PURUSHOTTAM KUMAR BHARGAVA (businessman)
Introduction
After a whole lot of hard work in his businesses , it payed off all with respect , money and love .
His first business started in 1980s when he was about 8 years old .
At first when he realized about his skills and convincing power , he decided to widen the work .
Family
Father omprakash bhargava, was tailor and used to run the joint family with it only . He was born in a village called oon( wool)located in uttar pradesh . After looking at the development of delhi and the limelight of it he decided to shift from uttar pradesh to new delhi. His wife vidya devi was happy for him that he is such a responsible person and runs his entire family of 25 members .
He purchased property in delhi of about 1 acre and shifted there . He started his tailoring shop at his home the after some years he took a shop in mehrauli , delhi.
He opened grocery shop at his home so that his grown up kids will help him earn.
He had 8 kids 5 girls and 3 boys out of which one moved to heaven too early .
Education
Purushottam after realising his family's position, decided to earn money , he was an eminent student and studied in the best school of that time , Air force international school. however his friend circle was quite bad , they forced him to leave school and studies , as a result he threw his bag and books in the garbage , his father was feeling angry and punished him , afterwards he was again admitted to a school , looking at the leniency of teachers, he being a leader of his school decided to do a strike against the authority, the news came in the punjab kesari specifying whole scenario , he worked for a cause , the teachers after wards taught them by putting efforts .
he never studied , even in the exams , he used to get good marks without studying .
After schooling he did his bachelors in delhi university.
Being physically strong, he regulalry did exercise and workout , he even broke a record by doing 1000 pushups in a single go .
He received an offer letter from government of india for the post of commisioner at delhi police , which he rejected it because his personal interest was business.
His mother being unhappy with the decision he took is now saying that rejecting it was the best decision.
Business
He sold agarbatti , a devotional item used in temples , mosques etc . purchasing it for 5 rs and selling it for 15rs per box he got 10 rs as his profit .
He then decided to start a business of building material supplier , in the name of bhargava building material supplier . Which is working till now .
Afterwards he decided to open a secondary business of prorcessing raw wood into ply and usable woods, in the name of bhargava timber traders. , being monopoly of that time , that business got huge success.
But due to the change in guidelines of government of eliminating the use of heavy machines , that place got sealed .
He then decided to focus on the building material business and worked to enhance the business by involving his brothers (big and small) and big brother 's kid .
He purchased 5 tempos,trucks to dispose and collect material .
After earning high profits he decided to use them in a new business, real estate.
Being an agent in real estate needs no investment but needs a lot of contacts and links and also convincing skills
Current situation
He is now running 4 business - being real estate at 1st , building material at second, opening shortly the business of wood at 3rd ,contractor at 4th .
After being recognized as a succesful businessman , he is training his kids to take care of that as a side business
Family
He is married to rekha bhargava, and is having three kids, one is a teacher, vipra bhargava and a counsellor of students who face mental issues. oldest kid is nikhil bhargava currently pursuing mba from ICFAI , also taking care of father's business and it's management. Smallest child is dushyant bhargava, pursuing law and also taking care of the business.
All three of them have done psychology course from scientology, India.
They did their schooling from The heritage school .
future plan
Being his annual turnover 120 crore. He is working to enhance and do business , what his personal interest is. He is also investing money by purchasing property at places outside delhi, some of them are dehradun, mumbai.