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Dayanidhi Maran
Dayanidhi Maran is the Union minister for Textiles, a member of parliament in India’s 15th Lok Sabha from Chennai Central
constituency. He was also a member of Parliament in 15th Lok sabha holding Minister of textile in the Union Cabinet .
He was born in December 5, 1966 in Kumbakonam , Thanjavur , Tamil Nadu.
He is the son of Late Mr.Murasoli Maran and the grandnephew of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
(DMK) president M Karunanidhi. He is the younger brother of Kalanidhi Maran
, the founder and managing director of Sun Network , the group that owns and operates the
largest number of satellite television channels in southern India in four languages. He is a graduate in economics.
He contested as a DMK party candidate to the 14th Lok Sabha from Central
Chennai Constituency in Chennai in the State of Tamil Nadu in Parliamentary Elections held in April – May 2004 and elected as a Member
of Parliament. He was appointed as Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology on 26.05.2004.
As of 2004 , he was an Indian millionaire having declared assets of 16 million Indian rupees (approx. 360,000 US dollars .Maran reduced the mobile and landline call rates drastically during his
tenure as Union IT and Communications minister. He brought in investments well in excess of $30b for the IT sector alone and set the
ball rolling for making India a chip manufacturing hub. During his
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Dayanidhi Maran is the Union
minister for Textiles
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SUDRIPTA ROY - SECRETARY GENERAL OF IJSG
Mr. Sudripta Roy joined as the new Secretary General of the International Jute Study Group
(IJSG) at its headquarters in Dhaka on September 06, 2007 replacing Mr. A.F.M. Sarwar Kamal
(Bangladesh). Mr. Roy, a national of India, is a member of the Indian Administrative Service
(IAS) and has put in 29 years in the civil service of the Government of India and holding a number of important positions.
Prior to Joining the IJSG, he was working as the Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Textiles and looking after the two divisions of natural fibres i.e. Cotton and Jute along with the industry sector. He was also holding the
additional charge of Jute Commissioner of India. He took several initiatives in making
the jute industry modern and vibrant through modernization and diversification of jute products. He was involved in preparing a bill for the creation of “The Jute Board” which has been
introduced in the Parliament of India. This bill provides for bringing numerous agencies dealing with the production, marketing and manufacturing of jute under one roof to create necessary synergy. Mr. Roy was Director in Boards of
National Jute Manufacturers Corporation Limited (NJMC), the Jute Corporation of India (JCI), the Jute Manufacturers Development Council (JMDC) and National Council for Jute Development (NCJD). He was also a member of Governing Council of Indian
Jute Industries Research Association (IJIRA), a Research and Development
Organisation. Besides textiles, he worked in the Ministries of Urban Development, Commerce and Supply, Environment, Revenue, Rural Development, Health, General Administration and Education both in the Government of India and in Government of Himachal
Pradesh.
Mr. Sudripta Roy was appointed as the Secretary General of the IJSG for a period of three years at its eighth Session of the Council held during 3 May
2007.
Source: International Jute Study Group (IJSG) |
Mr. Sudripta Roy joined as the new Secretary General of the International Jute Study Group
(IJSG) at its headquarters in Dhaka on September 06, 2007
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Arun Bajoria passes away
Kolkata, March 28: Leading jute industrialist Arun Bajoria is no more.
Bajoria, who shot to fame by raiding companies such as Bombay Dyeing and Ballarpur Industries, breathed his last this morning at a Mumbai hospital after a brief illness.
Bajoria, 62, is survived by four daughters, his wife and mother. His body was flown to Calcutta in the evening for the last rites. Bajoria owned about a dozen jute mills in Bengal and Andhra
Pradesh. With a daily production of 600 tonnes, he controlled nearly 25 per cent of the country’s jute goods production.
The reclusive man shot to fame in 2000 when he cornered a 14 per cent stake in Bombay Dyeing and threatened to take over the Wadia company. The Wadias had to take Ratan Tata and
Keshub Mahindra’s help to fend off Bajoria’s challenge. However, Bajoria later sold off his shares in Bombay Dyeing . The jute industrialist also bought large chunks of shares in Tata Steel, which he later sold off.
Bajoria, who was president of the Indian Jute Mills Association for three years from 2004 to 2007, is said to be one of the most cash-rich industrialists in
Kolkata. His business interests also included real estate. He owned a number of prime properties in the city.
IJMA president Sanjay Kajaria, said, “An era has ended with the passing away of Bajoria. He was the undisputed leader of the jute industry.’’
A science graduate from St. Xavier’s College, he started looking after father Radhey Shyam Bajoria’s Hooghly Jute Mills
when he was still studying. Bajoria acquired Hukumchand jute mill from the K.K. Birla group in the mid-eighties and owned a number of other mills such as Waverly, Bauria, Fort William and India Jute.
Source: The Telegraph |
Leading jute industrialist Arun Bajoria is no more.
IJMA president Sanjay Kajaria, said, “An era has ended with the passing away of
Bajoria. He was the undisputed leader of the jute industry.’’ |
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