Sanjay Gupta (businessman)

Sanjay Gupta
Born Sanjay Raghunathprasad Gupta
1963
Occupation Promoter of Neesa Group[1]
Website sanjayrgupta.com

Sanjay Raghunathprasad Gupta (born 1963) is an Indian businessman and civil servant. He is Chairman and founder of Neesa Group of companies.

Career

Sanjay Gupta is a Civil Engineer from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and a diploma holder in Finance from Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI University) and an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer working with the government of Gujarat for 17 years (1985 to 2002) in various departments at top level positions.

Government

Sanjay Gupta joined IAS[2] at the age of 22 and started his career as Civil servant in Gujarat State.

Since then he has held top level positions in various departments of government[3] of Gujarat.

Later, he was Managing Director of Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation between 1997 and 2002.[4] While there, he helped set up a 160MW gas-based power plant, promoted the largest distributor of internet bandwidth in Gujarat, and launched a fuel consultancy business.[5]

Private sector

He worked as Chief Executive Officer for Adani Group from 2002 to 2005.[6][7] In April 2011, he was appointed as Executive chairman of the Rs 12,000-crore Metro-Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad project,[6][8] but resigned suddenly in August 2013.[9]

Gupta announced plans in 2012 to launch a national news channel based in Gujarat.[5]

2015 arrest

In May 2015 Gupta and several others were arrested for their alleged involvement in a Rs 113 crore fraud in the Metro-Link project.[10][11] He was released on bail for health reasons in December 2015.[12][13]

References

  1. ↑ "Promoter of Neesa Group.'". Indian Express. 13 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "Sanjay Gupta joined IAS". Ahmedabad Mirror.
  3. ↑ "Departments of Government". Business Standard.
  4. ↑ "Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation.'". Babus of India. September 5, 2013.
  5. 1 2 "Gujarat's metro man set to start a news channel". Indian Express. September 20, 2012.
  6. 1 2 "It's destination Cambay for ex-babu Sanjay Gupta". Times of India. Mar 4, 2011. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
  7. ↑ http://www.iamwire.com/2013/09/bureaucrat-sanjay-gupta-launch-pe-fund-plans-raise-usd-1-billion-5-years/
  8. ↑ "Modi's Metro man Sanjay Gupta quits '". Epaper Timesofindia.
  9. ↑ "Ex-IAS officer Sanjay Gupta resigns as MEGA chairman". Epaper Dnaindia. Aug 31, 2013. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  10. ↑ Sports (May 15, 2015). "Ahmedabad metro: Top officer held for 'fraud'". The Indian Express. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  11. ↑ TNN (May 20, 2015). "Executive chairman of Metrolink Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad seeks ban on media coverage". The Times of India. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  12. ↑ India (December 8, 2015). "Former IAS officer involved in Ahmedabad metro scam released on bail". The Indian Express. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Metro rail scam: Ex-IAS officer Sanjay Gupta gets bail". The Times of India. April 5, 2016. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
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