Baba Kalyani Age, Wife, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Full Name	Babasaheb Neelkanth Kalyani
Profession(s)	• Buisnessman • Philanthropist
Known For	Being the chairman and managing director of Bharat Forge, the Flagship company of the Kalyani Group
Physical Stats & More
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Salt and Pepper
Career
Awards	• 2004: CEO of the Year by the Business Standard group • 2005: Entrepreneur of the Year for Manufacturing by Ernst & Young • 2006: German Businessman of the Year by Business India Magazine • 2008: Padma Bhushan • 2009: Global Economy Prize for Business by Kiel Institute
Personal Life
Date of Birth	7 January 1949 (Friday)
Age (as of 2024)	75 Years
Birthplace	Pune
Zodiac sign	Capricorn
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Pune
School	• Rashtriya Military School, Belgaum • Dr. (Mrs.) Erin N. Nagarvala School (formerly National Model School), Pune
College/University	• BITS Pilani, India • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Educational Qualification(s)	• Bachelor's of Engineering (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani (1970) • Master's of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Controversy	Lawsuit within the family Baba Kalyani and his sister Sugandha Hiremath have been in a legal dispute over the shares of the family business since the 1990s. Sugandha claimed that Kalyani has not given her the ownership of the assets which were given to her by their father; however, Baba Kalyani refused all the claimes. In March 2024, Sugandha's children Sameer Jai Hiremath and Pallavi Anish Swadi filed a new lawsuit against Kalyani and other members of the Kalyani family to claim ownership on the assets of the Kalyani group. They asked the court to grant them their deserving shares in the family fortune or to sell the assets and give them the capital. [1]The Times of India
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Family
Wife/Spouse	Sunita B. Kalyani
Children	Son- Amit Kalyani Daughter- None
Parents	Father- Neelkanth Kalyani (Businessman; passed away in 2013) Mother- Sulochana Kalyani (Businesswoman)
Siblings	Brother- Gaurishankar Kalyani Sister- Sugandha Hiremath
Money Factor
Net Worth (approx.)	4.1 Billion Dollars [2]Forbes

Some Lesser Known Facts About Baba Kalyani

• Baba Kalyani belongs to a Veerashaiva Jangama family in Pune.

• After completing his formal education in the US, Baba Kalyani returned to India in 1972.

• In 1972, he started working at the Indian multinational forging, automotive, energy, construction and mining, railways, marine, aerospace and defence industries company Bharat Forge. Later, he decided to set up Kenersys Limited to promote a clean and emission-free environment.
  

  Baba Kalyani (centre) with the employees of the Kalyani Group

• Kenersys Limited manufactures numerous energy-efficient wind turbines for national and global markets. The company also has wind turbines in Maharashtra which produce green energy for the company’s own use.

• Baba Kalyani is also a part of the project which involves developing solar energy equipment for the non-conventional energy sector.

• He has been a board member of the Swedish bearing and seal manufacturing company SKF since 2011.

• In 2015,  under the chairmanship of Baba Kalyani, the Kalyani Group announced a joint venture with an Israeli defence technology company named Rafael Advanced Defense Systems of Israel.

• On 6 June 2018, the government of India made him the chairman of the task force specifically created to study the policies related to the Special Economic Zone (SEZ).

• Baba Kalyani is a philanthropist. In 2000, he set up an NGO named Pratham Pune Education Foundation based in Pune, which aimed to provide primary education to children in the country’s under-privileged sections.

• In February 2020, under his leadership, Forge Limited signed a memorandum of understanding with an American firm named General Atomics to develop and integrate power generation, storage, control and distribution technologies to surface and underwater naval platforms.

• Forge Limited has also signed a memorandum of understanding with DASTAN Corp. of Kyrgyzstan to manufacture torpedoes with advanced homing heads for ship-borne and submarine platforms for the use of the Indian Navy.

• In 2023, Forbes listed Baba Kalyani as the 55th richest man in India and in 2024 he was listed as the 775 position in the world’s billionaires list. ^[3]Forbes

• He owns the Indian Football team named Bharat Football Club.

• In 2023, he was removed as the chairman of the Forges Group after a shareholder vote.

• In 2024, Forbes announced Kalyani Group’s annual revenue to be around 3 billion dollars.