The Sahara Pariwar’s latest foray is in the field of Life Insurance. The Pariwar’s life insurance company – Sahara India Life Insurance Company Ltd.- has been granted licence by the insurance regulator – the IRDA on 6th February 2004. With this approval Sahara India Life Insurance Company Ltd. becomes the first wholly and purely Indian company, without any foreign collaboration to enter the Indian Life insurance market. The launch is with an initial paid up capital of 157 crores. The Chairman of the company is Shri Subrata Roy Sahara who is also the Chairman of Sahara Pariwar. 

The Members of the Board are:

Name	Designation
Shri O.P. Srivastava	Chairman
Shri R. S. Rathore	Director
Shri Brijendra Sahay	Director
Smt. Rana Zia	Director
Shri M.R.Siddiqui	Director
Shri Sanjay Agarwal	Whole-time Director & Chief Executive Officer

The Key Persons of the Company are as follows:

Name	Designation	Tel. No.
Shri Pushkar Verma	Chief Marketing Officer	0522-2331077
Shri Praveen Kumar Paliwal	Chief Investment Officer	022-39664157
Shri Dhiraj Goel	Appointed Actuary	0522-2332683
Shri Rajesh Kumar	Chief Risk Officer	0522-2337777-5099
Shri Alok Kumar	Head IT	0522- 2325385
Shri K. K. Bajpai	Chief Financial Officer	0522-3965648
Shri Manoj Tandon	Head Policy Servicing & Underwriting	0522-2336397

Terms of Appointment of Independent Directors

The registered office of the Company is at Lucknow:

Registered Address:
Sahara India Centre, 2 Kapoorthala Complex,
Lucknow-226024
Tel No. : 0522-2337777
Fax : 0522 – 2378200