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Birla on a 1984 stamp of India The statue of Ghanshyam Das Birla at Golders Green Crematorium. Envisioning infrastructural development in his hometown, Birla founded the Birla Engineering College (rechristened as Birla Institute of Technology and Science in 1964) in Pilani and the Technological Institute of Textile & Sciences in Bhiwani among other educational institutions in 1943.
GD Birla's both wives died early because of tuberculosis (He remarried after the death of his first wife), a common affliction at that time. The families of his brothers Brij Mohan and Rameshwar Das Birla helped in raising his children. When Yash Birla's parents died in a plane crash, Priyamvada Birla, ("Badi Ma") helped take care of him. [31]
Ganga Prasad Birla (2 August 1922 – 5 March 2010), born in Banaras [1] was an Indian industrialist. Ganga Prasad Birla belonged to Maheshwari Marwari Community from Rajasthan . Early life
Sarala Birla (23 November 1923 – 28 March 2015) [1] was an Indian Businesswoman prominent member of the Birla family of Indian industrialists. She took interest in public education and, along with her husband, is credited with having co-founded about 45 educational institutions supported by her family's conglomerate.
Mahatma Gandhi inaugurating the Laxminarayan Temple in Delhi, 1938, with the Birla family. Baldeo Das Birla (1863–1956) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He contributed to the establishment of the Medical College Calcutta, and also built the Laxminarayan Temple, Delhi, also known as Birla Mandir, which was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in 1939.
Amit Mitra, noted economist and the current Finance Minister of the Indian state of West Bengal was Secretary General, FICCI during 1994–2011. [45] Naina Lal Kidwai is the Past President, FICCI. [46] She is the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School. [47] and currently is the Group General Manager and Country Head of HSBC ...
Sir [1] Purshottamdas Thakurdas (1879–1961), [2] KBE CIE, was an Indian Gujarati cotton trader, banker and industrialist from Mumbai, India. [3] [4] [5] [6]He had served as the Sheriff of Bombay in 1920 [7] and succeeded Sir Mathuradas Vissanji in 1922 as President of Cotton Association of India (later the Cotton Corporation of India).
G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research is an award instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation in honour of the Indian philanthropist Ghanshyam Das Birla.The award is given to an outstanding scientific research, mostly during the past 5 years, undertaken by an Indian scientist, who is below the age of 50, living and working in India.