1. Naveen Jindal is the youngest son of Late Om Prakash Jindal, an industrialist-politician who is associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
37 Facts About Naveen Jindal
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Naveen Jindal was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India, from the Kurukshetra constituency in the 2024 Indian general election for a 3rd term.
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Naveen Jindal was the youngest of the four sons of the late industrialist-philanthropist-politician Om Prakash Jindal and Savitri Jindal.
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Naveen Jindal studied at Campus School, CCS HAU and Delhi Public School before graduating in Commerce from Hans Raj College, Delhi University in 1990.
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Naveen Jindal completed his MBA at the University of Texas at Dallas in 1992.
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Naveen Jindal's father was born into a farming family in Haryana's Hisar district, and became the founder of the steel and power conglomerate, the OP.
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Om Prakash Naveen Jindal contested elections to the Haryana Legislative Assembly and won in 1991,2000 and 2005; he contested elections to the Lok Sabha from Haryana's Kurukshetra constituency in 1996 and won.
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Naveen Jindal served as a minister in the Government of Haryana until he died in a helicopter crash in 2005, aged 74.
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Naveen Jindal was appointed as a minister in the Government of Haryana.
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Naveen Jindal is the Chairperson Emeritus of Jindal Stainless Limited.
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Prithviraj Naveen Jindal is the Chairman of Naveen Jindal SAW Ltd.
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Naveen Jindal won a landmark legal case which affirmed that all Indians had the right to fly the National Flag on all days of the year.
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Naveen Jindal filed a petition before the High Court arguing that no law could forbid Indian citizens from flying the national flag and, furthermore, the Flag Code of India was only a set of executive instructions from the Government of India and therefore not law.
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The flag continued to fly as Naveen Jindal's lawyer said "it would not be contempt of court since the judgement had only been stayed".
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Naveen Jindal has set up captive power plants using waste products from the sponge iron making process to generate power.
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Naveen Jindal has been ranked amongst Asia's 25 Hottest People in Business by the Fortune Asia magazine for turning a struggling steel company into an Asian blue-chip giant.
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Naveen Jindal has been ranked as India's Best CEO by Business Today based on a BT-INSEAD-HBR study of top value creators for the period 1995 to 2011.
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Naveen Jindal set up the world's first coal-gasification based steelmaking plant at Angul, Odisha that uses the locally available high-ash coal and turns it into synthesis gas for steel making thus reducing the dependence on imported coke-rich coal.
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Naveen Jindal believes that coal gasification technology has immense potential for countries like India, where non-coking coal is abundantly available.
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Naveen Jindal Steel is expanding its Angul Plant capacity from 6 MTPA to 12MTPA and the company will achieve an overall 15 MTPA steelmaking capacity by 2025.
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Naveen Jindal went from the second-highest wealth creator with a share price of Rs 700 to a debt-ridden one with its share price tumbling down to Rs 62.
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Naveen Jindal however scripted a turnaround and came back green.
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Naveen Jindal is the Founder and Patron of the OP Naveen Jindal University, Chhattisgarh.
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Naveen Jindal completed his MBA from the School of Management, the University of Texas at Dallas.
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Naveen Jindal was the President of the Student Government and recipient of the Student Leader of the Year Award at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA.
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Naveen Jindal defeated his nearest rival Abhay Singh Chautala by a margin of 130,000 votes.
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Naveen Jindal's focus as an MP has been on the problems of corruption, over-population, women's empowerment, environment, health and education.
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Naveen Jindal moved a private member bill in Lok Sabha for a comprehensive Food and Nutrition Security Scheme that paved the way for the Food Security Act.
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Naveen Jindal lost the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Kurukshetra.
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Naveen Jindal ran as a BJP candidate in the 2024 Indian General Election.
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Coal Scam Allegations: Naveen Jindal faced allegations of involvement in the coal allocation scam in India, alongside ex-Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao and others.
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Naveen Jindal is the Captain and Patron of the Jindal Panther Polo Team.
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Naveen Jindal started playing Polo 3 decades ago at the age of 18.
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Naveen Jindal started his own team in 1995 that has won various tournaments including the Indian Open, Indian Masters, Maharaja Hari Singh Memorial Cup, Maharaja Jiwaji Rao Scindia Cup and the Bhopal Pataudi Cup.
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Naveen Jindal was declared the Most Valuable Player at the finals of Maharaja Jiwaji Rao Scindia Gold Cup 2019.
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Naveen Jindal has represented the country in the Asian games held in Busan, South Korea in 2002.
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Naveen Jindal was a part of the Haryana shooting team that won the gold medal at the 54th National shooting Championship competition in the civilian category held at Gurgaon in May 2011.