Sanjay Raghunathprasad Gupta (1963–2021) was an Indian businessman and civil servant. He was 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 The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India. Considered the premier civil service of India, the IAS is one of the three arms of the All India Services along with the Indian ...

(IAS) officer working with the government of

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...

for 17 years (1985 to 2002) in various departments at top level positions.

Government

Sanjay Gupta joined IAS 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 of Gujarat. Later, he was managing director of

Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Ltd (GSPCL) is a state government owned group of oil and gas exploration, production and distribution companies based in Gujarat, India. It is India's only state government-owned oil and gas company under the ...

between 1997 and 2002. 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.

Private sector

He worked as

chief executive officer A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especial ...

for

Adani Group Adani Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Ahmedabad. It was founded by Gautam Adani in 1988 as a commodity trading business, with the flagship company Adani Enterprises. The Group's diverse businesses include po ...

from 2002 to 2005. In April 2011, he was appointed as executive chairman of the Rs 12,000-crore

Metro-Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad Ahmedabad Metro is a rapid transit system for the cities of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar in Gujarat state of India. The Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation Limited was established in February 2010 and the long Phase–1 of the project was approved in ...

project, but resigned suddenly in August 2013. Gupta announced plans in 2012 to launch a national news channel based in

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. He was released on bail for health reasons in December 2015.

References

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