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MAHESH SAVANI

Social Activitist, Businessman

Surat-based businessman Mahesh Savani claims that he has 2,000 daughters. Well, in a way that’s true. In fact the number keeps going up. Mahesh arranges mass weddings of women who don’t have parents or anyone to look after them. He has been in the news for arranging up to 300 weddings per year.

vit logo 2,000 Weddings Later, the Man Who Never Tires in Getting His ‘Daughters’ Married Deven Lad| Surat 17 Feb 2018, Vol 9 Issue 8 Surat-based businessman Mahesh Savani claims that he has 2,000 daughters. Well, in a way that’s true. In fact the number keeps going up. Mahesh arranges mass weddings of women who don’t have parents or anyone to look after them. He has been in the news for arranging up to 300 weddings per year. Mahesh Savani started organising mass weddings of girls who had no father since 2010 (Photo: Special Arrangement) At his office in Surat he shares his incredible story, the ups and downs he has faced in life, and the life-changing incident that got him into philanthropy.
“In 2008, one of my distant relatives, Ishwarbhai, died before the wedding of his two daughters,” explains Mahesh. “I did their kanyadan and spent around Rs 10 lakh for their wedding.”
Mahesh then realised that there are many such daughters who will need a father like him – girls who don’t have parents or cannot afford the expense of a wedding.
A former diamond merchant and now a realty king, Mahesh, 48, who has enough money coming in from his realty businesses under the P.P Savani Group, a private limited firm, started arranging mass weddings in 2010 for his own mental satisfaction.

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