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The Net Worth Of The Lijjat Papad Founder: How 7 Women Wrote An Incredible Success Story With Only ₹80

You must have seen the advertisement of Lijjat Papad on DD News in your childhood. Although now its advertisement is not seen on TV, but even today Lijjat papad is easily available in the market. And you must have eaten this papad too, but do you know that Lijjat papad is also the product of a cooperative movement like Amul milk? Thousands of people have also made Lijjat Papad Company stand together.

In the year 1959, 7 Gujarati women started the business of Lijjat Papad with 80 rupees. Their first day’s profit was 50 paise. At that time, 50 paise was a huge amount for 07 women in terms of daily wages. After this, slowly this thing spread like fire among women and other women started joining in this work. The seven women were Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat, Parvatiben Ramdas Thodani, Ujamben Narandas Kundalia, Banuben. N. Tanna, Laguben Amritlal Gokani, Jayaben V. Vithalani, and Diwaliben Lukka.

Below we are discussing the main person of this successful business.

Know Something About Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat

Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat is an Indian businesswoman and one of the founders of Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad. She was involved in the manufacturing of various fast-moving consumer goods. On January 26, 2021, the Government of India gave her India’s fourth-highest civilian award the Padma Shri in Trade and Industry category.

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Personal information

Name- Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat
Born- 1930 (age 92–93)
Occupation- Entrepreneur
Year’s active- 1959―present
Organization- Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad
Known for- Founder of Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad
Awards- Padma Shri, (2021)

Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat Networth

She started the company with ₹80 (US$1.00) and now has a turnover of over ₹1,600 crore (US$200 million). Now her organization has employed nearly 45,000 women. They have sold more than 5.5 billion papads till now.

After reading this blog, you will have a basic idea about the success story of 7 women. To know more information about them, below we have listed some video links: