Subrata Roy is the founder and chairman of Sahara India Pariwar, a conglomerate founded in 1978. Originally from Gorakhpur, India, Roy has built Sahara into a $10 billion business with interests in finance, IT, tourism, and other sectors. Roy received recognition for his business success, including being named one of India's most powerful people. However, Roy has also faced legal issues, with the Supreme Court refusing him permission to travel abroad and the SEBI pursuing action against Sahara for issues related to bonds.

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2. Born
Residence
Nationality
Other names
Ethnicity
Occupation
Years active
(1948-06-10) 10 June 1948 (age 65)
Araria, Bihar, India
Lucknow
Indian
Saharasri
Bengali
Founder and Chairman of the Sahara India
Pariwar
1978 – present
Known for
Owner of Pune Warriors India, Grosvenor
House, Aamby Valley City, Plaza Hotel,
Dream Downtown Hotel
Home town
Lucknow

3. Graduation – studied
diploma in mechanical
engineering from
Government Technical
Institute, Gorakhpur
18 years of experience in
real estate business & 32
years of experience in
business development
field
Schooling – He
studied at Holy
Child School in
Kolkata
Roy started his first
business in
Gorakhpur
Roy founded the
sahara group in
1978 with an initial
asset of just us $43

4.  He is son of smt. Chhavi roy & late. Shri sudhir chandra roy
 Married to Swapna Roy (Managing Worker, Personnel and welfare)
 Mr. Sushanto Roy (Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of
Sahara)
 Mr. Seemanto Roy (Executive Director of Sahara)

5. 1. Today, Sahara Group is worth over $10 billion
2. It moved to Finance, Information
Technology, Tourism, Hospitality, life Insurance, and
Consumer Products
3. It also sponsors the INDIAN HOCKEY and CRICKET TEAM
jerseys and other sport equipment's
4. On March 2010, SAHARA group bought the PUNE IPL TEAM
for Rs. 1,702 crore.

6. • Subrata Roy Sahara has received an honorary doctorate in
business leadership from the University of East London (2013)
• He also received the Business Icon of the Year award at the
Powerbrands Hall of Fame Awards in London in 2011
• He has received the Global Leadership Award in 2004
• he has been featured regularly in the India Today
(India’s leading magazine) list of 50 Most Powerful
People of India, since 2003
• In 2012, Roy was named among the 10 most influential
businessmen in India by the news magazine India
Today

7. • In 2004, the company he founded was termed by Time
magazine as "the second largest employer in India" after
Indian Railways.
• He received Businessmen of the Year Award in 2002, the Best
Industrialist Award in 2002.
• He won the Academy Award in the Indian Television
Academy Awards for his contribution to Indian television.

8. SUBRATA ROY said – always keep emotoins above
economics, principles above profit, values above
wealth.
“WE ARE A FAMILY, not just a business organization”
“WE DON’T WORK for a COMPANY , WE WORK for
OURSELVES, for GROWH of our PARIWAR”
He has also written 2 books named – “Shanti, Sukh &
Santushti” and “Maan , Samman & Atmasamman”

9. • Supreme Court refuses Subrata Roy permission to go abroad
• Subrata Roy was unhappy by BCCI as Sahara was not treated well in
spite of supporting team india for 13 years
• Sahara group lines up Rs. 32,400 crore investment, 56000 new jobs to
be filled at the end of 2014.
• SUBRATA ROY, (64, businessman) ranked 10 richest man in INDIA
• SUBRATA ROY is in trouble as SEBI moves to SUPREME COURT, seeks
detention.
• Feel unwanted in Mamata’ Bengal Subrata Roy says
• Sahara Q, the FMCG and retail arm of SAHARA INDIA PARIWAR. Today
laumched its successful retail model, quality mobile shop,

10. o SAHARA GROUP has undertaken a very prestigious and
ambitious property project called AMBY VALLEY which is a
first of its kind MEGAPOLIS spread over more than 10,000
acres. It is been developed to be amongst top 5 destination
cities in world
o Among its other recent projects, the merger of the Sahara
Airlines with jet airlines created waves throughout the
aviation industry
o SAHARA GROUP has also acquired a huge complex in
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh known as “SAHARA CITY”