Sharayu Daftary
{{Short description|Indian industrialist}}
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| birth_date = 1933
| birth_place = Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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| occupation = Industrialist
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| spouse = Arvind Gaurishankar Daftary
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| children = Three daughters
| parents = Lalchand Hirachand
Lalitabai
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| awards = Padma Shri
Jain Ratna Award
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Sharayu Daftary is an Indian industrialist and a former president of the Indian Merchants' Chamber (IMC), the first elected president of the organization.{{cite web | url=http://www.jainsamaj.org/rpg_site/literature2.php?id=3948&cat=44 | title=Ms. Sharayu Daftary about the Jain influence | publisher=Jain Samaj | date=2015 | accessdate=26 November 2015}} She is the first woman president of the Automotive Components Manufacturers Association and the first woman to sit in the executive committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). She is the founder of Bharat Radiators Limited and the president of the Dakshin Bharat Jain Sabha.{{cite web | url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/two-jain-sects-battle-over-control-of-bahubali-dongar-hilltop-in-maharashtra/1/361278.html | title=Battle for Bahubali | publisher=India Today | date=15 January 1984 | accessdate=26 November 2015}} The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2004, for her contributions to the Indian industry.{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | accessdate=21 July 2015 | archive-date=15 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }}
Biography
Sharayu Daftary, née Sharayu Hirachand Doshi, was born in 1933,{{cite web | url=http://www.uppercrustindia.com/ver2/showpage.php?pagetitle=Time%20for%20Pickle%20Making&postid=369 | title=Time for Pickle Making | publisher=Upper Crust India | date=2015 | accessdate=26 November 2015}} in a rich Mumbai business family to Lalitabai and Lalchand Hirachand,{{cite web | url=http://jainsamaj.org/rpg_site/literature2.php?id=991&cat=62 | title=Seth Lalchand Hirachand | publisher=Jain Samaj | date=2015 | accessdate=26 November 2015}} a Padma Shri awardee and the brother of Walchand Hirachand,{{cite web | url=http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-mom-has-always-been-a-friend-1224740 | title=Mom has always been a friend | publisher=DNA Syndicate | date=24 January 2009 | accessdate=26 November 2015}} the founder of Walchand Group and one of the pioneers of Indian industry.{{cite web | url=http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/ZDEEFM8jFmqTnv48vAScoM/The-conscientious-rich-are-a-vanishing-breed.html | title=The conscientious rich are a vanishing breed | publisher=Live Mint | date=23 October 2008 | accessdate=26 November 2015}} She graduated in Economics (BA) from Elphinstone College, Mumbai and married Arvind Gaurishankar Daftary at the age of 19. She was denied entry into the family business as women were not allowed by tradition, and she founded Bharat Radiators Limited, an auto parts manufacturing concern, with a capital of {{INR}}200,000 and five workers, in 1958 when she was only 25{{cite web | url=http://travel.cnn.com/mumbai/play/bombay-and-mumbai-tale-two-cities-161445 | title=Bombay Then - Mumbai Now | publisher=CNN TRavel | date=28 January 2010 | accessdate=26 November 2015}} and has been the managing director of the business ever since.
Daftary has been active in the Indian industrial scene and when she was elected as the president of the Automotive Components Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA) in 1971, she became the first woman to elected to the post. She also had the distinction of being the first woman president of the Indian Merchants' Chamber (IMC) (1981){{cite web | url=http://www.imcnet.org/aboutus/milestones/page/4 | title=IMC Milestones | publisher=Indian Merchants Chamber | date=2015 | accessdate=26 November 2015}} and the first woman to be selected as a member of the executive committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). She would preside over the IMC for second time, in 2000.{{cite web | url=http://m.gulfnews.com/news/uae/general/negative-response-to-holidays-for-fleet-review-1.415057 | title=Negative response to holidays for fleet review | publisher=Gulf News | date=11 February 2001 | accessdate=26 November 2015}} A Jain by birth, she is the president of the Dakshin Bharat Jain Sabha and is the editor of Jain Bodhak, a fortnightly magazine founded by her grand father and the mouthpiece of Jain community.
Daftary is a recipient of the Jain Ratna Award of the Jain Samaj and has been awarded the civilian honour of the 2004 Padma Shri by the Government of India. The Daftary couple has three daughters,{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Another-sister-act/articleshow/33178264.cms | title=Another sister act | newspaper=Times of India | date=2 January 2003 | accessdate=26 November 2015}} the eldest daughter, Czaee Shah, is a restaurateur, Gauri Pohomal is an entrepreneur and philanthropist and the youngest, Kavita Khanna, is a homemaker and was married to actor Vinod Khanna.{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/delhi-times/the-uncensored-vinod-khanna/articleshow/17277243.cms |title=The uncensored Vinod Khanna|newspaper=The Times of India|date=27 July 2002|accessdate=26 November 2015}} Saryu Doshi, the renowned art historian and Padma Shri awardee, is her sister-in-law, by marriage to her brother, Vinod Doshi.{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/oct/07doshi.htm|title=Industrialist Vinod Doshi passes away|publisher=Rediff India|date=7 October 2008|accessdate=26 November 2015}}
See also
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References
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Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in trade and industry
Category:Businesspeople from Mumbai
Category:Businesswomen from Maharashtra
Category:Indian industrialists
Category:20th-century Indian businesspeople