R P GUPTA

(F. 12906-MM)

PRESIDENT

CONTACT ADDRESS

OFFICE

Chairman, Pooja Educational Society &

Director, Rajnandani Constructions Pvt Ltd

3, Pooja Tower, Gopalpura Bye-pass

Jaipur 302 018

Ph : (0141)  2545066

Telefax : (0141) 2721107

RESIDENCE

C-39 Lajpat Marg, 'C' Scheme

Jaipur 302 001

Ph : (0141) 2377736

Mobile : 9414041516

E-mail : guptarp15@gmail.com

Mr Rajeshwar Prasad Gupta was born on 15 September 1942 in Sikar, Rajasthan (India). Born and brought up in a family of rich academic excellence, Mr Gupta is a graduate in Metallurgical Engineering and joined National Engineering Industries (NBC), pioneer and a leading Bearing Manufacturer in India, in the year 1964 and served for 36 years occupying key Technical and Managerial positions. Mr Gupta displayed a versatile and wise disposition in various aspects of Industry, management and quality systems at different levels. His unsatiated lust for knowledge led him to a post graduate course in Business management in the year 1980. Mr Gupta has a wide experience of more than three decades in planning, installing, developing and controlling Metallurgical Units engaged in mass Metallurgical Production, heat treatment and quality control in Engineering Industries and especially in Bearing Industries. He headed the metallurgical divisions of Taper Roller Bearing plant, Large Diameter Bearing plant, and Cartridge Taper Roller Bearing plant which included Quality, Heat Treatment of precision Bearing components including procurement and development of sources for Raw Materials, Bearing Steels and forged rings. He was also responsible for procurement of various state of the art atmosphere controlled furnaces and related equipment. Mr Gupta started his career with M/s National Engineering Industries Ltd, Jaipur, which manufactures nearly 2.2 million Bearings per month in over 500 different sizes ranging from 6mm bore to 1300 mm outer diameter and having the capacity to manufacture Bearings upto 2000 mm outer diameter. He worked in various capacities in the different plants of the organization gaining wide exposure and experience in the company which manufactures wide variety and range of bearings, such as Ball Bearings, Steel Balls, Tapered Roller Bearings, Cylindrical Roller Bearings and Axle Boxes for Railway Rolling Stock including Spherical Roller Bearings, Cartridge Tapered Roller Bearings and Large Dia special Bearings in separate fully equipped factories. From 1964-1968, he worked at the Ball Bearing plant, and was engaged in the mass Heat Treatment of Bearing races with various continuous and batch type furnaces. In the year 1968, the Taper Roller Bearing plant was setup in collaboration with the Federal Mogul Corporation USA. Mr Gupta was involved from the inception, in the erection and commissioning of the various Heat treatment furnaces, metallurgical laboratories and quality control equipment as also in their layout and in the preparation of the related procedures for regular running. These included continuous carburizing furnaces, hardening furnaces, endothermic gas generators imported from Lindberg, USA. He also developed Toolings and Fixtures for these including plugging and sizing Tools. Later on he was actively involved in their trial runs and in the regular running for mass production. In the year 1982, he had gone for further training at the collaborators plants at Macomb IL and Hamilton Alb. in USA for the latest technology in the field of Bearing Metallurgy and Heat Treatment. Later in 1996, with the change in collaboration he had gone to M/s NTN Corporation, Japan for the trial and study of Chugairo furnace, which was the latest state of the art technology in Bearing component Heat Treatment. Again in 1997, he visited various plants of M/s NTN Corporation, Japan, which is one of the leading manufacturers of Bearings in the world, for discussions in the field of Metallurgy. He was also responsible for setting up of the most modern metallurgical laboratories for Taper Rolling Bearing. Precision Tapered Roller Bearings are manufactured in inch and metric series from 15.875 mm bore to 95.25 mm bore at the plant. These Bearings are used by all the major Automobile manufacturers in the country as original Equipment. Mr Gupta was instrumental in setting up a large Dia bearing metallurgical plant at Jaipur and developed press and sizing toolings for heat treatment of carburized bearings up to 2000 mm diameter used in industries like steel mills and earthmoving equipment. NEI has the distinction of bring one of the ten manufacturers of these bearings in the world. Mr Gupta was also involved in the metallurgical activities of the Railways Bearing Division, which included metallurgical production of cartridge Tapered Roller Bearing for Indian Railways, from 1984. He also supervised the continuous Salt Bath lines for Heat Treatment of spherical roller bearings used in the manufacture of Railway Bearings. Mr Gupta had gone to the collaborators plant of Brenco, Inc. USA in the year 1999 for seeking export of cartridge rollers being manufactured by NEI, India. A Qualified Lead Assessor through Nigel Bauer and Associates, UK, he was responsible for implementation of the international quality systems like ISO-900I, ISO-14000, Q.S. 9000 and Quality circles at M/s. National Engineering Industries. He had also been engaged for preparation of standards for metallurgical quality control and audit system. Mr R P Gupta has been associated with the Institution of Engineers (India) for more than three decades and has served the Institution as Honorary Secretary and then Chairman of the Rajasthan State Centre. During 1995-96, he was nominated to the IEI Council and was again elected to the Council during sessions 1996-2000, 2000-2004 and 2004-2008. In the Council, he had an opportunity to serve on various prestigious Committees. He also had the distinction of serving as Vice-President of IEI during session 2003-2004. Presently, he is the President of the Institution of Engineers (India) for the year 2007-2008. Despite his successful and illustrious career and his global exposure across Europe, USA, Japan and India, Mr Gupta seems to exude a down-to-earth attitude and an ebullient and bright charm. He has attended several interactive programmes, both in technical and managerial fields in India and abroad. He is also a Life Member of the Indian Institute of Metals and Quality Circles Forum of India. Mr Gupta’s entrepreneurial endeavors have reached charismatic heights, a desire to pursue a cerebral profession that would serve industry and the society. He has been a pioneer in the field of Education as Chairman, Pooja Educational Society, Jaipur, a renowned and distinguished name in educating young mind and also Director, Rajnandini Construction Pvt Ltd, Jaipur. MPHF Rtn. Mr Gupta joined Rotary Club, Jaipur Mansarovar, as Chartered Member in the year 2000 and was elected as its President for the session 2003-2004 and since then has continued as club trainer. Mr Gupta believes in a philosophy of continuous improvement in professional, personal, social and spiritual spheres. A strong motivating element for youth with a proven track record towards goal realization is what Mr Gupta believes in.