Bharat Goenka


Bharat Goenka is an industrialist from India. He is the co-founder and managing director of Tally Solutions. In 2020, he received the Padma Shri honour from the Government of India for his contribution in the field of trade and industry.

Life

Bharat Goenka is the son of Shyam Sunder Goenka. A graduate in mathematics, Goenka co-founded Tally Solutions with his father in 1986 after searching for a software to manage their accounting books. He created an MS-DOS based accounting application named Peutronics Financial Accountant, formally changed to Tally Solutions in 1999.
In 2011, NASSCOM conferred their Lifetime Achievement Award to Goenka and the title of "the father of the Indian software product industry". He was given the CSI Honorary Fellowship Award by the Computer Society of India in 2014. In 2020, he received the Padma Shri honour from the Government of India for his contribution in the field of trade and industry.