If one thinks he can, he will … that is the simple rule behind my success," says Shailendra Bhadauria of Maharana Pratap Group of Institutions, Kanpur, immediately putting his finger on the one point that has today steered him to a point that will one day sure make us see him attaining greater heights. "One has to dream to get what one wants in life and one who dreams does it," he declares with no less conviction. Walking into educational entrepreneurship early in life, this supremely energetic individual, with his business acumen and professionally sound approach, has managed to acquire a competitive edge in this genre of investment arena dealing in educational specialisation, leaving many wondering what has spurred him onto the success highway.
Starting with Maharana Pratap Education Centre (MPEC) in Sharda Nagar, Kanpur, he went on to establish four engineering colleges, MPEC, MIPS and MIET in Kanpur and MITS in Lucknow. MPDEC is a dental college, for management it is MPGI, Kanpur, for pharmacy, MPCP, mass communication, MICS, Lucknow and the public schools, other than MPEC in Sharda Nagar, are its branches at Keshavpuram and Indrapuri too. A virtual empire of sorts, he plans to further expand by setting up engineering colleges at Agra and Jaipur, besides a Management Institute and a College of Fashion Technology at Greater Noida. In Bareilly too it is in the throes of starting various management courses, in cooperation with AICTE and affiliation with UPTU.
With its 100-bedded multi-speciality hospital at Kothi, Mandhana, thus creating an unique health centre with diverse medical facilities, the quorum is complete. In Shailendra’s words and rightly so, a person born at the hospital, can go to one of the schools owned by the group. The same goes for professional training as well and then perhaps he may end up serving the group on one of the innumerable posts that it offers across the board, it having a very broad employment base. So to sum up, MPGI today is almost a way of life. Once initiated into it at any juncture, one can actually bank upon it for the rest of his life, such is its reach and expanse. When he says, "Here I can provide complete solutions for a good life," one knows that he truly means it.
"I always wanted to come into the field of education. I must have been in class XII when I began setting up the engineering college in Kanpur," says Shailendra, throwing light on his seriousness of approach, at an age when students start the process of thinking what to do in life. "It was me who travelled all across to meet and convince people, that it was a quality institution that we proposed to run. My plans got instant approval from those I approached and I started with higher education after starting a chain of schools that provided quality secondary education," is what he had to say when asked how he got the ball rolling. But then he went on to narrate the innumerable hurdles that he needed to cross in order to reach this stature.
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I want to teach our students whatever they would need to know to grow and further move up in life," says Shailendra, repeating the MPGI motto and the words that mirror his commitment towards people, society and of course the city of Kanpur.
- Shailendra Bhadauria
Jagran Gems, a book on some key entrepreneurs of Uttar Pradesh, is a tribute to the might of those who have dared to dream. These fourteen faces of business world are all here with collective message: "Where there is will there is a way". Having made a difference to the entire spectrum of their respective chosen area of specialization, they are today a vertiable source of inspiration to many. We more than realised this, when visited them in their area of operation. Read More »
