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Rajesh Saraiya (born 1969) is an industrialist and member of DICCI. ^[1]

He is considered as first Dalit billionaire of India.^[2]

Rajesh Saraiya is the CEO of Steel Mont Trading.Ltd, headquartered at Dusseldorf (Germany). It deals with steel trading, production, commodities and shipping. It has offices in London, Kyiv, Moscow, Istanbul, Dubai, Mumbai and Tianjin.

Rajesh Saraiya hails from Saraiya Sani village, Sitapur (U.P), grew up in Dehradun and studied Aeronautical science from Kyiv Institute of Civil Aviation, Ukraine

He was given the Pravasi Bharatiya Award in 2012 and the Padma Shri in 2014.

He is now the world's richest from the Dalit community

References

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^ Rajesh Saraiya, India's first Dalit billioniare
^ "Meet India's first Dalit billionaire". NDTV.com. Retrieved 24 May 2020.

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