Late Shri Puranchandra Guptaji, the Founder of Dainik Jagran was born on 2nd January 1912 in Kalpi village of Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh. He completed formal education from Gurunarayan Khatri College, Kanpur affiliated to Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Being in the post Independence period he was actively involved in Indian freedom struggle. In 1937 he started a printing press "Yugantar" in Kanpur. In the year 1939 he published a Hindi Weekly "Swatantra". Hindi newspaper daily "Jagran" was published on 7th March 1942 from Jhansi. On 21st September 1947 "Dainik Jagran" Kanpur edition was first published. Since then he never looked back. He was nominated as a member of many distinguished newspaper societies. For twenty years from 1960 he was executive committee member of IENS (Now known as INS) New Delhi. In 1974 he was the Chairman of Audit Bureau of circulations, Mumbai. For two consecutive years from 1975 – 77 he was the President of Press Trust of India. In the year 1978- 79 he was the President of INS, New Delhi. During his lifetime he was invited and also toured European countries and the erstwhile Russia. He breathed his last on 16th September 1986.