Interviewtimes 
Sushant Pujari, M.D (Benzfab)
Here is someone who has pioneered the cause of entrepreneurship through innovations with his grit and perseverance. Among the various innovations, the most striking is Agri-Business Management Course (2 years) introduced at the Utkal University in 2004. The whole University didn’t have any clue about the professional courses adopted in any academic University and prior to its Global placements. Then, the word private-public-partnership (PPP) was merely an item to be discussed in the capital city of Odisha. But the daredevil entrepreneur could envisage the importance of it for today’s generation of students’ fraternity. While addressing to the University collective of enacting Agri-Business Management on the PPP mode and it’s benefits, he believed one thing had turned the mind of the whole syndicate to go ahead with this very project was all “employability”. Perhaps, getting employed was an offbeat stuff but giving employment (employability) was a far-sighted experience altogether. Today this Agri-Business Management Course is the most sought after course among the students because of its high-fly placements worldwide. Students are thronging from all around the world- even students from Nepal and Kantamandu have been pursuing their enrollments here. He again thanked the whole syndicate (now & then) for their vision for taking initiatives for enhancing the art & skill developments considering the possibilities of creating employment and employability.
Here is another aspect of his business acumen sample in bringing the best on the table in the teeth of crisis. When we as Indians are busy in devising ways on how to protect ourselves from COVID-19 in the very moment, he and his teams had readied the making of various toll number for the beneficiaries of the ordinary people for the government on an urgent deliverance basis. Whether its 100 or 102 Toll free Dial number, it’s the product of his company Benzfam company Pvt Ltd. Whether in compacting Natural calamities or urgency, they stood the test of time by providing tool free numbers for the Government of Odisha in the larger interest of the State.
As an Odia, we are all proud of him when his team completed all the digital communications work over 18 kms Signal and Telecommunications (S & T) jobs for the most awaited bullet train in Gujarat (Ahmedabad) which is supposedly inaugurating in the months to come by the Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji on behalf of NHRC, Railway Ministry, Govt. of India.
Basically their forte into the signal and telecom ( S & T) installation works for the East coast Railway. In Odisha, almost all the Railway tracks have been installed by the Benzfam group with the leadership of the versatile entrepreneur. From the major PSUs like MCL, NALCO, BSNL, NMDC, NTPC, INDIAN RAILWAYS etc, Benzfam has been associated in taking up the telecommunications works over decades. Since then, Benzfam has grown steadily.
Of late, they have forayed into Organic farming in various districts of Odisha where they will not only produce all types of fruits and vegetables at the same time they could train local farmers communities for the best resources and markets facilities. It’s absolutely a cutting-edge in the field farming and Agriculture.
And the pet project comes soon as an digital apps named as VACHAN (Video*Audio*Collaboration*Hub*AND*Network*for the digital presence of Benzfam Technologies. This is an effort to deliver all essential and high end features for remote working and training, while guarding all data using universally trusted security and privacy protocols.
Mr. Sushanta Pujari, the name itself speaks volume for the brand enterprise. With a degree in management from the Goa Institute of Management in 1984-86, he had started his corporate career in Tata Enterprises, later on he headed Odisha as the top official for regulating its functioning for close to a decade. Although his academia parents and family didn’t have greater support for his entrepreneurial ideas but have certainly showered blessings on him. By default, Mr. Pujari is a disrupter.
Again, here is the contrast. When he got a promotion which mandated him to move to other state, he declined it and then the journey of enterprise was conceptualized in him. And the rest is history. Benzfam is the number one digital communications Telcom Company of Eastern India.
