Savitaben Parmar

Savitaben Parmar
Other namesSavitaben Kolsawallah
OccupationEntrepreneur

Savitaben Parmar is an Indian social entrepreneur from Ahmedabad, India. She is known for starting a successful business despite her background of poverty and caste discrimination as a member of the Dalit community. Her biography was profiled as one of the fifteen stories in Dalit Millionaires: 15 Inspiring Stories.

Biography

Parmar lives in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. She belongs to a Dalit community. Her husband worked as a bus conductor.[1]

Parmar began her business career to support her family due to financial constraints.[2] She initially gathered and sold half-burnt coals (cinders) discarded by textile mills in Ahmedabad, a trade which earned her the name "Savitaben Kolsawala" (Savitaben the coal-seller).[3][4] She eventually expanded her operations from trading coal to manufacturing.[1] She established a business producing ceramic tiles in 1991, which grew into a profitable enterprise.[5] As of 2015, her tile manufacturing business had an annual turnover of ₹50 crore and employed over 200 people.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Breaking the Barriers". India Today. 30 April 1994. Retrieved 17 November 2025.
  2. ^ "Business unusual". The Hindu. 7 May 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  3. ^ "Inspiring stories of Dalit millionaires". Business Standard. 6 May 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  4. ^ Khandekar 2013, Chapter 5.
  5. ^ "Woman started with selling coal now owns a huge business empire. What does it take?". BookOfAchievers. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  6. ^ वर्गीज, Anil Varghese अनिल (14 October 2015). "Fighting the Brahmin and Baniya raj". Forward Press. Retrieved 19 November 2025.

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