Career
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for his service to society in 2000. The Somaiya Vidyavihar educational campus in Mumbai and several colleges in this campus are named after him. Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya, born on 16 May 1902 in the remote village of Malunjar in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, India.
Karamshi, after completing school at the New High School in Mumbai (now the Bharda New High School) went back to his hometown in Ahmednagar.
Karamshi Somaiya engaged in looking after his father"s small grocery business, would travel from village to village selling groceries and booking orders. In the 1939 Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya launched 2 sugar factories – in Sakarwadi and in Lakshmiwadi to mark the launch of his own sugar business.
He soon came to be known as the Sugar King of India. Karamshi became a partner in a leading sugar trading firm of Shobachand Ramnarayan Kothod of Shrirampur in Ahmednagar district.
The Deccan canals were commissioned by the Government of India.
He was the President of the Deccan Sugar Factories Association, the President of the Deccan Sugar Technologists Association.
