Contrary to reports of a financial crisis, the Sahara group proposes to make huge investments in retailing, housing, media and entertainment, hospitality, medicare and other sectors totalling over Rs 100,000 crore over the next five years, said Subrato Roy, chairman, Sahara group.The 58-year-old corporate honcho dubs as "unfortunate" the rumours about the group's financial health as also about his own and attributes this to "crap mentality" of certain sections of the society.Describing himself as a "contended man", Roy told PTI in an interview here: "I am pained at the tendency to criticise."This, along with a lack of knowledge about the working of a closely-knit company, had led to all kinds of perception and rumours about his group, Roy said, asserting nothing would deter him from going ahead with his plans for the mega investment that would help triple the group's assets up to Rs 150,000 crore in the next five years."From 1998 onwards, the growth was very high till the end of 2003. After 2003-04, the growth is much much higher. The group is growing by 30-40 per cent now. There is no cash crunch," Roy said, dismissing the perception that the sale of aviation business Air Sahara was due to financial compulsions.
