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GNFC shines in Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) India’s Top 500 Companies 2018

GNFC wins the Porter Prize for second consecutive year

Important Press coverage on GNFC

Unprecedented financial results for FY 17-18 in 42 years history of GNFC

Gujarat State Safety Award – 2015

Positioning as an integral element in the life of a common man, Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals aims to connect with millenials

A Neem Project workshop held today jointly by GNFC and Gujarat Livelihood Promotion Company (GLPC).

Hon. PM highlights Neem in Bharat Ki Baat Sabke Saath, London on 18 April 2018

GNFC Neem Project Launched at Uttar Pradesh by Hon’ble Union Minister Smt Smriti Zubin Irani

Ms.Bharathi Sivaswami Sihag IAS Inaugurated the GNFC Neem Face Wash Unit at Bharuch

Dr Rajiv Kumar Gupta IAS, MD GNFC’s Walk & Talk with Mr. Nigel D’souza of CNBC TV-18 on 02/04/18

Shri Giriraj Singh, Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, GOI, inaugurated the GNFC-KVIC Neem project unit for manufacturing of Neem soaps at Bharuch

Fortune India ranks GNFC no.1 PSU in terms of M-cap growth for FY18

GNFC Ltd. outsmarting its peers, turns out to be the most profitable player in 2016-17

GNFC Ltd wins ‘INDIA’s BEST COMPANY OF THE YEAR AWARD – 2017

An Unprecedented Journey of GNFC’s Turnaround “Pride of India” (MD’s INTERVIEW)

GNFC Neem Project wins the CSR LEADERSHIP AWARD at Mumbai.

Legendary Agriculture Scientist Prof. M S Swaminathan endorses GNFC’s Neem Project

GNFC Neem Store inaugurated at New Sachivalaya, Gandhinagar by Hon. Minister Shri. Dilip Thakor, Labour and Employment

Dr Rajiv Kumar Gupta IAS, delivered lecture on NEEM Project at M S Swaminathan Research Foundation

Honoured with the 50 MOST INFLUENTIAL RURAL MARKETING PROFESSIONALS OF INDIA award

My interview with Free Press Journal

My interview with Business magazine, India Business Journal published in Feb. 2018 edition

Republic Day 2018: GNFC celebrates 69th Republic Day at, Bharuch

GNFC declares highest ever Results in over four decades history for Quarter Three as well as Nine months ended December 31, 2017

GNFC wins the Times Network’s Digital India Award at the Digital India Summit

GNFC gets coveted place in Inclusive Business List, 2017 released by Shared Value Initiative India

GNFC Neem Project wins the CII-ITC Sustainability CSR Award

GNFC leapfrogs 141 places in BT 500 India’s Most Valuable Companies list released by Business Today in December 2017 edition

Dr Rajiv Kumar Gupta IAS, MD GNFC Key Note Address at Shared Value Summit 2017

GNFC wins CII’s SCALE Award

GNFC Neem Project wins the Global Giving Award for Best CSR Innovation Practices

Gujarat Chief Secretary launches LESSCASH/CASHLESS Website

How GNFC is reviving neem’s glory

GNFC achieves another milestone

PSU Contribution India to the Road of Global Power (GNFC)

Dr Rajiv Kumar Gupta IAS, MD GNFC delivers TEDx talk at IIM Bangalore about the Neem Revolution

GNFC and NEC Japan collaboration in Information technology sector

TEDx Talk of Dr. Rajiv Kumar Gupta IAS, MD-GNFC on Neem Revolution

GNFC pays highest ever dividend worth Rs 32 Crores to Government of Gujarat and GNFC employees contributes Rs 40.51 Lac for CM flood relief fund.

GNFC Neem Shampoo Launched

Hon’ble Prime Minister Inaugurates and lays the foundation of GNFC’s Projects Worth Rs. 600 Crores

GNFC posts highest ever 2nd Quarter and half yearly PBT of Rs. 245 crore and 350 crore respectively

Professional Experience
  1. Additional Chief Secretary,
    Forest & Environment Department (16-07-2018 to present) & Managing Director Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd. (01-01-2019 to present)
International Experience

Advisor, Prime Ministry Turkey for UNDP/GAP Umbrella Program on Sustainable Development.

Professional Trainings
  • “Innovation for Economic Development” at Harvard Kennedy School, USA 2015.

Books & Journals

“Water Development and Poverty Reduction” by Rajiv Gupta, Olcay Ünver, I.H., Kibaroglu, Aysegul (Eds.), published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA, 2003.
(http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-7431-X)

Awards
  • GNFC’s Neem Project was awarded the most prestigious Porter prize in 2017 by Professor Michael Porter from Harvard Business School….
Paper Published

  • “Solar Cities Emerge in India” by Gupta in UBM Future Cities – The Global community for 21st Century City Decision Makers, 2012

Paper Presented

  • “The Role of Water Technology in Development: A Case Study of Gujarat State, India” presented in “International UN Conference: Water in the Green Economy in Practice: Towards Rio +20”, Zaragoza, Spain, October 2011.

  • Mulk Raj Anand


    "I have gone through the study …. proposed by Dr Rajiv Kumar Gupta …….. This scholarly venture would be unique, in as much as it would come from a practitioner in this field. I am sure, Dr. Gupta’s practical experience through his illustrious career and his persistent academic endeavor would result in a research work of highest order."

  • Dr. Asit K. Biswas

    President, Third World Water Centre for Water Management, Mexico.
    "I have seen in Dr. Gupta a unique combination of intellectual brilliance with professional and administrative competence..............."

  • Mr. P. Chandrasekhara Rao

    The President, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Hamburg, Germany
    "Dr. Rajiv Kumar Gupta is a member of distinguished Indian Administrative Service. He has taken active interest in pursuing studies in the field of international law and obtained a Ph.D. for his thesis on The Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity in International Law: With special reference to Indian Law and Practice."

  • Dr. I. H. Olcay Unver

    President, GAP Prime Ministry, Republic of Turkey
    "Dr Rajiv K. Gupta …..has exhibited top management and leadership qualities while handling various infra structural development issues. His innovativeness in designing strategies to create human and social capital to complement the physical capital created by expansion of ..."

  • Australian Alumni Association (India)


    "Dr Gupta’s passion for academia, his commitment to his work, his determination to make a significant difference to the society around him, his conscientiousness and perseverance make him an example amongst his contemporaries. He is a role model for young Indians who aspire to contribute to the country."

  • Mr. H.D. Deve Gowda

    Former Prime Minister, India.
    "I have known Dr. Rajiv Kumar Gupta, I.A.S., for the last couple of years as a Senior Bureaucrat in Gujarat. It has indeed been a pleasure to watch his intellectual growth and his sustained interest in International Law issues. At a more practical level, he is rated as one of the most outstanding civil servants of his age group in the State of Gujarat, India."