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 Odhavji Raghavji Patel 

He is mentioned as "Father of Indian wall clocks".He is the founder of Ajanta Group. It is one of the biggest manufacturer of wall clocks in the world.

After his graduation in shamaldas college in Bhavnagar at the age of 19, he taught science and mathematics at v.c high school in morbi for a salary of about 55 rupees per month.

In the early 1960s, he joined the National Cadet Corps as a junior commissioned officer. The student-run programme, which provides basic armed forces training for back-up officers in the event of attack, allowed Patel to travel across the country and helped teach him discipline.

It all began in 1971 with the setting up of a small partnership firm “minimal funds, maximum partners”, Patel says—known as the Ajanta Transistor Clock Manufacturing Co.They began the business with Rs1 lakh in a rented premises, manufacturing magnetic clocks at Morbi with coil.

In 1974, different models and makes of clocks were introduced globally. Some used a steel strip, an import from Japan in those days. Patel felt the ingredient would change the way clock business would develop in the future and so he travelled to Japan and Taiwan with his elder son, Pravinbhai Patel, to bring the quartz technology to India. Thus Ajanta Quartz was born—the brand that made Patel’s company what it is.In 1990 and 1991, the clock manufacturing activity was further expanded by shifting the factory outside Morbi.

In 1996 he started ORPAT trust with 20 crore for development in Gujarat.

He employed 7000 people,5000 of them are women

He was died in 19-10-2012.