Subhash Chandra

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Subhash Chandra
Born	December 30, 1950 (1950-12-30) (age 57) Hisar, Haryana, India
Residence	Mumbai, India
Occupation	Chairman, of Essel Group
Net worth	▲ $2.3 Billion USD, ^[1]
Website essellgroup

1 Biography
2 Awards and Recognition
3 Social initiatives
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Biography

Subhash Chandra is a onetime rice trader turned media baron and Chairman of Essel Group, that launched India's satellite television revolution. His pioneering Zee TV competes with, among others, Sony Entertainment Television and STAR Plus. Other interests include packaging, theme parks, lotteries and cinema multiplexes. He has recently started the Indian Cricket League, a domestic Twenty20 cricket league intended as a challenge to the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the nation's governing body in the sport.

[edit] Awards and Recognition

[edit] Social initiatives

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TALEEM

Transnational Alternate Learning for Emancipation and Empowerment thorough Multimedia TALEEM Research Foundation was set up by Chandra as a literary, scientific and charitable society and trust in May 1996.

Global Vipassana Foundation

Chandra is the President of the Global Vipassana Foundation in his capacity as a Vipassana meditator. Having completed the Vipassana course in the 1990s, he was impelled to spread the philosophy of mental purification through self-observation.

Ekal Vidyalaya

Chandra is the Chairman of Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of India, a charitable trust that initiates, supports and runs non-formal one teacher schools all over the country. The movement aims to help eradicate illiteracy from rural and tribal India by 2011.