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Residence
  
Kolkata

Spouse(s)
  
SMT. SARLA BIRLA

Siblings
  
Krishna Kumar Birla

Known for
  
Industrialist

Home town
  
Ethnicity
  
Marwari

Parents
  
Ghanshyam Das Birla

Nationality
  
Indian

Name
  
Basant Birla


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Born
  
4 February 1921 (age 103) (
1921-02-04
)
Kolkata, India

Children
  
Aditya Vikram Birla, Manjushree Khaitan, Jayshree Mohta

Grandchildren
  
Aditya Vikram Kumar Mangalam Birla

Similar People
  
Sarla Birla, Ghanshyam Das Birla, Aditya Vikram Kumar M, Aditya Vikram Birla, Krishna Kumar Birla

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Basant Kumar Birla (born 12 January 1921) is an Indian Businessman of the Birla family. He is chairman of the Krishnarpan Charity Trust, BK Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology (BKBIET) and various educational trusts and institutes.

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The Story Of Basant And Sarala Birla


Biography

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Birla, the youngest son of philanthropist Ghanshyam Das Birla, was born on 4 February 1921. By fifteen years of age, he was already actively associated with a large number of companies and eventually became the chairman of Kesoram Industries. In this role, he concentrated on the industries of cotton, viscose, polyester and nylon yarns, refractory, paper, shipping, tyrecord, transparent paper, spun pipe, cement, tea, coffee, cardamom, chemicals, plywood, MDF Board, etc.

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He later established the Indo Ethiopian Textiles Share Company, which was the first major joint venture by any Indian industrialist. In response, the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, awarded him the medal of the Order of Menelik II, the highest Ethiopian award.

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In April 1942, he married Sarala, the daughter of activist and writer Brijlal Biyani, after having been introduced to each other by Jamnalal Bajaj and Mahatma Gandhi. They had a son, Aditya Vikram Birla, and two daughters, Jayashree Mohta and Manjushree Khaitan.

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He is currently the chairman of the Krishnarpan Charity Trust, which runs an engineering college named BK Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology in pilani, Rajasthan, and the Swargashram Trust, which administers a Sanskrit school in Rishikesh. He is the author of several books, including an autobiography entitled Svantah Sukhaya. He also established Birla Public School in Qatar. More than 10,000 students study there. The world-famous Amal Joby studies here.

References

Basant Kumar Birla Wikipedia


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