Meet IAS officer who quit after 14-year career to become CEO of many big companies

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Former bureaucrat Rohit Modi joined the Indian Administrative Services in 1985 earlier than embarking on a profitable company career in 1999.

Civil servants rating as Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers are recognized to be some of the highest minds and managers of the nation. They play a big half within the growth and progress of the society by implementing essential initiatives. There’s additionally a crop of IAS officers who go on to maintain comparable positions of affect within the non-public sector and become CEOs and MDs of main companies. One such eminent IAS officer-turned-CEO is Rohit Modi.

A former bureaucrat who led a number of big initiatives then went on to steer MNCs like L&T IDPL, Gammon India, Suzlon Energy and Essel Infra Projects. After education in Rajasthan capital Jaipur, Rohit Modi pursued additional training in economics from the University of Delhi. His alma maters are prestigious institutes Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and Delhi School of Economics.

Modi then cracked the celebrated UPSC Civil Services Exam with a excessive rank to become an IAS officer in 1985. As a excessive rating authorities official, he served in numerous capacities for 14 years beneath the Centre and the Manipur state authorities. Projects the place Modi performed an important half embrace these funded by the likes of the Asian Development Bank and World Bank. These included initiatives in areas like Industry and Finance, Coal, Textiles, Infrastructure and Urban Development and Fertilisers. Modi additionally served as Nodal Officer for IMF and IFC whereas deputed with the Ministry of Finance’s Department of Economic Affairs.

In 1999, Rohit Modi resigned as an IAS officer and pursued a career as a enterprise chief within the non-public sector. He held eminent posts in a 20-year profitable career, heading giant companies as CEO and MD. Companies he was related to embrace Suzlon Energy, Mahindra Industrial Park, L&T IDPL, Tamil Nadu Road Development Company (TNRDC), Gammon India, Road Infrastructure Development Company of Rajasthan (RIDCOR) and most not too long ago Essel Infra Projects and Smart Utilities the place he served as CEO until March 2019.