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{{short description|Indian television producer}}
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'''Niret Alva''' is an Indian television producer who is the co-founder and chairman of television production company [[Miditech]].<ref name="bi">{{cite news|last1=Ojha|first1=Abhilasha|title=Miditech moves on|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/miditech-moves-on-104092901053_1.html|accessdate=29 September 2016|publisher=[[Business Standard]]|date=September 29, 2004}}</ref>

Miditech first made a documentary 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,<ref name="bi"/> with ''[[Indian Idol]]'' (2004–2009), ''[[Galli Galli Sim Sim]]'' ([[Sesame Street]]) (2006),<ref>{{cite news|last1=Adesara|first1=Hetal|title='In terms of revenue, we are growing at just under 300% per year' : Niret Alva - Miditech president|url=http://www.indiantelevision.com/interviews/y2k5/executive/niret_alva.htm|accessdate=29 September 2016|publisher=Indian Television|date=November 14, 2005}}</ref> and ''[[Wheels (TV series)|Wheels]]'' (1998) ([[BBC World]]).<ref name="top">{{cite news|last1=Belgaumkar|first1=Govnd|title=He's on TOP gear|url=http://www.thehindu.com/mp/2003/12/15/stories/2003121501740300.htm|accessdate=29 September 2016|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=December 15, 2003}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Ojha|first1=Abhilasha|title=Brothers in arms|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/brothers-in-arms-108041901031_1.html|accessdate=29 September 2016|publisher=[[Business Standard]]|date=April 19, 2008}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Niret Alva was born in [[Bangalore]] – the first child of lawyers Niranjan and [[Margaret Alva]]. Alva has two brothers, Nikhil and Nivedith, and a sister, Manira, with whom he manages Miditech.<ref name=dn>{{cite news|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_niret-alva-is-not-content-yet_1391756|title=Niret Alva is not 'content' yet!|date=4 June 2010|work=[[DNA (newspaper)|DNA]]|author=Sujata Chakrabarti|accessdate=8 November 2018}}</ref><ref name=ind>{{cite news|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2005/01/06/stories/2005010600360100.htm|title=Indian idols, really|date=6 January 2005|work=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref> His name is a [[portmanteau]], wherein the first two letters are from his father Niranjan, and the last three from his mother, Margaret Alva.<ref name="top"/> The family moved to Delhi in 1974 when his mother was elected to the [[Rajya Sabha]] (the upper house of India's parliament). She went on to serve as minister of state in [[Rajiv Gandhi]] and [[P. V. Narasimha Rao|Narasimha Rao]]'s governments. A prominent parliamentarian, she served four consecutive terms in the Rajya Sabha and one in the [[Lok Sabha]].

Alva is a graduate in history from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]], has a post graduate diploma in journalism from the [[Indian Institute of Mass Communication]] (IIMC), Delhi, and is a recipient of a certificate from the Radio Netherlands Training Centre in Hilversum (Holland) for a news and current affairs course in television. He earned a law degree (LLB) from [[Mumbai University]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The dream merchants|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2007-06-08/news/27672037_1_miditech-indian-idol-alva-brothers|accessdate=29 September 2016|publisher=[[The Economic Times]]|date=June 8, 2007}}</ref>

==Career==
Alva joined the [[Press Trust of India]], television, as a trainee reporter/scriptwriter in January 1988. Beginning his career when television was still government-controlled in the late 1980s, he moved on to become a correspondent with ''Eyewitness'', a monthly independent video news magazine, owned by [[Hindustan Times]] Television in 1990. He covered subjects such as Indian attitudes toward sex, caste violence, the dangers of the civilian use of the army and the capture of [[Rajiv Gandhi]]'s assassin.

In 1992, he co-founded [[Miditech]], a television software production company, along with his brother Nikhil. Miditech's program, ''[[Living on the Edge (Indian TV series)|Living on the Edge]]'', won a Panda award at [[Wildscreen]] in Bristol in 1996.

Alva has scripted, directed and been associated with several international, award winning documentaries, including ''The Great Descent'' – a river rafting journey down the Brahmaputra after the massive flood of 2000, and ''Operation Hot Pursuit'' – an undercover documentary on the illegal [[ivory trade]] between India and Japan.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Barooah Pisharoty|first1=Sangeeta|title=And the winners are...|url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/12/22/stories/2003122200550400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040117195212/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/12/22/stories/2003122200550400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 17, 2004|accessdate=29 September 2016|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=December 22, 2003}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Alva is married to Indian author and advertising executive [[Anuja Chauhan]], author of ''[[The Zoya Factor]]'' (2008). They first met in 1989, during the production of a play in Delhi. They were married in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/50915/SUPPLEMENTS/Love+story.html|title=Love Story|author=Nandini Narayanan |date=9 July 2009|work=[[India Today]]|accessdate=8 November 2018}}</ref> They have three children, two girls and a boy.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bagchi|first1=Shrabonti|title=Three is the new two|url=http://www.timescrest.com/coverstory/three-is-the-new-two-8356|accessdate=29 September 2016|work=[[The Times of India]]|date=July 21, 2012}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|+ Television
! Title
!Year
!Role
|-
|''[[Wheels (TV series)|Wheels]]'' (TV series)||1998|||Host/Executive Producer
|-
|''[[Indian Idol]]'' (Reality-singing competition)|| (2004–2009)|||Executive Producer
|-
|''[[Galli Galli Sim Sim]]''||2006|||Executive Producer
|-
| ''[[Parrivaar]]'' (TV series)|| ( 2007–2008)|||Executive Producer
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150511211120/http://www.miditech.tv/ MidiTech, official website]

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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian television producers]]
[[Category:Indian male television journalists]]
[[Category:St. Stephen's College, Delhi alumni]]
[[Category:Indian television presenters]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from Haryana]]
[[Category:People from Gurgaon]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]

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