Amalner - a city of millionaires, thanks to Wipro

Published on Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 08:54 |  Source : CNBC-TV18

Updated at Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 15:16  

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Companies are known to make shareholders a part of their growth story. CNBC-TV18's George Koshy brings the story of a company that's changed the existence of people in a tiny hamlet near Maharashtra.

 

60 kms from Jalgaon in Maharashtra, Amalner could be any other little town in India, with it's own small-town gossip and lanes and homes that are more than 250 years old, something that demand a historical antique value in itself. And now, add to it a set of millionaires who have this company to thank for their current status. The story of someone like Arvind Ramchandra and his wife Kapila, who's chance discovery of the value of these sheets of paper his father had left behind in their name turning around their debt infested lives, forever.

 

Arvind Ramchandra, a farmer in Amalner said, "We were truly going through difficult times and a friend of mine told me, 'hey, you are a rich man'. I couldn't believe my ears. Then a broker explained to me the true value."

 

And it's not an isolated incident here at Wipro

  

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