Sunil Galgotia, Founder of Galgotia University
Galgotias University does not need any identity. It is one of the biggest universities not only in Delhi NCR but in the entire Northern India. Although this university remains in the news because of things related to its education, but this time it is something special. At present, the university has come into controversy and discussion because of its robodog. Well, there has been a lot of talk on this controversy. But do you know who is the owner of Galgotias University? Earlier the owner of this university ran only a book store in Delhi? After all, how did the owner of a book store build such a huge empire of education and acquire wealth worth billions of rupees?
Galgotias University embroiled in which controversy?
At present, Galgotias University is embroiled in a big controversy. In fact, the university had kept a robo dog for exhibition at the AI Summit organized in Delhi. It was claimed by the university that this robo dog was created by the students of the university. While the allegation is that this robo dog is a product of China. This controversy deepened further after the photo went viral on social media. Which was later removed from the summit stall by the university. However, till now there is no official statement from the management of the university. Everyone is waiting for this.
Who is the founder of Galgotiya
If we talk about the founder of Galgotia University, his name is Sunil Galgotia. This university was established in 2011. At present its CEO is Dhruv Galgotia. Who is the son of Sunil Galgotia. This university is located near Yamuna Expressway in Greater Noida. Where studies are conducted from graduation level to post graduate and PhD. However, the empire of the Galgotia family was not that big. Gave a book shop to Galgotia family in Delhi. According to media reports, in 1930, his family had a book shop named ‘ED Galgotia and Sons’ in Connaught Place. From there this family has built such a huge empire of education. When Sunil Galgotia took over the reins of the family, he started Galgotia Publications in the 1980s.
Started the journey by borrowing money
Sunil Galgotia had to struggle a lot in the beginning. He got his first book published by borrowing Rs 9000. Whose name was ‘Power System Control and Stability’. After that Sunil also got the distribution rights of Barron’s SAT, TOEFL, GRE and GMAT books in India and the business started growing rapidly.
First laid the foundation of the institute
Galgotias did not stop here. He entered the education sector and laid the foundation of Galgotias Institute of Management and Technology in the year 2000 with only 40 students. After that its popularity continued to increase. Then Galgotia College of Engineering and Technology and Engineering was started. Now the story was to do something big and in the year 2011, Galgotias University was established. At present, more than 40,000 students are studying in this group. Students from more than 40 countries are coming to this university to complete their studies. The special thing is that more than 1 lakh people who have completed their studies in this university are working in 96 countries. According to media reports, the journey which the Galgotia family started with 1 book store has currently transformed into a business worth Rs 3000 crore.
