Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya
Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya was an Indian educationist who founded educational institutes in Maharashtra state in India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for his service to society in 2000. The Somaiya Vidyavihar educational campus in Mumbai and several colleges in this campus are named after him. He was also an industrialist and founder of Somaiya Group of industries having interests in sugar, Industrial Alcohol, Organic Chemicals, Salt, Printing and Publications, Agriculture, Bulk Drugs industries.
Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya, born onMay 1902 in the remote village of Malunjar in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, India. Karamshi, after completing school at the New High School in Mumbai went back to his hometown in Ahmednagar. Karamshi Somaiya engaged in looking after his fathers small grocery business, would travel from village to village selling groceries and booking orders.
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