Kalpana Saroj

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Kalpana Saroj

Kalpana Saroj (* 1961 in Repatkhedha , Maharashtra ) is an Indian entrepreneur. She belongs to the Dalit or “untouchable” caste . She is the owner of Kamani Tubes Limited (KTL). KTL is considered a leader in the production of non-ferrous metal - pipes .

Life

youth

Kalpana Saroj grew up as the eldest daughter of a police officer in Repatkhedha . Although her father promoted her education, Kalpana Saroj was married to a man ten years older than her when she was twelve. She followed her husband to Mumbai , where she lived with him and his family in a slum for six months . She was mistreated by her first husband and his family. After her father visited her, he took her home from this family. There she completed her schooling. At the age of 13 she tried unsuccessfully to follow her father into the police force, followed by further attempts to learn a traditional profession in order to be able to make something of her life. Eventually she learned the trade of seamstress . However, the social exclusion in her home village led to an attempted suicide . The attempt was unsuccessful because she found an aunt.

At the age of 15, Kalpana Saroj got her family back to Mumbai. She continued this with the threat of failing to try suicide again. There she first found a job as a worker who had to remove lint from the textiles produced. She taught herself to use industrial sewing machines, thereby improving her income from the equivalent of 15  cents a day to $ 5 a  day.

Entrepreneur

When her sister died because she couldn't pay for a hospital visit, Kalpana Saroj decided that she had to make money.

At 16, she moved to Mumbai and began working as an unskilled seamstress. She trained in order to earn better as a seamstress on sewing machines . With a government loan, she started a furniture business. She married the owner of another furniture store.

In 2006 Kalpana Saroj took over Kamani Tubes Limited, which was in a serious crisis, and led the company out of the crisis. To finance the takeover, she had to take out a three-year loan. She paid back the loan within three months, paid outstanding wages and paid off the company's debt. In 2018 she owned Kamani Tubes Limited , Kamani Steel Re-Rolling Mills Pvt Ltd , Saikrupa Sugar Factory Pvt Ltd , Kalpana Builders & Developers , Kalpana Saroj & Associates , and KS Creations Film Production .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mauli Buch, Women entrepreneurs shine at Dalit trade fair , www.ciol.com from December 19, 2011. ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ciol.com
  2. ↑ a b c India woman is an 'untouchable,' with a Midas touch , Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2012. (English)
  3. ^ A b From India's child bride to multi-millionaire , BBC, May 25, 2012. (English)
  4. ↑ a b Derineh Cooper, Saga of steely resolve , Daily News & Analysis India, July 22, 2006 (English)
  5. ↑ From child bride to multi-millionaire in India , BBC, May 25, 2012. (English).
  6. ↑ Naren Karunakaran, How dalit entrepreneur Kalpana Saroj revived Kamani Tubes Ltd , The Economist Times, July 29, 2011 (English)
  7. ↑ Deven Lad, Early Marriage Disrupted Her Life, But She Recouped and Triumphed as an Entrepreneur , The Weekend Leader, May 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Saroj, Kalpana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian businesswoman
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Repatkhedha , Maharashtra