The Company was incorporated on 05th April, 1949 with an object to:

1. To acquire and take over as a going concern the business of contractors and Engineers now carried on in Bombay and elsewhere under the name and style of “Shah Construction Co.” and with a view thereto to enter into the Agreement referred to in Clause  (3) of the Articles of Association of the Company  and to  carry the same into effect.
2. To carry on the said business as a going concern and to develop and extend the said business.
3. To undertake as Architects  or Engineers , and Contractors either alone or Jointly, with any other Company or persons the complete or partial erections and construction of buildings and works of all description including electric works, water works, road building, drainage and sewage work,
4. To carry on any other business of a similar nature or any business which may in the opinion of the Directors be convenient to carry on by this Company :
5. To do all sorts of machining and other work necessary for preparing and working up, whether by machinery or hand labour, timber and wood-work for building and constructional work  of all descriptions , for house office or shop fittings, and fittings of all kinds, for mouldings, casings, cappings and other appliances, for electric and other cables, and for sundry parts and appliances for cotton, silk, wooden and other mills , and for cotton, fibre and other presses :
6. To carry on the business of builders and suppliers of the whole or any part or parts of railway or tramway, wagons, coaches, vans and cars, and of carriages, carts wagons and other vehicles of every description: also to supply separately to any Railway Companies or others, timber, scantlings and wood-work of all sizes and descriptions, whether in the rough or partially or completely machined and finished, ready or adapted for use in the building of any of the above vehicles.