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STONE PERSONALITY
K.VIKRAM RASTOGI
www.stonepanorama.com
A GENIUS WITH COMMENDABLE ACHIVEMENTS Geniuses are born, not created. K.Vikram Rastogi, a man of genius was born on 12th February, 1946, the day on which Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born. He is the eldest of six children of late Shri Durga Prasad Rastogi and late Smt. Shakuntla Devi Rastogi.
Vikram diversified to an unorganized sector like dimension stone - quarrying, processing, marketing etc. He worked for parastatal corporations in Rajasthan in different capacities and started working as national and international consultant in dimension stones.
After his schooling in government institutions in Rajasthan, he did B.Sc. (Engg.) in Mechanical Engineering from Banaras Hindu University in 1967 and then post-graduation in Heat Power Engineering.
He got training in Italy on granite processing machines. After acquiring expertise in stone and related activities, he worked as a Consultant with Commonwealth Secretariat, London, for Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation in the countries of Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Mozambique, Uganda, St. Lucia, Tonga etc. He also worked as a Consultant with UNIDO, Vienna, for rehabilitation of slate project in Bhutan. In addition to these, he worked for a large number of Indian and foreign companies for providing technical consultancy in stone sector as well as other small scale units. He used to spend more than six months every year on different occasions in African continent. He supervised the implementation of US$ 18.4 million project for marble quarrying and processing in Montepeuz in Mozambique, when the civil war was at its peak and he used to travel by a 10 seater twin
At the age of 21 he joined the than Malavia Regional Engineering College, Jaipur as a faculty and taught Mechanical Engineering to under-graduate and postgraduate students. He carried out research on automobile air pollution and wrote articles for international journals and magazines. He presented a paper in Automobile Air Pollution Conference in Washington D.C. He travelled to Rome, Paris, Brussels, London, Toronto, Washington D.C., Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok . He also delivered lectures on Automobile Air Pollution in Imperial College, London, MIT Boston, Utah State University and Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok.
STONE PANORAMA January - March 2014
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Shri Vinay Vyasa, IAS, Commissioner of Geology & Mining, Govt. of Gujarat and K. Vikram Rastogi,Coordinator(SAPTIs) jointly receiving NATIONAL EDUCATION EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2013 from Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju, Hon'ble Union Minister for HRD, Govt. of India, at New Delhi