Baba Kalyani
Baba Kalyani
Babasaheb Neelkanth Kalyani is an Indian businessman who served as the chairman and managing director of Bharat Forge, the flagship company of the Kalyani Group and the world's second-largest forgings manufacturer after ThyssenKrupp of Germany...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth7 January 1949
CountryIndia
I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.
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I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.
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I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.
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I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.
Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
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The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.
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The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.
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The advantage comes out of the capability of Indian engineers and the competitiveness of their capabilities and the cost at which they can create those capabilities.
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Subsidies on petroleum products and fertilizers should be phased out in a defined, time-bound manner. The resources that would get freed up could then be used to fund various social sector programmes in education, healthcare and other priority sectors.
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So far, the general perception, including the perception in India, was that we are not capable of using high technology. They simply refused to believe an Indian can do it! I somehow was not ready to accept that this is not possible.