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| birth_date = 1944<br />
| birth_place = [[Allahabad]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India<br />
| death_date = 2020<br />
| death_place = Kolkata <br />
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| occupation = Industrialist<br />
| yearsactive = 1979–2015<br />
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br />
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'''Meenakshi Sargogi''' was an Indian industrialist and the former managing director<ref name="Balrampur Chini to invest Rs 200 crore on raising ethanol capacity">{{cite web | url=http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-balrampur-chini-to-invest-rs-200-crore-on-raising-ethanol-capacity-2089716 | title=Balrampur Chini to invest Rs 200 crore on raising ethanol capacity | publisher=DNA Syndicate | date=27 May 2015 | accessdate=23 October 2015}}</ref> and the incumbent non-executive director of Balrampur Chini Mills.<ref name="Board of Directors">{{cite web | url=http://www.chini.com/directors.php | title=Board of Directors | publisher=Chini.com | date=2015 | accessdate=23 October 2015}}</ref> She is credited with the revival of a loss-making sugar business into a profitable multi-focussed industrial conglomerate.<ref name="The sweet taste of success">{{cite news | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/The-sweet-taste-of-success/articleshow/20769258.cms | title=The sweet taste of success | newspaper=Times of India | date=1 September 2002 | accessdate=23 October 2015}}</ref> She received the fourth highest civilian award of the [[Padma Shri]] from the Government of India in 1992 for her contributions to the Indian [[sugar industry]].<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |accessdate=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=15 October 2015 }}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Born in 1944 in [[Allahabad]], in the most populous Indian state of [[Uttar Pradesh]], she did her early schooling at [[St. Mary's Convent High School, Nainital]] and returned to Kanpur where she completed her graduate studies.<ref name="The sweet taste of success" /> She is reported to have learnt the basics of the business, dismantled the senior management and turned around the company to make a profit of {{INR}} 4.4 million in the first full year of business.<ref name="The sweet taste of success" /><br />
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Meenakshi shared the responsibilities of the managing director of the company with her husband for 22 years until June 2015 when she stepped down from active career to retain the post of a non-executive director.<ref name="Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd ">{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=8398702&privcapId=8080999 | title=Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd | publisher=Bloomberg | date=2015 | accessdate=23 October 2015}}</ref> During this period, Balrampur Sugar Mills grew from a single unit business to multiple factory industry which she achieved by purchasing Babhnan Sugar Mills in 1990, Tulsipur Sugar Mills in 1998, the Rauzagaon factory of Dhampur Sugar Mills in 2005<ref name="The Sugar Queen – Balrampur Chini">{{cite web | url=https://goodbadnews.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-sugar-queen-balrampur-chini/ | title=The Sugar Queen – Balrampur Chini | publisher=Good Bad News | date=2015 | accessdate=23 October 2015}}</ref> and Indo Gulf Sugar Mills in 2007 and diversified the business to other areas such as [[ethanol]] and [[Electricity|power]].<ref name="ET Markets profile">{{cite web | url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/balrampur-chini-mills-ltd/infocompanyhistory/companyid-12477.cms | title=ET Markets profile | publisher=Economic Times | date=2015 | accessdate=23 October 2015}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[History of sugar]]<br />
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