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Diamonds Are Forever, Or Are Cars? Gujarat Merchant Gifts Mercedes To Three Trusted Employees
Swarajya Staff
Oct 26, 2018, 12:52 PM | Updated 12:52 PM IST
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Gujarat diamond merchant, Savji Dholakia has gifted Mercedes-Benz GLS 350d SUVs worth Rs 1 crore each, to three employees for completing 25 years of service in the company Economic Times has reported.
Dholakia said, “These three employees had joined the company when they were around 13 or 15 years old. They started with learning to cut diamonds and polish it and now they are not only experts but most senior and one of the most trusted people of our company.”
Mukesh Chandpara (38), Nilesh Jada (40) and Mahesh Chandpara (43), the three staffers who received Mercedes cars had joined the company in their teens.
The cars were gifted to the employees at a ceremony in Surat by Former Gujarat CM and Madhya Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel. According to reports, the company also handed over Rs 1 crore insurance cheques to the family members of its former staffer Dilip Savaliya, who died in a car accident this year.
In 2016, Dholakia gifted 1,260 cars and 400 flats to the deserving staff, in 2015 he rewarded 1,268 employees while in 2014, the Surat-based merchant gifted 500 flats, 525 pieces of diamond jewellery and 200 flats to his employees.
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