Vikrant Sandal

Vikrant Sandal is an Indian entrepreneur and social activist. He was born in Dasuya in 1977, a small town in the state of Punjab. He is an Oxford University Alumni, where he read for MBA in Saïd Business School and Hertford College, prior to which he attained an honor’s degree in Engineering from Coventry University.
Vikrant Sandal is Founder and Chairman of Hash Group of Companies - A conglomerate with diverse business interests from Biotechnology to Real Estate.
Corporate
Hash BioTech Labs, a group company of Hash Group, is a premier R&D company which is also a working partner and technology facilitator of an Intergovernmental Body of the United Nations. Hash BioTech Labs has also established Punjab`s first Spirulina Biotech Farm.
Diplomatic
In April 2014, Vikrant Sandal was given diplomatic appointment by the Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition (IIMSAM) - an Intergovernmental observer to the United Nations Social and Economic Council, as its Ambassador in India and South Asia in support of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals by encouraging the use of Spirulina to combat hunger and malnutrition and help achieve sustainable development. He has been awarded the first IIMSAM-Mahatma Gandhi Humanitarian Par Excellence Award for 2014 by same Intergovernmental Body of the United Nations.
He has been instrumental in putting together a forum of young members of various parliaments, across nations, to discuss and implement solutions on burning issues like terrorism, malnutrition, hunger, poverty, global migration, the global food & energy crisis, international crime etc at global level. He has also gained support from prominent parliamentarians and Chief Minister of Punjab in continuation of his efforts to spread IIMSAM`s mandate to eradicate malnutrition worldwide.
Charity work
Mr. Sandal is serving as Co-Chair of the Kanwaljit Sandal Foundation, which is working with various national and international organizations including Red Cross, Rotary International in multiple social and welfare projects.<ref name="paper.hindustantimes.com"/><ref name="iimsam.org"/> In collaboration with Rotary Club Chandigarh, he launched “Anemia Free City” project and adopted 200 school children from economically weaker section.<ref name="paper.hindustantimes.com"/> He also unbolted another project “Prayatna: An Effort to Cure Cancer” to aid high number of patients suffering from cancer, in the cancer stressed areas of Punjab.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>
Further, he has also adopted 200 malnourished children in the IIMSAM Sheikh Zayed Spirulina Distribution Centre in Kisumu, Republic of Kenya.<ref name="http://www.iimsam.org/india.php"/>

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