By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR/BARBIL: Leading Mines Owner and KJS Ahluwalia Group Chairman, Kamaljit Singh Ahluwalia passed away at the age of 78. Kamaljit had hit headlines in 2010-11 FY, by filing a tax of Rs 95 Crore in Individual category while surpassing many bigwigs of India’s corporate and mining sectors.
Elder among of his brothers like Prashant Ahluwalia who looks after mining activities in Odisha, and Pawan Ahluwalia, who looks after cement plant in Madhya Pradesh, Kamaljit was considered one among influential mine owners under Joda-Koira circles of Keonjhar and Sundargarh mineral belt.
The KJSA Group under Kamaljit’s guidance clocked high annual turnover more than Rs 5000 crore. KJS Ahluwalia Group initially started with Iron ore & Manganese operations and thereafter diversified to Iron & Steel Plant, Power Plant, Cement Plant, Logistic & Transportation and also playing a vital role in Media (Sadhna News channel). Shri Jagannath Steels & Power Ltd, an Integrated Steel Plant with a Facility to Produce Primary Steel from Iron Ore Using State of Art Technology.
Ahluwalia Brothers played a key role in Odisha circle for about 4 decades from now but their running mining block were snatched away by Sajjan Jindal’s JSW Steel and Laxmi Mittal’s AMNS in first phase of mining auction in Odisha in 2020.
KJS Group was founded in 1971 by Kamaljeet Singh Ahluwalia, Chairman with mining operation in the state of Odisha. In four decades the group has now diversified into Cement, Prefabricated Concrete, TMT, Hotels & Resorts and Township Development. KJS Group with a strong network of over 1500 dealers across India from sectors of iron and steel, has planned to diversify into the sector of Cement by the name KJS Cement Ltd. and use the existing dealerships in penetrating into the markets.
