“My father was in the business of supplying hand pumps to rural villages,” the 51-year-old said in an interview. “He saw that access to electricity was sparse in those areas, so he started Premier Solar in 1995,” Saluja said.
A blockbuster year for initial public offerings in India catapulted seven entrepreneurs into the dollar billionaires league, many of them early movers in the country’s booming renewable energy sector.
Chiranjeev Singh Saluja of Premier Energies is among those who successfully rode the wave.
