Naveen Jindal

Naveen Jindal is an Indian industrialist, politician and philanthropist, born in Hisar, Haryana, in 1970. He chairs Jindal Steel and Power, which he took over at its Raigarh and Raipur operations in 1993 after his father, Om Prakash Jindal, founded the steel and power conglomerate. The company has set up captive power plants that generate electricity from waste products of sponge iron making. Jindal set up what is described as the first coal-gasification based steelmaking plant, at Angul in Odisha, which turns locally available high-ash coal into synthesis gas and so reduces dependence on imported coking coal. He argues that coal gasification has great potential for India, where non-coking coal is abundant. He has also sat in the Lok Sabha as a member of parliament since 2004.