Indian billionaire donates 600 cars to his employees

If Edmondo de Amitis were still alive, he would probably have chosen Indian Sanjiv Dholakia as an inspiration for his character in the novel “Zername”.

Known in his country as Sanjivka, the owner of Hari Krishna Exporters ) -- one of the leading operators in the global diamond trade trade -- which works 500 thousand carats of stones every year -- left in 1977 from the village of Dudhala with 12 cents and now controls an empire that exports precious stones to 50 countries in the world, from Sures headquarters to Mumbai.

Sanjevkaka, however, has not forgotten his origin and the dream that every Indian boy has grown up in the village: have a car. And these days news reports from all the media in the country has been a gift made to his best employees: 600 cars (400 Renault quid and 200 Suzuki Celerio) all rigorously white and decorated with a group of tricolors (white, green, and terns) of the Indian flag and a crown of yellow flowers.

This is not the first time that Harry Krishna Group's founder, who has an annual circulation of $1.1 billion, gives awards and gifts to her employees, always in the eyes of the most important Indian festival, the Dieal (light Festival), which is this year on November 7th, including 4,000 of its 5,500 employees.

In 2014 he had begun providing 500 “Fiat Punto”, and next year, expanding the benefits, donated 200 apartments and 491 vehicles. In 2016, 400 apartments and 1,260 other vehicles followed and recently donated three Mercedes SUV GLS 350D of the price mark for 3 managers to celebrate the company's 25th anniversary. /GSH