Born
on 6 April 1951 Sardar Nachhattar Singh Ramgarhia is
the Managing Director and founder of Standard Tractors;
and also
the founder
and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the parent
company ‘Standard Combines Pvt. Ltd.’,
which is a leading manufacturer of self-propelled
and tractor-driven combines (Combine Harvesters)
in India
since 1975. The Standard Group of Companies, created
and led by Sardar Nachhattar Singh, is serving the
farmers by manufacturing and providing various types
of high quality agricultural machinery over the last
two decades. The Standard Combines Pvt. Ltd. (Combine
Division) not only supplies its prime product ‘combines’ to
the farmers and farms all over India, but also exports
the product to South African countries. The tractor-driven
combine-harvester model ‘TSC-513’, designed
and developed by Mr. Singh, has been turned to be
the most popular model among the Indian farmers.
Other
products of this company (Combine Division) include
straw reaper, front-end loader and excavator, etc.
The Tractor Division of Standard Combines Pvt. Ltd.,
named Standard Tractors, is a well-known Indian tractor
manufacturing company, and has been producing and
marketing tractors five popular models of tractors
in the ranges
of 35 hp, 45 hp, 50 hp, 60 hp, and 75 hp, since 2000.
Engines for all these tractor models, except the
last one, are manufactured within the plant as ‘Standard
Engines’, which have been proved to be Trem-III
compliant. Two new tractor models of 30 hp and 40
hp, and also two variants of 35 hp and 45 hp tractors,
all with in-house made Standard Engines, are on the
verge to be launched. Another four models of tractor
of 25 hp, 50 hp (a variant), 55 hp and 60 hp range
are under final stage of development. Besides these
tractors, three 3-wheelers (two passenger-carriers
and one cargo), one 4-wheeler (cargo), a crane, an
electric mini-car, and two 2-wheelers (scooters)
are
either in the process of development or on the verge
of launch from the Standard Tractors, under constant
monitoring and guiding by Sardar Nachhattar Singh. Sardar Nachhattar Singh comes of a Sikh Ramgarhia
family of Bhari Gotra which hails from a small village
named Handiaya of Tehsil Barnala, Distt. Sangrur,
in Punjab. He is an industrial entrepreneur, a soft-speaking
man of hard work, firm determination, and efficient
management personality, with innate simple living
and high thinking habits. He has dedicated his life
for the development and invention of agricultural,
construction and earth-moving machinery as well as
transportation equipment and vehicles to help the
farming community and general mass of India for mechanized
cultivation and better transportation of people and
goods, aiming at contributing to the overall development
and prosperity of the country. His endevour and innovative
ventures have been useful for thousands of people
in India for their livelihood and betterment of life.
His competent brother Sardar Joginder Singh is the
Managing Director of the ‘Combine Division’ and
also serving as the Joint Managing Director of M/S
Standard Combines Pvt. Ltd. Besides the Tractor division and the Combine Division,
The Standard Group is opening a new venture – the
Engine Division, wherein primarily two models of
engines will be manufactured, with an initial target
of 300 engines per month for each of the two models
for sale. Sardar Nachhattar Singh will be the MD
of the Engine Division. Under his initiative an effort
is underway to make collaboration with the famous
Polish company “EKO Diesels” for manufacturing
the basic Perkins engines in joint venture. The Standard Group of Companies, under the direction
and guidance of Sardar Nachhattar Singh is now giving
stiff competition among the tractor manufacturers
because of high quality tractors. Evidently, it is
also soon becoming a market leader also in passenger
and cargo vehicles and battery operated pollution-free
mini cars, besides its present lead in the market
for Combine Harvesters and Tractors. Standard Tractors
is manufacturing engines for its tractors, and now
also opening a separate ‘Engine Division’ to
manufacture and sale pollution-free diesel engines
to the prospective Indian and foreign customers.
It is also making earth-moving vehicles (front-end
loaders and excavators; cranes, etc.) and now making
foray into the heavily competitive 2-wheelers and
3-wheelers segments of automotives. Thus the Standard
Group is developing and expanding with multifaceted
production lines, in order to make a mark in the
Manufacturing Industry sector of India, and to help
the agrarian community as well as the general people
of the country. |
