Advisory Board Member

He a Mechanical Engineer from NIT, Kurukshetra and has devoted his career to building the power sector of India with over 42 years of experience in Thermal Power generation and efficiency enhancement. He has worked across geographies to implement the latest technologies including Japan, USA, Canada and Thailand amongst the most prominent. Over the last 5 years, he has been working with State Electricity Boards and private organizations in India as an independent consultant. For his contributions, he has received national and global recognition and several awards such as the USEPA, IEA, India Earth-care award for SAARC and the Lifetime Achievement Award by International Society for Automation.

Through his experience, he has helped setup the 8KW solar power plant for the school managed by Alok Charitable Trust in Gangagarh enabling technology driven initiatives to run uninterruptedly. He also chairs the Alok Shiksha Samiti which is the Managing the school.

He is Ex Joint Secretary/ Executive Director from Railway Board, Ministry of Railways, and Delhi. He worked in various capacities in Ministry of Railways. He is Prolific Writer with 25 books published, Stories collection of of Essays on Education, Society etc. A strong Advocate for Common Schooling system (Saman Siksha) and use of Mother Tongue in Education and Administration. He is regular columnist in Various Newspaper, Magazines suc as Jansatta (India express Group) Hans. Kathadesh, India today etc.

He is having experience of more than 15 years of litigation, deals in different genres of cases, oscillating from Civil to Criminal to Constitutional to Intellectual Property to Corporate to Consumer to Labour, to name a few, across the spectrum of Courts, judicial as well as quasi judicial, including the Hon’ble Supreme Court.

Firmly believing in the ethos that Law is a means for and of empowermenthe along with dedicated and devoted group of Lawyers, believes in putting its best foot forward Though, litigation remains the core strength of the Firm, it has the knack and expertise in Drafting documents of the nature, like Service Contract, Non-Disclosure Agreement, Confidentiality Agreement, Sweat Agreement, and has offered opinion relating to applicability and compliance of statutory requirements to various Companies.

He is involved with various organisations set up to give free legal Aid to needy. He not only gives legal guidance to Trust but also guides on social issues.

He is Co-founder and Executive Head of Diksha Foundation. After working for three and a half years in IT sector, Gautam decided to pursue his dream of making education accessible for underprivileged children in Bihar . With his wide professional and academic experience of eleven years, he has made a significant contribution to the education sector in Bihar. He holds an MPhil in Education from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship for the same. He did his MBA in International Business from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India. His professional interests include values based education and technology in classrooms. As a co-founder of Diksha, Gautam has been actively involved in the operations of Diksha from day one. His personal interests include swimming, trekking and meditation.