Subrata Roy
Subrata Roy is the Managing Worker and Chairman of Sahara India Pariwar. He founded the company in 1978. In 2004, Sahara group was termed by Time magazine as ‘the second largest employer in India’ after Indian Railways. The group operates in more than 5,000 establishments spread across India.
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Subrata Roy is the Managing Worker and Chairman of Sahara India Pariwar. He founded the company in 1978. In 2004, Sahara group was termed by Time magazine as ‘the second largest employer in India’ after Indian Railways. The group operates in more than 5,000 establishments spread across India and has a workforce of around 1. 4 million under the Sahara India umbrella. He has been planning to foray into online education in India, which is targeted at small towns and villages. In 2013, Sahara contributed to the relief efforts in flood hit Uttarakhand region wherein one lakh bottles of drinking water, packaged juice and food packets along with candles and match boxes were said to be provided by them. In 2010, Sahara purchased the iconic Grosvenor House Hotel in London, and 2012 the historic Plaza Hotel and Dream Downtown Hotel in New York City.
In 2012, Roy was named among the 10 Most Powerful People of India in 2012 by India Today. He received an honorary doctorate in business leadership from the University of East London. He also received the Business Icon of the Year award at the Powerbrands Hall of Fame Awards in London in 2011. The Hindi newspaper Rashtriya Sahara was started in 1992. In the late 1990s, the ambitious Aamby Valley City project near Pune was initiated. In 2000, Sahara TV was launched which was later renamed Sahara One. In 2003, Sahara started three weeklies: Sahara Time, Sahara Samay and Sahara Aalmi.
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