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...plant. By 1964 the 300 megawatt Bandel power station is scheduled to supply badly needed electricity to Calcutta's industrial belt. But almost as significant to the Indian economy as the $54 million project itself is the fact that the engineers designing it are all Indians-members of Kuljian Corp. of India, the first Indian-run consulting engineering firm capable of handling so complex a power...
...Kuljian Corp. of India is the product of a one-man foreign aid program conceived by fatherly Harry Asdour Kuljian, 67, the Armenian-born founder of Kuljian Corp. of Philadelphia, a small but highly successful consulting engineering firm. Since 1930 Kuljian has handled construction jobs-mostly in the power-generating field-all over the world. By first-hand observation, he became convinced that to give U.S. aid money to underdeveloped nations to establish state-owned enterprises was both wasteful and a threat to free enterprise. The right way to help a nation industrialize, Kuljian decided, was through "a hand...
...Envy. Twelve years ago, Kuljian met Sadhan C. Dutt, an energetic young Indian mechanical engineer who had come to the U.S. to learn electrical engineering at the General Electric Co. Dutt boldly suggested that Kuljian set him up as permanent Kuljian representative in India. Kuljian agreed, trained Dutt for a year in Philadelphia, then sent him off to India in 1950 to run a newly established Indian subsidiary...