STAYING THE COURSE

TV Sandeep Kumar Reddy, MD, Gayatri Projects, is known to meticulously consider details before embarking on projects

- JAYASHREE KINI MENDES

Pedigree matters. It matters, even more, when you are running an enterprise that is largely family-run. In today’s world, the next generation is groomed very early in life so as to prepare them for the future. Most often it works.

So it is with Gayatri Projects. TV Sandeep Kumar Reddy, MD, Gayatri Projects, inherited the company from his father, T Subbarami Reddy, who left behind his business to join the world of politics and public service full-time. However, Gayatri Projects in 1989 is a far cry from what Sandeep Kumar Reddy has grown it to today. At the time, it was an engineering company doing irrigation projects in a couple of southern states. Today, it is one of India’s leading construction and infrastructure companies with active projects in over 19 states. The company has also made forays into ownership of infra assets such as toll roads and power plants, but has now retreated to its mainstay of EPC projects. And though he continues to run the company, today his sons, Anirudh and Rajiv, are infusing a different kind of novelty into the business that would catapult the organisation to a higher level.

Businesses today do not rely on the old tried and tested theories alone. They are required to innovate. Have a growth mindset. Like Reddy says, “We have come a long way from our operations that were mainly confined to Andhra Pradesh. Today, we are executing projects in several states and if you look at our history, we have worked across all the states.”