A regulation graduate from Guru Nanak Dev College (GNDU) in Amritsar, Ashok Mittal joined the household enterprise of constructing sweets underneath the model title of Beautiful Sweets within the Eighties when he was in his 20s.
On Monday, Mittal, 58, obtained a brand new job as he was nominated to the Rajya Sabha from Punjab by the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) together with former cricketer Harbhajan Singh, IIT Delhi affiliate professor Sandeep Pathak, Delhi MLA Raghav Chadha, and industrialist Sanjeev Arora.
Alongside along with his two elder brothers—Naresh Mittal and Ramesh Mittal—Ashok Mittal has been increasing the household enterprise his father late Baldev Raj Mittal began with a small store round three years earlier than he was born in 1964 in Jalandhar Cantonment.
Ashok Mittal was fairly eager to diversify their enterprise from making sweets to different fields and so the household arrange an car dealership, Beautiful Autos, in 1991. The household, initially from Rajasthan, then diversified additional into the sector of training and arrange the Beautiful Institute of Administration on the Jalandhar-Phagwara Freeway in 2000.
Ashok Mittal along with his brothers at Beautiful Sweets (Categorical photograph)
The Mittal household stored increasing into varied educational programs and at last arrange Beautiful Skilled College (LPU) in 2005—the primary personal college within the state—and Ashok Mittal grew to become the chancellor and his spouse Rashmi Mittal was appointed the co-chancellor. Now, the whole household, together with the kids, maintain senior posts within the college.
Mittal has stated their solely goal behind establishing the college was to supply high quality training accessible to college students internationally. The college established on a couple of acres of land has now been expanded to 600 acres. At present, there are greater than 30,000 college students from India and all around the world and over 3,000 school and employees members on the college. It has hostels and lodging for the employees members and caters to them with its personal primary facilities from water to energy provide.
Mittal stated Monday, “Occasions Greater Schooling Younger Universities Rankings-2022 (THE YU Rankings-22), a prestigious globally recognised ranking system, has additionally positioned LPU within the 351-400 Band on a worldwide scale. Beforehand, included among the many high 36 Indian universities in THE World College Rankings- 2022, that is as soon as once more probably the greatest accolades received by LPU”.