Narsi Kularia is an Indian entrepreneur whose career runs from the carpenter’s bench to some of the most closely watched building projects in the country. He is the founder of Narsi Group — incorporated today as Narsi Interior Infrastructures Pvt. Ltd. and historically known as Narsi & Associates — and, since September 2022, chairman of the Furniture & Fittings Skill Council, the national body for skilling in India’s furniture and interiors sector.14
Published accounts describe him as a “first generation carpenter-turned-entrepreneur”.3 That phrase compresses a long arc: a hereditary trade learnt in Rajasthan, a move to Mumbai with little more than those skills, two years of work in West Asia, and four decades of building a company that now reports thousands of team members and hundreds of completed projects.
Origins in Bikaner
Narsi Kularia comes from the Nokha area of Bikaner district in western Rajasthan. According to the Vishwakarma Shakti Sangh Foundation, he inherited traditional woodworking skills from the Suthar community — the hereditary carpenters of the region — and studied only up to Grade 10.2 Other profiles record the same starting point: he left “a village near Bikaner” for Mumbai with a Grade 10 qualification.1
The family name remains closely tied to the district. The primary healthcare centre that he and Jagdish Kularia, a director of the family company, built in Nokha block in 2024 carries the name of Sant Shri Dularam Kularia — described in reports as “their father and grandfather”.5 Further details of his childhood and early schooling are not publicly documented. The Background chapter explores that context.
Mumbai, and a year abroad that became two
He began his career in 1981. By his profile’s account, India’s interior industry was then “at a primitive stage”, with large-scale interior work largely the preserve of big oil companies that could afford it.1 His first assignments in Mumbai were small and family-run.2
In 1983 he took an opportunity to work in West Asia; the Vishwakarma Shakti Sangh profile places the project in Oman and credits it with exposing him to modern construction methods.2 He returned to Mumbai in 1985 “with fresh ideas and a stronger foundation”, according to Sangri Today.1
Founding Narsi & Associates
In 1986 he established Narsi & Associates, his first formal venture in interior contracting. Its first project in India was the Lubrizol plant in Navi Mumbai.12 By 1994, the firm was working with major financial institutions including IDBI, ICICI, the State Bank of India, Standard Chartered Bank and the National Stock Exchange.2
Over the following decades the firm grew into what its own materials describe as a one-stop, pan-India turnkey interior fit-out provider, adding furniture manufacturing and design-and-build services to interior contracting. Its client list, as reported in published profiles, includes Amazon, Google, Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Reliance Industries, Asian Paints and Kotak Mahindra Bank.12 The Work chapter sets out the group’s activities in detail.
National projects
The group’s most visible work came through the Central Vista redevelopment in New Delhi. In February 2022, Construction World reported that Narsi Group had been selected for the loose furniture and complete interior fit-out of the new Parliament building — roughly 12,000 chairs and tables — working alongside Tata Projects Limited and HCP Architects.6 The building was inaugurated on 28 May 2023. Reports also credit the group with interior work at Bharat Mandapam, the convention centre at Pragati Maidan, and at the Vice President Enclave.25
Speaking to Zee News in Hindi when the Parliament opened, he described the work as done in a spirit of nation-building and called it the greatest achievement of his life (paraphrased translation).7
Skilling the trade he came from
A consistent thread in coverage of Narsi Kularia is his attention to the carpenters and woodworkers on whom his business depends. In 2018 Patrika reported that Narsi Group had been selected by the National Skill Development Corporation under the Skill India programme to develop carpentry skills among young people, beginning with a training camp at Sanchar in Bikaner district.8 In September 2022 he was elected chairman of the Furniture & Fittings Skill Council, succeeding Anil K Goel of Hettich.4 Profiles report that roughly 300–400 workers are trained each quarter through his initiatives, and more than 4,000 in total.12
Community and public life
Narsi Kularia is described in Rajasthani media as an industrialist and philanthropist. His documented contributions include ₹21 lakh to the Bharat Ke Veer fund for the families of soldiers killed in the 2019 Pulwama attack, and the ₹15 crore Sant Shri Dularam Kularia Primary Healthcare Centre in Nokha block, inaugurated by Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on 28 July 2024.15 The Community chapter covers this work.
Scale, as reported
Published figures for the business vary with date and source, and are shown here as reported rather than reconciled. Sangri Today (2023) describes a “700 Crores Empire” with over 4,000 team members; the Vishwakarma Shakti Sangh profile gives an annual turnover of about ₹650 crore; the company’s own materials cite more than 840 projects across over 100 million sq ft.129
A note on method. This biography uses only published sources. Information about Narsi Kularia’s date of birth, family beyond what is cited, and personal life is not included because it is not reliably documented in public sources.