Harsh Bhaskar

Harsh Bhaskar, M.D of Kota Tutorials and Nirmala Group of Institution.

Harsh Bhaskar
Born1968
Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
NationalityIndian
Known forDalit businesses

Early life

Harsh Bhaskar was born in Jatav community at Agra, Uttar Pradesh.[1] He did B.Tech from IIT-Roorkee and joined Radha Swami Educational Group.

In 1999, he joined HCL in Noida as a software techie. He started his own software firm in Delhi with seven collegues but it got failed. Finally, he got franchise of Kota-based Career Point and he opened it's branch at Agra.[2]

Business

In 2002, he opened his own institute, Kota Tutorials and started with less than 100 students.[3]

He is Managing Director of Kota Tutorials which have it's branch in more than 10 cities of India and known for it's way of education. His institutions have a base of over 30,000 students and also established Nirmala Group of Institutions at Farah in Mathura, U.P.[4]

He is projecting for turning his group of colleges into a full-fledged private university making it first Dalit to do so.

His business have a turnover of more than 10 crore and it's among top emerging businesses among Dalits.[5]

References
  1. "Proud to be a Dalit". telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  2. Kumar, Vikas (19 July 2011). "Rise of the Dalits: Harsh Bhasker, a rare entrepreneur to have built a knowledge business with Kota Tutorials". The Economic Times. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  3. Khandekar, Milind (7 July 2017). Life Lessons : A University: (Penguin Petit). Penguin Random House India Private Limited. ISBN 978-93-86651-77-8.
  4. Khandekar, Milind (15 December 2013). Dalit Millionaires: 15 Inspiring Stories. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-93-5118-583-3.
  5. "The Other Temple Entry | Outlook India Magazine". https://www.outlookindia.com/. Retrieved 7 June 2020. External link in |website= (help)
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