Anil Agarwal (other)
Anil Agarwal may refer to: * Anil Agarwal (industrialist) (born 1953/4), Indian businessman * Anil Agarwal (environmentalist) (1947–2002), Indian environmentalist * Anil Agrawal Anil Agarwal is an Indian politician and an MP from the Bharatiya Janata Party from Uttar Pradesh. He was fielded as the ninth candidate in the ten Rajya Sabha seats which went for elections He defeated Bhimrao Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Amb ...

Anil Agarwal (industrialist)
Anil Agarwal (born 1954) is an Indian Billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The ... who is the founder and Chairman of Vedanta Resources, Vedanta Resources Limited. He controls Vedanta Resources through Volcan Investments, a holding vehicle with a 100% stake in the business.Anil Agarwal's family have $4 billion net worth. Early life Agarwal was born and brought in a Marwari people, Marwadi family in Patna, Bihar, India. His father Dwarka Prasad Agarwal had a small aluminium conductor business. He studied at Miller High School, Patna. He decided to join his father's business, making aluminium conductors instead of going to university. At 19, he left Patna for Mumbai (then Bombay) to explore career opportunities. Career In the mid-1970s, he began trading in s ...
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Anil Agarwal (environmentalist)
Anil Kumar Agarwal(23 November 1947– 2 January 2002) was an Indian environmentalist, trained as a mechanical engineer at IIT Kanpur, worked as a science correspondent for the ''Hindustan Times''. He was the founder of the Centre for Science and Environment, a Delhi-based research institute currently led by Sunita Narain. In 1987, the United Nations Environment Programme elected him to its Global 500 Roll of Honour for his work in the national and international arena. The Indian Government also honoured him with Padma Shri (1986) and Padma Bhushan The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished servi ... (2002) for his work in environment and development. Further reading *Agarwal, A. and S. Narain. 1982. ''The State of India's Environment: A Citizens’ Report'', New Delhi: Centre ...
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