- Subhash Chandra
Infobox Celebrity
name = Subhash Chandra
caption = Subhash Chandra
birth_date = birth date and age|1950|12|30
birth_place = flagicon|INDHisar ,Haryana ,India
residence = flagicon|INDMumbai ,India
occupation = Chairman, ofEssel Group
salary =
networth = gain $2.3 BillionUSD , [ [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/10/07billionaires_Subhash-Chandra_ZMYU.html #407 Subhash Chandra - Forbes.com ] ]
spouse =
website = [http://esselgroup.com/ essellgroup]
footnotes =
children =
Biography
Subhash Chandra is a onetime rice trader turned media baron and Chairman of
Essel Group , that launchedIndia 'ssatellite television revolution. His pioneeringZee TV competes with, among others, Sony Entertainment Television andSTAR Plus . Other interests include packaging, theme parks, lotteries and cinema multiplexes. He has recently started theIndian Cricket League , a domesticTwenty20 cricket league intended as a challenge to theBoard of Control for Cricket in India , the nation's governing body in the sport.Awards and Recognition
ocial initiatives
;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.
ee also
Essel Group References
External links
* [http://www.wiki.org.in/index.php?title=Subhash_Chandra Subhash Chandra]
* [http://ekalindia.org/ ekal vidyalya]
* [http://taleemresearchfoundation.org/ TALEEM]
* [http://globalpagoda.org/] Global Vipassana Foundation]
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