 "Sona Group Chief Executive Sunjay Kapur has set a goal to grow the domestic forging business from Rs 500 crore today to Rs 2,000 crore in five years.")
Surinder Kapur was a product of the Japanese wave of the 1980s. The then Indian government, led by Rajiv Gandhi, had taken the first steps towards liberalisation by allowing in Japanese automobile makers. These companies decided to source components locally in order to keep their price tags low.
Sensing an opportunity, Kapur, who had started out in his father-in-law Raunaq Singh’s Bharat Gears, met the bosses of Maruti Udyog, in which Suzuki of Japan had taken a stake, V Krishnamurthy and RC Bhargava, who told him he could choose whatever he wanted to make so long as he would let
