Arun Nanda, Executive Director, Mahindra & Mahindra was conferred the French government honour, the Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur) by the visiting French Minister of State for Foreign Trade, Anne-Marie Idrac.
In an apt recognition of the Mahindra Group’s contribution to India’s business and cultural ties with France, the French Ambassador to India, Jérôme BONNAFONT said in a letter to Nanda informing him of the award, “I warmly congratulate you for this distinction, which is a recognition of your remarkable career in the business community in Mumbai and of the part you took in the establishment of the partnership between Mahindra and Renault.
But above all, it is your performance as President of the Indo French Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the efficiency which you have restored in this association, that the French President wishes to pay tribute by conferring this distinction to you.” The "Legion d'Honneur" (Legion of Honour) is the highest distinction that can be conferred by the French Republic on a French citizen as well as on a foreigner. The Order of the Legion of Honour was instituted in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte.
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