{"id":28555,"date":"2016-10-28T05:03:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T05:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=28555"},"modified":"2016-10-28T05:03:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T05:03:36","slug":"400-flats-1260-cars-diamonds-man-diwali-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/400-flats-1260-cars-diamonds-man-diwali-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"400 flats and 1260 cars as Diamonds man Diwali gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is big news for Diwali. The workers are happy .Known for his benevolent Diwali gifts to his employees, Surat-based billionaire diamond merchant Savji Dholakia has this year too kept over a thousand cars and 400 flats to his well-performing staffers with the company bearing part of the monthly instalments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dholakia, who owns the Hare Krishna Exports, has gifted 400 flats and 1,260 cars as Diwali bonuses to his employees. However, the company will bear a part, Rs. 5,000, of the loan instalments on the flats and the cars for five years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28556\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/surat-business-picture.jpg\" alt=\"surat-business-picture\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have selected 1,716 employees as the best performers this year. We are arranging for houses for those who already own cars, while those who don&#8217;t have a four-wheeler will get one,&#8221; Mr Dholakia told media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the 400 flats each of 1,100 square feet would be allotted in a housing scheme of the company itself. &#8220;The flats would come dirt cheap at Rs. 15 lakh and the monthly instalment, which the employee will start paying after five years will be Rs. 11,000,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bonus, which were announced at an informal meeting of employees, on Tuesday have been an annual ritual at Hare Krishna Exports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28557\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/diamond-merchant_647_102716070014.jpg\" alt=\"diamond-merchant_647_102716070014\" width=\"647\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, the company similarly gave 491 cars and 200 flats to its employees. The year before that, it spent Rs. 50 crore on performance incentives, Mr Dholakia said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The diamond merchant, who hails from Dudhala village in Amreli district in Saurashtra region, established and nurtured his business using a loan from his uncle. He had sent his son Dravya to eke out a job in Kerala to learn the ropes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is big news for Diwali. The workers are happy .Known for his benevolent Diwali gifts to his employees, Surat-based billionaire diamond merchant Savji Dholakia has this year too kept over a thousand cars and 400 flats to his well-performing staffers with the company bearing part of the monthly instalments. Dholakia, who owns the Hare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11685,11684,11682,11686,11683,11681,3580],"class_list":["post-28555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-1260-cars","tag-400-flats","tag-diamond-merchant","tag-diamonds-man","tag-diwali-gifts","tag-savji-dholakia","tag-surat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/diwali-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}