Anil Rai

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Anil Rai is the co-chairman, Governing Council of IILM Institute for Higher Education, IILM Graduate School of Management and IILM Academy of Higher Learning. IILM - Institute of Integrated Learning in Management is a leading Business School in New Delhi, India, and is rated in the A++ category (Business India Annual Survey of B Schools - 2007). For his services to the nation and society, Anil Rai was awarded the Dadabhai Naoroji International Millennium award for the year 2002. Earlier in 1996, he was nominated "Global Leader of Tomorrow" by the World Econimic Forum.
The Anil Kulwant Raii Group came into existence in early 2000 following a family settlement. The founder and patriarch of the family, Dr Kulwant Rai, and his younger son Anil Rai separated from his older son, Vinay Rai. At that time, the Anil Kulwant Raii Group consisted of the campus at Lodhi Road which housed the Institute for Integrated Learning in Management (IILM), the IILM Undergraduate Business School and the Banyan Tree School (formerly known as Rai School). The IILM at Jaipur had just started in rented premises.
In the nine years of its existence, Anil Kulwant Raii Group has focused on education and has grown manifold. In 2002, the IILM Academy of Higher Learning was set up in Greater Noida on an campus. The campus started with the College of Engineering and Technology with specialization in bio-technology, electrical and electronics, mechanical and computer engineering. In the same year, the IILM College of Management Studies started, focusing on business studies and management.
In 2002, the IILM at Jaipur shifted to its new campus near the Jaipur airport; and in 2003, the IILM College of Management Studies, Lucknow was established. In July 2004, the IILM Institute for Higher Education at Gurgaon was set up. Located on a spacious campus the institute focused on management education. The institute is recognized by the Distance Education Council, Government of India and is permitted to deliver programs all over the country.
IILM was one of the pioneers in the private sector to set up an institute for design. The IILM School of Design started in August 2004 and works closely with the National Institute of Design and has an MOU with IGNOU to offer design education through the distance mode. In the year 2005, on-campus housing facilities and a new Bio-Technology laboratory building were added to the IILM Academy campus. In 2006 the Anil Kulwant Raii Group laid the foundation of a new campus to house their flagship institute at Greater Noida - the IILM Graduate School of Management. By July 2007, this campus was operational.
IILM is expanding its educational activities in East India and has been allotted land by the West Bengal government to set up an educational institute in Kolkata. IILM has also recently entered into an MOU with IGNOU to offer the 5 year integrated programs in Law - BBA with Law and BCom with Law.
The Banyan Tree Schools have also expanded since the first school in 1986. New Schools have been established in Chandigarh in 2003, in Gurgaon in 2006 and Jagdishpur in 2008. Two schools are under construction in Jaipur and Bhopal and will be operational by 2011 and 2012 respectively."
Anil Rai did BSc Physics Honours from and holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. He is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE).
Anil Rai is son of Dr Kulwant Rai, an industrialist who owned Usha Group. Anil Rai and his family are devotees of Sathya Sai Baba and Kulwant hall of Prashanti Nilayam in Puttaparthy is supposedly named due to Dr Kulwant Rai's devotion to Sathya Saibaba.

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