Sanjay Gupta (businessman)

Indian businessman and civil servant (born 1963)

For other uses, see Sanjay Gupta (disambiguation).

Sanjay Gupta

Born|

Sanjay Raghunathprasad Gupta

1963

Patna Bihar, India

Died| 2021 (aged 57-58)
Occupation| Promoter of Neesa Group[1]
Website| sanjayrgupta.com

Sanjay Raghunathprasad Gupta (1963–2021) was an Indian businessman and civil servant. He was chairman and founder of Neesa Group of companies.

## Career

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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. [citation needed]

### Government

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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

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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

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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

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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. 5 September 2013.
5. ^ a b "Gujarat's metro man set to start a news channel". Indian Express. 20 September 2012.
6. ^ a b "It's destination Cambay for ex-babu Sanjay Gupta". Times of India. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
7. ^ "Former bureaucrat Sanjay Gupta to launch PE fund, plans to raise USD 1 billion in next 5 years". Retrieved 12 September 2019.
8. ^ "Modi's Metro man Sanjay Gupta quits". Ahmedabad Mirror. 31 August 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
9. ^ "Ex-IAS officer Sanjay Gupta resigns as MEGA chairman". Epaper Dnaindia. 31 August 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
10. ^ Sports (15 May 2015). "Ahmedabad metro: Top officer held for 'fraud'". The Indian Express. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
11. ^ TNN (20 May 2015). "Executive chairman of Metrolink Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad seeks ban on media coverage". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
12. ^ India (8 December 2015). "Former IAS officer involved in Ahmedabad metro scam released on bail". The Indian Express. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
13. ^ "Metro rail scam: Ex-IAS officer Sanjay Gupta gets bail". The Times of India. 5 April 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2017.