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 (Season 1 to 4).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 (2004–2009), Galli Galli Sim Sim (Sesame Street) (2006), Wheels (1998) (BBC World). He is also a world-class television presenter having anchored travel( Great Escape), automobile (Wheels) and environment (Living on the Edge and Earth Report) 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.