Sandeep Chaturvedi
Chairman and Founder President (2007-2021)
Biodiesel Association of India
Suit no. B817 Samartha Aishwarya,
Lokhandwala Complex, Andheri West,
Mumbai - 400053.
Tel: - +91-22-26333477 , +91-9833995818 (Cell)
Email: -chairman@bdai.org.in / jsb.ceo@gmail.com
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
Members :-
Independent strategic consultant in the field of oleochemicals and Renewable energy. Members of the Biodiesel implementation committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, 2010, Member working groups on Pricing and marketing of Biodiesel MNRE, Government of India. Strategic advisor to companies from India, USA, Canada, Australia and Singapore (2006-2017).
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An environmentalist and key proponent of Biodiesel in the country – Pioneered Biodiesel in the country and played a key role towards national biofuels policy, state level coordination and tie-up with various members of the Biofuel value chain, Long term policy planning and implementations in coordination with key players including various national and state agencies
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Member on various committees for pricing/implementation of Biodiesel of MOPNG, Planning Commission of India, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and other national/State bodies
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Presented several National/international papers on Oleo chemicals/Biofuels including that of ICILOR(2003-Amsterdam), workshop on Biofuels by Technical University (Madrid 2004), UNDP (Paris 2008), OTAI (Mumbai 2003,07), SEA (Ahmedabad 2004), NLGI (2004,5) and commentary on national Biofuel BDAI (Delhi 2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015, 2016, 2017,2018,2019)
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As a business head at Oleochemical company (1997-2008) - Developed Specific product/applications for additives for paints, Plasticizers, Lubricating greases & Perfumery. Responsibilities included Production, Marketing, Sales, Distribution and Developed Business in Russia, Turkey, Greece, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, UK, Central and Eastern Europe, USA, Far East, Middle East, China, S. Africa by personally visiting and appointing Agents Distributers. Developed exclusive products to Exxon, Shell and Elf Total Fina, Lubrizol based on their application demands.
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Educational qualifications as Engineer with unique distinction of pioneering Biodiesel in the country during year 2003. Leading the team of Engineers Scientists for developing continuous cracking of esters of fatty acids finding applications into perfumery and high end lubricants.
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Instrumental in getting excise duty exemption on biodiesel during the budget of 2007, waver of duty on blended biofuels to the extent of 20% during the union budget of 2008, play key role in getting marketing and retail sales of Biodiesel in 2015, excise duty waver for the inputs of biodiesel and zero import duty on feed stocks of biodiesel 2015-17.
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Played key role in getting 5% biodiesel blending mandate by Indian railways during the budget of 2014. Major role in the formulation of the RUCO initiative led by the FSSAI, under the ministry of health and family welfare, Government of India 2017.
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Key inputs on the Biodiesel implementation committee report dated January 2010 under the directive of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India and in Coordination with the OMC like IOCL, HPCL, BPCL, RIL and Biodiesel Manufacturers of the country.
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Member State Level Coordination Committee for implementation of Bio Energy in the State of U.P and similar role in the state of Rajashtan.
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Coordination views of the industry and providing the inputs for the national Biofuels policy announced by the MNRE during December 2009 and MoP&NG during June 2018.
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Special invite at the Planning commission of India during the 2007-8 to draft the first policy document under the chairmanship of Dr. Kirit Parikh then Member (Energy) Planning commission of India.
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Have the unique distinction for commercializing biodiesel in the Country since 2003 and supplied to Indian Railways, IOCL in the year 2004. Conducted successful trials with HSRTC and IOCL during 2004-5. Some of the major customers were ONGC and GSTRC.
Shri S. K. Mondal - President
- Mobile: 9830069674
- Email : president1@bdai.org.in
- Shri S K Mondal holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from NIT, Durgapur and a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata (IIMC). He has more than 45 years of experience in various manufacturing companies and financial institutions like Hindustan Copper Ltd (HCL), The Industrial Finance Corporation of India Ltd. (IFCI) and Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI). He possesses vast experience in the areas of production, project management, plantation and international marketing. He is associated with a number of industry trade bodies. Presently, he is serving as the Whole time Director of Emami Agrotech Ltd, an Emami group company.
Shri Dharmvirsingh Rajpurohit - Vice President
- Mobile: 9777907777
- Email : vp@bdai.org.in
- Dharmvirsingh Rajpurohit, Director at M/s. Edizel Biofuels Pvt. Ltd. (Gujarat). He has setup India’s largest biodiesel manufacturing plant with production capacity 360 million Litres per annum and is largest supplier of biodiesel to the OMCs in Western India.
Dharmvirsingh Rajpurohit holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce with a post-graduation in law. He has 24 years of experience in family real estate business at Karmvir Group, a real estate giant in Central Gujarat, having completed more than 50 large scale residential projects with 7000+ units delivered. Extensive expertise in developing large scale townships, commercial complexes, industrial parks in real estate sector has helped the group company to scale new heights in this space.
Siddharth Uday Pradhan- Secretary (2021-22)
- Mobile : 9820065919
- Email : secretary@bdai.org.in
- Director at M/s. Unicon Fibro Chemicals Private Limited, Mumbai.
- He has been associated with BDAI since 2015. Siddharth has completed his Information Technology Engineering from Mumbai University (2005) followed by an MBA in Finance & Economics from Syracuse University, New York (2009). He has worked with HDFC Bank Ltd in the Corporate Banking sector for 2 years before joining the family business.
- Unicon has successfully participated in multiple Tenders floated by the Oil Marketing Companies over the years including the Supply of Used Cooking Oil based Biodiesel in 2019-20.
Mr. Brij Gaurang Shah - Secretary
- Mobile : 9426066530
- Director at M/s. Yamuna Bio Energy Private Limited, Mumbai.
- He holds B.E. Chemical Engineering degree.
- Currently serving the company with production, quality control and R & D
Cheran K- Treasurer (2021-22)
- Mobile : 8790999942
- Email : treasurer@bdai.org.in
- Cheran, is a post graduate in business management with more than 2 decades of “Enterprise – Control” experience with Indian FMCGs and Global Trade Houses. He is currently heading the business of “Alternate and/or Renewable Energy” at Kaleesuwari Refinery Private Limited for their domestic and international business.
- He has a vast experience in Agri commodity with deep domain expertise in upstream, mid steam and down-stream of edible oil, spices and edible nuts. He has also represented the board of Agri Warehouse organization/s as an independent director. He is empaneled as “National resource Person – Commodity Expert” in under ministry of Rural development.
