Niranjan Khatri

With a background in Hotel Management and wealthy experience of working as GM at various ITC Hotels, Mr Khatri has pioneered the concept of eco designing in ITC Bay Island in Port Blair during 1988 to 1992; Travel House in 1992 to 1994 and Land Base India Ltd. during 1994 to 1996.

He has also submitted paper to ILO/ Cornell University on eco-designing in 1994 and headed Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) Renewable Energy Cell for a year during 1996 to 1997. Mr. Niranjan developed eco-rating for Delhi Government which has been distributed to over 1200 schools, translated into Marathi & further distributed to 6000 schools in Maharashtra.

An Ex-faculty member of the Railway Staff College, Baroda, he conducted 30 sessions on eco-designing for senior management of the Indian Railways and many sessions for public/private sector companies like BHEL, CEL, Tata BP Solar, Wipro and Karnataka Pollution Control Board / Power Finance Corporation, IIT, MDI, SP Jain & many chambers of commerce.

He has served as an Ex-convener of the water committee of CII Delhi Council and of the Power & Water Committee of CII Northern Region/National Committee respectively. He is the ex-Chairperson of Sustainable Development Committee of Federation of Hotels and Restaurants Association of India-Western Region and Arunim along with serving on the board of National Trust- an arm of Ministry of social justice.

Mr Khatri is a recipient of Helen Keller Award in 2006 & in 2011; Karamveer Puraskar 2009; Green Hotelier award 2010 & Parivartan Sustainability Leadership Award 2012.