Life story of Mahashay Dharampal Gulati .

Life Story Of Mahashay Dharampal Gulati.
Author : VEDANG PUSHKARAJ WAGGH
Mahashay Dharampal Gulati was born on 27 March 1923 in Sialkot, Punjab Province, British India {now in Pakistan}.
His father Chunnilal Gulati used to own a spice shop in town called Deggi Mirch Wale also known as Mahashian Di Hatti.
In 1933 when he was ten he dropped school and worked multiple jobs including rice trading, and selling hardware before joining his father's spice business and because his joining it helped to expand the business to Multan, Nankana Sahib, Lyallpur, Shiekhupr, and Lahore.
But in 1947 because of the partition, his family was forced to leave Sialkot. they made their journey across the border to Amritsar. They spent some time in the refugee camp in Amritsar before they moved to his sister's house in new Dehli and there he brought tanga {horse carrige}for Rs 650 and operated around New Delhi railway station, Karol Bagh, and Qatab road.In 1958 he opened a small pop-up store in the Karol Bagh region to restart his father's spice store and named it Mahashian Di Hatti of Sialkot and advertised in the popular Hindi newspaper Pratap and set up a second store in Chandni Choke again in New Delhi before buying land and setting a manufacturing facility in the Kriti Nagar area of New Delhi in use ground spices in 1959 till that time Indians used to grind spices at home but he was the founder of selling ready to use ground spices. In 1965 the company was registered as MDH. Because of the progress of the Dharampal Gulati opened 18 new manufacturing facilities and revenues of₹1,095 crores (equivalent to ₹12 billion or US$170 million in 2019)in 2018.
Gulati founded 20 schools for furthering primary and secondary education, including the MDH International School, Mahashay Chunnilal Saraswati Shishu Mandir, Mata Lilawati Kanya Vidyalaya, and Mahashay Dharampal Vidya Mandir. His charity foundation, with his father's name, Mahashay Chunnilal Charitable Trust, administers some of his charity initiatives. During the pandemic, he gave money to the Chief Minister's relief fund and donated 7,500 PPE kits.He died on 7 December 2020 in the Mata Chanan Devi Hospital in Delhi of cardiac arrest at the age of 97
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