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Sahara India Pariwar is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Lucknow, India with business interests in finance, infrastructure & housing, media & entertainment, consumer merchandise retail venture, manufacturing and information technology. The company has a market capitalisation of US$25.94 billion as of March 2011. The group is a major promoter of sports in India and was the main sponsor of the India national cricket team. The company owns a 42.5% stake in Formula One's Force India Formula 1 Team and also sponsors India national field hockey team.In March 2014, the company founder Subrata Roy and two other directors were sent to judicial custody in Tihar Jail following the order of the Supreme Court of India.

Businesses

Sahara India Pariwar was founded by Subrata Roy.

Real Estate

Sahara India Real Estate Company and the Sahara Housing Investment Corporation, subsidiaries of the conglomerate, buy and develop land for residential housing projects across India. The company has projects in Kanpur, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Kochi, Gurgaon and Pune. Sahara has a collaboration with Turner Construction, an American building company, in some of its projects.

Sports

Sahara owns several professional sports teams in India in a variety of sports. In badminton, it owns the Awadhe Warriors of Lucknow, one of six teams in the Indian Badminton League'. In cricket, it owned the Pune Warriors India, a franchise team that played in the Indian Premier League (IPL),. Sahara owns the Formula One team Sahara Force India.

The company launched a polo team, the Sahara Warriors Polo Team in 2012. In July 2012, Sahara India Praiser picked up the Lucknow franchise of the Hockey India League (HIL), the Uttar Pradesh Wizards. It is also the sponsor of the Bangladesh Cricket Team since 2012.

Media and entertainment

The group owns a national Hindi News Channel Samay and 36 city specific regional news channels Sahara Samay. It also owns Sahara One- A General entertainment channel, Filmy- A Hindi movie channel, and Firangi- An entertainment channel. Sahara Samay received the "Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award" in 2008 for its network newsroom technology.

The group owns publishes and sells one magazine in English, 7 editions of Hindi Daily Newspaper Rashtriya Sahara, nine editions of Urdu Daily Newspaper Roznama Rashtriya Sahara and one International Urdu Weekly, Aalmi Sahara.

Sahara produces, markets, and distributes Hindi and other regional language films. Well known films produced by the company include Bewafaa, Page 3, Sarkar, No Entry, Wanted. In September 2010, the company was in talks to acquire MGM Studios, but the deal collapsed. Sahara is willing to try again to take over MGM.

Hotels

Sahara owns a controlling stakes in New York's Plaza Hotel and London's Grosvenor House Hotel.

In India, the group owns the "Sahara Star" hotel near Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.

Finance

Sahara has interests in insurance and asset management. Sahara India Life Insurance Company Ltd. (SILICL), is a Life Insurance Company in the private sector. Sahara Asset Management Company Pvt. Ltd. manages 16 equity and debt Mutual Funds. Sahara Banking & Financial Services Fund has been adjudged the Best Performing Banking Sector Fund over a 3-year Performance by the International Agency "Lippers".

Other financial activities associated with the company have come under significant legal scrutiny, including a savings program with the stated intention of selling savings products to the poor, which government officials claim may be exploiting it's customers.

Retail

On 13 August 2012, Sahara India announced the opening of their retail FMCG business named 'Q shop' (Quality shop) with an initial investment of Rs. 30 billion. Sahara also announced the hire of 600,000 sales personnel and 3000 customer care executives. At its launch, Subrata Roy said that Sahara had been planning for this venture for the last two years and was opening 'Q shops' in major cities across the country to provide adulteration-free consumer merchandise including processed food and beverages to buyers. The group said it would set up 305 warehouses in 285 cities in a phased manner.

Sahara India Pariwar’s Sahara Q Shop Entered into the Guinness World Records when it opened record 315 outlets in 10 states of India, just at one time on 1 April 2013

Power

Sahara Power has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Orissa for setting up a 1320 MW (2 x 660) Coal Based Thermal Power Plant in Turla Tehsil of Balangir District, Orissa at an investment of about Rs. 56.04 billion. Sahara India Power Corporation Limited has also proposed to set up a 2000 MW Coal based power plants in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh at an estimated investment of Rs. 80 billion. each.

Health care

The group owns a hospital in Lucknow. The hospital was opened in 2009. This hospital got operational in February 2009 and is currently operating with approximately 350 beds, including 120 bed Critical Care Infrastructure and expandable to 554 beds.

Other Businesses

Under the name "Sahara Next", the company offers Information Technology consulting services in banking, finance, media and entertainment, chemicals and CRM.

The group owned an airline, Air Sahara, which it sold to Jet Airways in 2007. Under the name "Sahara Global", it offers integrated travel and tourism services for domestic as well as international customers.

The group runs a school in Pune, the International School Amby – Amby Valley, and the Sahara College of Nursing & Paramedical Sciences in Lucknow.

Charitable work

The Sahara Welfare Foundation, the social development unit of Sahara India Pariwar, runs social welfare projects. The company assisted the families of Indian soldiers killed in the Kargil war with a commitment of 500 million (USD 10.65 million ) The company also assisted families whose homes were damaged in the 2006 Gujarat earthquake. Other welfare activities include water purification systems and education resource systems in Indian villages.

Humanitarian efforts

In 2013, Sahara contributed to the relief efforts in flood hit Uttarakhand region wherein one lakh bottles of drinking water, juice bottles and food packets along with candles and match boxes were said to provided by them. There were 25 medical health unit vans equipped with doctors and free medicines made available and It was said by the group that, they will contribute to the rehabilitation programme by constructing 10,000 pre-fabricated houses.

Guinness World records

• Sahara holds the record for the most people singing a national anthem simultaneously. 121,653 employees of the company sang India' national anthem on 8 May 2013 in Lucknow, India.

• Sahara India Pariwar’s Sahara Q Shop Entered into the Guinness World Records when it opened record 315 outlets in 10 states of India, just at one time on 1 April 2013

Controversy

On 26 February 2014, the Supreme Court of India ordered the arrest of Subrata Roy for failing to appear before it in connection with the Rs.24,000-crore deposits his company has not refunded to its investors. He was eventually arrested on 28 February 2014 by Uttar Pradesh police on Supreme Court's Warrant, in a dispute with Market Regulator - SEBI. In a statement after the arrest, his lawyer said Mr. Roy's 92-year-old mother was in poor health and needed "her eldest son" by her side, and hence he failed to appear at the court. He was granted interim bail by Supreme Court of India for the same on 26 march 2014 on condition of depositing Rs 10,000 crore with the market regulator Sebi.

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32. Sahara to put in Rs1000 crore in welfare foundation, DNA, 5 February 2012
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35. Sahara to pay martyrs' families 5 times salary for 10 yrs , The Indian Express
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38. Sahara India to adopt 1,000 villages for all round development , The Economic Times, 10 June 2013
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External links

• www.saharaindiapariwar.org
• www.sahara.in

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