Essel Group

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Type	Private
Industry	Conglomerate
Founded	1976
Headquarters	Mumbai, India
Key people	Subhash Chandra, (Chairman)
Products	cable programming, films, magazines, newspapers, satellite television, sporting events, television, websites, entertainment, infrastructure, metals
Revenue	US$ 2.5 billion (2010)
Employees	8,000 (2011)
Website	esselgroup.com

Essel Group is a conglomerate company headed by Subhash Chandra^[1] based in Mumbai, Maharashtra ^[2].

Operations[link]

The companies under the group are:^[3]

• Media
  • Zee Entertainment Enterprises
  • Zee News
  • DNA (newspaper)

• Technology^[4]
  • Dish TV
  • Wire & Wireless India
  • Zee Turner Limited
  • Intrex Trade Exchange Ltd
  • Cyquator Technologies Limited
  • Digital Media Convergence Limited
  • CornerShop Entertainment
  • Shirpur Gold Refinery^[5]

• Entertainment^[6]
  • E-City Ventures
  • ETC Networks
  • Pan India Network Infravest Pvt Ltd - The online gaming company Playwin is a part of this group
  • Essel Sports - Essesl Sports has started the Indian Cricket League (ICL) and is also the owner of Mumbai Football Club
  • Suncity Projects
  • Asian Sky Shop
  • E-City Bioscope Entertainment Pvt Ltd - The multiplex chain Fun Cinemas is a part of this group

• Packaging^[7]
  • Essel Propack^[8]

• Infrastructure
  • Essel Infraprojects Limited (EIL) - This group has started the amusement parks Essel World and Water Kingdom

• Education^[9]
  • Zee Learn Limited - A number of Learning projects has been launched by this group. They include
    • KIDZEE & Mount Litera World preschools
    • Mount Litera Zee & Mount Litera World Schools
    • Zee Institute of Media Arts (ZIMA)
    • Zee Institute of Creative Art (ZICA)

• Charity
  • Ekal Vidyalaya
  • Global Vipassana Foundation
  • Transnational Alternate Learning for Emancipation and Empowerment thorough Multimedia (TALEEM) Research Foundation
  • EsselWorld-OASIS

References[link]

External links[link]

• Essel Group official website

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Subhash Chandra (born 30 November 1950) is a onetime rice exporter-turned media baron and Chairman of Essel Group, that launched India's satellite television revolution. The Zee chairman dropped out after standard 12.^[3] His pioneering channel Zee TV competes with, among others, Sony Entertainment Television and STAR Plus. Other interests include packaging, theme parks, lotteries and cinema multiplexes. He started the failed 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. In November 2009, he took over management responsibility of Daily News & Analysis (DNA), which features among the top 8 English dailies in India and is one of fastest growing English newspapers in the country.

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.

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.

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

Chandra is the founder-Chairman of the Global Foundation for Civilizational Harmony, an interfaith group.^[4]

He was also given Emmy award in 2011.^[5]

See also[link]

• Essel Group

References[link]

External links[link]

• ekal vidyalya
• TALEEM

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