Academic Qualifications: B Com (Hons), Kolkata University
Business experience:
Is the partner in GSW since March’1968. Since then he has been looking after the entire business activity of GSW including management, finance and export & domestic business of iron & steel scrap including trading & processing of the same. Now GSW is promoting a real estate business. Mr. Shiv Kumar Agarwala has been instrumental in promoting this mega housing project of approximately 1.5 million sqft .
Mr. Shiv Kumar Agarwala was also appointed the Director & Chairman of IJS in 1969. He was instrumental in modernization, expansion & diversification in high value alloy & special steel strips by virtue of which IJS was the most respected & established steel manufacturing unit in India. In addition to his own company Mr. Shiv Kumar Agarwala was on the board of various mini steel companies.
Because of his experience & pioneering efforts, Mr. Shiv Kumar Agarwala has been very well known & respected person in the Indian steel industry & at the age of 39 years was appointed the chairman of Steel Furnace Association of India (SFAI) (www.steelfurnaceindia.com) for the year 1989 & 1990. SFAI was the Government of India’s only recognized nodal agency for the entire mini steel industry in India. All the major mini steel units such as Jindal Steel, Usha Martin Alloys, Essar Steel, Mukund Steel, Mahindra Ugine, Kalyani Steel & GKW were members of SFAI. At that time all the supply & logistic support to steel industry was mainly monitored by the Ministry of Steel, Government of India, and all the important Government decisions in connection with the steel industry were invariably taken in consultation with Chairman, SFAI only. Being the chairman of the association, Mr. Shiv Kumar Agarwala was the member of various top level Government panels on steel industry. By virtue of the Chairmanship of such an important association, Mr. Shiv Kumar Agarwala had to interact with all the captains of the steel industry & senior Government officials regularly and has established a very close rapport with them.
As SFAI Chairman Mr.Shiv Kumar Agarwala led four high level delegations consisting of industry captains & senior Government officials to Europe, USSR and South America (Brazil, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela & Mexico)
In recognization of his services Mr. Shiv Kumar Agarwala was appointed the President of Bharat Chamber of Commerce, Kolkata, for the years 1991-92 & 1992-93, one of the oldest & most respected business chamber of the country. All the major commercial & industrial houses of Kolkata are the members of this business chamber. (www.bharatchamber.com) As President of the chamber Mr. Agarwala had a very close interaction with the captains of the trade & industry as well as international & national Chambers of Commerce as well as senior Government Officials. The highlight of Mr. Agarwala’s presidentship of the chamber was that during his presidential tenure in the year 1993 the former Prime Minister of India Dr. Man Mohan Singh, then the Finance Minister of Government of India had specially flown from Delhi to Kolkata to preside over Bharat Chamber’s annual meeting at Kolkata on Mr. Agarwala’s personal invitation.
In 2003 Mr. Shiv Kumar Agarwala was personally invited to explore the possibility of excavation & processing of slag dumps of then Mittal Steel Romania & Algeria. Mr. Shiv Kumar Agarwala was instrumental in single handedly finalizing the contract & very successfully establishing the business establishment in Romania & Algeria along with his family.
