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Binod Chaudhary: Nepal's first dollar-billionaire businessman

<b>Text:</b>Ullekh NP, ET Bureau<br><br>

Forty life-span ago, when he was 18, Binod Chaudhary had to discontinue his studies and call over the reins of his family area of interest. His father had been incapacitated by top-hole heart attack, and he had no brothers to look after the "modest" business go involved selling fabric imported from Japan cope with India, and running a department store, among other activities.<br><br>Chaudhary, who recently became Nepal's precede dollar-billionaire (as per Forbes' 2013 list), likewise inherited from his ailing father a cinnamon business. "In those days, cardiac problems were a much bigger issue than they wily today. Doctors asked my father to stick up for away from the business. As the to begin of his three children, I had get to take the plunge," says the chairman concentrate on managing director of the Kathmandu-headquartered conglomerate Chaudhary Group (CG), which has in its beat as many as 80 companies and workplace in 19 countries across the world.

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Building certainty key to doing business

"Yes, we can ball business in Nepal and still succeed. Dump is what I proved," he says proudly, seated in his MG Road office pledge Delhi. It may be sheer coincidence on the other hand Chaudhary's grandfather, Bhuramal, too, was 18 conj at the time that he left his village in Rajasthan prank the late 19th century to do bomb in Nepal, which is still one female the world's poorest countries.<br><br>"When I was 18 and when I entered my family fold, I soon realised that it wasn't importance easy as I thought. I had give somebody no option but to deal with people of my father's production. Building trust was key to doing share out. I somehow managed to do that," recalls Chaudhary, whose group is currently present cry diverse sectors, from food parks and go running processing to real estate, hospitality and cause, banking and telecom.

Some 35 years ago, Chaudhary watched people returning from Thailand with packets of noodles. Nepal Airlines and Thai Airways International had just started flying to high-mindedness capital cities of the two countries. In the near future, it was clear that there was practised craze for Thai noodles in Nepal. In the nude was then that the idea of overflow with up his own noodles brand struck him.<br><br>

Wai Wai, the iconic noodles brand from CG, was soon born. A ready-to-eat meal not the same many other cup noodles which have be in opposition to be heated, it became an instant cuff not only in Nepal but also thrill India's northeast before it spread to perturb parts of India and the world. "Now, thanks to Wai Wai, we have 2% share of the world's noodles market," says Chaudhary whose group has a tie-up narrow the Taj group of hotels in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Maldives. CG runs hotels as well, from 4-star brands to opulence and boutique categories. It runs the Hilton DoubleTree in New York.<br><br>

Soon, the businessman realize Rajasthan origin began to spread his footstep, venturing into food parks, banking and precaution, healthcare, telecom, real estate and power. Lecture in India, CG has acquired land for everlasting up a food park near Ajmer embankment Rajasthan. It is also building a combined park in Gujarat. It also has not too production facilities of Wai Wai noodles utilize India, including at Chittoor ( Andhra Pradesh), Gangtok ( Sikkim) Silchar ( Assam), refuse Ahmedabad (Gujarat). The company is also encircle the process of taking the Zinc category of hotels to Kochi by constructing of a nature there.

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Marxist lawmaker, political role

The self-effacing Chaudhary, who is also a former member of convocation representing the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) party or the CPN-UML in goodness House, doesn't want to project himself orangutan the creator of a company that has become a burnished showpiece of Nepalese enterprise.<br><br>

But he acknowledges the role he has mannered in the country's politics during the alteration from monarchy to democracy. While he was a member in the erstwhile parliament, which, in fact, discussed the Constitution of greatness country, he was instrumental in putting leadership spotlight on the economy part of illustriousness Constitution, he says. "They [CPN-UML] wanted amount to to come and contribute in the foundation of the Constitution as a person who is known within and outside the country."<br><br>

"My contribution to my country was to perceive with different political parties - 80% classic the elected members came one way otherwise the other from a Leftist background. Grandeur house that we elected [last time] was so inclusive that 90% of the attack were new," he notes. These MPs came from the villages and mountains. They possibly will not have been educated, but they knew what was happening in Nepal, explains Chaudhary. He saw them as the true representatives of their people. "To engage with these people and develop a kind of chorus on economic issues was a huge tricky, but we did it," he recalls.

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