Sanjay Raghunathprasad Gupta (1963–2021) was an Indian businessman and

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. He was chairman and founder of Neesa Group of companies.

Career

Sanjay Gupta is a civil engineer from

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and a diploma holder in finance from

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(ICFAI University) and an

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(IAS) officer working with the government of

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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 The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil service offic ...

in Gujarat State. Since then he has held top level positions in various departments of government of Gujarat. Later, he was managing director of

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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

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for

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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. Currently the network is long and has 40 stations. The Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation Limited was established in February 201 ...

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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