{"id":2585,"date":"2026-07-07T13:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopedhara.com\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:21:10","slug":"kp-ramaswamy-has-27500-daughters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopedhara.com\/?p=2585","title":{"rendered":"KP Ramaswamy Has 27500 Daughters"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Meet the man with 27,500 daughters*<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s what they call him \u2013 Appa.<\/p>\n

His real name? KP Ramaswamy. Owner of KPR Mills, Coimbatore. A textile baron by profession. A father figure by choice.<\/p>\n

While corporate honchos talk about employee retention, cost-cutting, and bottom lines, this man is busy transforming lives.<\/p>\n

How? By turning mill workers into graduates. By making education their stepping stone to a better life.<\/p>\n

It all started with a simple request. A young girl at his mill once told him \u2013
\n“Appa, I want to study. My parents pulled me out of school because of poverty, but I want to study further.”<\/p>\n

That one sentence changed everything.<\/p>\n

Instead of giving his workers just a paycheck, he decided to give them a future.<\/p>\n

He set up a full-fledged education system \u2013 right inside the mill.
\n Four-hour classes after an eight-hour shift.
\n Classrooms, teachers, a principal, even a yoga course.
\n All fully funded. No strings attached.<\/p>\n

And the result?
\n 24,536 women have earned their 10th, 12th, UG, and PG degrees.
\n Many are now nurses, teachers, police officers.
\n 20 gold medallists from Tamil Nadu Open University this year alone.<\/p>\n

Now, you\u2019d expect a businessman to worry about attrition. What if these women leave? What about workforce stability?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what KP Ramaswamy says \u2013
\n“I don\u2019t want to keep them in the mill and waste their potential. They are here because of poverty, not by choice. My job is to give them a future, not a cage.”
\nAnd that\u2019s exactly what he does\u2026.<\/p>\n

They leave. They build careers. And then? They send more girls from their villages to the mill. The cycle continues.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t just a CSR initiative. This is Human Resource Development in its truest sense.<\/p>\n

At a recent convocation, 350 women received their degrees. And KP Ramaswamy made an unusual request \u2013
\n“If you or your friends can hire them, it will give other girls the hope to study further.”<\/p>\n

Think about it. A man running a multi-crore empire isn\u2019t asking for business. He\u2019s asking for jobs \u2013 for his workers.<\/p>\n

How often do we see this?
\nThis story isn\u2019t just about KPR Mills. It\u2019s a lesson in leadership, in corporate ethics, in nation-building.<\/p>\n

B-Schools should teach this.
\nHR professionals should study this.
\nAnd the world needs to know this.<\/p>\n

A story worth spreading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*Meet the man with 27,500 daughters* That\u2019s what they call him \u2013 Appa. His real name? KP Ramaswamy. Owner of KPR Mills, Coimbatore. A textile baron by profession. A father figure by choice. While corporate honchos talk about employee retention, cost-cutting, and bottom lines, this man is busy transforming lives. How? By turning mill workers …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,75,141,147,169,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-168","category-75","category-141","category-147","category-learning-teaching","category-right-2-right-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopedhara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopedhara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopedhara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopedhara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopedhara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hopedhara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586,"href":"https:\/\/hopedhara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopedhara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopedhara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopedhara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}