Manoj C Benjamin

“Royal Indian Raj International Corporation has been named the number one leading FDI real estate developer in India”

Anil K. Agarwal, President of ASSOCHAM (500,000 member Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India) November 20th, 2006

Leading international investors are Royal Indian Raj International, Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup Property Investors, Morgan Stanley, and GE Commercial Finance

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Manoj Benjamin! That’s the name the realty sector wants to get to know well, and real soon, for with $2.9 billion of planned foreign direct investment in the real estate arena, in one shot, he becomes the king colada, the big enchilada, and for the sake of simple words, the number one player in the sector. If this man’s name has a huge twang of an ethnic touch, wait till you hear about his corporation of which he is Chairman – Royal Indian Raj International Corporation.

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Manoj C. Benjamin endorsed as one of “Top 100 Most Influential People of 2007”

Today, the Royal Indian Raj International Corporation (RIRIC) has announced its Chairman and CEO, Manoj C. Benjamin has been recognized by Business and Economy Magazine, India's Most Influential Business and Economy Magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People of 2007 for his visionary leadership in the Indian real estate sector. Mr. Benjamin has some rather transcendent peers joining him on the list: Microsoft Founder, Bill Gates and MS CEO Steve Balmer; Intel CEO, Craig Barrett; Hewlett Packard Chief Executive, Mark Hurd; Dell Computers Founder, Michael Dell; IBM Chairman and CEO, Samuel J. Palmisano; Indian Steel mogul, L.N. Mittal of Mittal Steel and India’s Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) Chairman, Mukesh Ambani. All of these prominent people and their firms are poised to observe colossal growth in their respective sectors in India.

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Manoj Benjamin has over thirty years of extensive experience in business leadership and has held Chairman/Founder and is a pioneer in the sustainable Smart Intelligent City space and internet of things (IoT) ecosystem.

Mr. Benjamin has been involved for the last 23 years in the modernization of the infant real estate sector in the Indian market developing multiple, private, and planned cities in India. He is recognized as the pioneer and concept leader of a chain of privatized sustainable Green, Smart Urban Cities under the Royal Garden City name in Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata and is expected to expand to other Tier #1 and 104- Tier #2 cities in India. The estimated build-out will be an initial 120m to 200m buildable sq. ft out of a 500,000,000 buildable sq. ft. over two 10- year programs. A multi-billion-dollar initiative for almost 350,000 to 400,000 homes in "Live, Work Play' Urban Hubs.

A comprehensive strategy of delivering IoT-as-a-service with a massive ecosystem is helping industries and cities adopt end-to-end smart solutions, enabling easier, faster, and more cost-effective management and deployment of smart spaces across industries including education, logistics, health care, transportation, inspection, energy, agriculture, and more.

India is facing the largest urban migration in the world with the World Bank projecting that 416M people will move into Indian Cities from 2018-2050. Compared to China's 250M and Nigeria's 180M in the same period.

Mr. Benjamin is a frequent guest lecturer and public speaker for such forums as the Urban Land Institute of America’s “World Cities Forum” held in Shanghai and has addressed the National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) of India and The REIT World Asia Conference. Past invitations to speak have been from The Indian Law Society and the Wharton School of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania to name just a few. Mr. Benjamin is an elected member of the International Who’s Who Historical Society and was honored in New Delhi with the highest Indian civilian honor for NRI’s the Prestigious Pravasi Excellence Award – an award he declined because the Royal Garden City project in Bangalore had not yet commenced. He has also been honored by Business Economy Magazine 2007, India’s most prestigious business magazine, and rated in the Top 23 most influential people in the World.

Prior to 2009 Mr. Benjamin has actively guided RIRIC’s early brand incubation of such names as Choice Hotels, Century 21, and Caldwell. Exclusive rights in India to the Jack Nicklaus golf courses and Academies, a $1 billion strategic financial relationship with The Greenwich Group, consultancy associations with Jones Lang LaSalle and CPG Corporation, and financial relationships with Global Emerging Market Fund on a 300,000,000M (GBP) Equity Line of Credit.

In the process the following townships were presented to the Indian government and proposed for development subsequent to land negotiations and Township master plans submission:

• Royal Garden City Bangalore (2004) - 3,000 acre (146.36 million sq. ft. built-up) "Smart" City, Bangalore, India
• Royal Garden City Mumbai (2004) - 5,000 acre (217,800,000 sq. ft. built-up) "Smart" City, Mumbai, India
• Royal Garden Villas and Resort (2005) - Phase 1: 17 gated communities (1,600,000 sq. ft. buildable), proposed expansion to 137 acres (5-7M sq. ft.) Bangalore, India
• The Italian Village (2007) - 1,136-acre gated community, Bangalore, India. 44,000,000 sq.ft buildable.
• Golf India (2007) - a series of prestigious, planned golf course communities across India by golf legend Jack Nicklaus
• The Special Economic Zone (2008) - 12,500 acres for commercial development, State of Meghalaya, India

Mr. Benjamin's goal is to develop the New India by modernizing housing and businesses. His drive and vision in creating an economic and technological connection between East and West will bring needed change to the country in its infrastructure, finance, and development. 

With phase #1 of the Future City program over eight cities starting in Bangalore, India commencing in 2022.

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