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19.5.2.2 Birla Group
Krishna Kumar Birla, son of the founding father of the Birla Group, Ghanshyam Das Birla, was among the
founder members of the Indian sugar industry which he joined in 1940. Birla had established one of the
India’s biggest business conglomerates and his industrial empire spans key industries such as sugar, fertilisers,
chemicals, heavy engineering, textiles, shipping and newspaper. He was a respected parliamentarian, socialite,
philanthropist and scholar apart from being an industrialist.
He established the K.K. Birla Foundation, which has instituted annual awards for excellence in Indian
literature, scientif c research and Indian philosophy. K.K. Birla, popularly known as K.K. Babu, was ...