SAFFE- Governing Council

Brief Profile :   Dr. V.K. Garg is the Former Chairman Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission, Goa & UTs .He has vast and varied rich experience of more than 40 years. Dr. V.K. Garg after having served in Indian Economic Service for 17 years shifted to Public Sector to serve for another 19 years before he superannuated as Chairman and Managing Director of Power Finance Corporation Ltd. Dr. Garg a PhD in Business Administration has served Energy Sector, Power and Oil, in various capacities at senior positions. He was Director Finance of Power Grid Corporation Ltd for 7 years. He is an MBA and has attended Advanced Management Programmes at Texas University USA and Cambridge University UK in addition to obtaining Certificate in Development finance Appraisal at Bradford University UK. He became the Chairman of PFC in 2005 .Under his leadership PFC made successful transition for Mini Ratna to Navratna PSU, the highest recognition for any public sector company from Government of India for its performance. He spearheaded the paradigm shift in the company’s business, culture and operations. PFC (IPO) under his stewardship was oversubscribed 77 times, Qualified Institutional Investors oversubscribed 117 times, a record for any PSU. Achieved one of the highest per capita productivity in India of post tax net profit of Rs. 4.3 Crores per employee per annum. Awarded three Ultra Mega Power Projects of 4000 MW costing US$ 4 billion each at Sassan, Mundra & Krishnapattnam in private sector, through international competitive bidding in a record time. During his tenure in JERC the T&D losses out of 7 jurisdiction under him 5 were reduced to 13% . out of these five, 2 jurisdiction were brought below 9 percent.

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Brief Profile :   An Energy expert with more than 40 years of wide and varied experience in global contracts, project planning, construction, erection, operation, maintenance, procurement, policy research and strategic management for power sector and liaison with government and global agencies. Shri.J.K.Mehta is also the Regional Manager, (South Asia) for the World Energy Council (WEC), a global NGO with presence in nearly 100 countries worldwide and has done extensive work for promoting energy equity and rural energy access. He has been invited to participate in global energy events and speak on various energy issues in more than 25 countries worldwide. Shri Mehta is a certified Director of Institute of Directors and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers ( India).

Brief Profile :   CA. Sanjeev Kumar Gupta is Founder Treasurer of SAFFE . By profession he is a Chartered Accountant having a rich experience of 24 years in the discipline of Finance , Accounts , Law , Taxation , Corporate Planning , DPR , Fund Arranger , Debt Restructuring and Family Settlement . He was awarded fellowship by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) in 1995 . He was facilitated on several occasions by the various chapters of ICAI for Guest Speaker in the Seminars organized by them . His Chartered Accountancy Firm is having 4 branch in the country and 7 senior CAs are also associated with him as partners . He conducts the Audits on behalf of C&AG , RBI and High Courts regularly . He is associated with various social organizations viz Masonic Fraternity , Indian Fedration of United Nations etc. to serve the society at large .

Brief Profile :   Mr. Raina holds a Masters Degrees in Management and in Public Administration. Over the past 33 years, he has held senior level positions in government, public sector undertakings and multinational organizations. He is the founder President of Entecsol International, a global energy consulting organisation. The positions held earlier include; Director and Senior Energy Advisor, Nexant Inc. USA (an affiliate of Bechtel Corporation), Deputy Chief of Party for “South Asia Regional Initiative on Energy Cooperation and Development” and Additional General Manager, Power Finance Corporation. He is a Member of the World Energy Council (IMC) and the Joint India-Nepal Committee for the Development of Hydropower, constituted by the FICCI and FNCC. He is a member of leading think tanks including the South Asia Policy Analysis (SAPANA) and South Asia Free media Association (SAFMA) and has close working relationship with South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS) and Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). He has been advising the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Governments of Germany and Japan, Asian Development Bank, Energy Charter Treaty (Belgium), German Technical Cooperation Organization (GTZ), Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Cooperation (Japan) and the SAARC Energy Centre on energy issues.

Brief Profile :   Dr. P.B. Rastogi has wide experience in appraisal and environmental impact assessment of the diversified category of projects including Oil & gas projects, Petro-chemical Refineries, Pipelines, Storage; Steel, Cement, Leather, Paper, Sugar Distilleries, Fertilizers, Dyes & Chemicals, Drugs, Fertilizers, Thermal Power Plants, Mining, River Valley, Roads, Infrastructure etc. More recently, he is assigned with nuclear, defence and strategic projects alongwith the policy and law. His exhaustive knowledge in the field of environment is utilized for suggesting innovative ideas and solving the problems. He holds Ph. D degree in Environmental Toxicology from Allahabad University and has carried out Post-Doctoral Research at the University of Massachusetts & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA during 1985-1987. He has also studied at University of Bradford, Manchester Liverpool, Glasgow and Edinburgh, U.K. in 1994, acted as Negotiator for International Treaties at Sri Lanka besides specialized training in Monitoring and Compliance at Cape Town. South Africa in 2008. He has several offices to his credit including Institute of Oncology & Preventive Medicine, New Delhi; Jawaharlal Lal Nehru University; University of Delhi; National Institute of Immunology, N. Delhi; National Institute of Occupational Health, Ahmedabad, Gujarat; Ministry’s Regional Office at Lucknow, U.P. & Chandigarh, World Bank assisted ICZM project at SICOM (MoEF) and Ministry of Environment & Forests, New Delhi. During his 33 years scientific career, he has published more than 60 articles / papers on Environmental Laws, Climate change, Energy efficiency, Bio-diversity, Metallurgy, Mining, Solid/hazardous waste management, Clean Technology, Environmental auditing, Environment management system and many more topics. He has also been invited to deliver keynote addresses/invited lecturers, as a guest of honour and Chairman to Sessions on various topics at the national/international seminars/symposia/workshops/ conferences.

Brief Profile :   Mr. Prabhat Saraswat is B.E (NIT-Surat) 1999, DMM, BEE Certified energy auditor, Lead auditor-EnMS ISO 50001.
He is presently representing Energy & Carbon Services ECS division) of MITCON Consultancy & Engineering Services Ltd., at New Delhi branch Office as Asst. Vice President.
Basically he is an Energy professional with experience of 15 years in energy auditing, providing advisory services to various industries to reduce energy cost, organizing technical seminars. Skills include conducting the energy audits, expertise in operation of measurement instruments, preparation of audit reports, outstanding presentation and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels and sound understanding of energy conservation. Experience of conducting base line study under PAT scheme, Benchmarking, Preliminary and Detailed Energy Audits and Conservation projects in various industries segments & processes. Experience of Demand Side Management (DSM) Programs& ECBC implementation with various utility& SDA. He has the experience of feasibility studies of solar PV power project on estimation of site potential for Power Generation & Preparation of Detailed Project Reports. He has carried impact assessment ECBC scheme implemented during XIth Five Year Plan for BEE. He done evaluation of Off grid and decentralized solar applications scheme of phase-I of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission for MNRE.

Brief Profile :   He is presently, Director at Glocal University, Saharanpur. Mr. Deepak Bhatnagar graduated in Metallurgical Engineering (1971) from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Later, he also obtained Postgraduate Degrees in Industrial Engineering and Business Management. He is a member of the expert evaluation teams for new R&D projects in EU, DST and Steel Ministry . He has been a Professor and Head of CITT at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, which is a Deemed University under Ministry of Commerce. IIFT is among ten top Business Schools in India This Centre has a focus on carrying out research studies and capacity building programmes linking International Business with Technology Exports. He is also teaching courses on Business Communications and Innovation Management to MBA students. While at IIFT, he successfully completed Projects on Technology and Trade, sponsored by European Commission , DST, Ministry of Commerce etc .He was the member-secretary of the Sectoral council on Trade under the National Innovation Council .