The Nanda Saga
By Ramesh Kumar #
Circa 1947. The most important year in the annals of sub-continent history with the British bifurcating the hitherto undivided India into two thus giving birth to Pakistan and India before handing over the nation to the natives for self-rule after two centuries of foreign rule. Like many other Hindus, the Nandas of Lyallpur (the present Faislabad) fled to India leaving everything behind: arable land and the transport business to be precise.
In the summer of 2011, 81-year old Om Prakash Nanda,* one of the senior-most surviving members of the indomitable Nanda clan, walks down the memory lane: “How can one forget the past? It was horrible. The Ravi (river) was in a spate around that time. Our joint family vacated Lyallpur and took shelter in a DAV camp where we were allocated some work to keep ourselves busy and useful to all.” Hindu families were sent to India in batches.
The Nanda clan – seven brothers and three sisters – waited their turn (See Chart: The Family Tree). Nanda senior, Ram Lal Nanda, was the first arrive in Amritsar. On December 3, 1947, the entire family regrouped at the paternal uncle’s place in Ambala for a short while before shifting base to Karol Bagh in Delhi. Yashpal Nanda, the eldest, took charge of the family affairs. Given the family’s interest in transport business back in the then undivided India where they ran Nanda Bus Service in Lyallpur and around, they decided to explore the same strength in Delhi of 1947. “One of our uncles used to run New Surai Transport Company in Lyallpur and that is where we developed a taste for this business,” fondly recollects the septuagenarian Om Prakash Nanda.
Without any loss of time, the family began to test their business skills in young Independent India. Yashpal Nanda set up an old car sales depot in Scindia House selling Fiat, Ambassador, Chevrolet, etc. while Anand Swarup Nanda began selling items for the Indian Railways. Om Prakash Nanda quietly became a bus conductor in Gwalior National Transport Company to keep the body and soul together. The rest of the clan was still very young. After two years, he joined Delhi Transport Company as a bus conductor.
“Somehow, my heart was not in it. The fire to be our own masters did not die down,” says Om Prakash Nanda. As luck would have it a casual visit to Palia – 93 km away from Shahjahanpur and perched at the Indo-Nepal border town in Uttar Pradesh – by uncle Awasthi Ramji to meet one of his friends, Mukti Ramji, changed their future helping them rewrite a new history.
Visiting Pallia, a godforsaken place but awash with sugarcane and oilseed fields in the 1950s convinced the Nandas to explore new business avenues – particularly in agriculture and transport. “It was a jungle with no proper roads. Lions and tigers roamed the fields. But we sensed the business potential,” adds Om Prakash Nanda. Under directions and blessings from his eldest brother Yashpal Nanda, he began shuttling between Delhi and Pallia though his heart was not in favor of Pallia given the pathetic living conditions. Young Om Prakash Nanda used to sleep on trucks under tarpaulin covers. Two things the Nandas decided to do: cart sugarcane to nearby cities and towns on trucks and ferry passengers to surrounding towns, hitherto unheard of in Pallia. No doubt, this was happening in fits and starts.
Soon, Goverdhan Lal Nanda, popularly known as ‘Godh’ and eight years junior to Om Prakash Nanda, was asked to proceed to Pallia. By then he had completed his schooling in Delhi and ready to plunge into the family business. With both brothers permanently stationed in Pallia from 1958 onwards, the horizon began to expand. Anything and everything – including mud – was transported by them. Government orders started pouring in. Their tractors also begin to make inroads and were much in demand among the Pallia farmers.
By the late 1950s, the Nanda brothers started a regular Bus and Truck service: Pallia to Khajuria, a nearby town. Now that they became adept working under their uncle’s company in Pallia, it was felt the time was ripe to launch their own. Fourteen years after being uprooted from Lyallpur, on October 2, 1961, Pallia Transport Company came into existence with the blessings of the eldest brother Yashpal Nanda. They began the business with two buses and five trucks. As they say, the rest is history. By then, Satish Kumar Nanda was also sent in from Delhi to assist his elder brothers in managing the business.
Like the Partition, the 1962 Chinese war came as a blessing in disguise for the Nandas. Roads came up in double quick time for strategic purposes and as a result, the business of transportation of both goods and passengers became more enticing. “Our first, six-tonne Tata truck bought at Rs.26,000 came with an Rs.200 discount” recollects Om Prakash Nanda. The Nanda trio evenly distributed their work among themselves: Om Prakash Nanda led the team as the founder of Pallia Transport Company with a complete focus on business development; Govardhan Lal Nanda handled administration leaving the financial management to Satish Kumar Nanda. Their business was growing exponentially: they got iinto cultivating oilseeds, sugarcane, grains, etc, and managing a fleet ferrying passengers and goods in and around Pallia. Simultaneously, Yashpal Nanda set up Cargo Motors, the topmost Tata dealership firm, and guided them as a true patriarch of the Nanda parivar.
Twenty years after Pallia Transport Company was established, the Nanda family became large and decided to move out to pursue their own respective agenda. Even the next generation was ready to take charge. In 1981, the Om Prakash Nanda family moved to Lucknow and then to Delhi, and the Satish Kumar Nanda branch shifted to Delhi. The Goverdhan Lal Nanda branch, however, decided to stick with the Pallia Transport Company brand though they also migrated to Delhi. One thing, nevertheless, remained unchanged for the Nanda parivar: their love affair with ‘transportation’ business.
On return to Delhi, Govardhan Lal Nanda, under the benign guidance and blessings of his eldest brother, Yashpal Nanda, looked after the transport of the entire CKD transportation of Maruti Udyog Limited from the Kandla port on the western coast of India to Gurgaon in northern India where it was assembling in the early days. “Somehow, we could not disconnect from Pallia,” says Vipul Nanda, son of Goverdhan Lal Nanda who was the Chairman and Managing Director of Pallia Transport Company after the business split. Significantly, Vipul is the only Nanda to be born in Pallia.
The advent of ‘people’s car’ viz., Maruti Suzuki in the 1980s, coinciding with their arrival in the Indian capital enabled them to focus on finished vehicle transport business. The growing popularity of Maruti among Indian masses boosted business. Until his father’s demise in 1998, the Nainital-educated Vipul played second fiddle to him.
At that time, Puneesh Nanda was in charge of the other business started by Govardhan Lal Nanda. He ran the Karnal car dealership for Daewoo Motors under the banner of Pallia Automobiles, until it was forcibly shut down due to extraneous reasons. Then Puneesh started a travel and car rental business which he is still carrying on.
With his brother Puneesh moving out, Vipul became the real head of Pallia Transport Company, supported by his wife, Puja. “Our board meetings used to be held in bedroom mostly,” says the present Chairman and Managing Director of Pallia Transport Company. A close-knit group of friends – Rajiv Chauhan, Sanjay Bansal, Anand Khattar, Vikash Gupta – also threw their collective weight behind Vipul in helping him pursue his dreams.
In 2003, Vipul sensed a fresh business opportunity and decided to throw his weight behind Mahindra & Mahindra, which was making a big foray into the passenger vehicle segment beyond the jeeps they were famous for. The gamble paid off handsomely with M&M emerging as one of the topmost players in the automotive segment. By a quirk of fate, Vipul and a clutch of his friends with interest in wine were touring Italy on a wine tasting tour. That is when a casual interaction with Mercurio of Italy, a renowned European 3PL player in the automotive segment, led to the formation of a joint venture under the banner of Mercurio Pallia Logistics Private Limited. “In a way, the wine search brought the biggest break,” says Vipul, father of Jishnu and Naman.
Mercurio Pallia Logistics, in the shortest possible time, has grown by leaps and bounds: today, it handles finished vehicle logistics of every single automotive OEM in India: Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai Motors, Honda-Siel, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Nissan, Toyota, Fiat,, etc. In 2011, the Indo-Italian joint venture transformed into an Indo-French joint venture. This followed the induction of Gefco, the fully owned subsidiary of Peugeot of France and specialized in both inbound and outbound logistics in the automotive segment, becoming a joint venture partner in the Indian company. This transpired with
Gefco buying Mercurio across the globe and the French auto giant was exploring to set up a grassroots automobile manufacturing plant in the world’s second booming automobile market. Hence, the Gefco entry into India via Mercurio Pallia Logistics to handle its finished vehicle movement as and when the plant comes up made perfect business sense. It was the only Indian company with such a rich 3PL automotive logistics experience as equity partners at a time when the Indian automotive segment is expected to grow exponentially.
Subsequently, Peugeot sold its stake in Gefco to the Russian Railways in a major corporate restricting exercise, thus enabling Mercurio Pallia Logistics to turn into an Indo-Russian joint venture. However, Gefco continued to manage the joint venture at the behest of the Russian joint venture partners. Vipul continued to be on the board with a minority equity stake in Mercurio Pallia Logistics.
In a new twist, Gefco-Russian Railways decided to quit India to pursue their own business goals, and perhaps they found the Indian market not attractive enough for them. Hence in September 2019, Vipul Nanda acquired full control of the company and regained its original name: Pallia Transport Company after almost six decades of its inception. With eldest son Jishnu, fresh from Symbiosys of Pune with a degree, Vipul inducted him into the now fully family-owned company along with his spouse, Puja.
Vipul Nanda, ungrudgingly, acknowledges the total support he received from Citicorp Finance when he began dreaming big. “They believed in my blueprint and backed me to the hilt,” adds he.
Vipul, meanwhile, founded along with several transporters the Car Carrier Association in 2015 to sort out of the most niggling business challenges. Despite car carriers have been in existence since the early 1980s following the advent of Maruti Suzuki which heralded the arrival of multi-car transportation from automobile manufacturing plants to dealer points across the length and breadth of India, the movement of car carrier vehicles faced a major challenge on the Indian highways. The then existing legislation under the CMVR norms of the Motor Vehicles Act has no mention of articulated car carriers and therefore almost all state governments fleeced them citing CMVR norm violations, which was making a huge dent on the business of car carrier owners. As CCA’s maiden President, he lobbied hard with the central government to get this ticklish issue sorted out with a thorough field study authorized by the government followed by the government notification in 2016(?). Thus, he successfully managed to get the much-desired legal status for articulated car carriers for the first time.
Simultaneously, Vipul decided to branch out into a new business territory. Sensing the growing awareness and governmental push for green mobility to fight the life-snapping carbon emission particularly from the motorized passenger cars, he floated a new company under the banner of EEE, electric cab service to usher in emission-free electric cab service for corporate in a business-to-business model in select cities, with two partners. Jishnu joined this business enterprise soon after his degree.
Currently, this electric cab business with 100 plus fleet, services the National Capital Region (NCR), Hyderabad, and Bangalore. For the first time, this company also introduced women drivers to promote gender diversity. Significantly, the Anglo-Dutch giant Shell has infused equity in this company as a strategic investment partner to boost green mobility in June 2020. As of today, EEE is the only Indian electric cab service company that attracted the Shell equity infusion. Indeed, an endorsement of Nanda clan’s business acumen.
The Nandas came from Lyallpur with empty pockets as refugees. Today, they are one of the richest in the transport logistics business. Pallia Transport Company continues to rule the roost in that once sleepy town of Pallia. It continues to transport sugarcane, sugar, grain, etc. However, it has discontinued its Passenger Bus Service. However, as a show of his affection for Pallia, Vipul continues to own a vast stretch of arable land and do farming there. Besides he is also running a dedicated fleet for the leading sugar manufacturer of Pallia viz., Bajaj Hindusthan Limited’s inbound and outbound logistics even today.
The contribution of Nanda brothers – Om Prakash, Goverdhan Lal, and Satish Kumar under the dynamic leadership and blessing of the eldest Yashpal Nanda – made to the sugarcane-rich Pallia belt in Uttar Pradesh is remembered with a lot of affection and nostalgia even today. It is the Nandas’ sheer dent of hard work, genuine concern for all, and honest trade practices that have made them the most trusted and honored transport company.
Indeed, it was a long journey: from Lyallpur to New Delhi to Pallia. Over 60 long years. Eventful with rich experience. Of course, it is time for celebrations. And it is also time to pencil a fresh blueprint to conquer new territories. One thing is crystal clear: nothing is impossible if one nurse a dream and pursues that dream to translate that into a reality. Change is inevitable. What’s in store in the future, nobody knows. The Nandas were adventurers. The clan’s new green shoots have entered the arena to carry on the torch into the unknown, but bright future.
—
Note:
# This article was written by the author in his maiden book 10,000KM on Indian Highways published on November 18, 2011 commemorating the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Pallia Transport Company.
*Om Prakash Nanda left for the heavenly abode in 2013.
By Ramesh Kumar #
Circa 1947. The most important year in the annals of sub-continent history with the British bifurcating the hitherto undivided India into two thus giving birth to Pakistan and India before handing over the nation to the natives for self-rule after two centuries of foreign rule. Like many other Hindus, the Nandas of Lyallpur (the present Faislabad) fled to India leaving everything behind: arable land and the transport business to be precise.
In the summer of 2011, 81-year old Om Prakash Nanda,* one of the senior-most surviving members of the indomitable Nanda clan, walks down the memory lane: “How can one forget the past? It was horrible. The Ravi (river) was in a spate around that time. Our joint family vacated Lyallpur and took shelter in a DAV camp where we were allocated some work to keep ourselves busy and useful to all.” Hindu families were sent to India in batches.
The Nanda clan – seven brothers and three sisters – waited their turn (See Chart: The Family Tree). Nanda senior, Ram Lal Nanda, was the first arrive in Amritsar. On December 3, 1947, the entire family regrouped at the paternal uncle’s place in Ambala for a short while before shifting base to Karol Bagh in Delhi. Yashpal Nanda, the eldest, took charge of the family affairs. Given the family’s interest in transport business back in the then undivided India where they ran Nanda Bus Service in Lyallpur and around, they decided to explore the same strength in Delhi of 1947. “One of our uncles used to run New Surai Transport Company in Lyallpur and that is where we developed a taste for this business,” fondly recollects the septuagenarian Om Prakash Nanda.
Without any loss of time, the family began to test their business skills in young Independent India. Yashpal Nanda set up an old car sales depot in Scindia House selling Fiat, Ambassador, Chevrolet, etc. while Anand Swarup Nanda began selling items for the Indian Railways. Om Prakash Nanda quietly became a bus conductor in Gwalior National Transport Company to keep the body and soul together. The rest of the clan was still very young. After two years, he joined Delhi Transport Company as a bus conductor.
“Somehow, my heart was not in it. The fire to be our own masters did not die down,” says Om Prakash Nanda. As luck would have it a casual visit to Palia – 93 km away from Shahjahanpur and perched at the Indo-Nepal border town in Uttar Pradesh – by uncle Awasthi Ramji to meet one of his friends, Mukti Ramji, changed their future helping them rewrite a new history.
Visiting Pallia, a godforsaken place but awash with sugarcane and oilseed fields in the 1950s convinced the Nandas to explore new business avenues – particularly in agriculture and transport. “It was a jungle with no proper roads. Lions and tigers roamed the fields. But we sensed the business potential,” adds Om Prakash Nanda. Under directions and blessings from his eldest brother Yashpal Nanda, he began shuttling between Delhi and Pallia though his heart was not in favor of Pallia given the pathetic living conditions. Young Om Prakash Nanda used to sleep on trucks under tarpaulin covers. Two things the Nandas decided to do: cart sugarcane to nearby cities and towns on trucks and ferry passengers to surrounding towns, hitherto unheard of in Pallia. No doubt, this was happening in fits and starts.
Soon, Goverdhan Lal Nanda, popularly known as ‘Godh’ and eight years junior to Om Prakash Nanda, was asked to proceed to Pallia. By then he had completed his schooling in Delhi and ready to plunge into the family business. With both brothers permanently stationed in Pallia from 1958 onwards, the horizon began to expand. Anything and everything – including mud – was transported by them. Government orders started pouring in. Their tractors also begin to make inroads and were much in demand among the Pallia farmers.
By the late 1950s, the Nanda brothers started a regular Bus and Truck service: Pallia to Khajuria, a nearby town. Now that they became adept working under their uncle’s company in Pallia, it was felt the time was ripe to launch their own. Fourteen years after being uprooted from Lyallpur, on October 2, 1961, Pallia Transport Company came into existence with the blessings of the eldest brother Yashpal Nanda. They began the business with two buses and five trucks. As they say, the rest is history. By then, Satish Kumar Nanda was also sent in from Delhi to assist his elder brothers in managing the business.
Like the Partition, the 1962 Chinese war came as a blessing in disguise for the Nandas. Roads came up in double quick time for strategic purposes and as a result, the business of transportation of both goods and passengers became more enticing. “Our first, six-tonne Tata truck bought at Rs.26,000 came with an Rs.200 discount” recollects Om Prakash Nanda. The Nanda trio evenly distributed their work among themselves: Om Prakash Nanda led the team as the founder of Pallia Transport Company with a complete focus on business development; Govardhan Lal Nanda handled administration leaving the financial management to Satish Kumar Nanda. Their business was growing exponentially: they got iinto cultivating oilseeds, sugarcane, grains, etc, and managing a fleet ferrying passengers and goods in and around Pallia. Simultaneously, Yashpal Nanda set up Cargo Motors, the topmost Tata dealership firm, and guided them as a true patriarch of the Nanda parivar.
Twenty years after Pallia Transport Company was established, the Nanda family became large and decided to move out to pursue their own respective agenda. Even the next generation was ready to take charge. In 1981, the Om Prakash Nanda family moved to Lucknow and then to Delhi, and the Satish Kumar Nanda branch shifted to Delhi. The Goverdhan Lal Nanda branch, however, decided to stick with the Pallia Transport Company brand though they also migrated to Delhi. One thing, nevertheless, remained unchanged for the Nanda parivar: their love affair with ‘transportation’ business.
On return to Delhi, Govardhan Lal Nanda, under the benign guidance and blessings of his eldest brother, Yashpal Nanda, looked after the transport of the entire CKD transportation of Maruti Udyog Limited from the Kandla port on the western coast of India to Gurgaon in northern India where it was assembling in the early days. “Somehow, we could not disconnect from Pallia,” says Vipul Nanda, son of Goverdhan Lal Nanda who was the Chairman and Managing Director of Pallia Transport Company after the business split. Significantly, Vipul is the only Nanda to be born in Pallia.
The advent of ‘people’s car’ viz., Maruti Suzuki in the 1980s, coinciding with their arrival in the Indian capital enabled them to focus on finished vehicle transport business. The growing popularity of Maruti among Indian masses boosted business. Until his father’s demise in 1998, the Nainital-educated Vipul played second fiddle to him.
At that time, Puneesh Nanda was in charge of the other business started by Govardhan Lal Nanda. He ran the Karnal car dealership for Daewoo Motors under the banner of Pallia Automobiles, until it was forcibly shut down due to extraneous reasons. Then Puneesh started a travel and car rental business which he is still carrying on.
With his brother Puneesh moving out, Vipul became the real head of Pallia Transport Company, supported by his wife, Puja. “Our board meetings used to be held in bedroom mostly,” says the present Chairman and Managing Director of Pallia Transport Company. A close-knit group of friends – Rajiv Chauhan, Sanjay Bansal, Anand Khattar, Vikash Gupta – also threw their collective weight behind Vipul in helping him pursue his dreams.
In 2003, Vipul sensed a fresh business opportunity and decided to throw his weight behind Mahindra & Mahindra, which was making a big foray into the passenger vehicle segment beyond the jeeps they were famous for. The gamble paid off handsomely with M&M emerging as one of the topmost players in the automotive segment. By a quirk of fate, Vipul and a clutch of his friends with interest in wine were touring Italy on a wine tasting tour. That is when a casual interaction with Mercurio of Italy, a renowned European 3PL player in the automotive segment, led to the formation of a joint venture under the banner of Mercurio Pallia Logistics Private Limited. “In a way, the wine search brought the biggest break,” says Vipul, father of Jishnu and Naman.
Mercurio Pallia Logistics, in the shortest possible time, has grown by leaps and bounds: today, it handles finished vehicle logistics of every single automotive OEM in India: Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai Motors, Honda-Siel, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Nissan, Toyota, Fiat,, etc. In 2011, the Indo-Italian joint venture transformed into an Indo-French joint venture. This followed the induction of Gefco, the fully owned subsidiary of Peugeot of France and specialized in both inbound and outbound logistics in the automotive segment, becoming a joint venture partner in the Indian company. This transpired with Gefco buying Mercurio across the globe and the French auto giant was exploring to set up a grassroots automobile manufacturing plant in the world’s second booming automobile market. Hence, the Gefco entry into India via Mercurio Pallia Logistics to handle its finished vehicle movement as and when the plant comes up made perfect business sense. It was the only Indian company with such a rich 3PL automotive logistics experience as equity partners at a time when the Indian automotive segment is expected to grow exponentially.
Subsequently, Peugeot sold its stake in Gefco to the Russian Railways in a major corporate restricting exercise, thus enabling Mercurio Pallia Logistics to turn into an Indo-Russian joint venture. However, Gefco continued to manage the joint venture at the behest of the Russian joint venture partners. Vipul continued to be on the board with a minority equity stake in Mercurio Pallia Logistics.
In a new twist, Gefco-Russian Railways decided to quit India to pursue their own business goals, and perhaps they found the Indian market not attractive enough for them. Hence in September 2019, Vipul Nanda acquired full control of the company and regained its original name: Pallia Transport Company after almost six decades of its inception. With eldest son Jishnu, fresh from Symbiosys of Pune with a degree, Vipul inducted him into the now fully family-owned company along with his spouse, Puja.
Vipul Nanda, ungrudgingly, acknowledges the total support he received from Citicorp Finance when he began dreaming big. “They believed in my blueprint and backed me to the hilt,” adds he.
Vipul, meanwhile, founded along with several transporters the Car Carrier Association in 2015 to sort out of the most niggling business challenges. Despite car carriers have been in existence since the early 1980s following the advent of Maruti Suzuki which heralded the arrival of multi-car transportation from automobile manufacturing plants to dealer points across the length and breadth of India, the movement of car carrier vehicles faced a major challenge on the Indian highways. The then existing legislation under the CMVR norms of the Motor Vehicles Act has no mention of articulated car carriers and therefore almost all state governments fleeced them citing CMVR norm violations, which was making a huge dent on the business of car carrier owners. As CCA’s maiden President, he lobbied hard with the central government to get this ticklish issue sorted out with a thorough field study authorized by the government followed by the government notification in 2016(?). Thus, he successfully managed to get the much-desired legal status for articulated car carriers for the first time.
Simultaneously, Vipul decided to branch out into a new business territory. Sensing the growing awareness and governmental push for green mobility to fight the life-snapping carbon emission particularly from the motorized passenger cars, he floated a new company under the banner of EEE, electric cab service to usher in emission-free electric cab service for corporate in a business-to-business model in select cities, with two partners. Jishnu joined this business enterprise soon after his degree.
Currently, this electric cab business with 100 plus fleet, services the National Capital Region (NCR), Hyderabad, and Bangalore. For the first time, this company also introduced women drivers to promote gender diversity. Significantly, the Anglo-Dutch giant Shell has infused equity in this company as a strategic investment partner to boost green mobility in June 2020. As of today, EEE is the only Indian electric cab service company that attracted the Shell equity infusion. Indeed, an endorsement of Nanda clan’s business acumen.
The Nandas came from Lyallpur with empty pockets as refugees. Today, they are one of the richest in the transport logistics business. Pallia Transport Company continues to rule the roost in that once sleepy town of Pallia. It continues to transport sugarcane, sugar, grain, etc. However, it has discontinued its Passenger Bus Service. However, as a show of his affection for Pallia, Vipul continues to own a vast stretch of arable land and do farming there. Besides he is also running a dedicated fleet for the leading sugar manufacturer of Pallia viz., Bajaj Hindusthan Limited’s inbound and outbound logistics even today.
The contribution of Nanda brothers – Om Prakash, Goverdhan Lal, and Satish Kumar under the dynamic leadership and blessing of the eldest Yashpal Nanda – made to the sugarcane-rich Pallia belt in Uttar Pradesh is remembered with a lot of affection and nostalgia even today. It is the Nandas’ sheer dent of hard work, genuine concern for all, and honest trade practices that have made them the most trusted and honored transport company.
Indeed, it was a long journey: from Lyallpur to New Delhi to Pallia. Over 60 long years. Eventful with rich experience. Of course, it is time for celebrations. And it is also time to pencil a fresh blueprint to conquer new territories. One thing is crystal clear: nothing is impossible if one nurse a dream and pursues that dream to translate that into a reality. Change is inevitable. What’s in store in the future, nobody knows. The Nandas were adventurers. The clan’s new green shoots have entered the arena to carry on the torch into the unknown, but bright future.
—
Note:
# This article was written by the author in his maiden book 10,000KM on Indian Highways published on November 18, 2011 commemorating the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Pallia Transport Company.
*Om Prakash Nanda left for the heavenly abode in 2013.
