Sardar Inder Singh

Sardar Inder Singh (1890 -1983) was the leading sikh industrialist of India from the late fifties to his death in 1983.In 1928 he founded Indias first steel re rolling mill at Singh Engineering works kanpur and laid the foundation of the Secondary steel sector.Singh engineering went on to become a leading steel group and the largest Sikh owned industrial group in India.It set up many units and diversified by setting up North Indias largest railway wagon plant Singh Wagon Factory and becoming the largest manufacturer of Tie bars for the railways. He was an MLA from Punjab in undivided India (1946 to 1951) and later became a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha).The film Raid is based on a raid carried out on his group.[1][2]