Naveen Jindal currently serves as the Chairman of Jindal Steel and Power Limited and Chancellor of O P Jindal Global University.
40 Facts About Naveen Jindal
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Naveen Jindal is an active campaigner for population stabilisation, women's empowerment, environmental conservation, health and education.
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Jindal was born in Hisar, Haryana, on 9 March 1970, youngest child of the late industrialist-philanthropist-politician Shri Om Prakash Jindal, former Minister of Power in the Government of Haryana, India, and his wife Smt Savitri Jindal who too was a minister in Haryana Government till 2014.
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Naveen Jindal studied at Campus School, CCS HAU and DPS Mathura Road before graduating in Commerce from Hans Raj College, Delhi University in 1990.
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Naveen Jindal completed an MBA at the University of Texas at Dallas in 1992.
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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.
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Naveen Jindal is the youngest child of Smt Savitri Jindal and late Om Prakash Jindal.
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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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Naveen Jindal stood for elections to the Haryana Legislative Assembly and won thrice in 1991,2000 and 2005 and contested elections to the Lok Sabha from Haryana's Kurukshetra constituency in 1996 and won.
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OP Naveen Jindal was serving as the Power Minister in the Haryana government when he died on 31 March 2005, in a helicopter crash at the age of 74.
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Naveen's mother Savitri Jindal was a Minister in the Haryana Government and MLA from Hisar.
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Naveen Jindal is the Chairperson Emeritus of Jindal Steel and Power Limited and JSW Steel.
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Prithviraj Naveen Jindal is the Chairman of Naveen Jindal SAW Ltd.
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Naveen Jindal is known as the man who won the right to display the National Flag on all days of the year for all Indians.
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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 founded the OP Naveen Jindal Global University in 2009, in memory of his father, Mr OP.
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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's efforts coupled with his tweets of tankers leaving his plants came as messages of hope.
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Naveen Jindal's selfless act of handling the situation directly and sending Oxygen was lauded by all.
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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.
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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 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 and really got hooked on it.
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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.