| Facts | - He was born in a family of teachers in a small town of Alwar, Rajasthan.
- Since his school days, he developed an interest in science.
- After attaining his master’s degree in Chemistry, he harbored an ambition to become a teacher at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani.
- In the early 1960s, he moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) with his wife.
- For a few years, he worked in a British pharmaceutical company named “May and Baker.”
- He started Lupin Pharmaceutical borrowing his wife’s savings, which became India’s 2nd biggest pharma company globally.
- In October 1988, he set up Lupin Human Welfare and Research Foundation (LHWRF) to eradicate poverty from India.
- He was a practitioner of Vipassana meditation and was a trustee of the Global Vipassana Foundation.
- Gupta was the chairman of ISKCON, Juhu Temple.
- Received various awards including Lifetime Achievement Award and Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
- In 2015, Forbes listed him as the world’s 25th richest person with a net worth of $7.2 billion.
- He worked as an associate professor at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
- He started Lupin Pharmaceutical in 1968 borrowing his wife’s savings of Rs 5,000, which became India’s 2nd biggest pharma company globally.
- He founded Lupin Limited in 1968 with a startup capital of Rs 5000 borrowed from his wife Manju; the first office was a rented premises in Central Mumbai for dispatching medicines.
- With a loan of Rs 8 lakh from Central Bank of India, he started a factory whose major order was to provide iron and folic acid tablets to Government of India programs for mother and child healthcare.
- Under his leadership, Lupin became a global pharmaceutical company entering markets including the US and Japan.
- He received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2011 in the healthcare sector and Frost & Sullivan Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.
- At the time of his death, his net worth was estimated at US$3.6 billion.
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