‘Think With Me’ Book Launch Event by Subrata Roy

Lucknow: Saharasri Subrata Roy Sahara’s book ‘Think With Me’ unveiled in the presence of Shri Akhilesh Yadav, Hon’ble Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. The book is a life time experiences, observations as well as insights of Saharasri Subrata Roy Sahara, Managing worker & Chairman, Sahara India Pariwar, to restore India to its past glory.

‘Think With Me’ Book Launch by Subrata Roy, Shri Amitabh Bachchan and Smt. Jaya Bachchan

Lucknow: Saharasri Subrata Roy Sahara’s book ‘Think With Me’ unveiled in the presence of superstar of the millennium Shri Amitabh Bachchan and Smt. Jaya Bachchan. The book is a life time experiences, observations as well as insights of Saharasri Subrata Roy Sahara, Managing worker & Chairman, Sahra India Pariwar, to restore India to its past glory.

Thoughts on ‘Think with me’ by Subrata Roy

With great power comes great responsibility

“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” Who doesn’t want to achieve success in life? Today, we all know the importance of success. An individual is recognised in the society based on his/her potential of success. When we take success to another tangent, it could perhaps be a myth, not everyone likes to or wants to share their secret to success. However, we always have exceptions. Highlighting the exception in this article, he is none other than Subrata Roy. Possessing his own company, he is among those generous souls who shares his secret to success. ‘Sahara’ is the company that was one among the first Indian companies to have an evident global presence. Covering various sectors, Sahara flourished to the fullest wherein millions of people were employed at one point of time.

“Think with Me” by Subrata Roy is doing exceptionally well across. It emphasizes our day-to-day concern in regards to political leadership, population growth, education, the media and religion going from bad to worse. Don’t you want to know what went wrong? Why are we facing these horrid problems? “Think with Me” is an answer to all the above concerns. This book involves Mr Roy’s years of experience where he discusses problems related to the above five fundamental issues. He has liberally shared some of those experiences in detail throughout the book. Along with it being an interesting read, it’s also a great guidebook that values the sacred for the love of the country before independence.

Thus, Mr Roy, through a deep-seated & thought provoking commentary on these issues invites you to think along with him and muse over these issues honestly and sincerely. Subrata Roy has been the man who takes responsibility for his actions. In this book, he talks about the need for a wider awakening on the issues mentioned above.

A gist of ‘Think with Me’ by Saharasri

Subrata Roy Sahara needs no introduction, the world has seen him grow into the successful businessman that he is and in spite of all his success, he has still managed to remain one of the humblest people you will ever come across. What makes him stay so humble and positive in life is not a secret, he has written a book on it called “Life Mantras”, which has been a bestseller for a while too.

So, after ‘Life Mantra’ comes ‘Think with Me’, a book from Saharasri’s trilogy. In ‘Think with Me’, he basically focuses on how to make India, our country an ideal one. We all know how our country is facing problems of various types, be it education, the religion and media degrading, political leadership, over population, etc. We often end up wondering what is it that we can actually do to make India a more livable place. Doubts like is the democracy really not helping India become better? Why aren’t we progressing in spite of so many efforts in the form of schemes, bills, laws etc.? Why aren’t our leaders able to do anything to fix the situation and make our country better?

Many young adults are indulging in a phenomenon known as ‘Brain Drain’, because the overall lifestyle and stand of living in our country is deteriorating with time as opposed to other countries which are only getting bigger and better. This is definitely not going to do our country any good as if you understand the situation, the brightest and most intelligent people are educating themselves from India and when it is time to use this very education and intelligence, they prefer to settle down in another country, adding to their grown and overall improvement.

‘Think with Me’ is more of an eye-opener for many and even if there will be some thoughts that you may not agree with, but the overall book is something every concerned citizen of India will agree with.

'Think with Me' by Subrata Roy Sahara

Subrata Roy Sahara brings ‘Think with Me’. In this book, he talks about the fundamentals of making India an ideal country.

Sahara to SEBI: Expedite investor verification, ads won't help

Hitting back at Sebi, embattled Sahara group today said issuance of advertisements would not help the regulator reach out to the investors spread across remote parts of the country and offered its help in verifying 95 per cent bondholders it claims to have already refunded. 

"The proof of the pudding is in eating. Sahara is confident that verification will prove not only the existence of the investors but also Sahara will get all its money which is with Sebi," the group said in a statement.

This follows comments made by Sebi's Whole-Time Member S Raman yesterday on the sidelines of a conference in Mumbai, where he wondered why not many claimants were coming forward to get back the money in the high-profile Sahara case.

"As far as Sahara is concerned, we have a decent amount of money but not many claimants. That is a question mark, as to why there are no claimants despite the fact that we have made multiple advertisements seeking applications to pay the money," he had said.

Terming his comments as "misguiding and irresponsible", Sahara accused Sebi of indulging in 'media trial' on Sahara- Sebi matter when the case was 'sub-judice'.

It said the regulator was not finding many claimants because "Sebi in four years has not initiated on-ground verification of the investors".

The group further said that Sebi has issued four newspaper advertisements directed towards only those investors who have yet to get refund. But, "the majority 95 per cent who have already got back their money are neither addressed in these advertisements nor will they anyway, bother to reply to Sebi (even if asked) as they have already got their money refunded from Sahara."

"Besides, it is imperative to understand that almost entire majority of Sahara investors (including the remaining 5 per cent investors) reside in the remote parts of rural India and are mostly illiterate or barely literate.

"Many of them live in mud houses, hutments and even slums, where there are no street names or house numbers (as there are no municipalities in small villages to allot house numbers, etc). Therefore, instead of merely issuing advertisements, a more serious and detailed approach should be adopted by Sebi to reach out to our investors," it said.

The group further said "Sahara with its more than 12 lakh workers has an unparalleled reach to investors".

Citing the Supreme Court order that Sebi can take help of Sahara for verification of investors, the group said, "It is not possible to reach out to these small investors and Sahara is always ready to assist Sebi in reaching out to the aforesaid investors."

Sahara is engaged in a long-running dispute with the Sebi over schemes involving raising of funds from public through certain bonds and the group was asked to return thousands of crores along with interest to the investors through the regulator.

"The entire desire of ours is to distribute as much money as possible," Raman had said.

Reacting to Raman's comments about Sahara giving truckloads of documents not connected to one another and the regulator undertaking the gargantuan task of sifting through those, Sahara said the group was asked to send all the document pertaining to 3 crore investors to Sebi in 10 days.

"The OFCD (bonds through which money was raised) was not closed and in fact in process of refund to a large number of investors was on. In this scenario many of the document were at our head office while a big number of documents were at our more than 4,000 branches.

"Keeping in mind the time limit of 10 days, we collected all the original documents as it is from all our offices across India and had sent the same to Sebi is boxes through 127 trucks," Sahara said in a detailed statement.

Stating that there was no fault on Sahara's part, it further said, "The documents of 3 crore investors cannot be handful and quite understandably will be huge in number because it contains the proofs of repayments of three crore investors - original repayment vouchers, receipts, KYC and other relevant documents.”

"Further, Sahara had in fact offered Sebi to help in the collation of documents and stationed its 50 officials in Sebi's Mumbai office to assist the market regulator. We were even ready to increase the number of officials to many hundred, but Sebi has refused to take their help. "Moreover, Sebi refused to take around 25 per cent of the documents which are still lying in our warehouses in Mumbai," it added.

It further accused Sebi of not having made "any serious effort" to start the verification even after two years of having claimed to have successfully organized the documents.

It further asserted that verification of "documented proofs" provided by Sahara would prove that all its "investors actually exist".

The group said the amount deposited so far with Sebi is more than Rs 14,000 crore, including interest earned, and recently it has given additional Rs 500 crore, though Sebi has refunded only Rs 55 crore.

Saharasri offers gratitude to all who stood by Sahara in difficult times

Sahara has already deposited more than Rs.14,000 crores with SEBI, but  in the last 43 months, SEBI has repaid only around Rs.50 crores to the esteemed Investors, ofcourse after verification all these monies shall come back to Sahara 

Mumbai, 17^th July, 2016: ‘Saharasri’ Subrata Roy Sahara, Managing Worker and Chairman, Sahara India Pariwar, culminates his gratitude journey today at Mumbai. ‘Saharasri’ Subrata Roy Sahara had commenced the ‘Abhaar Yatra’ – an emotional gratitude journey to offer his thanks and appreciate the unprecedented support extended by crores of esteemed members, associates and over 12 lakhs workers of Sahara India Pariwar. During his journey which started on 27^th May, 2016 from Hyderabad he travelled across India including cities like Vijayawada, Raipur, Nagpur, Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Lucknow, Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Patna, Muzaffarpur, Ranchi, Varanasi, Bhopal, Jodhpur, Jaipur and Ahmedabad. 

While addressing the meeting of over five thousand managers, here at Mumbai Saharasri said, “I feel utmost proud to see the faith shown by you which has always been the real strength of Sahara India Pariwar.”  The event saw the emotional outburst of many workers who were reduced to tears on seeing Saharasri among them.  People wanted to touch him and shake hands with him, or take his photographs.

He further emphasized, “Sahara India Pariwar has always had absolute faith in the Indian Judiciary and we strongly believe that justice may get delayed for various genuine reasons but will prevail and it does, in the end and same will happen in Sahara SEBI case as well.”

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