Jaidayal Dalmia

Jaidayal Dalmia (1904–1993) was one leading industrialists and philanthropists of India. He was one of the co-founders of Dalmia Group and younger brother of Ramkrishna Dalmia

Jaidayal Dalmia was born on 11 December 1904 in small village of Chirawa in Rajasthan.

He started his education in Calcutta and learned Bangla. Later on, after moving to Chirawa he studied till matriculation.

He learned his business from his elder brother and played a major role in establishing Dalmia Industries and later founded Dalmia Cements in 1935, which is now run by his sons and grandsons.

In the year 1932–33 Ramkrishna along with a businessman from Bihar Nirmalkumar Jain started a sugar mill, Jaidayal was appointed to look after the mill, with his keen interest and dedication he got the mill commissioned within short span of 1 year. Within a year one more sugar mill, Rohtas Industries Ltd was started near Dehri-on-sone at Dalmianagar. Jaidayal supported his elder brother in all his ventures and showed immense interest in the business. Later on, Dehri-on-sone was named .

In few years Ramkrishna and Jaidayal established six cement factories in, Dandot, Shantinagar, Dalmiapuram, Rajgangpur, Jind and one more factory in Karachi. Jaidayal played a major role in getting the machinery from Europe. He imported improved technology, which not only make his competitor's technology obsolete, he also forced Danish to reduce their price of exporting Wet Process Technology in India.

With wide interest in machinery, Jaidayal Dalmia played major role in technical functions of all the factories in Dalmianagar and other plants as well. Soon after establishing the Rajgangpur factory called Orissa Cements. Jaidayal later started fire bricks refractory in Rourkela in the year 1954.

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