About Make in Steel

Shri K K Pahuja has over 40 years’ experience in the Steel Industry in the areas of operations, market development and policy making. As President of Indian Stainless-Steel Development Association, he is currently driving efforts for promotion and growth of Indian stainless-steel industry. He has worked at Steel Authority of India Ltd. as Executive Director, where he has been part of corporate operations and involved in product development, enhancing operating efficiencies and driving growth plans of the company. He is a mechanical engineer from BITS Pilani and MBA from FMS, Delhi University. He has been a senior assessor for CII-EXIM Bank Business Excellence Award and has been advising many companies on their journey towards excellence and change management. He has also been guest faculty for Strategic Management at IIFT Delhi

Dr Susmita Dasgupta has retired in her employment as the Joint Chief Economist with the Economic Research Unit, Joint Plant Committee, Ministry of Steel after having put in 34 years of service in steel policy matters. Presently she is promoting efforts in the steel industry towards making it sharper and savvier and more skilled through her own endeavor, a Think Tank and by partnering with industry associations, research bodies, training companies, metallurgical consulting companies and other outfits to promote the intensification of steel use in the country. Among her present promotions are virtual factory based metallurgical training courses, light frame steel structures, technologies fortreatment of effluents in Coke Oven plants and telemetallurgy for easy access to steel experts and consultants. These are besides her academic interests in Raja Rammohan Roy and Rabindranath Tagore through whose studies she also promotes the learning of the Bengali language.

Mahendrakumar Madhavan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad, India. Dr. Madhavan teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, provides industry training by conducting short courses and seminars, assists practicing structural engineers by offering consultancy services and leads the structural steel research group at IITH with the goal of enabling sustainable construction practices at home in India and around the globe. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA and a Masters Degree from The National University of Singapore, Singapore. Prior to joining IIT Hyderabad, Dr. Madhavan worked as a Structural Engineer at Alabama Power Company, Birmingham and is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Alabama USA.

Dr. Madhavan’s principal research interests lie in the area of physical testing of structural members and systems, numerical modeling through the use of commercially available finite element packages and in the development of new design methods for steel intensive structures. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed internationally reputed journals and holds membership in the "American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Technical Administrative Committee on Metals" and in “ASCE SEI Cold Formed Steel Members Committee". He is an Editorial board member of Journal of Structures since 2019. Dr. Madhavan is also an Associate Editor for ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering.

I have Senior Level Industry experience of over 38 years in reputed Indian and Multi-national Companies like JSW Steel, Mercedes-Benz India, Tata Motors, FIAT, having lead areas of Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Strategy & Project Management in the Sectors of Steel and Auto. I have worked in Top Management positions of Director / HoD having been well exposed to working at the Field, Branch, Region and HQs.

Presently I am Director & CEO of Stallion Lgsf Machines based out of Mumbai, and we sell branded Hi-tech, state of the art, durable and affordable capital machinery and equipments of established global manufacturers, that can revolutionise the construction industry and methods. The LGSF (Light Gauge Steel Framing) roll forming machines that we sell are the answer to the future challenges of construction in India, making the deliverables faster, accurate, process controlled and design-lead.

I have an excellent academic background with a BE Mechanical from BITS, Pilani and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. My interests include reading, academics in B-Schools, Consulting and Sports.

Mr. Vidya Rattan Sharma is Managing Director of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.

Prior to joining JSPL, he was Group CEO of AbulKhair Group and managing itsSteel, Power, Cement & Mining business and previously he was Dy. Managing Director of Jindal Steel & Power Limited.

He has also worked as Executive Director of Ispat Industries Ltd, Joint MD & Whole time Director of Bhushan Group. He also worked in management position with other steel companies overseas including Socialist Steel Limited, Lloyd Steel Group and Arrasate Steel Spain.

Extremely passionate for Steel, Mr. Sharma given 36 years to the industry while leading multilocational Steel/Power/Cement/Mining operation, innovative cost effective large steel projects management and was instrumental in bringing in transformation changes of various steel corporate.

Mr. Sharma is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and has completed his Master’s in Business Administration from UK.

Mr. Roy is a Mechanical Engineer from IIT (BHU) Varanasi and Post Graduate in Management with specialization in Marketing & Finance, from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Mr. Roy has 30+ years of rich & varied experience across various industry segments, having started his professional career with Tata Motors. He has also worked at various senior & top management positions for Exide Industries Ltd., Kirby Building Systems India and prior to joining Zamil group, Mr. Roy was the CEO of Reliance Innovative Building Solutions. In his earlier assignments, Mr. Roy has managed two Greenfield startups in different geographies and was also instrumental in launching and brand building of several Concept products. He has implemented world class systems and global best practices across the organizations he has worked for.

In 2018, due to his capable leadership and system implementation skills he was assigned the additional responsibility of General Director, Zamil Steel Vietnam.

His active involvement in development of industries during his tenure in CII, he was elected to the position of Chairman of CII Pune Zonal Council for the year 2020-21

Director and Vice President, Sales and Marketing at AM/NS India and Vice President at ArcelorMittal.

Salle joined ArcelorMittal in 1985 and has held various leadership roles across the group and in a range of key division, including ArcelorMittal’s automotive business, international sales and distribution.

In his most recent role prior to joining AM/NS India, he was appointed Head of Business Transformation at ArcelorMittal Europe Flat Products.

Salle is a graduate of the ‘Ecole Supérieure de Gestion’ in Paris, France.

Mr. Satyajit Maity has over 20+ years of work experience with Tata Steel and has worked in various functions and roles in the organisation. In his current role, he heads the marketing function of the B2C business of Tata Steel.

His previous roles include heading sales for the entire western region for branded products of Tata Steel, heading marketing function of hot rolled proudcts etc.

Some of his specialities include Marketing strategy, Brand Building, Channel sale, Business Process Analysis, Business Process Re-engineering etc.

An MBA from XIMB, he has done BE in Mechanical engineering from IIEST Shibpur.

Dr. Sachin Kumar is a Senior Fellow in the Industrial Energy Efficiency Division at TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) in New Delhi. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of energy efficiency and environment improvement in industry sector. Dr. Kumar is closely involved in various initiatives being undertaken for decarbonisation of industry sector in India. This includes identification of appropriate technological solutions, focused interactions with key stakeholders, and development of policy recommendations. Dr. Kumar has successfully led a number of studies related to development and dissemination of energy efficient technological solutions in the energy intensive industry sub-sectors. He has also led the project related to estimation of energy consumption, GHG emissions, and other technological parameters for selected industry sub-sectors in the India. Dr. Kumar has provided strategic advisory services to a range of industry sub-sectors in the field of energy efficiency and sustainable development. He has published many papers focusing on energy and environmental aspects related to industry sector. Dr. Kumar has also co-authored a publication titled ‘Towards a Low Carbon Steel Sector – Overview of the changing Market, Technology, and Policy context for Indian Steel sector’. In an on-going initiative Dr. Kumar is involved in assessing the potential of hydrogen use across different industry sub-sectors in India.

Dr. Kumar is an engineer by education and has passed his B.Tech (Civil Engineering) from NIT Hamirpur, M. Tech (Environmental Engineering) from Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh, and doctorate from TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi.

Mr. Anish Chopra is the Managing Director & CEO of Greenifyi Eco Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and has attained a degree of Bachelors in Technology (B.Tech.) from Kurukshetra University. After a short stint in a management role in the service industry, he underwent a 3-year intensive training & experience in construction of Prefabricated Cold-Formed Steel Buildings. He eventually continued his education in Infrastructure, Management & Leadership from Indian School of Business (ISB-Hyderabad), including an in-depth learning in Public-Private-Partnerships i.e. the PPP Model of Infrastructure Projects in India. He has undergone courses of Green Building Ratings from GRIHA (a Council formed by Ministry of New & Renewable Energy and TERI), and another Green Building Ratings course from Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). Mr. Chopra is a Serial Entrepreneur, with an interest in developing Start-up’s into sustainable organizations. Greenifyi is his second entrepreneurial venture, through which he is taking forward his passion to contribute to the environment by promoting eco-friendly technologies in various aspects of human habitats.

Dr Susmita Dasgupta has been in the JPC for the past 34 years in the business of developing the steel business in India. She has been engaged in all the activities of the JPC especially in its major projects like Rural Marketing, Steel in Housing, Ship breaking, Scrap Business, Promotion of the Uses of Steel in India, Consumer grievances and producer compliances in standards. Her own work in the economics of steel industry consists of alerting the promoters and investors of the overcapacity in steel and how that needs to be tackled with intelligent business planning rather than mindless expansion. Her book, Economics of the Indian Steel Industry has been published in the United Kingdom and is a source book for international steel forums. She is presently working towards steel advocacy for international disciplines in uniformity of data reporting, reporting of carbon emissions, land and livelihood displacements in mining. This is going to be her concern for quite sometime henceforth starting with her retirement in September this year.

Ms. Soma Mondal ,after her initial schooling from Bhubaneswar in Odisha, graduated in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela in 1984(erstwhile REC).At a time when not many women ventured in to engineering education in the state of Odisha, she was one of the few who took up this unusualcareer path. Upon completing her Engineering , she started her career as a Graduate Engineer Trainee in National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO). Initially, she was involved in various project implementation activities as a part of the Technology Cell before switching over to Marketing. She worked at various locations at NALCO before taking over the mantle of Director (Commercial) at NALCO in 2014.She was one of the first Graduate Engineer Trainee to rise to the Board level position at NALCO.

Ms Mondal joined SAIL as Director (Commercial), SAIL in March 2017 and is steering the Sales & Marketing activities of the company since then. She is the first ever woman functional director in the board of SAIL. She has played a significant role in the turnaround of the company and has been instrumental in initiation of several initiatives directed at changing the way SAIL conducts it’s marketing activities in the future.

She loves Nature, Travel and Music.

Mr. Vidya Rattan Sharma is Managing Director of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.

Prior to joining JSPL, he was Group CEO of AbulKhair Group and managing itsSteel, Power, Cement & Mining business and previously he was Dy. Managing Director of Jindal Steel & Power Limited.

He has also worked as Executive Director of Ispat Industries Ltd, Joint MD & Whole time Director of Bhushan Group. He also worked in management position with other steel companies overseas including Socialist Steel Limited, Lloyd Steel Group and Arrasate Steel Spain.

Extremely passionate for Steel, Mr. Sharma given 36 years to the industry while leading multilocational Steel/Power/Cement/Mining operation, innovative cost effective large steel projects management and was instrumental in bringing in transformation changes of various steel corporate.

Mr. Sharma is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and has completed his Master’s in Business Administration from UK.

Mr. Krishnakumar is the Chief Executive – Building Solutions Everest Industries ltd and has more than 25+ years of experience in diverse roles as CEO, COO, Business Head, Marketing Head, and Manufacturing Head.

He is experienced in leading compete spectrum of functions including Business Development, Sales & Marketing, Costing & Proposals, Engineering, Procurement & Materials, Project & Site Management, Manufacturing & Operations, HR & IT .

He joined L & T as a GET and rose to the one of the youngest business heads. He is with Everest since April 2018.

Managing Director, GBCI India and Senior Vice President, U.S. Green Building Council Mili is Managing Director of Green Business Certification Institute Pvt Ltd, India and Senior Vice President, USGBC. Mili is responsible for technical adaptation and customization of the portfolio of rating systems of GBCI for the Asia Pacific region.  She is program lead for several programs including LEED for Cities and Communities, LEED Residential, PEER and is working on global projects to ensure incorporation of sustainability principles at building, city and community level.

An architecture graduate and a building technologies specialist from IIT, Madras, Mili has more than two and half decades of experience in the field of energy, green buildings, climate resilient housing, city planning, urban transportation and environment with a focus on sustainable development of habitats.

She is member of Committee for formulation of energy conservation building codes for India, Member of Committee of Bureau of Indian Standards for revision and updating of National Building Code of India. She is Advisor to Delhi Urban Arts Commission and Glass Academy of Saint Gobain.  She is Founder member of the Indian Building Performance Simulation Association. She was Member of Expert Appraisal Committee (Infra-2) constituted for appraisal of infrastructure projects by MoEF & Climate Change (GoI), for two terms.  She is Board Member, Global Buildings Performance Network, Paris.

Mr. Dikshu C. Kukreja received his B. Arch Honours as a Gold Medallist from School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi. He received his Masters of Architecture & Urban Design from Harvard University, USA. He is the Managing Principal Architect of C. P. Kukreja Architects which has been consecutively ranked amongst the top 100 Architecture firms in the world and the top 5 in Asia.

Shri K K Pahuja has over 40 years’ experience in the Steel Industry in the areas of operations, market development and policy making. As President of Indian Stainless-Steel Development Association, he is currently driving efforts for promotion and growth of Indian stainless-steel industry. He is a mechanical engineer from BITS Pilani and MBA from FMS, Delhi University. He has worked at Steel Authority of India Ltd. as Executive Director, where he has been part of corporate operations and involved in product development, enhancing operating efficiencies and driving growth plans of the company. He has been a senior assessor for CII-EXIM Bank Business Excellence Award and has been advising many companies on their journey towards excellence and change management. He is also guest faculty for Strategic Management at IIFT Delhi.

Rajiv Nehru heads the Product Development and Training division at RICS South Asia. He is a civil engineer with a Master’s in Construction Management from the University of Pune. He also holds a Certificate in Senior Management Business Management Programme from IIM Ahmedabad. Rajiv has more than 25 years’ experience as a construction management professional and has honed his skills in construction, contract management, business strategy, strategic planning, cost management and program management.

In his career, he has worked with reputed companies like Hindustan Construction Co (HCC) Ltd as Assistant Vice President – Project Management and was the Founder and Principal Consultant at Nehru Institute of Construction & Enterprise (NICE). As the Director General of the Real Estate Academy for Developers (READ). He has also worked as Director of National Institute of Construction Management and Research (NICMAR), Pune, and was responsible for setting up their Bangalore, Bahrain and Hyderabad campuses.

He has worked as a project management trainer and consultant in India, the Middle East and Africa and has trained more than 15,000 people in construction project management. He shares his vast experience with upcoming professionals as Guest Faculty in Construction Project Management in prestigious institutes like IIT Kharagpur, IIM Lucknow, Power Management Institute NOIDA and more.

Prior to joining RICS India, Rajiv was General Manager at Rohan Builders India Pvt Ltd, leading their real estate team of more than 250 engineers and technical staff with over 10 sites in Pune and Bangalore.

He has been awarded the prestigious British Chevening Scholarship in 2006-07 for Environment Management and Sustainable Development. He has professional memberships of the International Development Network of RTPI UK, Member of Cynall Cyumri Wales UK, Associate Member of Institution of Engineers India, Indian Plumbing Association and more.

Mr. Debashis Datta has about 38 years of rich experience in Civil & Structural Design Engineering, Project Management, Contract Management and Team Management. Mr. Datta has also published about 50 Technical Papers in various National & International seminars and journals.

Mr Arun Sahai is a Civil Engineering Graduate of 1981 batch from the prestigious Engineering Institution, “Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani”. He has been in construction since 1981 and has been an Entrepreneur managing his own construction firm and Managing Director of M/s Progressive Constructions Pvt. Ltd. a construction company which had been registered in Class-I with CPWD and various other Government, Semi-Government and PSU’s. The company has successfully executed a wide range of construction projects in Private Sector, Public Sector & Government Departments during this long tenure and has been in Project Management Consultancy now.

He is also presently associated as Chief Operating Officer (COO) with M/s Ahluwalia Contracts (India) Ltd. (ACIL), New Delhi, a reputed Engineering Construction company with pan India presence in the country. He has a rich experience of over 37 years in the construction industry and has developed expertise in handling big civil construction projects such as Sports Infrastructure, Residential Townships, Commercial & Institutional Complexes. He also heads Business Development, Procurement, Real Estate & Infrastructure Departments of ACIL.

Besides the above, he had been and continues to be quite active in his professional field and has contributed a lot to the construction industry while holding positions of responsibility.

Associated with Tata Steel for close to 8 years and currently working as Senior Technologist in Application Support Group. Looking after the business development and application support activities pertaining to Tata Tiscon in North Region.

Completed BTech in Civil Engineering from NIT Jalandhar and MTech in Building Technology from IIT Roorkee. Additionally, I also hold an executive post-graduate diploma in international business from IIFT Delhi.

Mr N Sainathan is a Metallurgist from the Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore . He has been with Tata Steel for over 22 years and has managed leadership roles in marketing and sales in both domestic and international markets. He is presently the Chief Sales Manager for the Northern region . Prior to this, he has held positions of Chief of Marketing, Head Exports and was also the Regional Head for Middle East markets. He is also a Goldratt Schools certified TOC practioner . Information contained and transmitted by this e-mail is confidential and proprietary to Tata Steel Ltd. and is intended for use only by the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient , you are notified that any dissemination or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited and you are requested to delete this e-mail immediately and notify the originator. Tata Steel does not enter into any binding agreement with any party by e-mail. Any views expressed by an individual do not necessarily reflect the view of Tata Steel. Tata Steel is not responsible for the consequences of any actions taken on the basis of information provided. While this e-mail has been checked for all known viruses the addressee should also scan for viruses. Personal data shared on the email will be processed in accordance with the lawfulness of processing as per Tata Steel Limited, India (TSL)’s Data Privacy Policy

A metallurgical engineer from MNIT, Jaipur. Have over 40 years of experience of working in Stainless Steel Industry, in the area of quality control in production and sales & marketing of SS. Retired from SAIL as DGM (Marketing - Stainless Steel), currently working as Consultant with Indian Stainless Steel Development Association. Also working closely with BIS to develop new Indian Standards in the field of Stainless Steel.

• Joined Indian Railways Services of Engineers (IRSE) through 1987 Exam, (Date of Birth 18.09.1964)
• Worked in construction organization for 9 years and executed large number of Railway projects, some of them were in difficult terrain in remote areas
• While working as construction engineer in these projects, involving construction of major bridges, ROB/RUB buildings, Electric/Diesel loco sheds and major yard remodeling, approximately 454 Km Gauge Conversion, Doubling and New Lines were commissioned.
• Worked as ED/Non-fare Revenue for one year. While working as ED/NFR, the NFR earning was improved.
• Presently working as ED/Track (Machines), Railway Board, in charge of planning, procurement, deployment and monitoring of machines for complete mechanization by 2024. Introduced number of new technologies for reducing reliance on human interference.

1. Executive Director Track (Machines), Railway Board

Track Machines are essential for inspection, monitoring, maintenance and relaying of present day heavy track structure. The maintenance of track is just not possible without modern machines. Mechanization started in 1963 and till 2015 we had about 800 machines. A Master Plan was prepared for complete mechanization by 2024. Highest ever 538 machines and track monitoring systems with 7268 cr are included in Budget of 2018-19 against average of 26 machines per year with costing ₹ 313.62 cr per year during 4 years prior to my joining the post. Orders of 304 machines are placed which is highest compared to previous best of around 62 machines in a year. Life of machines increased from 15 to 20 years with improved maintenance and output per machine has improved by 30 to 40% with effective monitoring. Tender conditions are aligned to encourage “ Make in India” 100% indigenization achieved for 7 types of machines and 25 to 80% for other. Leading manufactures have started manufacturing

Metallurgical Engineer from NIT Rourkela and joined SAIL in 1991 as a Management Trainee. Has around 29 years’ experience in the Steel Sector and has worked in various capacities in Domestic sales, Exports and Corporate functions of SAIL. Was a part of the core strategy team of Chairman SAIL from 2016-18 . Is currently the Regional Manager of Northern region which constitutes around 40% of the total sales of SAIL and responsible for around Rs. 25,000 crores of business annually.