O. P. Jindal Biography 
Om Prakash Jindal, popularly known as O.P. Jindal is the founder of Jindal Empire. He established the business enterprise Jindal Steel and Power under the flagship of the Jindal Organization in 1952 and served as its Chairman. He has also been associated with state politics and has served as Minister of Power in the Government of Haryana. He has won from Hissar Constituency consecutively for three terms. His wife Savitri Jindal currently serves as Non-Executive Chairperson of Jindal Steel & Power Limited and the company is currently run by his four sons - Non-Executive Chairperson, Jindal Steel & Power Limited. Both his wife and son Navneet have been associated with state and national level politics. Jindal died in a helicopter crash near Gango in Uttar Pradesh in 2005, aged 74.
He was born on 7 August 1930 in Hissar, Punjab. His father was a farmer and he was born into a middle class family. While British withdrew from India, India’s premier industrialists were busy in redrawing the new industrial map of independent India in the late 1940s and early 1950s. At that time Jindal made a blueprint of his small business in Nalwa, a village in Haryana. As he lacked experience to start a manufacturing unit, Jindal started trading in steel pipes. His first phase of business life was not so easy. But with his vision and determination he made what he dreamt of. Jindal Steel and Power was established under Jindal Organization in 1952.
He set his first factory at Liluah, near Kolkata for the manufacturing of steel pipes, bends and sockets. Later he set up a similar unit in Hissar, Haryana. Jindal -- the proprietorship was transformed into Jindal -- the organisation. In the early 1960s, Jindal R&D developed India's first 100% indigenous pipe mill in Hissar, which was a real breakthrough. In 1970, he established Jindal Strips Limited. A mini steel plant was opened in Hissar which manufactured coils and plates. From a single steel unit at Hissar, Jindal organization very soon established as a business empire.
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Updated: January 18, 2016
