India’s TOP 500 Companies 2021

INDIA’S TOP 500 COMPANIES 2021 166 Experts’ View How would you summarize Consulting Engineers Group Ltd.’s journey since its inception? What are some of the key milestone achieved by the company in recent years? Consulting Engineers Group Ltd. began its journey on a very humble footing in 1984. Initially, we started with offering services in Geotechnical Investigations and Testing of construction materials, and have over- a-period of time, expanded our operations across the globe to emerge as one of India’s top civil engineering consultancy companies. Today, our company provides an integrated State-of-the-art technical assistance and engineering consultancy solutions for infrastructure development of highways, expressways, metros, railways, airports, urban infrastructure, including water resources. We have over 1300 full-time engineers working across 55+ locations worldwide. It has been our vision to deliver exceptional infrastructure consulting services for communities around the world and enhance customer experience and value. Above all, our core values and commitment to quality, ethics and integrity have been at the bedrock of all the activities at CEG, which has never logged losses ever since its inception. We areoneof thefastestgrowingorganisations in the country with 20% y-o-y growth. We have established ourselves among the top civil engineering consultants of India and are engaged in many of the prestigious projects in the country. CEG is one of the largest stakeholders in metro projects and is proudly associated with over 200 km of Metro projects including Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Navi Mumbai, Nasik Neo. CEG has also worked on over 40,000 lane km of roads in India either as design or project management consultant. Projects like Easter Peripheral Expressway, designing of road standards in Mozambique, designing of roads in Ethiopia and Tanzania, Bangladesh Rail Link and various other projects mark our contribution towards building and better and a safer tomorrow. How has the COVID-19 affected your business and what were your strategies to tide over the crisis? Undoubtedly, COVID-19 has challenged the ways we conduct business. For a company, like us, operating in the civil engineering segment, the impact has been quite significant. The first lesson, of course, was to learn to work remotely. Being in a profession where most of the work is done on-site, working from home was quite challenging. But then, as they say, ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ and it teaches you new ways of optimizing resources. We did have initial hiccups but overall, we have now managed it well. In fact, in some areas, working remotely has turned out to be more productive than working from office. As for business, there has been some impact, but despite these challenges, there has been growth too. What are some of the sustainability initiatives by your company? It has been well established in the corporate culture that sustainability and growth is best achieved in an inclusive society. At CEG, we believe that a sustainable business means working together to create growth for all. Skills development and enhancement is a continuous process here and we strongly believe that the stronger our people become, stronger and long-term is our growth. As far as the society is concerned, we have pledged to educate +200 girls from our society and have been funding their school education. Our initiatives to run a charitable hospital with free medication and consultation and a day- boarding school for specially-abled and autistic children makes us stay closer and connected to our people and keeps on motivating us to work exclusively to build a better world. CONSULTING ENGINEERS GROUP LIMITED Vishwas Jain Managing Director Dun & Bradstreet