Hanmant Ramdas Gaikwad

Hanmantrao R Gaikwad a.k.a. HR Gaikwad (born 21 October 1972) is an Indian entrepreneur and the Chairman and Managing Director of BVG India Limited, India's largest integrated services company.[2][3]

Hanmantrao R Gaikwad
Born	(1972-10-21) 21 October 1972 Rahimatpur, India[1]
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Vishwakarma Institute of Technology Government Polytechnic Pune (Popularly known as GPP)[1]
Occupation	Founder Chairman , BVG India

Early life

Gaikwad was born in the village of Rahimatpur,Satara, Maharashtra. When he was in class six, his family shifted to Pune and lived in a tiny one room house.[4] Despite the hardships, he secured 88% in class 10 and opted for a Diploma in Electronics from Government Polytechnic Pune. In the second year, he lost his father to a cardiac arrest. Gaikwad completed the diploma and went on to join the Vishwakarma Institute of Technology to study engineering,[5] where he supported himself by working small jobs like taking tuition classes to painting houses and concreting pathways.[6]

In 1994 he joined Telco (now Tata Motors) as a graduate trainee engineer in their Pune plant.[7]

Career

During his early days at VIT, Gaikwad inspired by the writings of Swami Vivekananda, which led him to form a non-profit trust Bharat Vikas Pratishthan[4] which would collect funds from donors to help poor students get quality education. This trust soon expanded into employment opportunities in the sector of skilled and unskilled labour.[7]

In 1997 while working at Tata Motors,[8] Gaikwad earned recognition from company management for his efforts in saving huge costs for the company by making productive use of cables otherwise marked as scrap.[9] This recognition helped Gaikwad become known among the workers, and youth from his village started approaching him for jobs. He used the opportunity to request the management for some jobs for these youth. The plant management agreed to hire eight of them, but could not employ them on the company rolls. Gaikwad suggested that he could employ the people in a trust he had registered and Tata Motors could pay the trust. Given their confidence in him, Tata Motors not only accepted his suggestion but also helped him get Rs. 60 lakh in loan from Tata Finance to buy cleaning equipment.[7][9] In 2000 Gaikwad formally resigned from Tata Motors and decided to name his organization as Bharat Vikas Group[1] which was focused on a social approach to employment and skill development.

Bharat Vikas Group soon emerged as the leader in integrated service operations expanded into related facilities management operations and skill development in association with the Government of India.[7] BVG’s other notable clients include the residence and office of the Prime Minister of India and the Rashtrapati Bhavan which is the residence of the President of India.[10] As of 2012, the company is valued at Rs 1,000 crore [5] and provides non-core activities such as mechanised housekeeping, hospital maintenance,[11] landscaping & gardening, logistics, transportation,[12] civil and electrical work, ambulance services,[13] industrial[14] and urban waste management etc. to private and government institutions.[15][16] BVG is also expanding its operations into overseas territories.[17]

Awards

Gaikwad is the recipient of several awards for his social and entrepreneurial initiatives and has spoken at international conferences.[18] He received the prestigious Lokmat Maharashtrian Of The Year Award in 2011.[19] He was featured in Rashmi Bansal's book Connect The Dots,[20] a collection of inspiring stories about entrepreneurs. On 1 July 2016, Gaikwad was awarded the prestigious ABP Majha Sanman Puraskar by one of the leading Marathi news channels ABP Majha.[21]

Personal life

Gaikwad lives in Pune with his wife and two daughters. He is fond of meditation.[17]

References

1. Gaikwad's firm cleans up high offices. Economic Times (17 November 2008)
2. Express, Indian. "Dial 108, one of 161 ambulances promises to reach you in 20 mins". Indian Express.
3. "Round-the-clock ambulance service to roll out on R-Day". The Times of India. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
4. "Gaikwad's firm cleans up high offices". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
5. Tare, Kiran. "Rural Rockstars: Hanmantrao Gaikwads". India Today. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
6. Subramanian, Anusha. "http://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/features/rural-liberator/story/4597.html". Business Today. Retrieved 27 September 2016. External link in |title= (help)
7. Srivastava, Samar. "Forbes India Magazine - Bharat Vikas Group's Clean Sweep". Forbes India. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
8. "VC Circle". VC Circle.
9. "Forbes India Magazine - Bharat Vikas Group's Clean Sweep". forbesindia.com. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
10. Bharat Vikas Group set to rope in a global PE investor Business Standard, 22 December 2010
11. "You can be this, Sion - Mumbai Mirror -". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
12. Balakrishnan, Reghu (2015-12-25). "3i Group to sell 30% stake in BVG India". livemint.com/. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
13. "Maharashtra govt launches emergency medical services with BVG". Express Healthcare. Financial Express.
14. "Facilities management is the next big thing in real estate space". Livemint. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
15. "NIF, BVG setup new joint venture company for commercialization of healthy foods". Nuff Food Specturm.
16. "3i Group to sell 30% stake in BVG India". Livemint.
17. A Clean Sweep Pune Mirror, 31 August 2014
18. "BVC CMD to get Kirloskar Vasundhara award". Sakaal Times.
19. Maharashtrian Of The Year Awards 2011 BestMediaInfo 23 December 2011
20. The Human Touch Connect The Dots, Rashmi Bansal, Westland (2012)
21. "Hanmant Gaikwad, BVG Awarded the ABP Majha Sanman Award for 2016 for Entreprepeurship". 1 July 2016.