Legacy
The Aditya Birla Group had instituted the Aditya Birla Scholarships in memory of Aditya Vikram Birla, in order to recognise and award fresh talent and potential future leaders from prestigious institutes in India. Every year more than 40 scholars from among six Indian Institutes of Management, seven Indian Institutes of Technology and Birla Institute of Technology and Science receive this scholarship.
After him is named Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital in Pimpri-Chinchwad.
Awards like Aditya Vikram Birla Kalashikhar and Kalakiran Puraskars for excellence in theatre and performing arts are given every year, were instituted in 1996 by the Sangeet Kala Kendra (SKK), which was founded in 1973 by the late Aditya Vikram Birla to encourage and nurture performing arts. A special commemorative stamp has been released by government of India in the name of Aditya vikram birla on january 14, 2013, honouring him as "India's first global industrialist".
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)