Train station to rocket propellants, a Nagpur firm’s INR21k-cr journey

Synopsis Solar Industries, which started off as a supplier of explosives, is now making rocket propellants, warheads, ammunition, and loitering munitions for the defence forces. In 1977, when Satyanarayan Nuwal arrived in Nagpur from aRajasthan village, the objective was simple — to make a respectful living. The businesses he had tried before — leasing, transport and several other ventures — had all failed. In his initial days in Nagpur, money was scarce. There were nights when he had nowhere to sleep. The railway station became his home. “I belong to a small village in Rajasthan. I dropped out of school…