years_active residence article_title name occupation
1988 -- present gurgaon niret alva
 niret alva co-founder and chairman miditech
niret alva

niret alva is an indian television producer and anchor .
he co-founded miditech , a rs 50-crore television software company , along with his brother nikhil alva in 1992 , which is currently one of asia 's leading independent production companies .
it is most known for producing reality-singing competition , `` indian idol '' -lrb- season 1 to 4 -rrb- .
starting in the documentaries genre , miditech first made a series on the environment , `` living on the edge '' for doordarshan , and went on to make documentaries for the bbc , discovery and national geographic , before entering the entertainment genre around 2004 , with `` indian idol '' -lrb- 2004 -- 2009 -rrb- , `` galli galli sim sim '' -lrb- sesame street -rrb- -lrb- 2006 -rrb- , `` wheels '' -lrb- 1998 -rrb- -lrb- bbc world -rrb- .
he is also a world-class television presenter having anchored travel -lrb- great escape -rrb- , automobile -lrb- wheels -rrb- and environment -lrb- living on the edge and earth report -rrb- shows over the course of his career .
he has won an asian television award for best anchor for `` wheels '' for bbc world and has been a runner up twice for the same show .
in 2007 , he was awarded the indian national award for excellence in science based communication in the visual medium .
