[www.keralites.net] Ravi Pillai - Who employs over 60,000 in gulf - Turnover 2.5 Billion $

 

Ravi Pillai, is the founder-managing director of the Bahrain-based construction services major 

Naseer S Al Hajri Corporation (NSH), and Petrochem, Saudi Arabia.

With 60,000 people working for him, he is the largest employer of Indians in the Middle East. 

His company has a turnover of $2.5 billion.

He is also the recipient of the Padma Shri and the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman.

I am from a farming community from near Kollam in Kerala. When I was young

 I found that though we farmed, at the end of the year there was no money at home.

Seeing that, I decided that I would be an entrepreneur and provide jobs to others.

 And I did become one while I was doing my degree studies in college.

I started a chit fund with Rs 100,000, borrowed at local rate of interest.

 I could make Rs 15-20,000 as profit every month. But I didn't use the money 

to splurge or enjoy; I re-invested it in my company.

After my graduation, I joined MBA, attending evening classes. 

I didn't want to go for regular classes as I wanted to concentrate on my business.

I came to know then that construction business was booming in Kerala. 

So I decided to start a construction company that did sub-contract work.

I hired engineers and other workers to do the work, and I got work at FACT 

and Cochin Refineries but the largest business came from Velloor 

Hindustan Newsprint factory. I made 15-20 per cent profit in the work.

But soon the locals in the area went on a strike and stopped work as they 

thought we were outsiders who had come to snatch their work.

I stopped everything and decided to go to the Gulf.

Almost all my employees have been with me for the last 10-20 years. 

My original recruits from Nagercoil had not studied beyond the tenth standard, 

but their children are engineers and doctors today. I feel so happy that I 

could make a change in their lives.

Because of me, in the Gulf alone, 75,000 people have food. 

I give free food three times a day to my employees.

Ravi

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