Childhood

Anil Gupta was born on February 2, 1952 in New Delhi to late Mr. Dev Dutt Gupta and Mrs. Nirmala Gupta. His father, Dev Dutta Gupta was a civil servant, working in the publications division of the Indian Parliament while his mother was a teacher in a public school. His parents and ancestors hailed from Mehrauli, Delhi & Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, areas known to have sizeable populations of clans of Hindu families generally known as traders. February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Humayuns Tomb, situated in New Delhi, has an architectural design similar to the Taj Mahal. ... The Parliament of India is bicameral. ... Located right outside of Delhi near Gurgaon. ... Uttar Pradesh (Hindi: उत्तर प्रदेश, Urdu: اتر پردیش), also popularly known by its acronym UP, is the most populous and fifth largest state in the Union of India. ...

Education

He attended Union Academy, a presitious school of New Delhi. An avid sportsman in school, he was also part of the National Cadet Corps, and marched with a contingent at the Republic Day Celebrations that are held on January 26 in New Delhi. The National Cadet Corps (India) is the Indian military cadet corps. ... January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...

He qualified for the entrance into the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi where he pursued his Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering in the batch of 1973. He later went on to pursue his Masters from the same insitute and department. His Masters thesis focussed on Reaction Engineering. Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are the premier educational institutions for science and technology spread all over India . ... Chemical engineering is the application of science, in particular chemistry, along with mathematics and economics to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms. ...

Work Experience

Referred to as "temples of modern India" by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, India's steel plants needed qualified engineers to run and optimize. Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), a government owned company set up to run these steel plants, hired Anil and a few other batchmates for training programs with Russian engineers on deputation to India for helping India get on her feet in iron and steel production. He was assigned to various steel plants and research centers in the mineral-rich East India from 1978 through 1983. The towns and cities Anil worked at included Bokaro, Bhilai, and Ranchi in the state of Bihar and Durgapur in West Bengal. Jawaharlal Nehru (जवाहरलाल नेहरू, Javāharlāl Nehrū) (November 14, 1889 – May 27, 1964), also called Pandit (Scholar, Teacher) Nehru, was one of the most important leaders of the Indian Independence Movement and the Indian National Congress, and became the first Prime Minister of India when India won its independence on August... Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is the leading and the biggest steel making company in India. ... Bokaro is one of the districts of Jharkhand state, India. ... Bhilai is the second-largest city in Chhattisgarh, India with a population of 553,837 (2001 census}. The Bhilai/Durg agglomeration is the largest in the state (923,559). ... Ranchi is the capital city of Jharkhand state, India. ... Bihar (बिहार in Devanagari) is a state of the Indian union situated in the eastern part of the country. ... Durgapur is an industrial township in the state of West Bengal, India. ... West Bengal (পশ্চিম বঙ্গ, Pościm Bôngo) is a state in the eastern region of India. ...

In 1983 he was assigned to the head office for SAIL in New Delhi, where he would work on several projects until 1993. For a couple of years in the late 1980s he was on deputation in India's Ministry of Steel where he was in charge of technical and economic assessment of projects submitted to the government for approval during the license regime, much before any plans of liberelisation were on the horizon.

Beuraucratic hassles and impediments to growth led Anil to quit SAIL in 1993 and to join the Indian Operations of the German steel giant Mannesman Demag in Delhi. This position involved technical aspects of project analysis as well as marketing of the same to potential clients. Economic Liberalization had still not taken off, and Indian companies were still shackled in terms of planning expansions of iron and steel production and even greenfield projects. This translated into a lack of projects and clients with Mannesman Demag. Anil quit the company after 3 years.

Anil then joined Hindalco, the flagship company of the Aditya Birla group. Even though he made a transtion into aluminium, a non-ferrous metal, his skills of project management and implementation proved invaluable for Hindalco, as it was riding the liberalization wave and the boom in the aluminum sector. Soon, Anil found himself in Australia, dismantling and packing an aluminum wheel rim plant to be shipped and installed in India. As the person managing this project from inception to implementation, Anil led a team of dedicated engineers over 2 years of work that involved long hours and frequent travel to remote plant locations like Silvassa, an erstwhile Portugese colony on the west coast of India surrounded by the Indian state of Gujarat. General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13, 3, p Appearance silvery Atomic mass 26. ... Silvassa is the capital of the Indian Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli sandwiched between the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat. ... Anthem: A Portuguesa Official language Portuguese Capital Lisbon Largest city Lisbon President: Jorge Sampaio Prime Minister: José Sócrates Foundation Independence 868 1128, 1143 Area  - Total  - % water   92,391 km² (109th) 0. ... Gujarat (, Gu: , De: , also spelled Gujrat) is one of the Princely States of India, and it is the most industrialized state in India after Maharashtra. ...

After implementation of this project, he was involved in other operations and new projects with Hindalco which incidentally far and few between. The Chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, Kumaramangalam Birla, planned to improve shareholder value by way of mergers and acquisitions, as opposed to supporting plans for any greenfield projects or expansion of existing plants. Incidentally this strategy hasn't really worked for Kumaramangalam Birla, who has lost his lost his second-place rank in Forbes' list of Richest Indians to people like steel tycoon Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, IT czar Azim Premji, Sunil Mittal of Bharti telecom and the Ambani brothers of Reliance Industries. Having said that, one would have to admit that Hindalco (as well as the whole group) has also gained in worth albeit at a lesser rate than that of most new-age companies. Due to lack of project opportunities at Hindalco, Anil quit the Delhi office in late 2005. Lakshmi Narayan Mittal (also known as Lakshmi Niwas Mittal) is a billionaire industrialist of Indian origin currently residing in London. ... Azim Premji Azim Premji (born July 24, 1945) is an Indian businessman and Chairman of one of the largest software companies in India, Wipro Technologies (Bangalore). ... Sunil B. Mittal is a well-known Indian businessman. ... Dhirubhai Ambani (1932-2002) was a highly successful businessman from India. ...

CEO of Delhi Waste Management Limited

Anil has now taken up the position of CEO at Delhi Waste Management Limited, a collaboration between Subhash Projects of India and Tetrapak of North Carolina, USA and an Indian logistics company. DWM currently focusses on waste collection, transport and disposal. It was recently awarded a contract worth more than 100 crore rupees (USD $20 million) from the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. This contract is spread over several years, and assigns the task of waste management for the posh South Delhi zone to DWM. State nickname: Tar Heel State; Old North State Official languages English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Governor Michael Easley (D) Senators Elizabeth Dole (R) Richard Burr (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 28th 139,509 km² 9. ...