Ganga Prasad Birla died on Friday night in Kolkata. Ganga Prasad Birla was at a prolonged illness and suffered a lot. Birla was 88 when he breathed his last breath. The last rites were to be performed on Saturday by his son Chandra Kant. The last rites will be performed in the presence of relations, family members and close friends.

Ganga Prasad has headed the ten billion Dollars GP-CK Birla group. The automobile, paper, engineering, electrical, and construction were the interest of GP-CK Birla group. Ganga Prasad was born in august 2, 1922 at Varanasi in India. Many major firms like Hindustan motors, orient papers, Hyderabad industries Birla soft, Avtec are owned by GP-CK Birla.

The orient paper has the largest turnover of 1,600 crore of Indian Rupees and is the biggest company of Birla. Ganga Prasad is known for his philanthropic activities. Many educational trust, charitable trust, medical research Institutes were set up by Ganga Prasad. An industrialist deeply concerned about the society and its developments is how he is defined by his friends and relatives.