Metro Rail Advisory
Tender, consortium and contract-strategy support for major metro and rapid-transit infrastructure opportunities.
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Shri Parag Gupta, IAS (Retd.)
Former Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Odisha; former Adviser, NITI Aayog
Distinguished Policy Principal
Public Policy, Infrastructure, Institutional Governance & Regulatory Strategy
Former Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Odisha, and former Adviser, NITI Aayog, with a public-policy and infrastructure background.
Professional profile
Shri Parag Gupta is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1988 batch, Odisha cadre. His professional background includes service as Additional Chief Secretary in the Government of Odisha and as Adviser at NITI Aayog.
His experience spans public enterprises, public-private partnerships, infrastructure, industrial financing, mining, tourism and labour. His TLGS remit centres on public-policy analysis, institutional governance and regulatory strategy, bringing administrative perspective to complex sector and project questions.
Experience & distinction
- Indian Administrative Service, 1988 batch, Odisha cadre
- Former Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Odisha
- Former Adviser, NITI Aayog
- Experience across public enterprises, PPPs, infrastructure and industrial financing
Selected mandate · National policy
GST, digital mobility & the platform economy
A major TLGS policy mandate addressing the GST treatment of electronic commerce operators in passenger mobility: statutory research, a conduct-based clarification proposal, fiscal safeguards and coordinated Union–State policy engagement.
Ongoing policy engagement — clarification soughtRelated to the published advisory remit
Current sector applications.
Explore current business themes connected to this profile’s existing advisory areas. Engagement teams are selected for the specific mandate.
Sector-specific advisory
Major-project origination & implementation positioning
Asset-first opportunity intelligence connecting investment scale, institutions, approvals, partners and the route to project execution.
Scope & deliverables →Sector-specific advisory
Trade-agreement utilisation & market-access strategy
Product-level commercial and policy analysis of tariffs, origin, authorisations and cross-border entry, distinguishing current rules from negotiations.
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