Geological Survey of India | Attached Office of Ministry Of Mines | Government of India

Assistant Chemist

• Co-authored 10+ national mineral project reports and resource evaluations (mineral blocks), synthesising complex analytical data into strategic insights for the Ministry of Mines to guide sovereign resource bidding, auctioning and allocation.
• Spearheaded cross-functional mineral exploration projects across 4 states, directing multi-disciplinary teams and asset allocation to deliver 100% on-time project execution under challenging field conditions.
• Optimised team manpower utilisation by 20% through restructuring the geological database system; independently conceptualised and executed this workflow migration to eliminate operational redundancies and re-balance workloads.
• Directed end-to-end procurement and asset lifecycle management for high-value strategic analytical infrastructure, optimizing budget alignment and maximising operational uptime.
• Negotiated and secured critical statutory, environmental, and security clearances from district administrations, state forest departments, and local law enforcement authorities to facilitate unhindered field survey operations.

Indian Ordinance Factory | Department of Defence Production | Ministry of Defence | Government of India

Chargeman

• Managed daily high-hazard manufacturing operations for military-grade explosives, maintaining continuous supply schedules while adhering to strict defence quality mandates.
• Lead a cross-functional shop-floor workforce of 60+ industrial personnel, including technicians, operators and safety staff, fostering a high-performance operational culture.
• Maintained 100% operational continuity by successfully negotiating and resolving complex union labor disputes regarding overtime wages and workplace grievances, effectively eliminating industrial friction.
• Institutionalized statutory safety frameworks mandated by defence committees (CFEES/STEC), sustaining an unblemished zero-incident record across a high-hazard manufacturing environment.
• Spearheaded process trouble-shooting and bottleneck removal exercises in the chemical processing lines, leading to 8% increase in daily plant throughput and minimizing chemical process variance.

• Secured All India Rank 1 in Combined Geo-Scientist Examination (UPSC) 2018.
• Consecutively Awarded “Outstanding Performance” in Annual Performance Appraisal for last 3 years at Geological Survey of India.
• Admitted on Scholarship (25%) to the PGPX program at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

• B.Tech (Chemical Engineering) | National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli | Tamil Nadu

• Associateship from Institution of Chemists (India).
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt by KPMG
• Excel Skills for Business : Advanced course from Macquarie University, Sydney Australia.

• Worked on deputation to Election Commission of India (ECI) as Electoral Roll Micro Observer in a geopolitically sensitive India-Bangladesh border district in West Bengal, independently adjudicated high-stakes voter eligibility and registration disputes under intense public scrutiny.
• Appointed Liaison Officer (Rajabhasha) as an additional charge at Geological Survey of India. Introduced training sessions, honorariums, trilingual SoPs and bilingual Official Website, achieving 82% compliance to Official Language Act. It was a change management exercise requiring persuasion and collaboration.
• Multilingual Communication – Fluent in Hindi, English, Bengali and Tamil ensuring effective and cross-cultural team co-ordination.