeover of Tigo, its people, products and services as well as modernization of the country\u2019s network, a project that saw the expansion of the Airtel Rwanda Network and the consolidation of Airtel\u2019s reputation as one of mobile internet providers in Rwanda.  <\/p>\n<p>During his time with the organization as Managing Director, Airtel Rwanda oversaw great changes.<\/p>\n<p>Under Chawla&#8217;s leadership, programs grew and services became more easily available to all customers.<\/p>\n<p>He led the company\u2019s pandemic response that saw Airtel Rwanda direct its CSR budget towards governments efforts to tackle the initial response to the Global pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>Among others, Airtel has gained a reputation for launching ground breaking and bold campaigns such as the recent Va Kugiti Campaign that generated a lot of buzz in the Rwandan market. <\/p>\n<p>Chawla also oversaw the successful roll out of the Airtel Money Branch (AMB) concept, with 71 shops opened in Kigali alone. <\/p>\n<p>The AMB\u2019s concept has completely revolutionized the proximity of a telecom operator to her network of Agents and Freelancers, enabling them to access up to Rwf5 million within walking distance. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39022 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/amit_chawla_w.jpg\" alt=\"Amit Chawla, the Managing Director of Airtel Rwanda has resigned from the position which she held for three years. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Amit Chawla, the Managing Director of Airtel Rwanda has resigned from the position which he held for three years; IGIHE has learnt from reliable sources which did not reveal reasons for his resignation.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43997"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43997"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}