Category: 40 Under 40 Most Influential Leaders

“By curing varied eye diseases through his holistic Ayurvedic medicines and treatments, Dr. Mandeep Singh Basu is facilitating his patients’ odyssey from darkness to light”

With a rich experience in the service of thousands of patients suffering from numerous eye diseases, the CEO of Jagat Pharma & Director of Dr. Basu Eye Hospital, Dr. Mandeep Singh Basu has been offering holistic eye treatments through superior quality herbal eye solutions and Ayurvedic medicines

HEALING HOLISTICALLY

A visionary young man with full swing of enthusiasm & zeal, Dr. Mandeep Singh Basu promoted Ayurveda and its benefits for the human society. Born on Nov.14, 1984, Dr. Mandeep Singh Basu always thought of a company dedicated to super quality herbal eye solutions developed by using innovative solutions. He started in 2010 and is successfully running two units – DR. BASU EYE HOSPITAL & JAGAT PHARMA.
The most prominent success for Dr. Mandeep Singh Basu was making ISOTINE EYE DROPS – the BRAND which has been recorded as one of the leading brand in Ayurvedic eye drops segment. Apart from this segment, Dr. Mandeep Basu has his own hospital named as DR. BAS EYE HOSPITAL based at Bareilly. This hospital is the result of several years of research work of Dr. Mandeep Singh’s father DR. MAHANDER SINGH BASU.
It is well known fact that Ayurveda offers a natural and side-effects free treatment , and has gained immense popularity all over the world and today, more and more people are turning towards it as they are finding herbal care solutions highly effective and useful for their varied problems. Efficiently understanding the various requirements and needs of people, Dr. Mandeep S. Basu has been providing effective Ayurvedic solutions for various eye problems. The impact of his ability as an optometrist par excellence can be assessed by the fact that his patients have been benefited without operation despite the fact that many of the diseases which he has successfully cured are known to be incurable. Possessing an extensive experience in herbal products and technology, Dr. Mandeep S. Basu spearheads a team of highly dedicated and qualified professionals who work earnestly to offer high quality herbal eye medicines to the customers under the brand Jagat Pharma whose products include Isotine eye drops and thus free from all side effects and are a perfect solution for various eye problems. The company’s eye medicines are best in their class having a success rate of 88% & offering risk free solutions, & apart from proving useful in major eye disease like Myopia, Hypermetropia, Diabetic Retinopathy, Colour Blindness, Macular Degeneration, Glaucoma, Retinitis Pigmentosa, these eye drops can also be used for common eye problems.

FACILITATING AN ILLUMINATED LIFE

Offering a very precise and balanced combination of Ayurvedic contents which are not only capable of correcting the refractive errors but also visual acuity and subjective symptoms, the eye drops are quite popular and beneficial. A number of scientific papers have highlighted that Isotine eye drops are quite beneficial for the treatment of various eye problems and their regular usage treats all the disorders of the eyes like night blindness, glaucoma, reduced vision and persistent irritation in the eyes.

THE HUMBLE SAVIOUR

Dr. Basu has a vision to eliminate blindness from INDIA and globally & he wants to run campaign same as Polio Campaign. He has been organizing eye camps on a regular basis to help the people who unable to get proper medication due to financial issues .
Isotine eye drops have successfully cured thousands of patients of cataract, which is a well known eye disease caused by the clouding of the lens, which adversely affects the vision and its different types include Congenital, Traumatic, Senile, Diabetic, Juvenile and others. In modern allopathy, surgery is being carried out all over the world for cataract patients. However, Dr. Mandeep S. Basu adopted non- invasive methods of treatment according to the recent research in Ayurveda for curing this disease.
By curing severe to mild cases of varied eye diseases through his holistic Ayurvedic medicines and treatments, Dr. Basu is facilitating his patients’ odyssey from darkness to light.

“Under Manas Mehrotra’s insightful guidance, the NestaVera Group of Companies has diversified into various businesses geographically with its presence in Southeast Asia and the Middle East”

BUILDING STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIPS

A qualified member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, a Law graduate, an MBA (Entrepreneurship) from Babson College (USA), Manas Mehrotra drives his workforce with a strong emphasis on inculcating faith and building long-term strategic relationships with both clients and employees, playing a pivotal role in the success of NestaVera Group of Companies

ENTREPRENEUR PAR EXCELLENCE

An ever-passionate individual about education, Manas Mehrotra – Managing Director of NestaVera Group of Companies – follows a unique approach to education, which leads to newer heights of excellence in moulding the young minds of tomorrow. He believes that education is a dedicated service, hence focus and involvement are extremely necessary and crucial, as knowledge is limitless.
Under his insightful guidance, the Group has diversified into various businesses geographically with its presence in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
His dynamic leadership has also played a pivotal role in the success of Greenwood High School, which has grown many folds year-on-year, since he has been given a command.
Holding great passion for education himself, under his constant guidance and strategic direction, the School has won more than 9 national Awards in excellence in the last 3 years. As he is a strong believer of having a balanced team that strives for excellence, he has proudly and consistently endeavoured to impart valuable education.

UNIQUE APPROACH

Manas’ vision is rooted in the core belief that the only thing constant in this dynamic business era is Change, and thus he has implemented an ongoing process of Brainstorming, Innovation, and Adaption to change in the heart of his organisation.
Mr. Manas’ leadership qualities were evident quite early in his life, and soon he emerged as an entrepreneur par excellence, with a vision for the betterment of the society.
His philosophy and approach has enabled Greenwood High School to reach newer heights of achievement as he desires to contribute towards nation building by transforming the youth of today into global leaders of tomorrow.
He thus offers through his institutions, quality education with a proper blend of traditional values with the best of modern-day technology.

SERVICE THROUGH PURITY & FAITH

As Nesta means Pure and Vera means Faith, Manas is quite transparent in his intent of offering the best of services through his Group. Additionally, the Goose in his company’s logo represents the symbolic attributes of loyalty, teamwork, confidence, protection, determination, courage, inspiration, guidance and stability, along with its ability to soar to greater heights, which are also the qualities he believes in and follows in his organization.
Through his consortium of diverse companies under the NestaVera Group, Manas seeks business utility and profitability with the motive to minimise risks and maximise returns and value in today’s modern dynamic business conditions, and further seeks to construct and promote a platform through which he can distinguish and nurture passion for business, innovation and entrepreneurship in a way that leads to emergence of productive and valuable organisations.
A man of various interests and responsibilities, Manas is also a member of companies which are in the field of embedded product design, engineering services and international trading, and has achieved various milestones in his several roles.
Displaying an acute sense of foresightedness in his investments, Manas has also been an investor in the real estate since the early start of his career, and has worked with great acumen in building his career in that particular field. His portfolio consists of various commercial and residential projects across the country.

“Having established his brand in 60+ cities in India with an outstanding marketing strategy, he is now eyeing further expansion overseas, as it has already been launched in 8 countries”

SERVING LOVE TO CUSTOMERS

Chaitanya Kumar Lingamallu transformed his vision of introducing an innovative brand of chocolate café with a live kitchen concept in India and revolutionized the way people perceived chocolates, thus beginning a culture in India whose base was customers’ pleasure of sumptuous taste with a homely feeling, while establishing as simple as chocolate as a robust brand in itself

LIVING THE CHOCO DREAM

Having finished his master’s degree in IT from the University of Ballarat in Australia, the Vijayawada-born Chaitanya Kumar Lingamallu, while pursuing his education in Australia, came up with the vision of a unique brand of chocolate café in India in 2007 to bring a revolution in the Chocolate culture of India. He started an ambitious venture with a single outlet in Ahmedabad, and labelled it The Chocolate Room, India’s premier Chocolate Café, and he immediately made a direct connection with the hearts of most Indian foodies as they immediately accepted & loved the idea.
Knowing the pulse of the Indian customer well, Chaitanya focused on his main objective of creating a perfect hangout destination serving more than 100 varieties of chocolate desserts and beverages in traditional Italian crockery. Under his extraordinary guidance, The Chocolate Room has made significant progress expanding by leaps and bounds with a huge number of 235 outlets across the country including happening cities like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Chennai, Gurgaon, Lucknow, New Delhi, and more are in the pipeline. His efforts have been well appreciated by both customers and the industry, and he has been conferred with several awards and accreditations for starting a first-of-its-kind conceptualized chocolate café in India.

BEST POINT TO SAVOUR THE FLAVOUR

As Chaitanya is committed to offer a great variety of chocolate beverages and desserts without compromising the traditional way of serving, the connoisseurs of taste have readily made the brand popular. Strategically, he has developed The Chocolate Room as the best place in the city to sit back on a lazy evening, relax and have a peaceful conversation. His specialities include serving not only more than 20 flavors of Italian chocolate desserts and chocolate beverages, but also one of the most outstanding desserts handmade chocolates using the finest Belgian Chocolate, which has been immediately loved by the chocolate admirers. Because of Chaitanya’s phenomenal business sense, he chose to start a franchisee business, and in the process has also contributed to nation-building, as he has been offering great opportunities to business enthusiasts to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true.

GLOBAL REACH & FUTURE

Having established his brand in more than 60 cities already, with an outstanding marketing strategy by spreading brand awareness among the masses, he is now eyeing further expansion overseas, as he has already launched The Chocolate Room in 8 countries including the USA, the UK, Canada, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Oman, China, Dubai, Australia and Cyprus.
Planning big to raise Rs. 100 crore funding through venture capitalists to take its rapidly growing number of outlets to 500 by 2020 with a target turnover of Rs. 300 crore, Chaitanya wants to expand through innovative and state-of-the-art trade outlets. Already generating 35% of his sales from corporates, Chaitanya is all set to start a new factory in Hyderabad, and a first contemporary chocolate factory in Ahmedabad with a production capacity of 100 tonnes, thus ready to dive into a delicious future.