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	\| caption = R.P. Goenka and Sanjiv Goenka of RPG Enterprises presenting a cheque of Rs. 1 crore to the Prime Minister, [[Dr. Manmohan Singh]], towards the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund in New Delhi, 2005.		\| caption = R.P. Goenka and Sanjiv Goenka of RPG Enterprises presenting a cheque of Rs. 1 crore to the Prime Minister, [[Dr. Manmohan Singh]], towards the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund in New Delhi, 2005.
	\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1930\|03\|01\|df=y}}		\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1930\|03\|01\|df=y}}
	\| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], ~~West Bengal,~~ India		\| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], British India
	\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|2013\|04\|14\|1930\|03\|01\|df=y}}		\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|2013\|04\|14\|1930\|03\|01\|df=y}}
	\| death_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India		\| death_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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{{Infobox person
| name = R. P. Goenka
| image = Shri R.P. Goenka and Shri Sanjiv Goenka of RPG Enterprises presenting a cheque of Rs. 1 crore to the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, towards the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund in New Delhi on January 17, 2005.jpg
| caption = R.P. Goenka and Sanjiv Goenka of RPG Enterprises presenting a cheque of Rs. 1 crore to the Prime Minister, [[Dr. Manmohan Singh]], towards the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund in New Delhi, 2005.
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|03|01|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], West Bengal, India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|04|14|1930|03|01|df=y}}
| death_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| alma_mater = {{Unbulleted list
| [[Presidency College, Kolkata]] (then affiliated to [[University of Calcutta]])
| [[Harvard University]]
}}
| occupation = [[Business magnate|Industrialist]], Founder, Chairman Emeritus [[RPG Group]]
| children = {{Unbulleted list
| [[Harsh Goenka]]
| [[Sanjiv Goenka]]
}}
}}

'''Rama Prasad Goenka''' (1 March 1930 – 14 April 2013) was the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the [[RPG Group]], a multi-sector Indian industrial conglomerate. Born in 1930, he was the eldest son of [[Keshav Prasad Goenka]] and grandson of Sir Badri Prasad Goenka, the first Indian to be appointed Chairman of the Imperial Bank of India (now the [[State Bank of India]]). His two younger brothers were Jagdish Prasad and Gouri Prasad. On Keshav Prasad Goenka's death, his businesses were split between the three brothers. Rama Prasad Goenka (better known as RP Goenka), established RPG Enterprises in 1979.<ref>[http://www.rpggroup.com/about_rpg/history/history.aspx History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309195050/http://rpggroup.com/about_rpg/history/history.aspx |date=9 March 2013 }} RPG Group.</ref><ref name=tt>{{cite news |title=The tycoon who kept faith in Bengal - Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/The-tycoon-who-kept-faith-in-Bengal/articleshow/19551868.cms |access-date=2 February 2019 |work=The Times of India}}</ref>

He attended [[Presidency College, Kolkata|Presidency College]] of [[University of Calcutta]] in his home town of [[Kolkata]] and [[Harvard University]] in the United States. He was an [[Member of Parliament|M.P.]] in the [[Rajya Sabha]], or [[upper house]], of the [[Parliament of India|Indian Parliament]]. Goenka was the Chairman of the Board of Governors of [[International Management Institute (India)|International Management Institute]]<ref>[http://www.imi.edu/Display/index.asp?ID=38 IMI Board of Governors Page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916121139/http://www.imi.edu/Display/index.asp?ID=38 |date=16 September 2008 }}</ref> and a trustee of the [[Nehru Memorial Museum & Library#Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund|Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund]], the [[Indira Gandhi#Legacy|Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust]] and the [[Rajiv Gandhi Foundation]]. He was the president of the [[FICCI]] and the immediate past Chairman of the Board of Governors of the [[Indian Institute of Technology]] in Kharagpur. He once served as trustee of [[Tirupati Temple]].<ref name=tt/> Goenka was twice awarded the [[Order of the Sacred Treasure]] by the [[Emperor of Japan]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Rama Prasad Goenka passes away|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/rama-prasad-goenka-passes-away/article4616630.ece|access-date=14 April 2013|newspaper=The Hindu Business Line|date=14 April 2013}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news |last1=Sanyal |first1=Santanu |title='If I'm not Bengali, who is?' |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/%E2%80%98If-I%E2%80%99m-not-Bengali-who-is%E2%80%99/article20602283.ece |access-date=2 February 2019 |work=@businessline |language=en}}</ref>

Through a series of mergers and acquisitions including the likes of Dunlop India and CESC in 1980, [[CEAT (company)|CEAT Tyres]] in 1982, RPG Life Sciences (then Searle India) and [[KEC International]] in 1985, the Gramophone Co. of India (now Saregama) in 1986, Spencers and Harrisons Malayalam in 1988, [[Bayer]] India, Firstsource Solutions Limited in 2012 and many more, R. P. Goenka came to be known as the 'takeover king' in his heyday.

Goenka died on 14 April 2013 in Kolkata.<ref>{{cite news|title=Industrialist RP Goenka passes away|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/industrialist-rp-goenka-passes-away/article4616617.ece|access-date=14 April 2013|newspaper=The Hindu|date=14 April 2013}}</ref> He had two sons, elder [[Harsh Vardhan Goenka|Harsh Vardhan]] and younger [[Sanjeev Goenka|Sanjiv]].

The Goenka family belonged to the [[Marwari people|Marwari]] community of money-lenders and tradesmen, and hailed originally from [[Rajasthan]] in western India. As early as the 19th century, an enterprising member of the family, Ramdutt Goenka, set up base in Kolkata, which was then the capital of India, and a major commercial hub of the [[British Empire]]. The family prospered in its traditional vocations of money-lending and trade. It was in the 1970s that Rama Prasad Goenka (b.1930) leveraged the family's wealth to take over a variety of industries and corporations and thus created a ready-made business conglomerate. Many of these corporations were stressed due to the socialistic policies and the "[[License Raj]]" then prevalent in India, and others were marked by the disagreements within the families of their owners. In a series of takeovers, RPG acquired such companies relatively cheap and used his financial resources and business acumen to make them viable. In this way, by the end of the 20th century, RPG had cobbled together a significant business empire. The Goenka business empire is remarkable for two things: first, none of their major ventures were founded by them, but all were takeovers of existing companies owned by other families or corporations; and second, the resultant diversity and incoherence of these companies.<ref name=tt/>

==References==
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{{RPG Group}}

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2409:4072:8E80:9793:0:0:7A8B:AB04: Changed location of birth from India to British India

>Billjones94 at 15:21, 14 June 2021