Sakal

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The Sakal Media Group is independently owned media business in Maharashtra. The newspapers and magazines owned by the group in Marathi and English have a combined readership of over 6 million.Introduction and historyFounded by journalist Dr. N. B. Parulekar and established in 1932, the Sakal Media Group is an independently owned media business in Maharashtra. Headquartered in Pune, the Sakal Media Group owns and operates newspapers and magazines in Marathi as well as English with a circulation across Maharashtra and Goa. Sakal, the Marathi language newspaper of Sakal Media Group, was published first as a 4-page daily in Pune. On May 7, 2008 the media group started publishing the English version with the title Sakal Times.Abhijit Pawar is the Managing Director of Sakal Media Group. He took up the role of Group Managing Director of the entire media group in 2004 and his father Pratap Govindrao Pawar took up the role of Mentor and Chairman.ManagementPratap Pawar, Chairman of Sakal Media Group is an engineer from Birla Institution of Engineering & Science, Pilani and an industrialist. He has been on the board of the Sakal group since 1985. Mr. Pratap Pawar was given the Padma Shri award by the government of India in January 2014.Abhijit Pawar, a Mechanical Engineer by qualification, has been Managing Director of the Sakal Media Group since 2004.Abhijit Pawar is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), a world premier peer network of chief executives and business leaders. He has also been conferred the Young Presidents Organisation - World Presidents Organisation’s (YPO-WPO) highest award, the first Global Impact Legacy Honour at YPO Edge 2016 held in Dubai.