Gupta Power : Cognitive heritage of excellence

Shri. Mahendra Kumar Gupta,
Managing Director, Gupta Power
Infrastructure Ltd.

Gupta Power Infrastructure Ltd is a trusted and proven name in the field of electrical transmission & distribution line Cables & Conductors having its own EPC Divn. The company has a glorious track record of more than 50 years for its product & services. An SME in the name and style of Gupta Cables started in the year 1961 in the state of Odisha, has gradually become an engine of growth to be christened as Gupta Power Infrastructure Ltd. with annual turnover in excess of USD 250 million.

Such change of identity from Gupta Cables to Gupta Power Infrastructure was inevitable because of expanded activities in products & services in India and abroad. Having strategic business alliance with multinational giants like TROESTER Germany for CCV Line & Mercury Cables for production of new age high voltage smart Cables & Conductors, the company offers various eco friendly energy conservation product remix which have become the need of the hour and inevitable for the challenging task of Nation building.

The company has been constantly strengthening its intellectual assets and creating an organization confident of its abilities and talent offering a single window solution to become a customers’ trust point.

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Some of the notable milestones in its evolutions are;

• 1st manufacturing company in Eastern India to take up manufacturing of Alloy Conductor to avoid theft & power loss.
• Catering to the SOS at the time of Super Cyclone for restoration of power in devastated areas of Odisha.
• Electrification of 2500 villages & 50,000 BPL households in remote areas of Odisha under RGGVY, BGJY & MNP schemes of Central & State Govt.
• Construction of 132/33 KV Substations for under Grid strengthening.
• Construction of 132 KV, 220 KV T/L in various projects of OPTCL in Odisha.
• Holds certifications like ISO 9001:2008 & 14001:2004 OHSAS 18001:2007 & Star Export House Certification for its qualitative and full proof domestic & oversees activities.

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Gupta Power has sailed through myriad of oddities with its stead-fast working culture & has surfaced with better sagacity of exhilaration with progressively amplified Sales Volume & is the Profit Earner by far that adds to its Testimony par Brilliance.

The company’s contribution to the power sector reforms has been widely acknowledged with several awards and certifications at State and National level. The phenomenal recession proof growth of the company is a tribute to its transparent work culture and able leadership.

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Shri. Mahendra Kumar Gupta, Managing Director, Gupta Power Infrastructure Ltd., is a winning industrialist in the Manufacturing Arena. Hallowed with his sturdy business imminence, Mr. Gupta plunged headlong into entrepreneurship & thrusted his company with his supreme precision & it was his painstaking effort that has endowed GPIL to strike an annual turnover of USD 250 million. The steering force behind his success story is the values & beliefs of his father, Late Jagdish Rai Gupta in terms of Steadiness, Integrity & Welfare of mankind as a whole, owing to which he fostered innovation and has built a distinct & healthy Company Culture.

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He is a first generation entrepreneur who started up petitely and through sheer uphill struggle and determination, he made it to zenith. Today, Gupta Power is one of the largest manufacturers of Power Conductor & Cables in India and he is the man widely ascribed for its success by making a conscious effort to always project the most professional business image to wow prospects.

Today GPIL has entered every nook and corner of Odisha, as well as other states, addressing the needs of Industries, with its products and services, while mounting its business into other countries as well.

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Recently GPIL made a strategic agreement with “Mercury Cables & Energy” of USA for manufacturing HTLS conductors which is going to transfigure the transmission technology in the country & has also tied-up with Business Associates in South African & Latin -American countries towards product supply, owing to his strong hold on international marketing.

He believes that the most successful organizations understand that the rationale of any business is to create value for customers, employees, and investors, and that the interests of these three groups are inextricably linked. He is the man behind sprucing Gupta Power to focus on creating value for the customers & ensures that the right employees are selected, developed, and rewarded. His strict consideration in value creation is entailed to make products and provide services that customers find consistently useful. In today’s economy, GPIL creates value based typically on product and process innovation on understanding unique customer needs with ever-increasing speed and precision.

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Mr. Gupta continuously contours his business by having a tap on commitment, energy, and imagination of his employees. “I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, & all the books I want to read” says Mr. Gupta. He defines the mission of his company in terms of its primary value-adding activities. His determination, discipline and thriftiness have earned him an astute and smart businessman stance that has influenced a lot of people. He never saw the reason to quit and instead pursued his goals relentlessly. In appreciation of his commendable contribution to power sector reforms, he has been awarded with Best Entrepreneur Awards for 3 years consecutively.

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The unsurpassed escalation of GPIL is a tribute to the law and idea of Mr. Gupta who has been presented with Business Leadership Award for the year 2009 by the Honourable Chief Minister of Orissa Shri Naveen Patnaik.

Apart from the responsibilities of the Managing Directorship, he is the esteemed member of supreme bodies:

• CII (Confederation of Indian Industry)
• UCCI (Utkal Chamber of Commerce & Industry)
• OSSIA (Orissa Small Scale Industries Association)
• AIEB (Association Industrial Entrepreneurs of Bhubaneswar)
• FISME (Federation of Indian Micro & Small and Medium Enterprises).
• CACMAI (Cable & Conductor Manufacturers Association of India) & others.
• OEEMA (Orissa Electrical & Electronics Manufacturers’ Association)

M. K. Gupta is one of his class who believes in leaving behind not only immense achievements but also a sequence of kindness with the exact resilience & buoyancy that helps one in coming out with superior ecstasy. Being the Immediate Past President of Lions Club Bhubaneswar SG, he also sponsors major activities related to health and education to cater to the needs of society & his company GPIL extends financial assistance to 6 NGOS to carry forward social activities like Plantation of trees and Development of 200 acres barren land to support environmental and green peace norms.

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According to Mr. Gupta “Success is achieved and maintained only by those who try and keep trying. It might take 20 years to earn a strong repute but just five minutes to ruin it. If this is swathed in one’s mind, he can do as well as perform things differently as every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor is, has known that the magic lies in just these words:

“Every Adversity has the seed of an Equivalent or Greater Benefit”. Believing on this, Mr. Gupta continues to walk tall, sporting a perpetual smile aimed to inject enthusiasm into the next generation of up-and-coming employees & continues to shine bright as the North Star.