Ashok Sarda

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About Ashok Sarda

with 38 years of extensive experience, 12 years, water, energy, environment management sales at Nalco (Ecolab), 20 years textile chemical sales. 3 years turnaround management, 3 years creating solutions through large scale pilots focussed on water, waste, and forestry. Educated at Sainik School and NDA, I am committed to create easy sustainable solutions for water through recharge, reduce, and reuse model. Recharge: Implemented largest,fastest single-location groundwater recharge project in the world, rejuvenated dried wells avg rise in water levels:75' benefitting to hectares. resultant increase in asset value (land prices,): 2 billion USD. social ROI :500 X. govt : redn in bad debts,T&D losses, subsidies to DISCOMs, disaster relief,gain in revenues : 250 million USD Reduce: Developing ROI-driven model to increase value addition/ M3 of water in agriculture by 20X. Reuse: Creating solutions for value addition to :wastewater( domestic and industrial ) using water hyacinth to reduce treatment costs by 75% with value addition @ 5X of treatment costs. solid wastes: agro, animal, human, and industrial through PEBG (pyrolysis, esterification, biomethanation, gasification) strategy. establish current and future impact cost of water to - Corporates and create solutions based on above. Target industries : agro-based,(sugar, paper, edible oils, textiles, dairies), others : power, chemicals, refining, petrochemicals, and mining. I have worked with global retailers and supply chains across Asia, by integrating ecology, agriculture, industry, and retail we can create win-win models for all stakeholders, including governments. I have practically implemented these concepts in turnaround management and margin improvement for industries such as steel, engineering, chemicals, building materials, and textiles. My success across a variety of assignments is due to a unique combination of military discipline, engineering expertise, international trade, marketing experience, and a family business background in farming. Contact me at: ashoksarda8059@gmail.com