Success Story Of M.S. Oberoi

Born On: 1898 Aug 15th , TO  2002 May 3rd He was Born in 



 M.S. Oberoi completed his primary education in Rawalpindi and Bachelor’s degree. In Lahore 1922 . When He  was  six months old  his father died.

The start of a hotel empire

After  four years, M. S. Oberoi was Started the  business  in Kolkata, M. S. Oberoi was able to negotiate favourable terms in taking over the management of the city's Calcutta Grand Hotel. The hotel, formerly a palace of luxury, had been empty for years, since the death of over a hundred foreigners who were guests during the outbreak. The hotel was refurbished and the following year, 1939, at the start ofWorld War II, 1500 beds were made available to the British Army, as thousands of troops filled Kolkata By 1941, M. S. Oberoi was becoming well known in the hotel business and, in recognition of his services to the industry in time of war, Indian authorities bestowed on him the title of Rai Bahadur.

After  two years, M. S. Oberoi became India's first modern hotel magnate by taking over the controlling interest in the Associated Hotels of India (AIH) , which owned top hotels in the entire region, including Delhi, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Lahore, Murree and Shimla's Hotel Cecil, his first place of employment twenty-one years earlier.

M. S. Oberoi was elected President of the Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Associations of India and in 1960 was endowed as the President of Honour of the Federation for life. M. S. Oberoi also participated in legislative politics by winning elections to the Rajya Sabha for two terms, first from April, 1962 to 1968 March,  and  second from April, 1972 to 1978  April, he was also elected to the Fourth Lok Sabha in April, 1968 and remained a Member of that House till December, 1970.

In 1965  One very notable hotel industry milestone, in partnership with international hotel chains, he opened the Oberoi Intercontinental in Delhi, India's first modern five-star, world-class hotel.

Awards and Honours

 M. S. Oberoi was conferred the title of Rai Bahadur by the British Government in recognition of his services to the Crown. In 1943,

Mr. Oberoi won acclaim and received several national and international awards including admission to the Hall of     Fame by the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) and Man of The World award by the International Hotel  Association (IHA), New York

In 1978 M. S. Oberoi presented the Order of The Republic, First Class by the President of Egypt. He got an Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration from the International Management Centre, Buckingham, UK. Newsweek named him one of the Elite Winners 

In 2000  the PHDCCI Millennium award.

M.S. Oberoi was honored with Padma Bhushan in 2001.