Shishir Bajoria is an Indian industrialist, the head of S K Bajoria Group, an Indian multinational with presence in four continents, the combined annual turnover of which is over US $ 200 million. He is the youngest son of Mr B P Bajoria, a well known Industrialist, and has been the President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce- Kolkata, Honorary Vice Counsel for Denmark in Eastern India and has also been a Director of the State Industrial Development Corporations of Orissa and West Bengal. He has been Knighted by the Governments of Denmark in 1998 and Italy in 2006.
Career
Bajoria is the promoter of the S K Bajoria Group based at Kolkata, which is engaged in diversified activities including the manufacture of specialised refractories for the steel industry, insurance broking, and third party administration for health insurance. Bajoria is a past president of the Indian Chamber of Commerce. He has been on the board at Industrial Promotion & Investment Corporation of Orissa Ltd, and West Bengal Industrial Development Corp. Ltd. He is the Chairman, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management Shillong.. In May, 2020, Shishir Bajoria was appointed as a Member of the Executive Committee of Meghalaya Chief Minister's Economic Task Force, which aims to revive the economy of the state post-COVID-19 pandemic situation.
Politics
Bajoria joined the BJP in August 2014, and is a leader of the BJP in West Bengal. Since 2016, Bajoria has been serving on BJP's Election Management Committee of West Bengal. Shishir Bajoria also serves as a Core Committee Member of BJP's Foreign Affairs Department and Overseas Friends of BJP. Bajoria was one of the prominent figures who released statement in support of the Citizenship Act, 2019 along with Swapan Dasgupta and others. In May, 2020, Shishir Bajoria wrote an Open Letter to Nobel LaureateAbhijit Banerjee who was appointed on Global Advisory Board for Covid19 West Bengal as its Chairman by West Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee. Bajoria has been named in connection with the Panama Papers. He has, however, clarified that he has not, nor has ever, owned Haptic BVI Ltd, the company of which Bajoria is listed as a beneficial owner. First Names Group, which along with Mossack Fonseca & Co, set up Haptic BVI Ltd issued a clarification through its representative stating that they made an administrative error on a form which they sent to Mossack Fonseca. The erroneous beneficial owner information on the form was entirely the firm's fault, as was the enclosure of the copy verification document.
