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Chenraj Roychand | |
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| Born | 7 July 1961 |
| Nationality | Indian |
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| Title | Chancellor - Jain University |
Chenraj Roychand (born 7 July 1961) is an Indian educationist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder of the Jain Group and has served as chancellor of Jain University since 1990. [1]
Roychand started the Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College in Bangalore in the year 1990 at VV Puram, which to date remains one of the best-known colleges in the city. He went on to establish schools and colleges across the country in a matter of two decades. Jain University was declared a Deemed University under the University Grants Commission Act, 1956.
Chenraj Roychand, who aspired to actively empower the rural and urban populace, established the Chenraj Roychand Center for Entrepreneurship in 2001. [2] The center aims to create an ecosystem to produce successful social entrepreneurs. He, who became an entrepreneur at a very young age, has his experience behind him to recognize the real creative minds who can work with passion and yield turbulent growth. His benevolent attitude towards his underlings encourages many to follow their passion. The centre has so far incubated 50 companies, where the companies are trained to identify an idea, understand hi-tech markets, and develog emerging technologies. Roychand has plans to create 500 entrepreneurs in the next five years. [3] [4]
T. V. Mohandas Pai, Chairman of Manipal Global Education, said that Roychand, "is the Indian version of an angel investor with a lot of mentoring and support, where you treat it as a family business and the entrepreneur becomes part of the family. It is not like the Western model of high growth and high return. Here, the person who is mentoring is more important than the investment." [5]
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