INDIA CONSTRUCTION FESTIVAL 2019
15-16th October 2019, ITC Maurya, New Delhi.
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INDIA CONSTRUCTION FESTIVAL 2019
15-16th October 2019, ITC Maurya, New Delhi.
Presented by
India Construction Festival 2019
In line with its aim to enter the $5 trillion club economy by 2025 – which is highly dependent on real estate and infrastructure – the Modi government has taken a multi-modal approach towards infrastructure development in the country over the last five years. Since 2014, a conducive environment was provided by the federal government for the national and international players.
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Guest of Honour
Dr. Anup Wadhawan, IAS
Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India
Dr. Anup Wadhawan is India’s present Commerce Secretary. Previously, he was also the joint secretary and additional secretary in the department of financial services under the Ministry of Finance. For six years between 2001 and 2006 he was a director in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). He thus worked in both Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s and Dr. Manmohan Singh’s PMO. Wadhawan is an MA and Ph.D. in Economics.
INDIA ROADS CONFERENCE Keynote Speaker
Shri Nagendra Nath Sinha, IAS
Chairman, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)
Shri Nagendra Nath Sinha, IAS (JH-1987) took charge as Chairman, National Highways Authority of India w.e.f. 05.03.2019 (AN) with additional charge of the post of Managing Director, National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd., New Delhi. Mr. Sinha held the charge of Managing Director, National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. since August, 2017. Shri Sinha holds M.Sc. Degree in Health Sciences (Johns Hopkins University, USA) and B.Tech Degree (IIT Kanpur) in Electrical Engineering.
He has served in the State of Jharkhand in major departments including PWD, Mines, Industry, IT among others. He has to his credit several landmark projects in Jharkhand including Mega Sports Complex & Games Village at Ranchi, Ranchi Ring Road, State Data Center. He has also been instrumental in development of several policies and documents viz. PWD Code 2012, public private partnership policy etc. In his last assignment of State, before he took over as MD, NHIDCL, as Additional Chief Secretary, Rural Development, Govt. of Jharkhand, he played pivotal role in organizing rural poor, creating sustainable livelihood & employment opportunities & NRM based development.
As MD NHIDCL, he has been instrumental in making the execution of the projects smoother by focus on removal of bottlenecks, open dialogue with stakeholders, streamlining procedures and regular monitoring. He has been able to revive many stuck projects. Under his leadership, the NHIDCL has been able to complete development and take steps for implementation of mega projects viz. Zojila tunnel, Dhubri-Phulbari bridge.
His major interests are in the fields of sustainable development, IT, Infrastructure, Health and Institution Building.
CW LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Keynote Speaker
Steve Jones
Senior Director, Industry Insights Research Dodge Data & Analytics
At Dodge Data & Analytics, Steve Jones focuses on how emerging economic, practice and technology trends are transforming the global design and construction industry. In addition to hundreds of speaking engagements around the world and numerous articles in industry publications, he produces Dodge Data & Analytics’ SmartMarket Reports on key industry trends, which are read by millions worldwide and frequently cited as authoritative references.
Steve holds a MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA from The Johns Hopkins University. He has a track record of active leadership in many industry initiatives and serves as a judge for numerous industry awards.
Before joining Dodge, Steve was Vice President of Primavera Systems (now part of Oracle), the global leader in project management software. Prior to that, Steve spent 19 years in creative and management roles with top architectural/engineering firms, most recently as a Principal and Board of Directors member with Burt Hill, one of the largest A/E firms in the US (now merged with Stantec).
Who’s Speaking
Pradeep Sharma
President
Action Construction Equipment Limited
Mr. Pradeep Sharma is an alumnus of premier institute IIT, Kanpur.
He began his career with the renowned multinational Metal Box Ltd. as a Management Trainee. Since then, he has held various senior and top management positions with well-known organizations such as Toyota, Voltas, Bharat Forge, and SP Group.
A veteran with almost four decades of experience in Engineering and Construction Equipment Industry, Mr. Sharma in his current assignment as President of ACE- Action Construction Equipment Limited, has steered the company towards becoming number one in its major product segment – Cranes. Under his leadership, ACE has won many prestigious awards, most notable ones being the “India's Best Material Handling & Construction Equipment Manufacturing Company”, “Best Seller in Mobile Cranes Category”, “Top Challenger Award”, “India's Most Trusted Company Award” & "70 Most Trusted Power Brands of India".
He has been on the National Committee of Defence (CII) in the past and also actively involved in various Industry FORA.
Mr. Sharma has widely traveled internationally and is responsible for forging JVs and alliances with prestigious organizations across the world during his career.
Pradeep Sharma
Action Construction Equipmen...
Sandeep Reddy
Managing Director
Gayatri Projects Ltd
Mr. Sandeep Reddy is the Managing Director of GAYATRI Projects Limited, a leading Civil Engineering Contractor firm in South India with an annual turnover in excess of Rs.20000 Million. Under his stupendous leadership and excellent guidance, GAYATRI Projects Limited, is soaring high and touching the sky of success. He leads the GAYATRI Group with his acumen, expertise, knowledge, and experience. Since, 1989 he has taken the Group to newer heights and a higher plane diversifying into owning and operating of infrastructural assets like major Transportation, Mining, Irrigation, Power Projects, Transmission & Distribution. Being a visionary, he envisions the GAYATRI Group becoming the momentous and leading business house of modern India.
Mr. Sandeep Reddy is Vice Chairman Cum Managing Director of GAYATRI Sugars Limited. The Group had established a sugar plant with a crushing capacity of 2500 TPD in Andhra Pradesh. The plant was commissioned in March 1997.
Mr. Sandeep Reddy is also Director of GAYATRI HI-Tech Hotels Limited the Group of Industries, established a 5-star deluxe category hotel with 290 rooms at Road No.2, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad Collaboration with “Hyatt International”.
Mr. Sandeep Reddy is also Director of GAYATRI Property Venture Pvt. Ltd. The Group also has established a Housing Ventures and Commercial Complexes collaboration with India’s No.1 Housing and Commercial properties M/s.DLF Homes Limited, New Delhi.
Mr. Sandeep Reddy is Director of Thermal Power Tech Corporation India Limited (TPCIL) and NCC Power Ltd.
Overall, Mr.Sandeep Reddy describes his key strength to be a willingness to delegate and ability to take quick and timely decisions.
Sandeep Reddy
Gayatri Projects Ltd
Sumit Mazumder
Chairman & Managing Director
TIL Limited, Kolkata
EDUCATION
A graduate of St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, he obtained a Master’s in Business Administration from Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA. Mr. Mazumder also undertook the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, Massachusetts, USA.
WORKING EXPERIENCE
He is presently the Chairman & Managing Director of TIL Ltd., which manufactures India’s largest range of material handling equipment in technical collaborations with world leaders – Manitowoc Crane Group, USA; Hyster-Yale Group, USA; the range of road-building machinery like crushing & screening in technical collaboration with Astec Industries, USA.
BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
- TIL Ltd. – Chairman
- Chairman of the Board of Directors of Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd.
- Director on the Board of Paharpur Cooling Towers Ltd.
- Director on the Board of West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC).
- Director on the Board of Jayshree Tea & Industries Ltd.
EDUCATIONAL BODIES
- Member of the Board of Governors, XLRI
- Member of the Advisory Board of Calcutta Business School
OTHER BODIES / CHAMBERS
- Trustee on the Board of Ananta Aspen Centre
- Past President of CII
- Past President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry
- Past Chairman of CII Eastern Region
- Past Chairman of CII Task Forces on Ease of Doing Business and Integrity and Transparency in Governance.
- Past Chairman of Mining and Construction Equipment Division, CII
- Past Chairman of National Committee on Capital Goods & Engineering, CII
- Past President of The Agri-Horticultural Society of India
Sumit Mazumder
TIL Limited, Kolkata
Gagan Preet Kaur
Urban Skilling Specialist (TSU-NULM)
Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Govt. of India
Dr. Gagan Preet Kaur - Urban Skilling Specialist (TSU-NULM), MoHUA, is a development professional with over 9 years of experience in education, skill development, capacity building, and environment. She has done a Ph.D. from Delhi University (in collaboration with Michigan State University) and has several publications in national and international journals in the field of Environment education. She has experience of working with top bureaucracy in the Government of India, initiating and developing numerous policy interventions in the areas of education and skilling. These include policy design and partial implementation of national schemes and frameworks such as the National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF), National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF), Credit policy for TVET and Aspirational Districts Skill Abhiyan (ASA), State and District Skill Plan framework. Her core competencies include policy design, research and analysis, project management and implementation
Gagan Preet Kaur
Ministry of Housing & Urban ...
Subodh Chandra Dixit
Executive Director
SPCPL
Mr. Subodh Chandra Dixit is the Executive Director - Engineering & Construction of SPCPL (Shapoorji Pallonji And Company Private Limited.)
Mr. Dixit graduated from B.I.T.S. Pilani (B.Tech Civil) and has done his M. Tech from I.I.T. Mumbai. He has broad and diversified experience of over 31 years in the Construction industry.
Mr. Dixit began his career as a Consultant at Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd (TCEL).
He joined SPCPL in 1996 as Senior Project Manager and was elevated to the position of Executive Director in 2014. In between, he has held several senior positions including Regional Head (South), Executive Vice President, Director-Operations and President (Construction Group).
Mr. Dixit heads SPCPL’s Engineering & Construction Indian Construction Business and oversees the day to day management of the organization, including business development and strategic planning.
Under Mr. Dixit’s Leadership, the Company has witnessed more than 20% growth year on year, for the past many years. The Group business encompasses all product type projects from Commercial, Institutional, Residential, Airports to Healthcare and Sports arena and a large percentage (about 80%) of a portfolio of the business is under EPC & GC model.
The Company has taken many initiatives to integrate technology viz. 3-D BIM Modelling, in-house developed mobility solutions to field, a system to track labour attendance and productivity as well as robotics for construction. SPCPL is a pioneer in bringing top-down construction methodology to India.
Presently, Mr. Dixit is a Director on the Board of SPCPL and also Board Member of other SP group companies.
Subodh Chandra Dixit
SPCPL
Parvesh Minocha
Group Managing Director
Feedback Infrastructure Services Pvt Ltd
Mr. Parvesh Minocha, one of the promoters of Feedback Group, has incubated several businesses and other initiatives for the Group. Some of these are Engineering and Project Management Services, Highways and other Transportation Practice, Highways/Urban Mobility Tolling, Operations and Maintenance Business, acquisition of Dubai Consultants-a four-decades-old Architecture Practice in Dubai and forming several other joint-ventures. He is currently the Executive Vice Chairman of Feedback Highways OMT, Chairman of Dubai Consultants, Director on board of the Feedback Group and Director on Board of its Highways business. Under his leadership, many of these businesses have become the largest in their respective sectors.
He is widely consulted by several investors, PE funds & Industry Bodies on infrastructure in general and transportation sectors in particular. He is a member of CII Committees for South East Asia, Railways and Ease of Doing Business for 2019-20. Additionally, he Chairs the CII Northern Region Council’s committee on Infrastructure and is a member of the Committee on Ease of Doing Business for the Northern Region Council. In the past also he has been a member of Delhi State Council and Northern India Council of CII, besides being a member of National Railways, PPP and Urban Infrastructure Committees of CII. He has also been a member of the CII-MoRT H Joint Task Force on Roads and Highways.
Parvesh is an engineer from NIT Durgapur with a course in Advanced Management and Leadership Program from Oxford University.
Parvesh Minocha
Feedback Infrastructure Serv...
Pam Radtke Russell
Deputy Editor of Industry Sectors
Engineering News-Record
Pam Radtke Russell is the deputy editor of industry sectors for Engineering News-Record. Based in New Orleans, Louisiana, Ms. Russell is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience reporting and writing on such topics including construction and engineering with a focus on energy, the environment, and climate change.
Pam Radtke Russell
Engineering News-Record
Michiya Kitayama
Expert / Highway Engineering
JICA
Dispatched for “Capacity Development Project on Highways in Mountainous Regio
- Obtained M.S. in Civil Engineering by Construction Engineering, University of Washington, USA
- Obtained B.S. in Civil Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan
Entered East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. (NEXCO-East) in 2007
- Supervision of O/M of expressways
- Management of bridge improvement in urban/mountainous area
- Management of planning, design, and construction of Tokyo Metropolitan Inter-City Expressway
Obtained Certificate of:
- Professional Engineering (Road Engineering)
- Concrete Diagnosis & Maintenance Engineer
Michiya Kitayama
JICA
Ravi Sehgal
Chairman
EEPC India
Having done his schooling from St. Paul’s School – Mr. Sehgal completed his Bachelor of Technology from Benaras Hindu University Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering. He has his Diploma in Business & Industrial Management from Calcutta, besides Diploma in Export Marketing from Baroda. He has undertaken a special Management training course for Young Business Men from Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) Hyderabad. He is a keen sportsman having represented the school & college team in swimming, water polo, and cricket. He has worked for two years in Saudi Arabia is a leading Engineering concern at Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), manufacturing castings & helped increase production four times in that span of 2 years. Since 1983 he holds the position of Managing Director in Carnation Industries Limited, Kolkata’s leading Export House manufacturing & exporting engineering goods. The Company he is heading is an ISO 9001:2015 company and has won several National and Regional Awards for the highest performance in EXPORTS of Industrial & Sanitary Castings. He was the Regional Chairman of The Engineering Export Promotion Council – Eastern Region (2000 – 2009). Currently, he is the Chairman of EEPC – India. He was the President of the Institute of Indian Foundrymen (IIF), an apex body of Foundries in India in 2008-2009. Currently, he is the Editor of Indian Foundry Journal-published by IIF. He is the National Executive Committee Member of the Indian Foundry Association. He has represented EEPC & IIF at several National & International Forums including INDEE, International Exhibitions & World Foundry Form. He has been a part of the Indian Delegation of EEPC in Germany (2007) with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the EEPC Delegation to Turkey (2011) with Commerce Minister Jyotirditya Scindia and very recently part of the EEPC delegation to Hannover, Germany with Prime Minister Narendra K. Modi. He has addressed the WFO meet in Austria and has participated with his Company products in Exhibitions in Australia, Germany, UK, UAE & USA. A devoted philanthropist, he is an active Rotarian having been the President of his Rotary Club of Belur and District Governor of D-3290/3291 which had parts of Eastern India & Nepal. He has represented Rotary International President in Australia & USA and is currently managing the Project Funding of Rural & Community based projects in Eastern India.
Ravi Sehgal
EEPC India
Vikash Chandra
Finance & PPP Expert
Smart Cities Mission, MoHUA