MDH owner passed away at 97
The owner of MDH Masala, Dharampal Gulati passed away today in the morning. He was 97. According to the report, Gulati was undergoing medication at a hospital in Delhi for the last three weeks. He suffered a cardiac arrest on Thursday morning. He breathed his last at 5:30 am today.
Fondly called 'dalaji' and 'Mahashay Ji', Dharampal Gulati was born in 1923 in Sialkot, Pakistan. A school dropout, Dharampal Gulati joined his father's spice industry in the early days. After partition in 1947, Dharampal Gulati shifted to India and lived at a refugee camp in Amritsar. He then walked to Delhi and opened a store in Delhi's Karol Bagh. Gulati officially founded the company in 1959. The company did not just flourish in India only but he became a distributor and exporter. His company sends abroad Indian spices to various parts of the world including the UK, Europe, UAE, Canda, etc.
He was awarded by the government In 2019, with the Padma Bhushan Award, the third-highest civilian award in the country.According to MDH Masala, Dharampal Gulati invested nearly 90 per cent of his salary to charity. He was India's highest-paid consumer products CEO for the year 2017. He had taken home over Rs 21 crore as salary, outearning celebrity honchos like Adi Godrej and Vivek Gambhir of Godrej Consumer, Sanjiv Mehta of Hindustan Unilever and YC Deveshwar of ITC in the year 2017.
According to the records of six decades, he had once told ET that "My courage to work is being honest in product quality sold at convenient prices. And nearly 90% of my income goes to a charity ".
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