Mr Bansal is a multifaceted leader with degrees in B.Tech, LL.B, Journalism, MBA and an Hony. Ph.D. & DBA from South Korea.
In his career spanning five decades, from CEO of family startups to civil services and later as a leader in academics, he is remembered for outperforming most challenging leadership positions and for reviving sick organizations as profit making; by innovative, out of box, bold and hands-on implementations in the States of Punjab and Delhi, and in the Government of India.
He is remembered for tactful & calm handling of flash strikes by transport unions of PRTC in 1979, of DDA Unions at Asian Games in 1982, of Slums & Jhuggi Jhopri Department of Delhi in 1987; and for taking over Punjab’s famous Kaali Temple from age old mahants, and developing it on the lines of Mata Vaishno Devi shrine, despite tremendous political, religious & legal challenges, when he was 25 years. He was the youngest ever duty magistrate at 5 executions under the orders of Supreme Court of India at the age of 24, and served as the duty magistrate for the entire Punjab in 1978.
Within 8 months of his joining as general manager at Asia’s biggest bus terminus handling 5 lac passengers every day in 1990, ISBT Delhi which was perpetually a loss making body started giving big profits, resulting in the addition of 2 more ISBTs of Sarai Kale Khan and Anand Vihar during Mr Bansal’s GMship.
As General Manager Lands of all the 4 International Airports of India, he contributed significantly to the expansion of Indira Gandhi International Airport by acquiring & adding lands of adjoining village Nangal Dewat, visiting & convincing every household to close litigation which had been going on for more than 20 years, and finally shifting the entire village to Vasant Kunj in Delhi. He is remembered also for demolishing encroachments of influential hoteliers and land mafia on the Bombay Airport lands. And for planting 5 lac saplings at IGIA Delhi in 1988 at a cost of rupees 7 lac against the sanctioned budget of Rs 250 lac.
Mr Bansal was the youngest Director of DDA, Govt of India, at the age of 32; of vigilance, personnel, housing, lands, cooperative, departments, and later headed these departments as commissioner and principal commissioner. He was the youngest & longest serving Secretary of country’s biggest & richest urban authority, the DDA, where he was directly interacting with the Prime Minister’s office, with union ministers, Lieutenant Governor and Chief Minister of Delhi for 17 long years. He has been behind all the zonal and master plans of Delhi for 3 decades, and led delegations to almost every state & union territory of the country, and presented papers at numerous global platforms including ICAO Montreal and APO Japan. He was chosen to lead 10 government delegations to 15 countries and was one of the youngest civil servants to be trained at RIPA, London at the age of 32.
His honesty & transparency was recognised at the highest levels when the chief information commissioner of India invited Mr Bansal to address the 1st national convention of the chief information commissioners of all the states and union territories of India at vigyan bhawan in 2008.
Mr Bansal was picked up as Advisor to the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi at the difficult time when India was hosting the Commonwealth Games, and because of severe challenges the entire world was highly skeptical of India’s preparedness. Conduct of these games was later lauded as one of the best ever in history.
At New Delhi Institute of Management, Mr Bansal heads a board of country’s 6 renowned industry leaders, 7 Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awardees, 7 former- secretaries Government of India, Supreme Court Judges and UPSC Chairman.
Within a few years of his joining Academics, NDIM has been declared as the 1st ever, and the only Mentor, management school of India by the AICTE, Government of India, having earlier been declared best in India continuously for 3 years by AICTE & CII for Industry Linkages under all their 19 parameters, out of more than ten thousand government approved institutions of higher learning. Only Right Education can lead to nation building according to Mr Bansal.
He is the alumni president of 61 year old Sainik School Rewa and 58 year old NIT Kurukshetra. He has numerous recognitions & awards, and is on several committees of the government of India and premier business chambers of the country.