“Musafir hoon yaaron, na ghar hai na thikaana”. If this soul-soothing Bollywood Seventies basic sung by the nice Kishore Kumar is one thing you draw inspiration from, then you have got discovered your frequent hyperlink with a stalwart. For Sajjan Jindal, India’s ‘man of metal’ within the new millennia, this track has been the driving drive in his 4 many years previous journey to the highest of the nation’s enterprise group.

Jindal, Chairman and Managing Director of JSW Group, has bagged the Indian model of the distinguished EY Entrepreneur of the Yr 2022 Award. And with this accolade underneath his belt, he’ll compete, on behalf of India, with the who’s who of the worldwide enterprise leaders for the EY Entrepreneur of the Yr international awards at Monte Carlo in June.

For Jindal, taking over the challenges within the metal enterprise since his early days is a fait accompli. As he now recollects, since his faculty days he used to repeatedly spend hours on the household’s metal plant in awe. The method of metal making had such an impact on his younger thoughts that it was solely the matter of time Jindal would start his profession in early-Eighties as in-charge of a brand new nonetheless mill in Mumbai.

In keeping with him, entrepreneurs are drawback solvers on the face of adversity. “On the coronary heart of entrepreneurship lies innovation and drawback fixing. Entrepreneurs are all the time on the look out for brand new methods to resolve issues and create worth for his or her clients…..However most significantly entrepreneurs by no means lose sight of their function, their imaginative and prescient and values,” he stated whereas receiving the awards.

Jindal, who now heads a bunch that’s the largest metal producer in India and exports top quality steels to nations like Japan, from whom we used import a number of years in the past, began his profession in 1984 in his household enterprise. Just a few years later, buoyed on the boldness he gained from his metal undertaking, he constructed JSW’s Vijayanagar Works in Karnataka – at present the biggest metal plant in India.

Since then, he has remodeled and diversified the group’s enterprise into vitality, infrastructure, cement, paints, enterprise capital and sports activities. The $22-billion JSW Group is at present certainly one of India’s largest enterprise teams with operations unfold throughout the USA, Europe and Africa, other than India. After rising by a whopping 83 per cent year-on-year Jindal Metal – the group’s flagship enterprise entity – registered Rs 1.46 lakh crore in income in FY22 – making it one India’s largest entities by turnover.

That, nevertheless, is unlikely to encourage Jindal to relaxation on his laurels. At 63, he’s busy remodeling the core enterprise by aligning it to inexperienced missions.