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Anil Agarwal: India
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Anil Agarwal (born 1954, India) is an Indian businessman and the founder-director and executive chairman of the UK-based Vedanta Resources corporation, which owns mining and metal resources in India, Australia and Zambia. Having ranked eighth in 2003,[1] as of November 2006, he is the eleventh-richest Indian, with a personal fortune of US$4.5 billion.[2] According to Forbes Magazine, on 8 March 2007, his net worth was $3.8 billion—making him the 230th-richest person in the world.
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Anil Agarwal is director of the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, where Sunita Narain ... works. They are co-authors of Global Warming in an Unequal World: a Case of Environmental Colonialism, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India.
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Five years and four months ago, after a long bout with cancer, Anil Agarwal passed away on January 2, 2002 at the age of 54. Even though he died at a relatively early age, Anil left behind him an extraordinary legacy in building India’s environmental movement. In its obituary, the British scientific journal, Nature, noted that “… Anil Agarwal . . . was no ordinary science journalist. A passionate and articulate campaigner for environmental justice, embracing issues ranging from water quality in rural India to the need for global controls on carbon emissions to limit climate change, Agarwal won respect from friends and enemies alike.”
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Announcing the project, Anil Agarwal said, "India has high quality educational institutes like IITs and IIMs which are comparable with the world's best, but these are focussed on single disciplines. Moreover, these top-tier institutes collectively cater to less than 75,000-100,000 students annually -- not even 2% of total school output. There is an urgent need for universities providing quality education through a multi-disciplinary curriculum, along with a clear research focus -- to further India's potential as an R&D hub."
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Anil Agarwal’s perspective was further clarified in The Second Citizens’ Report of 1985, which concluded with his essay on ‘The Politics of the Environment’, essential reading for anyone interested in the environment. After documenting the state of India’s forests, rivers, cities and industries, Agarwal argued here for holistic management of land and water resources in the country. The report analysed the potential roles of the government and voluntary agencies and of legislation in bringing about change.
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The two-year ongoing battle between the Ararat Gold Recovery Company (AGRC, LLC) , owned by the Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal, and the Government of the Republic of Armenia (ROA), appears to have entered its final phase. This is borne out by the statement released by the Press Secretary of the Prosecutor General's Office on August 2 nd confirming that on the same day Gagik Jhangiryan, the Deputy Chieh Prosecutor, lodged a legal action with the Economic Court of the ROA against the AGRC. The legal suit demands that the Court rescind the company's license permitting it to engage in all mining activities. According to a directive issued by ROA President Kocharian, all authority to regulate the mining industry was transferred to G. Jhangiryan who now deals with all issues related to that sector of the economy.
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