RESPECTFUL HOMAGE
To our beloved Chairman
Shri Gopal Das Bangur, Chairman of Joonktollee Tea & Industries Limited, passed
away on 8th June, 2015. His untimely demise has created a vacuum which is hard
to fill.
The Bangur Group under the legendary leadership of Mugneeram Bangur had its powerful
successors who built up corporate empires and Gopal Das Bangur, great grandson of late
Mugneeram Bangur and son of late Purushottam Dass Bangur, was one of them. Gopal Dasji,
who learnt the ropes of business under his father late Purushottam Dass Bangur, had
developed his entrepreneurial skills in the various group industries. He was actively
involved in overseeing the Group's diverse business such as Jute, Cement, Chemicals,
Engineering, Textiles and Real Estates. He started taking keen interest too in the
business of Tea, Coffee, Rubber, in late eighties; actively participated in plantation
activities of the Company and made significant contribution to the growth of the Company.
Under his stewardship Joonktollee grew its presence from a single tea garden to
multi-garden, multi-product and geographically diversified Company. Despite his
outstanding accomplishments and aptitude, he was one of the most humble and down-to-earth
person. He was a generous man and a philanthropist, contributed a lot towards welfare of
the society. He will be profoundly missed by all of us.