Subrata Roy is an Indian businessman who founded the Sahara Pariwar conglomerate. He started Sahara in 1978 in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh as a small deposits business. Sahara has since grown into one of the largest conglomerates in India with interests in finance, real estate, media, tourism and other sectors. Roy has received several awards for his entrepreneurship. However, in 2014 the Supreme Court ordered his arrest for failing to appear regarding a dispute over Rs. 24,000 crore in deposits that Sahara had not refunded to investors.

1. A
Presentation on
Subrata Roy Sahara
By
Pratap Tirkey
BBA/45019/13

2. Contents
1. Background
2. The beginning
3. Business career
4. Awards
5. Legal Issues

3. 1.Background
Subrata Roy is an Indian businessman who was
born on 10th June 1948 in Bihar.
He studied at Holy Child School in Kolkata and
later studied mechanical engineering from
Government Technical Institute, Gorakhpur.
Subrata Roy is the founder and chairman of the
Sahara Pariwar.

4. 2.The beginning
In the year 1978, he opened a small office in
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh). When he
founded Sahara with three workers in
northern state of Uttar Pradesh as a small
deposits Para – banking business.
That accept deposits of very low amounts.

5. 3.Business career
• In 1990s, Roy moved to Lucknow which became
the base of his empire. His Sahara City project
covering 170 acres was launched in 1990s.
• From there, it went on to become the largest
combination of India with diversified range of
business interests.

6. Conti..
Sahara Group works on:
• Finance
• Real Estate
• Media & Entertainment
• Tourism and Hospitality
• Product
• Service trading

7. Conti…
Finance Business:
• Para banking
• Mutual funds
• Home loan
• Life insurance
Real Estate:
• Premium township
• Group housing project
• Malls
• Hotels

8. Conti…
Media $ Entertainment:
• National Hindi news channel ‘Samay’ .
• 36 city specific regional news channels like
‘Sahara Samay’, ‘Sahara One’ etc.
• Entertainment channel $ a Hindi movie
channel ‘Filmy’.
• In 2003, Sahara started three weekly magazine
Sahara time
Sahara samay
Sahara aalmi.

9. Conti…
Tourism & Hospitality:
Under its tourism business Sahara has launched
‘Sahara Global’ –an integrated Travel &
Tourism Service provider for domestic as well
as International services.
It also sponsors the Indian Cricket & Hockey
teams.

10. 4.Awards
• He has been conferred the ITA – TV Icon of the
year (2007)
• He has received the Global Leadership Award
(2004)
• He was also awarded the Businessman of the
Year Award (2002), the best industrialist
Award(2002) and the National Citizen
Award(2001) for his entrepreneurship skills.

11. 5.Legal Issues
On 26 February 2014, the Supreme Court of
India ordered the arrest of Subrata Roy failing
to appear before it in connection with the Rs.
24,000 Core deposits his company has not
refunded to investors. He was eventually
arrested on 28 Feb 2014 by Uttar Pradesh
police on Supreme Court’s warrant, in a
dispute with Market Regulator –SEBI.