Behind the archive

Pankaj Gupta

Batch of 1989 · Production Engineering

Punjab Engineering College, 1985 to 1989. Twenty-two years at NBC Bearings — three hundred products out of its R&D, then the room where the company was decided. His own works since 2012, now four plants and a research centre across India, China, Indonesia and Vietnam. And, somewhere in all of it, the archive you are reading.

Bearing specialist, industrialist, and a proud PECian · Founder, Aashita Group

The professional journey

Forty years, in three movements.

1985 – 1989
Student
Punjab Engineering College
BE in Production Engineering. His own batch's souvenir is one of the books in this archive.
1990 – 2012
Employee
National Engineering Industries
Twenty-two years at NBC Bearings: eighteen in R&D developing 300 new products and bringing in Japanese processes, then Executive Assistant to the President & CEO — forming a profit centre turning over ₹400 crore a year — and finally Head of Supply Chain, opening sourcing across Turkey, Germany, China, Korea and Japan.
2012 – present
Entrepreneur
Aashita Enterprises
Left to start his own: a bearing-ring manufacturer in Jaipur and a China sourcing practice beside it, since grown into four plants and a research centre. This archive is part of the same stretch — the souvenirs were paper in a few cupboards until they were scanned and given a search box.

To know more about Pankaj Gupta

His own account of the companies, the plants and what he means to build next is at his own site.

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शिल्पकार · one who shapes a thing by hand

The gurus who made the mentor

A college is a great many teachers, and over four years most of them leave a mark. These six he still names, four decades on, without having to think about it.

Prof. D. S. Bedi
Prof. K. K. Chakraborti
Prof. R. N. Nauharia
Prof. P. B. Mahapatra
Prof. S. S. Bhasin
Prof. H. J. Singh
“Kooka sir”

1985 – 1989

Life at PEC

Twelve prints he kept — hostel rooms, the lawns, a shopfront in Sector 17, the whole batch on the grass. Nobody wrote a date or a name on the back of any of them, so none is captioned here.