Lala Kamlapat Singhania's Death Anniversary

Lala Kamlapat Singhania, who passed away on 31 May 1937, aged 52, in Kanpur, United Provinces, British India, was an Indian industrialist, who founded the J.K. Organisation, one of India's largest conglomerate companies. He was born to a Marwari Bania family in Kanpur, then part of the north-Western Provinces in British Raj. He was the founder of several companies which came under the umbrella of JK Organization. The first major business set up by him was a cotton mill with the name of Juggilal Kamlapat Cotton Spinning & Weaving Mills in 1921 which laid the foundation for JK Organisation.