About VIJAY ANAND Travels in NH-218, Hubli

VRL Group of companies are one of the leading business group of Karnataka state, India. The company has its headquarters at Hubli. The Group has business interests in road transportation, logistics, publishing etc. VRL is an abbreviation of Vijayanand Roadlines Limited. The company was started by Vijay Sankeshwar in 1976 at Gadag. Vijay Sankeshwar's family was into business of publishing books and guides for students. He entered into business of road transport to ferry goods and cargo by the name of VRL. VRL later started private bus services in between cities and towns of Karnataka, which were later expanded to other states of India. The VRL has wide network of branches throughout South India and Maharashtra.

From this beginning VRL has grown into a logistics and transport company which is currently the largest fleet owner in India with a fleet of 3579 Vehicles (Including 488 tourist buses & 3091 Goods Transport Vehicles) as of 28 February 2013. VRL finds mentioned in the Limca Book of Records as a single largest fleet owner of commercial vehicles in India in the private sector.

Vijay Sankeshwar started Vijaya Karnataka, a Kannada language daily newspaper in Kannada published by VPL. VPL i.e.; Vijay Printers Limited a subsidiary of VRL also published an English daily called Vijay Times. [1] These newspapers were later sold to the Times of India group. Vijay Sankeshwar was also a former Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from north Dharwad constituency. [2]

After the expiry of a non-compete clause in March 2012, the VRL Group has launched a new Kannada newspaper called Vijaya Van

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