Images: When Surat's Savji Dholakia gifted houses and cars as Diwali bonus to his staff

[caption id=“attachment_105997” align=“alignnone” width=“860”] Savji Dholakia, owner of Hare Krishna Diamonds has gifted about 1200 employees 491 Fiat Punto cars, 200 two-bedroom houses and jewellery ahead of the festival of lights. This is a rewards for loyalty programme for employees who have shown high degree of performance in the past five years[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_105998” align=“alignnone” width=“860”] Established in 1991, the diamond firm has an annual turnover of Rs 5,000 crore and a workforce of about 6,000. It has presence overseas as well, in Belgium, Hong Kong and England.Only 1,200 employees qualified for the rewards and the gift items were based on the current needs of his staff. The employees who did not own a house were given the first preference for house. Those who owned a house were eligible for a car while the employees who had both a house and a car were given jewellery.[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_105999” align=“alignnone” width=“860”] 491 employees received cars, 207 got funds for buying residential flats and another 570 were gifted jewellery. Each of them received ‘gifts’ worth Rs 4 lakh[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_106000” align=“alignnone” width=“860”] This is not the first time Dholakia has displayed such generosity. Last year, the 6,500 employee-strong company had gifted cars to 72 such employees.[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_106006” align=“alignleft” width=“860”] Savji Dolakia received the GJEPC Export award for the year 2010-2011 from Modi.[/caption]