Sahara India Pariwar

Type	Private
Founded	1978 in Gorakhpur, India
Founder(s)	Subrata Roy
Headquarters	Lucknow, India
Key people	Subrata Roy Sahara, Founder, Chairman and Managing Worker
Industry	Finance, Real Estate, Media & Entertainment, Tourism & Hospitality, and Services & Trading
Website	saharaindiapariwar.org

Sahara India Pariwar is an Indian multi-business conglomerate with diversified business interests that include finance, Insurance, real estate, media & entertainment, tourism & hospitality, and services & trading. Sahara is also the sponsors for Indian Hockey and Cricket teams

[edit] Projects

Under its finance businesses Sahara operates in Parabanking, Life Insurance, Mutual Funds and Home Loans sectors.

Under the flagship real estate project Sahara City Homes chain of townships is proposed to be developed across 217 cities in India.^[1] Recently Sahara has launched its Sahara Grace brand of residential complex at Kochi. After Sahara Grace at Gurgaon and Lucknow the Kochi project is the third under this brand which is positioned to provide a product mix of apartments and penthouses to its residents. Other ventures of Sahara real estate business are Sahara States – Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Hyderabad and Bhopal, Brand malls – Sahara Ganj, Lucknow and Sahara Mall, Gurgaon.

Sahara is also active in Media & Entertainment businesses. It owns a National Hindi News Channel Samay, bouquet of 36 city specific regional news channels Sahara Samay, Sahara One, general entertainment channel and a Hindi movie channel Filmy. Sahara Samay received the "Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award" in 2008 for its network newsroom technology.^[2] Sahara has recently launched FIRANGI channel which is positioned as World Television in Hindi.

Sahara has also forayed into the print medium.^[3] In print industry Sahara has one national weekly magazine in English, 6 editions of Hindi Daily Newspaper Rashtriya Sahara, nine editions of Urdu Daily Newspaper Roznama Rashtriya Sahara and one International Urdu Weekly.

Under its Motion Pictures business, Sahara is engaged in business of producing, marketing and distribution of motion pictures in Hindi and other regional Indian languages. Its successes include Bewafaa, Page 3, Sarkar and No Entry.^[4]

Under its tourism business Sahara has launched Sahara Global - an integrated travel and tourism service provider for domestic and international services.^[5][6]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Sahara India Pariwar
• sahara.in