An Appeal : The number of who’s who in the Greater Noida  city has been growing steadily. Any city is known for those who's who stay in the city. These “who’s who” exert pressure on prices of the property in a city to a great extent. “Their”, number & size would also build-up pressure on the authorities to provide for adequate and better quality of urban civic services. Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority and the Gautam Buddha Nagar District Administration has now the greater responsibility to rise to “their” expectations.  We would like to introduce few of them. Greater Noidates  may please suggest names of persons and can e mail their profile for listing here.

It is our humble appeal to the visioors to kindly e mail us the details of the International/National Awardees like Padma Awards/Freedom fighters/Gallantry Award Winners/Families of Martyrs, International/National medal winners etc for listing in this section..

 

Greater Noida's Development Messiah

Brijesh Kumar, I.A.S.(Retired)

It is truly an honour to have a visionary such as Mr. Brijesh Kumar among us, who has recently retired from the post of Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Information Technology. Mr. Kumar with 36 years of vast, rich and diverse experience has had the distinction of holding key positions in various facets of the Government. As Chairman & CEO, greater Noida Industrial Development Authority, he has had the opportunity of building a new city, providing an innovative dimension and direction to urban planning and execution. We, the residents of Greater Noida are a testimony of this fact.

Mr. Brijesh Kumar’s clear sightedness was reflected in the way Greater Noida was successfully planned, developed, and maintained as a city with a difference in terms of city planning, quality of infrastructure, urban design, landscaping, cleanliness, and ambience. Emphasis was laid on providing a high quality of infrastructure comparable to international standards and to providing a high quality of infrastructure comparable to international standards and to provide for an environment of plenty.

With his expertise in the areas of Urban planning, Urban design and Urban Form, Landscaping, Creation and Maintenance of High Quality Infrastructure and Civic Services, Urban Management, Urban Financing, Public- Private Partnerships in Urban Services, Citizen’s Participatory Institutions, and various other facets of urban development and management, Mr.Brijesh Kumar and was able to provide an innovative dimension and direction to urban planning and execution in Greater Noida, a city that is now generally recognized as a new paradigm in urban development and planning.

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Dr Brij Kishore Gupta

Wild-Life and Environment Expert

Brij Kishor Gupta, Ph. D., in Environmental Zoology, has submitted his doctoral thesis on behavioural and environmental enrichment of Sloth bears in Agra, India.  He has specialized training and fifteen years of experience working with zoos and a rescue centre in wildlife conservation, ex situ breeding, zoo planning, design and management.  He received training from USA, Singapore, Malaysia, and United Kingdom and was later a Grantee and Fellow of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, United Kingdom.  Mr. Gupta has contributed fifty-nine scientific papers, 103 short notes to various national and international journals and written a book on captive care of amphibians.  Mr. Gupta has been member of several international and international bodies. Mr. Gupta is presently with the Central Zoo Authority (Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India) working as Scientific Officer and is fully involved in the implementation of their programs to improve zoos throughout India.

 

Colonel B K Kailash

Backed by over three decades of Olive experience in the Defence Services, Colonel B K Kailash is a self made man, who started his carrier during post-Chinese aggression in early sixties, as a plain Soldier & worked his way through for today; and on that today, he is associated with several social & community service benevolent organizations viz; Rotary International, Theosophical Society, Theosophical Order of Service, National Cancer Care Foundation, Aum Baal Suraksha Andolan, Pranic Healing Foundation, and so on.

Academically, Kailash has degrees in M Tech & MBA and has Honors in Systems Management. But in a deeper sense he is a spiritually oriented person, with deep exploratory interest in theosophy & Yogic practices. He is a qualified Pranic Healer & a teacher, an Arhatic Yogi, a Jyotish Kovid, a Vaastu Shastracharya.

Colonel Kailash is a grass root worker involved in numerous informal micro social projects. Most of his activities are directed towards the "HAVE NOTS" of the community. His routine workplace is with the economically deprived communities.

Colonel Kailash is a Paul Harris Fellow, Arch Klumph Fellow and a Benefactor of Rotary Foundation. He is the Past President of Rotary Club of Noida Central.

 

Dr Krant M L Verma - Hindi Literature

 

 

M L Verma "Dr Krant" reading poem in Kavya Gosthi

 

Dr Krant M L Verma has been awarded senior fellowship in the field of Hindi literature for topic – ‘Hindi Ke Krantikari Sahitya Mein Rashtriya Chetna’ by the Government of India. Born in 1947 at Shahjahanpur (UP), a city known for historical martyrs like Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaq Ullah Khan.

 

From Left to right Dr Krant, Shrikishan Gupta, Vijaykumar Malhotra, Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee ...19th December 1996

Madan Lal Verma (Dr Krant), is also a poet of Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu and English. He has written dozens of books. His famous research work in four volumes titled as ‘Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna’ published by Praveen Prakashan, Delhi, was launched by the then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

Other books of Dr Krant are: Lalita Ke Ansso/Tears of Lalita - an epic on Lal Bahadur Shastri – in Hindi and English, Dhoop ke Aine- Hindi Ghazal collection, Archana - Sanskrit/Hindi collection of Children’s affection for India, and Vedna Ke Deep - a collection of his Hindi Poems, which has been rewarded as the best lyric book by ‘Bhawani Prasad Mishra Samman’. Dr‘Krant’ has been many times awarded, honoured at local, state and national levels. He is a good poet, writer, critic and verse-translator and the most suitable scholar to undertake the studies."Swadhinata Sangram Ke Kratikari Sahitya Ka Etihaas" is a world fame book by him.

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Eleventh Cross Street, Alistonia Estate,
Greater Noida-201308 Mob : 09811851477

 

 

Kamal Pandey Former Cabinet Secretary

A humble, cool, and a fine human being, residing in our neighborhood. By chance if u r passing near by him, u would never believe that just recently he was at the highest echelons of governance of our Nation. His list of academic attainments is lengthy and rich: M.Sc.(Physics)-Gold Medalist; Master of Public administration ( Harvard University); Mason Fellow 1981-82-Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University), He started his career in the Indian Administrative Service–First Ranker- (UP/Uttranchal) 1965 and rose to the topmost echelons of governance –Cabinet Secretary, Secretary to the Council of Ministers of Government of India was instrumental in developing a reform agenda for Civil Service in India. Initiated, and followed through, core administrative reform measures and prepared a comprehensive and path-breaking training and examination system for senior civil servants of the Government of India. As a Secretary Inter State Council-the highest deliberative forum headed by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, was instrumental in preparing the draft document on Action Plan for Good Governance and Government Accountability.  As a Home Secretary to the Government of India-comprehensive police reform measures were implemented and the state police forces & central paramilitary forces modernized and strengthened. Drafted special systems for the deeply troubled areas of the North east n J & k. [More]