The Kirloskar Group (consisting of Kirloskar Brothers, Kirloskar Oil Engines, Kirloskar Ferrous Industries, Kirloskar Copeland, Kirloskar Pneumatic Company, Kirloskar Ebara and SPP Pumps (UK)) is India's largest Engineering Conglomerate with sales exceeding $1 Billion. The Kirloskar Group today exports to over 70 countries and has a brand name to reckon with, especially within India and over most of Africa, South East Asia and Eastern Europe. The flagship company, Kirloskar Brothers Limited established in 1888, is India's largest maker of Pumps and Valves, it is headed by Mr. Sanjay Kirloskar.

Shantanu Laxmanrao Kirloskar was the man behind the creation of the Kirloskar Group. In May 2003, the then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee released a commemorative postage stamp on Late Shantanu Laxmanrao Kirloskar. This article needs to be wikified. ... 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → A timeline of events in the news for May, 2003. ... The Prime Minister of India is, in practice, the most powerful person in the government of India. ... Atal Bihari Vajpayee (often wrongly spelt Behari; अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी in Devnagari) (born December 25, 1924) was the Prime Minister of India in 1996 and again from October 13, 1998 until May 19, 2004. ...

S.L. Kirloskar was a man who transformed his vision into a promising and thinking reality, of application of appropriate technology, customer satisfaction and dauntless integrity .SLK was a global thinker who had the courage and the confidence in his own country even in the pre-independence era.

He often said, "Economic preparedness is as vital as military preparedness." He always looked at India as a part of the rest of the world and struggled to make India globally competitive - that was his spirit of patriotism.

He created an empire that enjoyed one of the highest growth rates in Indian history, a staggering 32,401% growth of assets from 1950-1991.

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