VIJAY SANKESHWAR

VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY BELGAVI

SECAB INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY,

VIJAYPUR-586 101

2017-2018

DEPARTMENT OF
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Assignment On
“ENTERPRENUR -VIJAY SANKESHWAR”

Submitted By MARKS
NINGAYYA JADIMATH
USN

2SA14CS011

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CONTENT

Sl No. Title Page No

1 INTRODUCTION 03

2 PERSONAL LIFE 05

3 CAREER 06

4 EXTERNAL BUSINESS VENTURES 08

5 AWARDS 09

REFERENCES

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INTRODUCTION

Vijay Sankeshwar (born 2 August 1950) is an Indian businessman. He

along with Anand Sankeshwar(Managing Director) is the chairman of
India's largest logistics firm VRL Group and is also known for being the
owner of the largest fleet of commercial vehicles in India. He left BJP
and founded Kannada Nadu Party. Later he joined the Karnataka Janata
Paksha of BJP outcast Yeddyurappa; the party eventually merged back
with BJP.

Vijay Sankeshwar was also a former Member of Parliament from North

Dharwad constituency as a BJP member. Sankeshwar previously
owned Karnataka's largest circulating newspaper, Vijaya Karnataka
until it was sold to Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd.(The Times Group) for
an undisclosed sum in 2007. After the expiry of a 5-year noncompete
clause he launched Vijaya Vani in 2012.Vijaya Vani is now the #1
Kannada Daily Newspaper with 8 lakh+ copies every day. His
company owns two Private Jets (VT-VRL & VANF).Vijaya Sankeshwar

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has launched a new Kannada Channel "Digvijay 24X7" on April 4,

2017.
B G Sankeshwar and Co., set up by his father 90 years ago in Gadag,
published and printed the D K Bhardwaj Kannada Dictionary, books and
guides. Even now they publish five to six lakh copies of the dictionary
every year, which is being taken care of by Sankeshwar’s brothers.His
father expected him to join the family business. “My father was reluctant
to send me to college after my schooling. He wanted me to get into the
printing business and settle down,” he says.His father gifted him a
printing press in 1966, when he was just 16. Named ‘Vijay Printing
Press’, it was a small set-up with just one machine and two employees.

Education
He completed his Graduation in Commerce and was educated at Adarsh
Shikshan Samiti, College of Commerce, Gadag, Karnataka University,
Dharwad, Karnataka.

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PERSONAL LIFE
Vijay Sankeshwar was Born in 2 August 1950 at Gadag, Karnataka,
India. His father name is Shri Basavanneppa.
Vijay Sankeshwar Married smt.Lalitha on 14 December 1972 he have
One son and three daughters.
Profession
Printer, Transporter, Trader and Industrialist.

Positions Held
1993 Member, B.J.P., Distt. Dharwad, Karnataka
onwards(Held various positions at District and State level)
1996Elected to 11th Lok Sabha
1996-97Member, Committee on Finance
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of
Surface Transport
1998Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
1998-99Member, Committee on Transport and Tourism
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Surface
Transport.

Special Interests
Transport Industry ,labour problems, finance and law.

Other Information
Started career as printer and publisher at the age of 16; setup own
transport company-'Vijayanand Roadlines Ltd.', having more than 700
lorries at present; and Member, Tobacco Board.

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CARRIER
Birth of VRL Group
He founded it in 1976 in Gadag, a small town in North Karnataka, with a
single truck and a vision that was way ahead of its time. VRL soon
expanded its service to Bengaluru, Hubballi and Belagavi. From this
humble beginning VRL has grown into a nationally renowned logistics
and transport company that is currently the largest fleet owner in India
with a fleet of 3579 Vehicles (Including 488 tourist buses & 3091 Goods
Transport Vehicles) as of 28 February 2014. VRL finds mention in the
Limca Book of Records as the single largest fleet owner of commercial
vehicles in India in the private sector. Over the years VRL has pioneered
providing a safe and reliable delivery network in the field of parcel
service. It has spread its operations to Courier Service, Express Cargo &
Air Chartering to meet the growing demand of the burgeoning customer

3PL & Warehousing solutions offered by VRL are tailor-made and cater
to the needs of various customers of the industry. With the largest
network in India, the VRL parcel service is indispensable for a large
number of corporate houses. This network spans the length and breadth
of the country and is supported by a large number of transhipment hubs.
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VRL operates through a network of 859 Branches and franchisees. VRL

is now expanding its service to reach even the remotest locations of the
Country.4800 vehicles as on June 18, 2017.

With more than 15,000 employees, the VRL Group is in transportation,

courier service, publishing, wind mills and air chartering business. From
a turnover of Rs. 2 lakh in 1976, Sankeshwar has built a conglomerate
that includes VRL Media Limited, a Rs. 300 crore publishing house.It is
hard to believe that this unassuming man from Gadag in north
Karnataka had the fire in him as a teenager to step out from the comfort
zone of family business to attempt something different.In 1976, he
started Vijay Transport with a single truck, investing Rs. 1.20 lakh on the
truck with borrowed money. Vijay Sankeshwar started growing, he
approached well-known corporates in Hubballi and FMCG companies in
Bangalore for business. Initially, they cold shouldered him. “Later, after
hearing about our timely service, they came back in search of us, and the
rest is history,” he shares.With eight owned trucks, the business was
converted into a private limited company by the name of Vijayanand
Roadlines in 1983.
“I took a big risk. It was tough trying my luck in this unorganised sector.
I suffered severe losses. My parents and wife wanted me to return to the
family business,” recalls Sankeshwar of the initial challenges he faced in
the transport sector.
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EXTERNAL BUSINESS VENTURES

Vijay Sankeshwar started growing, he approached well-known
corporates in Hubballi and FMCG companies in Bangalore for business.
Initially, they cold shouldered him. “Later, after hearing about our timely
service, they came back in search of us, and the rest is history,” he
shares.With eight owned trucks, the business was converted into a
private limited company by the name of Vijayanand Roadlines in 1983.
By 1990, the company had a fleet of 117 vehicles clocking a
turnover of Rs. 4 crore. Stretching its operations further, the company
commenced courier service within the state of Karnataka in 1992.Two
years later Vijayanand Road lines became a deemed Public Limited
Company. The company started passenger bus operations in 1996 with
four buses between Bangalore and Hubballi. Today, VRL operates about
400 buses on 75 routes, across eight states. In 2006,VRL commenced its
wind power business at Kappatgudda Gadag district by setting up a wind
farm of 42.5 MW with 34 wind turbine generators (WTGs), each with
capacity of 1.25 MW.“All my ventures were based on trial and error
method. I took maximum risk as well as pride in whatever I have done
so far. We never copied anyone in any of our business models,” explains
Sankeshwar.
In 1999, he became a media baron launching a regional Kannada daily,
Vijaya Karnataka - which became the number one circulated daily in the
state. In 2002 he launched an English daily, Vijay Times. In 2006 , he
divested the entire stake in Vijayanand Printers Limited to Times Group.
After the five-year no-compete clause, the VRL Group launched a new
Kannada daily Vijayavani in 2012, which again climbed to the number
one spot with over 8 lakh circulation.

AWARDS
Vijay Sankeshwar receives many awards including the Udyog Ratna,
Aaryabhatta Award.Sir M. Visvesvaraya Memorial Award and the

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Transport Samrat, Sankeshwar was conferred with an honorary

Doctorate by the Karnatak University, Dharwad, in 2014.

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REFERENCES
1. "Board of Directors of VRL". vrlgroup.in. Retrieved 4 June
2017.

2. why-sankeshwar-wants-to-sell-vijaya-karnataka

3. vrlgroup

4. www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?
newsID=445935

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