Biography
Mr. Sujit Gulati is a Mechanical Engineer from IIT Delhi. He served for 34 years in the IAS and superannuated as Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Gujarat in the rank of Secretary to Government of India.
He has experience of more than 30 years in various economic sub-sectors, both at the level of the Government of India and Government of Gujarat — in Steel, Coal, Finance and Textiles, Industry, Energy & Petrochemicals, Labour, Geology & Mining, Information Technology and Transport.
Widely travelled, he represented the government during visits to the UK, USA, Russia, Germany, China, Australia, Colombia, Taiwan, Singapore, Czech Republic, Bangladesh, Japan, Poland, and others.
He was actively involved in the financial restructuring of SAIL, IISCO and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited; introduction of e-auction for land disposal in the NTC; revival of 3 Nationalised Jute Mills; introduction of Agro and Geo Technical Textiles in the North East; and establishment of six Centres of Excellence for different Technical Textiles, Composites and Non-Wovens.
In the Government of Gujarat, he played key roles in establishment of Gujarat State Wide Area Network, Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2009, revival of Bhavnagar Electricity Company and GSPC LNG, initiating Solarization of agriculture power consumption, Hybrid policy for wind-solar, Wind/Solar Mega Parks policy, Dholera Mega Solar Power project, establishing Power R&D Centre in IIT-Gandhinagar, Off-shore wind power and electric vehicles/infrastructure initiatives.
Superannuated from the IAS in November 2019, he is currently engaged with the New Energy initiative covering Renewable energy, Green Hydrogen and associated areas.