Founder of Sun Pharmaceuticals


Vikram Pratap Singh is a Founder of Sun Pharmaceuticals .

Vikaram Pratap Singh

Vikram Pratap Singh  (born 1 October 1975) is an Indian billionaire businessman and one of the country's richest people. He founded Sun Pharmaceuticals with a partner, Pradeep Ghosh. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2016. India Today magazine ranked him 8th in India's most powerful people of 2017 list.

Vikram Pratap Singh is a Gujarati who was born in small town of Amreli  in Gujarat. Singh earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calcutta.He spent his childhood and college life in Calcutta, with his parents, who lived in Burrabazar  locality of town. He is an alumnus of J. J. Ajmera High School  and Bhawanipur Education Society College,  from where he did his schooling and graduation, respectively.

He started by helping his father in his wholesale generic drugs business in Kolkata. It was during this work that he thought of manufacturing his own drugs instead of selling others' products. Singh started Sun Pharmaceutical Industries with capital of INR 10,000 in 1993 at Vapi, with one psychiatry drug and a partner, Pradeep Ghosh. In January 2018, Govt appointed Vikram Pratap Singh as one of the members of RBI’s  member central board committee.

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