Biography of nanji kalidas mehta engineering
Biography of nanji kalidas mehta engineering institute.
Biography of nanji kalidas mehta engineering
Nanji Kalidas Mehta
Indian industrialist
Nanji Kalidas Mehta, MBE (17 November 1887 – 25 August 1969) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist from Gujarat. He founded the Mehta Group in British East Africa, with its head office in India.
Known as Sheth Nanjibhai. His son Mahendra Mehta, daughter in-law Sunayana Mehta and grandson Jay Mehta now own the Mehta Group.
Biography of nanji kalidas mehta engineering college
Personal life
Mehta was born on 17 November 1887 in Gorana village, near Porbandar in the Princely State of Porbandar, British India.[1] He was born in a GujaratiHindu family of Lohana caste.
He left for East Africa at the age of thirteen in 1900.[2][3][4] He married young and his second marriage was to Santoshben Mehta and they had four children - 'Didiji' Savitaben Mehta, Dirubhai Mehta, Nirmala Mehta nee Khatau and Mahendra Mehta (born 1932 in Porbandar).
Shekhar Mehta, the sports car driver, and Jay Mehta, the businessman, are his grandsons.[5][