Subrata Roy Sahara, The Chairman of Sahara India A businessman and an industrialist, Subrata Roy Sahara is the Managing Worker and Chairman of Sahara India Pariwar. Subrata Roy founded Sahara in the year 1978, and by 2004, he grew the company into one of the most successful conglomerates in the country, Sahara emerged as ‘the second largest employer in India’ after the Indian Railways. As a child, Subrata Roy Sahara was a bright student. He held great interest in technical education, and he pursued this interest as he went on to earn a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Government Technical Institute, Gorakhpur.