Sajjan Jindal (born 5 December 1959) is an Indian billionaire industrialist. He is the chairman and managing director of

JSW Group JSW Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, based in Mumbai. It is led by Sajjan Jindal and part of the O.P. Jindal Group. The Group's diverse businesses include steel, energy, infrastructure, cement and paints, across India, the Unit ...

of companies; diversified in steel, mining, energy, sports, infrastructure and, software business. For 2021-2022, he served as the chairman of

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. He was replaced by

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's Jeong-Woo Choi.

Early life and education

He is one of the sons of Indian businessman and parliamentarian,

Om Prakash Jindal Om Prakash Jindal (7 August 1930 – 31 March 2005), popularly known as O.P. Jindal, was born in Hisar, Haryana. He established a successful business enterprise Jindal Steel and Power under the flagship of the Jindal Organization, of which he ...

. His youngest brother, Naveen, is a former Member of Parliament of India from the

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party and also leading Jindal Steel and Power. According to ''

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'', Jindal family led by Savitri Jindal is worth US$14.5 billion, as of 2021. Sajjan Jindal holds a bachelor's degree in

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from the

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Career

In 1982, he joined the OP Jindal Group as a freshly graduated mechanical engineer, and within a year he moved to

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to look after the western region operations. In 1983–1984, Jindal's father,

put him to the test by ordering him to turn around operations at two facilities near Mumbai. He promoted Jindal Iron and Steel Company Limited. (JISCO), for manufacturing of Cold Rolled and Galvanized Sheet Products in 1989. He promoted Jindal Vijaynagar Steel Limited (JVSL), JSW Energy Limited (JSWEL), Jindal Praxair Oxygen Limited. (JPOCL) and Vijaynagar Minerals Private Limited. (VMPL) to ensure complete integration of the manufacturing progress in 1995. In 2005, his steel companies, JISCO, and JVSL, were merged to form JSW Steel, and a holdings group of the same name. Even before the death of OP Jindal in a helicopter accident in 2005, the group's patriarch established a "division of business" framework. First, he gave Prithviraj, Sajjan, Ratan, and

Naveen Jindal Naveen Jindal (born 9 March 1970) is an Indian billionaire industrialist, and a former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Kurukshetra, Haryana in the 14th and 15th Lok Sabha. He currently serves as the Chairman of Jindal Steel and Powe ...

equal shares of the existing OP Jindal Group he had built up over the years. Then, Jindal Senior ensured that each of his sons had a cross-holding in the businesses that the brothers were owning individually. Jindal was an instrumental figure in establishing Indian Steel Association in the 2014

Business

The JSW Group is a multi business conglomerate worth US$14 billion. The group's companies are: *

JSW Steel JSW Steel Limited is an Indian multinational steel producer based in Mumbai and is a flagship company of the JSW Group. After the merger of ISPAT Steel and Jindal Vijayanagar Steel Limited, JSW Steel became India's second largest private secto ...

JSW Energy JSW Energy Limited is an Indian power company engaged in power generation, transmission and trading. It is part of JSW Group. In 2015, JSW Energy acquired two of Jaypee Group's hydropower plants, with a combined capacity of 1,391 MW, for 9,700 ...

* JSW Holdings *

JSW Infrastructure JSW Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, based in Mumbai. It is led by Sajjan Jindal and part of the O.P. Jindal Group. The Group's diverse businesses include steel, energy, infrastructure, cement and paints, across India, the U ...

* Vijaynagar Minerals * Jindal Praxair Oxygen Company * JSoft Solutions * JSW Building Systems * JSW Sports * JSW Cement * JSW Severfield Structures

Philanthropy

* Sajjan Jindal Steel Professor Chair, Center of Excellence in Steel Technology (CoEST),

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Awards and recognition

* June 2009, Willy Korf/Ken Iverson Steel Vision Award for his contribution to the steel industr

* January 2019, awarded the "Outstanding Business Leader of the year 2018" award by the CNBC TV1

* April 2018, "CEO of the Year" award by Business Standar

* March 2018, JRD Tata Award 2017 for Excellence in Corporate Leadership in Metallurgical industr

* January 2014 "National Metallurgist Award: Industry” instituted by the Ministry of Steel, Government of Indi

* Best CEO award 2019 by Business Today Magazin

Personal life

Jindal is married to

Sangita Jindal Sangita Jindal is an Indian businesswoman and the chairperson of the JSW Foundation, which drives social development projects within the JSW Group. She also leads Jindal Arts Centre and she is the President of Art India magazine, a leading art ...

, who is Chairperson of JSW Foundation. Together, the couple has two daughters, Tarini and Tanvi, and a son, Parth.

References

External links

JSW Group official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jindal, Sajjan Living people Bangalore University alumni Businesspeople from Haryana 1959 births People from Hisar (city) JSW Group Jindal family Indian football chairmen and investors Indian Premier League franchise owners