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{{Infobox person
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| birth_date = 1904
| birth_place = [[Yemmiganur]], [[Kurnool]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], India
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| occupation = Social worker, industrialist
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]
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'''Machani Somappa''' was an Indian industrialist, [[educationist]], social worker and the founder of Machani Somappa group of companies.<ref name="Machani Group">{{cite web | url=http://www.machanigroup.com/aboutus.html | title=Machani Group | publisher=Machani Group | date=2015 | accessdate=31 March 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130107082502/http://www.machanigroup.com/aboutus.html | archive-date=7 January 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Born in 1904 at [[Yemmiganur]] in [[Kurnool district]] of the South Indian state of [[Andhra Pradesh]], Somappa came to the fore during the famine of 1934 when he opened a relief centre for the famine hit weavers of his area<ref name="Root Vin">{{cite web | url=http://www.rootvinn.com/yemmiganur-village-11621 | title=Root Vin | publisher=Root Vin | date=2015 | accessdate=31 March 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503063520/http://www.rootvinn.com/yemmiganur-village-11621 | archive-date=3 May 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and founded a [[cooperative society]] for the weavers, ''Yemmiganur Weavers Cooperative Society'' (YWCS),<ref name="YWCS">{{cite web | url=http://www.shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/1867/8/08_chapter3.pdf | title=YWCS | publisher=Shodh Ganga | date=2015 | accessdate=31 March 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116085137/http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/1867/8/08_chapter3.pdf | archive-date=16 November 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref> in 1938.{{cn|date=August 2019}} Two years later, he set up the Machani Group and the business group has grown since 1940 to have interests in manufacturing, engineering, transport, agriculture, [[Information technology]], energy, rural [[Business process outsourcing|BPO]], and retail brands.<ref name="India Mart">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiamart.com/machani-infradevelopment/ | title=India Mart | publisher=India Mart | date=2015 | accessdate=31 March 2015}}</ref><ref name="Somappa Bhavan">{{cite web | url=http://yellowpages.sulekha.com/hyderabad/machani-somappa-bhavan-jubilee-hills-hyderabad_contact-address | title=Somappa Bhavan | publisher=Machani Somappa Bhavan | date=2015 | accessdate=31 March 2015}}</ref> In 1960, he established ''Stumpp, Schuele and Somappa'', a joint venture with renowned German spring manufacturers, Stumpp + Schuele.<ref name="SSS India">{{cite web | url=http://www.sss-india.com/insight.htm | title=SSS India | publisher=SSS India | date=2015 | accessdate=31 March 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160607034324/http://www.sss-india.com/insight.htm | archive-date=7 June 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He had presence in educational field with the school he founded, Machani Somappa English Medium High School, in 1978.<ref name="School">{{cite web | url=http://www.machanisomappa.com/establishment.html | title=School | publisher=Machani Somappa English Medium High School | date=2015 | accessdate=31 March 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085726/http://www.machanisomappa.com/establishment.html | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Government of India]] honoured him in 1954, with the award of [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award for his contributions to the society,<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2015 |accessdate=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=15 November 2014 }}</ref> placing him among the first recipients of the award.

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[[Category:Indian male social workers]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists]]
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