BHAVARLAL JAIN THE REAL CATALYST OF MANKIND

The man for whom ‘Work was life and life was work’ can also be connoted as ‘Son of the soil’ or
‘The farmers’ champion’, as well, who is none other than ‘Bhavarlal Jain’, founder Chairman of
Jain Irrigation Systems- which owned 30% in the Bombay Stock Exchange-listed firm, had featured
among India’s richest in with a fortune of more than $600 million. The second-largest microirrigation
company in the world, Jain Irrigation has revenues of over $1 billion, 30 factories and
supplies to 116 countries.
Known as “Bhau” or big brother, Jain was born in 1937 in a village in Maharashtra’s rural heartland
to a family of famers and petty traders. Contribution of parents and teachers, was immense in
shaping ‘Bhau’. Simplicity, courage, morals and ethical traits were imbibed in ‘Bhau’, since
childhood. Having bolder ambitions, he moved to what was then Bombay to study commerce and
law, after which he prepared to join the civil service. But his mother, who never went to school,
urged him to do something that would help the cattle and birds.