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'''Sir Basant Kumar Birla''' (12 January 1921 – 3 July 2019) was an Indian businessman of the [[Birla family]]. He was chairman of the Krishnarpan Charity Trust, [[BK Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology, Pilani|BK Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology]] (BKBIET) and various educational [[Investment trust|trust]]s and institutes.

==Biography==
Birla, the youngest son of philanthropist [[Ghanshyam Das Birla]], was born on 12 January 1921. By fifteen years of age, he was already actively associated with a large number of companies and eventually became the chairman of Kesoram Industries.{{when|date=January 2012}} In this role, he concentrated on the industries of cotton, [[viscose]], [[polyester]] and nylon yarns, [[refractory]], paper, shipping, tyrecord, [[Transparency (optics)|transparent]] paper, spun pipe, cement, tea, coffee, [[cardamom]], [[chemicals]], [[plywood]], [[Medium-density fibreboard|MDF Board]], etc.

In 1959, established the Indo Ethiopian Textiles Share Company, which was the first major joint venture by any Indian industrialist.<ref name="Ethiopia India Relationship">{{cite news |title=Industrialist Basant Kumar Birla passes away |url=http://www.ethiopianembassy.org.in/EthiopiaIndia.htm |accessdate=14 July 2019}}</ref> In response, the [[Emperor of Ethiopia]], [[Haile Selassie I]], awarded him the medal of the [[Order of Menelik II]], the highest Ethiopian award.<ref name="Ethiopia India Relationship"/>

In 13 April 1942, he married [[Sarla Birla|Sarla]], the daughter of activist and writer [[Brijlal Biyani]], after having been introduced to each other by [[Jamnalal Bajaj]] and [[Mahatma Gandhi]] in 1941. They had a son, [[Aditya Vikram Birla]].

He was the chairman of the Krishnarpan Charity Trust, which runs an [[engineering college]] named [[BK Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology]] in [[Pilani]], [[Rajasthan]], the Swargashram Trust, which administers a [[Sanskrit]] school in [[Rishikesh]]. He also established [[Birla Public School]] in [[Qatar]] and the [[Birla College of Arts, Science & Commerce]] in [[Kalyan]] near Mumbai. He is the author of several books, including an autobiography entitled ''Svantah Sukhaya''.

Birla died on 3 July 2019, at the age of 98.<ref name="ToI Industrialist Basant Kumar Birla passes away">{{cite news |title=Industrialist Basant Kumar Birla passes away |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/industrialist-basant-kumar-birla-passes-away/articleshow/70057795.cms |accessdate=3 July 2019 |work=The Times of India}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Birla Family]]
* [[B K Birla Centre For Education]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Basant Kumar Birla}}
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[[Category:1921 births]]
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[[Category:Businesspeople from Kolkata]]
[[Category:Founders of Indian schools and colleges]]
[[Category:Indian businesspeople in textiles]]
[[Category:Indian philanthropists]]
[[Category:Rajasthani people]]
[[Category:20th-century philanthropists]]

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>MarnetteD at 19:54, 25 March 2021