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#YoungAt90 | Watch: Dr Subhash Chandra's full speech at Essel Group's 90th anniversary

A star-studded evening saw the celebration of 90 years of Essel. What started as a grain market in Mandi Adampur, set up by Shri Jagan Nath Goenka and his brothers in 1926, grew to a multi-billion dollar conglomerate with a diverse presence across media, entertainment and techology.

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A star-studded evening saw the celebration of 90 years of Essel. What started as a grain market in Mandi Adampur, set up by Shri Jagan Nath Goenka and his brothers in 1926, grew to a multi-billion dollar conglomerate with a diverse presence across media, entertainment, packaging, infra, education, precious metals, finance, and technology.

The mega event was graced by the who's who of India including PM Modi and President Mukherjee. The event was hosted by Zee News Chief Editor Sudhir Chaudhary. The Zee Legacy Business Awards was handed out to  Dr Anand C Burman (Dabur),  Piyush Desai – (Wagh Bakri Tea Group) and  Murtaza Khorakiwala (Wockhardt Limited). Dr Subhash Chandra marked the occasion by launching several new Zee initiatives including the Army Behind The Army, Sarthi and the DSC foundation.

Here are the highlights of Dr. Subhash Chandra's speech at the event:

# 40,000-strong Esselites powering the group to fullfill its vision. It has six-and-a-half lakh shareholders in addition to scores of well-wishers in India and abroad.

# Today, Zee News and Zee Entertainment have their presence in 172 countries with over 120 crore viewership.

# We have launched many pioneering projects in the country and also made them successful.

# One motivation behind our success is my grandfather Jagan Nath Goenka's counsel: Never be afraid of difficulties and never compromise on your promise and honesty.

# These two motivational quotes alone helped us climb up and registered success in six of the nine projects.

# We have had many challenges in the last 90 years of Essel Group.

# Our projects have been planned and designed with an eye on social empowerment.

# Power thefts have been a major concern, but we have managed to bring down the losses from 39 percent to a single digit in Bihar. In the near future, we hope to expand our power supply to 50 cities and 20-25 thousand villages.

# Our waste-to-energy plant in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur town has been a success. The plant is pollution-free.

# We also have plans for housing for poor. Our Asha 2022 initiative is a low-cost, affordable housing scheme. However, the work is still in progress. Asha means Affordable Shelter and Houses for All.

# One of another future initiative is ‘Army Behind Army’. As part of this initiative, we plan to highlight and promote the causes of army men's wives through our organisation.

# Our Sarthi initiative is aimed at social upliftment through education, health, women empowerment and social justice. We have launched two pilot projects in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The initiative also endeavours to provide reservation for poor students in private schools.

Watch the full speech below: 

 

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