Surat-based diamond merchant Savji Dholakia, the owner of Hare Krishna Exporters has gifted three Mercedes-Benz GLS SUVs worth Rs 3 crore at a ceremony to three senior employees who completed 25 years at the company.
Nilesh Jada (40), Mukesh Chandpara (38) and Mahesh Chandpara (43), who have had joined the company in their early teens and now look after the key departments of management, received the gifts respectively.
According to a report, the car keys were handed over to them by Madhya Pradesh governor and former Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel. Dholakia said, “These three had joined us when they were just around 13 or 15 years old. They started with learning to cut diamonds and polish it and now they are not only experts but most senior and one of the most trusted people of our company.”
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Previously, Dholakia had gifted Datsun redi-GO cars to more than 1200 employees. Hare Krishna Exporters employs more than 5500 people. The company makes an annual turnover of Rs 6,000 crore.
Savjibhai Dholakia, known as Savjikaka in Surat and Saurashtra, hails from Dudhala village in Amreli district. Dholakia came to Surat in 1977 on a state transport bus with just Rs 12.5 with him as ticket fare before he built over Rs 6,000 crore diamond business.