O. P. Jindal

Om Prakash Jindal ( born August 7, 1930 in Nalwa, Haryana, † 31 March 2005 in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh ) was the founder of the Indian industrial group Jindal Steel and at his death energy ministers of the government of the Indian state of Haryana.

Life

OP Jindal was born in 1930 by the wife of the farmer Netram Jindal in the village Nalwa in Hisar district. Since early childhood he was interested in technical processes. At the beginning of his professional career was a small bucket - manufacturing unit in Hisar. In 1964 he took the Pipe Unit Jindal India Limited on a Röhrenprodiktion, from 1969, the Jindal Strips Limited emerged. For his outstanding services to the Indian steel industry, he was awarded by the Commerce and Industry Chamber of Bengal the "Lifetime Achievement Award " in November 2004. At this time he was ranked on the list of richest people in the world by Forbes magazine in India in 13th place and in the world rankings at No. 548

Since 1991 he was also active in the political arena and was a member of Parliament from Haryana, from 1996 as the first Indian industrialists Member of Parliament in the 11th Lok Sabha. He was most recently Secretary of Energy in Haryana. Jindal was married to the politician Savitri Jindal and had with her nine children. In March 2005, he came by a helicopter crash.