In 2005, in collaboration with Dainik Bhaskar group, Chandra launched an English-language daily newspaper, DNA, in Mumbai to challenge the well-settled The Times of India. Currently, the Zee TV network, consists of up to 90 channels, reaching 1.3 billion people spread over 174 countries. The channel competes with, among others, Sony Entertainment Television and STAR Plus. Business Ĭhandra launched India's first satellite TV channel, Zee TV, in 1992. In 1992, he launched Zee TV, the second private commercial television channel in the country in association with Star TV in Hong Kong, and in 2003, Dish TV, the first satellite television provider in India. He followed it up with a leisure park Essel World in north Mumbai.

In the 1980s, he started manufacturing flexible packaging (mainly plastic tubes) for fast moving consumer goods such as toothpaste under the brand name Essel Packaging. His family could not afford his higher education, and in 1965 he dropped out of school to join the family business of commission agents and traders who procured and supplied rice to the Food Corporation of India. His family had a debt of ₹3.5 lakh, which he had to repay. Forbes India notes that Chandra was born in Rajasthan, and moved with his family to Hisar during his childhood. Subhash Chandra is born in an Agarwal Bania family in Adampur, Hisar district, Haryana.

On Subhash Chandra filed his nomination from Rajasthan for elections to the Rajya Sabha as an Independent candidate backed by the Bharatiya Janata Party, but he lost the election. He was elected to the Upper House of the Indian parliament for the Haryana state in the 2016 Rajya Sabha election, as an independent candidate supported by legislators from the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was also the chairman of Zee Media but resigned as Director and Non-Executive Chairman of the company on. He is the chairman of the Essel Group, an Indian media conglomerate and founded Zee TV in 1992. Subhash Chandra Goenka (born 30 November 1950) is an Indian billionaire media baron.

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