Rajesh Saraiya (born 1969) is an

industrialist A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who is a powerful entrepreneur and investor who controls, through personal enterprise ownership or a dominant shareholding position, a firm or industry whose goods or ser ...

and member of DICCI. He is considered as first

Dalit Dalit ( from meaning "broken/scattered") is a term used for untouchables and outcasts, who represented the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent. They are also called Harijans. Dalits were excluded from the fourfold var ...

billionaire of India. Rajesh Saraiya is the CEO of Steel Mont Trading.Ltd, headquartered at Düsseldorf (Germany). It deals with steel trading, production, commodities and shipping. It has offices in London, Kyiv, Moscow, Istanbul, Dubai, Mumbai and Tianjin. Rajesh Saraiya hails from Saraiya Sani village,

Sitapur Sitapur is a city and a municipal board in Sitapur district in the States and territories of India, state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located 90 kilometres north of state capital, Lucknow. The traditional origin for the name is said to be by ...

(U.P), grew up in

Dehradun Dehradun (), also known as Dehra Doon, is the winter capital and the List of cities in Uttarakhand by population, most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous Dehradun district, d ...

and studied

Aeronautical science Aeronautics is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight-capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere. While the term originally referred solely to ''ope ...

from Kyiv Institute of Civil Aviation, Ukraine He was given the Pravasi Bharatiya Award in 2012 and the

Padma Shri The Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī'', lit. 'Lotus Honour'), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. In ...

in 2014. He is now the world's richest from the Dalit community

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Saraiya, Rajesh Living people 1969 births Indian billionaires Businesspeople from Dehradun Recipients of the Padma Shri in trade and industry