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Shriram Group Combining community service and business to make India great

While the government plays a key role in offering people a better life, there is also an important role to be played by entrepreneurs and businesses. “We use money in order to create more productivity, more value, rather than for consumption purposes. I like to think that I work in order to make people’s lives better, to improve their lives and their families’ quality of living,” says R. Thyagarajan, founder of Shriram Group, one of the leading non-banking financial companies in India, which has played a key role in the

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