Sunil bharti mittal

Sunil Bharti Mittal born 23 October is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises , which has diversified interests in telecom, insurance, real estate, education, malls, hospitality, Agri and food besides other ventures. Bharti Airtel , the group's flagship company is one of the world's largest and India's largest telecom company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa with a customer base of over million.

In , he was awarded the Padma Bhushan , India's third highest civilian honor. His first business was to make crankshafts for local bicycle manufacturers.

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The importing of generators was suddenly banned by the then Indian Government. In , he started assembling push-button phones in India, [ 10 ] which he earlier used to import from a Taiwan company, Kingtel, replacing the old fashioned, bulky rotary phones that were in use in the country then. By the early s, Sunil was making fax machines, cordless phones and other telecom gear.

Sunil says, "In , the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. Everything I was doing came to a screeching halt. I was in trouble.