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INTERVIEW
Building Infrastructure,
Building a Nation
Sanjay Londhe, Director and From Industrial Beginnings
CEO of Ashoka Buildcon Limited, to Nation-Building Projects
has been a key figure in the Your company started with industrial
company’s incredible growth over structures in the 1970s and has since evolved
the past 35 years. His expertise in into a multifaceted organization working on
roads, bridges, power distribution, and railway
engineering and project execution projects. Could you share some insights into
has been instrumental in Ashoka this remarkable journey?
Buildcon’s completion of many We began in 1976, with small government civil
challenging infrastructure projects. contracting projects. Later we focussed on industrial
buildings with a modest turnover of about Rs. 1 crore.
In conversation with Mangala Fast forward to today, our turnover stands at Rs.10,000
Chandran, Londhe reflects on crore, and I have had the privilege of being part of this
incredible journey since 1989.
the company’s journey from its The liberalization period under the government opened
early days to becoming a leading up new opportunities, especially with the influx of national
infrastructure conglomerate. and multinational industrial projects. We were fortunate to
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