Chief Guest & Keynote Speaker
Dr. Subhash Chandra
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Chairman ZEE & Essel Group
Subhash Chandra ji is the Member of Parliament - Rajya Sabha from his home state
Haryana. He is also the Chairman of ZEE and Essel Group.
Subhashji’s pioneering vision has gifted the nation not just its first private satellite
television but has also given an entire industry that gives employment to more than
50 lakh people. And, so he is rightly referred as ‘The Father of Indian Television’
This May, on the completion of 90 years of Subhashji’s Essel Group, he announced
INR 5000 crore of his family wealth for the Subhash Chandra Foundation, which will
work towards capacity building of the nation.
Indian Satellite Television is celebrating its silver jubilee this year & ZEE TV which
started this industry now caters to over 1.3 billion viewers from 172 countries in
more than 19 languages.
Subhashji is an educationist and philanthropist, who is also the Chairman of Ekal
Global, which works for the under-privileged children, especially in the tribal areas.
Ekal Abhiyan started in 1989 and it presently runs 56,000+ schools in 22 Indian states
and 1900 in Nepal. Ekal Abhiyan has so far reached the lives of around 18 lakh
children, especially in the Naxal hit areas.
Subhashji firmly believes in giving back to the society. Mandi Adampur, the grain
market that was founded by his grandfather in 1926 and later where Subhashji was
born in 1950, 66 years later is now one of the 5 villages adopted by him in Hisar.