We are raring to go for challenging and large assignments in India and abroad

- Nirmal G Humbad

Managing Director, Dorsch Consult India

How do you assess the transformation of DC India?

With our roots in Germany, Dorsch started our operations in India in 2000 and yes, we shall soon celebrate 22^nd anniversary. We built our foundation in India by consolidating our position as an Indian company in sectors like Buildings, Roads & Highways, Oil & Gas etc. We are able to maintain international quality and have built price competitiveness like any other Indian company. Geographically, we expanded to Bangladesh by acquiring several challenging projects in Oil & Gas sector. We are working in Airport sector on several projects including one with full project life cycle at Dehradun, as we have received accolades for good design, specifically for keeping local heritage in mind. Dependability and respect for our advices/services by client is a matter of great satisfaction. We have been receiving repeat orders. Now, we are a fully-grown dependable consulting company and raring to go for challenging and large assignments in India & abroad.

What is the strategy adopted by the company to stay afloat in the difficult times of pandemic impact?

COVID-19 had a severe impact on social life and impacted global economics. For an Engineering and Project management consultancy like us, suddenly moving from day-to-day desk work style, to remote consulting was a unique challenge. During such tough phase, keeping the employees motivated while ensuring their safety, job security, health and their family's health was a challenge. We can proudly say that we have weathered all this successfully and pulled ourselves out of this tough phase. On the business development front too, the issues and challenges were stiff, with clients holding off projects that were already underway, however we worked with patience and with strategy and kept on acquiring new business. Even our previous references contributed to our success story. Our award winning project 'Mahatma Mandir', Gandhinagar completed in record time. Our residential accomodation project 'DGMAP' of Ministry of Defense (MoD) executed at 17 different locations pan India,  also our projects with funding from Asian Development Bank (ADB), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), World Bank etc. made us resilient and helped us stay afloat.

How are you drawing the company's growth plans in India for the coming years?

Though our plan is to remain competitive in all our sectors, we are focused on few sectors. This is based on market trends and demands. Airports is our strategic sector. India is expecting to become third-largest aviation market in terms of passengers by 2024. It targets to increase the number of operational airport and the growing public-private partnership. We indeed see our long-term growth in aviation sector. We also intend to help the sector by bringing latest technology in this sector. On the other side, energy demand of India is anticipated to grow faster than the energy demand of all major economies on the back of robust economic growth. Hence, Oil and Gas sector will play important role.

As a whole, with the increasing robust demands in India, upcoming government policies, Union Budget allocation and foreign investments puts India to grow a lot in Infrastructure space.

And with we packaging our strategies with Smart project management, Innovative Consulting, introducing technology in project and also having a huge Multi-sectorial experience we shall be very keen to our rightful place in the growing market.

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