Independence Day 2023: India is celebrating its 77th Independence Day on Tuesday (August 15, 2023). Watch this Visual Story to know about some Indian MNCs born and established before Independence that not only helped transform an Independent India by giving livelihood to millions of people, but have also played a big role in raising the country s pride around the globe.
Mahindra & Mohammed was founded in 1945 by Kailash Chandra Mahindra, Jagdish Chandra Mahindra, and Malik Ghulam Muhammad in Ludhiana, Punjab. The company later became M&M, which is now an industrial conglomerate. After the Partition of India in 1947, Muhammad migrated to Pakistan and became its finance minister. Previously, he had worked as an administrator of Bhopal state, advised the Nizam of Hyderabad, and held bureaucratic positions in the colonial government. He is credited with Pakistan s first Five-Year Plan.
Keshub Mahindra (09.10.1923-12. 04.2023) who was Chairman, Mahindra and Mahindra from 1963- 2012 and who was listed very recently in the Forbes list of India s oldest billionaires, has passed away