| Name
/ Title |
WALCHAND
Hirachand DOSHI |
| Date of
Birth |
November 23, 1882 |
| Date of
Death |
April 08, 1953 |
| Identity |
Indian industrialist, founder of Walchand group of
companies. |
|
Date-wise Events |
- 1900: Indian shipping
started getting financially shattered by the heavy
competition of British vested interests.
- April 05, 1919: Walchand
and Narottam Morarjee acquired the ship S.S. Loyalty from
Maharaja Madhavrao Scindia of Gwalior. The
Scindia Steam Navigation Company Limited (SSNCL) was
formed, with an investment of Rs.45 crores, in Bombay on
this day, which is celebrated as the National
Maritime Day. But their idea of setting up a
shipyard took a long time.
- March 26, 1931: Mahatma
Gandhi wrote an editorial in the `Young India' on this day:
"The Indian shipping has to perish so that the British
shipping might flourish."
- 1941: He, along with
Narottam Morarji, established the first indigenous
shipbuilding yard in the country in Visakhapatnam, Scindia
Shipyard.
- 1952: The company, taken
over by the Government of India in 1952 and re-christened as
the `Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL)'.
- March 14, 1948: The first
Indian modern ship, S.S. Jala Usha, built
by the Scindia Shipyard was launched by the Prime Minister,
Jawaharlal Nehru, on this day.
|
| General |
- According to him, self-reliance was a major
pre-requisite for gaining independence from the British
rule.
- He established India's first modern shipyard, first
aircraft factory and first car factory besides having
established construction companies, sugar plantation, sugar
factory, confectionery, engineering companies and many other
businesses.
- A road in Mumbai is named after him as Walchand
Hirachand Marg.
- A road in Solapur, his hometown is also named after him
as Seth Walchand Hirachand Marg.
- Government of India issued a postage stamp honouring him
2004.
- A hall is named after him as Walchand Hirachand Hall at
Indian Merchants' Chamber house at Mumbai in his memory &
honour.
- Walchandnagar, an industrial township near Pune is named
after him.
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