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= Sitaram Jindal =

Introduction
Sitaram Jindal (born 12 September 1932) is an industrialist and philanthropist. He is founder and chairman of jindal aluminum ltd,  jindal naturecure institute and Jindal First Grade College of women.

EDUCATION
Sitaram jindal finished his schooling in his native village nalwa. He finished his graduation from Calcutta University in 1956 in naturopathy. He has been honored with a D.Sc from the tumkur university, Karnataka in 2010. He was also awarded doctorate degree of naturopathy

Sitaram jindal foundation
This is a foundation setup by sitaram jindal in order to help poor get confidence and live their life, under this initiative is many hospitals, schools, scholarship program. He has also some projects related to rural and social development like construction of school building, drinking water etc for villages and donated to government to handle it efficiently. They have spent almost RS.2.5crores per annum over 500 charities. He also has much mobile van that treats people in the van. He planned to open Dr sitaram Jindal School of economics but later had to cancel due to stiff opposition from various societies, which formed a basis for government to open Ambedkar School of economics with help of London business school. The opposition argued about jindal doing this to get the land, and to gain control over university, but he said, has always been that the university will run the school with its own staff and curriculum. “They have never asked for the school to be autonomous. University vice chancellor B Thimme Gowda maintained that his institution is in favor of the proposal, and that he had clarified questions raised by some syndicate members. “The Syndicate has unanimously approved the proposal. We are only waiting for the government’s approval,” he said.

Sitaram jindal scholarship
He has a scholarship program for merit-cum means basis, where it provides financial assistance to deserving candidates (from class 11th – post graduation) of underprivileged families. The scholarship can go up to INR 2500 per month.

Health
Sitaram jindal foundation has provided financial support to many charitable trust of all branches of medicine, and also establishes charitable hospitals in Bangalore:

1)   Jindal naturecure institute: this institute was setup in 1979 formerly known as institute of naturopathy and yoga science, and then renamed to jindal naturecure institute. It provides treatment for relief, prevention and cure of specific diseases through natural ways.

2)   Manav charitable hospital: this was establish in 1990 with a motive of serving weaker section of society with quality medical care

3)   Jindal charitable hospital, rajaji nagar

4)   Sushruta trauma center

5)   Manav seva charitable polyclinic

6)   INYS medical research society

Rural and urban development
Sitaram jindal foundation has built school building. They dug borwells and constructed overhead water tank.

Their trusts / societies have also been instrumental in renovation / construction and expansion of old buildings of school and colleges. Drinking water projects were taken up in surrounding villages. The details of some of the projects are as follows:

1)   Construction of School buildings, Bangalore North Taluk, Bangalore district

2)   Drinking Water project (15 villages), Bangalore North Taluk, Bangalore district

3)   Construction of new rooms / buildings (21 villages), Bangalore North Taluk, Bangalore district

4)   Bore wells etc. for drinking water in 28 villages, Bangalore North Taluk, Bangalore district

5)   Construction of school buildings (50 villages), Bangalore North Taluk, Bangalore district.

JINDAL ALUMINIM LTD
Sitaram jindal is one of the Founders of Jindal Group of Industries and is the Founder, Chairman & Managing Director of Jindal Aluminum Ltd. (JAL), which is India’s largest aluminum extrusion manufacturers meeting about 30% of the nation’s extrusions demand, and 15% of the nation’s aluminum rolled products demand.

Renewable energy
Being a strong proponent of sustainability, Jindal Aluminum Ltd is a pioneer in the renewable energy sector. They were the first company to set up both wind power (1997) as well as solar power plants in Karnataka (2013).

With a clear vision to be self-sufficient, what started as a humble beginning, has not only made us 100% self-sufficient for their energy needs, but has led them to supply almost 50 MW of surplus energy to grid annually.

Women empowerment
The Foundation as an NGO for women empowerment in Bangalore has been encouraging women by giving those scholarships, establishing degree colleges for women, teaching vocational courses etc. In Indian scenario, it is important that women are liberated from their traditional inhibition and taboos imposed on them and play a pivotal role in a growth of the family and society. It would not be wrong to say that if the women in our country are educated and promoted they would catalyze the social growth in our country. Their Foundation has established the Jindal Pre-University College (JPUC) in 2003 offering quality higher secondary education in 1st and 2nd Pre-University courses to around 400 students in a year. JPUC right from the academic year 2003-04 has focused on the sole object of imparting value based quality education to the rural poor. They have established many such institutions as an NGO for education.

The Mahila Arts & Crafts Charitable Institute
The institution imparts vocational training to underprivileged women from surrounding villages in tailoring, embroidery, typing, beautician, English speaking, Tie & die, block printing and computer courses so that they can take up a vocation and earn a livelihood. Nearly 400 women/girls avail these facilities every year. Tailoring, typing, shorthand and computer courses are taught free of cost to the candidates who cannot pursue further studies. A stipend of Rs.250/- and Rs. 100/- per month is paid to each student, enrolled for the tailoring and embroidery courses. They also have scheme to provide sewing machine at 50% of cost to deserving women, and free of cost in special cases.

early life
Sitaram Jindal was born on the 12th September 1932 in village Nalwa, Haryana (India) to Late Sh Netram Jindal and Late Smt Chandravali Devi. He was fourth of the five brothers. They set up an industrial empire based on their parent’s quality, which set their attitude. Sitaram jindal father was a landlord, who believed in hard work. He is one of the founders of jindal group of industries.

Jindal power and steel ltd vs. zee news
There was a controversy, where one zee news reporter asking for a rs.100 crore to black out unfavorable report regarding jindal power and steel ltd, where reporter were arrested on based of complain. Later zee news filed an application for Delhi police doing one-side investigation and said navneeth jindal and his uncle sitaram jindal should be questioned. The zee news reporter decided to file a defamation case against jindal.

Sitaram jindal research fellowship scheme
Jindal Aluminum Ltd has instituted the ‘Sitaram Jindal Research Fellowship Scheme’ to encourage and inspire the talent and recognize excellence in innovation and research.

SJ Foundation would manage the Research Fellowship Scheme on behalf of JAL.

FELLOWSHIP
Up to Rs. 1 lakh per month

. The Fellowship amount would also depend on the following


 * Qualifications and Experience of the Candidate.
 * Proven Track Record as evident from the innovations done in the past, Quality of Publications and Recognitions.
 * Relevance and Importance of the Research Topic for the common man.
 * In addition, the Research Fellow will also get a Contingency grant of a maximum of Rs. 10 lakhs per year, the quantum of which will also depend upon the need of such contingency funding. The contingency grant will take care of the actual contingent expenditure incurred in pursuance of the ‘Research and Innovation’ work. This amount can be used for the following
 * For acquisition of Books, Documents of relevance to the project as approved by the Head of Department/Host Institution.
 * For publication of articles/papers in reputed journals and filing for patents connected with this research work.
 * To meet petty expenses for the purchase of chemicals, reagents, stationery, postage, Registration fee for attending workshops/conferences.
 * For travel expenses including one foreign travel/foreign attachment during the entire research project period. SJ Foundation will give the approval for foreign travel/foreign attachment on the recommendation of the Host Institution.
 * Contingent grant cannot be used on furniture, office equipments including Computers, laptops etc. The use of contingency grant will be governed by guidelines issued from time to time by SJ Foundation. The Fellowship will be sanctioned to the individual(s) who are either attached or are going to be attached to the Institutions, which have the infrastructure facilities for the type of research work to be undertaken, besides guidance and supervision of the Fellow doing the Research. A certificate to this effect has to be obtained by the applicant from the Host Institution, which should be submitted with his application to SJ Foundation. The application should be sent through the Host Institution duly recommended by the Head of the Dept.
 * The Host Institution will get Rs. 4 lakhs per year per Research Fellow as overhead expenditure and for monitoring, supervising and controlling the fellow and the expenditure of funds to ensure that the funds are properly utilized and are not misused and to avoid extravagance.

Field of Research
The proposed area of research/work of the candidate could be in any of the following fields.


 * Any field of Science in its broadest terms including (but not limited to) Engineering and Technology, Medicine including Indian Systems of Medicine with special emphasis on Naturopathy, Agriculture, Vet. Sc., Environment etc.
 * Innovative solutions to the problems faced by the country and the people of India in any field.
 * Towards poverty alleviation – innovations to benefit the poor in a big way.