NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, MAR 22
Noted Industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, 55, received the country’s third highest civilian award – Padma Bhushan Award – from President Droupadi Murmu, at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday evening.
Birla has been conferred the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to Trade & Industry.
The achievements of our Group are a result of upholding a vision embedded in our roots.
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On receiving the Award, Birla said “The spirit of nation-building and trusteeship has guided my family across generations. And so, to receive this national honour is indeed humbling. I thank the Honourable President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu and the Honourable Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, for this prestigious honour which I accept on behalf of my 140,000 colleagues from 36 countries. This award is a recognition of the longitudinal impact of the Aditya Birla Group— in enriching.”
Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, the recipient of Padma Bhushan this year, is the fourth in the extended Birla family to be conferred the nation’s highest civilian honours.
His great grandfather GD Birla was a recipient of Padma Vibhushan in 1957 and his mother Rajashree Birla was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2011.
GP Birla, cousin of Kumar Mangalam Birla’s grandfather BK Birla, was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2006.
Kumar Mangalam Birla (KM Birla) has been at the helm for 28 years of the diversified Aditya Birla group with its presence ranging from metals, pulp and fibre, chemicals, textiles, carbon black, telecom, cement, financial services, fashion retail and renewable energy.
He transformed the group into an Indian multinational with operations in 36 countries across six continents and increased the group’s turnover by over 30 times to USD 60 billion.
In this year’s Padma awards, late Areez Khambatta, founder of popular soft drink brand Rasna, has been awarded the Padma Shri posthumously along with billionaire stock market investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, who passed away last year, from the ‘trade and industry’ field.
