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Sajjan Jindal

Chairman, JSW Group

Search every verified Sajjan Jindal interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Sajjan Jindal, Chairman of JSW Group, was named Business Leader of the Year at The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence in December 2025. In a conversation published in October 2025, Jindal stated that his ambition is to become the world’s number one steel producer. He said he does not plan to retire and told his son that he will continue running the business. Jindal also described Prime Minister Modi as a “big picture man” and said he chose to enter the automobile business because India should rely on its own energy sources rather than imported fuel. In 2026, JSW Group held a groundbreaking ceremony for a 25 MTPA steel plant at its Vijayanagar Works, which Jindal described as the world’s largest steel plant at a single location. He said the target for completion is 24 months, referencing a Chinese record. In April 2026, JSW and JFE Steel inaugurated a 10 MTPA joint venture plant in Sambalpur, Odisha, which Jindal noted is JFE’s first integrated steel plant outside Japan. He said JSW is building four steel plants simultaneously in Odisha, which he called unprecedented globally. Jindal also commented on India’s energy policy, arguing the country should rely on solar, wind, coal, and nuclear power and criticized the difficulty of accessing government R&D funding.

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“Prime Minister Modi he's a big picture man you know when he announced uh Mumbai, Ahmedabad bullet train at that time there was a lot of criticism that where do we have 1 lakh cr why are we spending on this we should do but you know that one small sector of 500 km or 700 km will will change India we'll will propel the whole setting up of of these industries related to trains and the minute of highspeed connectivity of”

“There has not been a single Indian entrepreneur or Indian company which has made cars post independence... So I thought that this was a great moment to get into India to manufacture electric cars because India depends on imported fuel crude oil comes from Middle East and all over and now we seeing ever the problem have a care. So I thought that and whereas electricity is available in India we have our coal we have en”

“China's fight is not with India is they are fighting with United States and they they've made a very clear policy that we have to beat United States in whatever way they are doing. So so the only way you can beat United States any country can do well is to have a massive spend on R&D and issue is that in R&D you can you never know whether you win or you lose because till the end you don't know. So China took this ver”

“We as a large country cannot depend on LPG tanker is coming the ship has left and my dinner will be made cooked or restaurants will be running because LPG is coming. We can as a large country like India we cannot depend on that so what we need to do is very quickly we have to rely on the energy source especially of our own now what energy source do we have we have solar sun enough sun right we have wind, we have coal”

“We acquired Bushian power and steel in 2021. A sick unit of 2.75 million ton per annum. We turned it around with quick time into 4.5 million t steel plant employing 25,000 people. But we always knew this plant was built for more. This plant has potential to be one of the best steel plant in the world. With JF as our equal partner, we now commit to expand this to 10 million ton per annum in the first stage and then go”

“In steel itself, we are proposing on four sites simultaneously. Never ever this has happened anywhere in the world that any one group is building four steel plants at the same time in the same state. A green field plant of immense magnitude in Parad. Another green field project in Dhen canal. A third green field site in Kyanhar and the expansion of our capacity at Samalpur.”

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