When you find a glorious unitary university at the lap of Bhubaneswar spreading 30 acres of land situated at Gothapatna glaring at you with a gated educational environment, naturally, you sense a new vertical of quality education has been placed before the entrance of the famous Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar. Setting up and restoring its generosity must have been a yeoman service of any kind. However, the man who is blessed to do so is none other than the sitting registrar of BGU, Dr B. K.Das.

Dr Das is a great leader in the Education and Banking sector. He is an Adviser & a Registrar of the renowned Birla Global University, Odisha. He is a Doctorate in Economics, Laws and Business Management. Moreover, he is also a certified Associate Professor of the Indian Institute of Bankers.

Before joining BIMTECH in 2009, he was instrumental in setting up the famous Birla Global University, from getting alloted land to implementing projects for statutory clearances to make the campus fully operational in a record time. The University has created a landmark victory within three years with more than a thousand students being enrolled in the different courses such as Management, Laws, Communication, Commerce and Economics with the plan to add more Medical, Nursing and Engineering shortly. 

Dr. Das has served as a General Manager of a leading public sector bank for six years. He has proudly handled the Administration, Human Resource, Vigilance, Corporate Governance, Credit, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Policy Formulations, Resolutions and Recovery of distressed assets that involve all gamut of Banking perspective. 

Not just this, Dr Das has also successfully drafted the Vigilance manual of the Bank in close coordination with the government. Moreover, he has worked as a General Manager of that department at New Delhi incharge of various states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana, Andra Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Gujarat. Moreover, he had a chance to work with the Nobel Laureate Professor Yunus from Bangladesh Gramin Bank under a United National Development Program.

Dr B. K.Das has been part of the high-level decision making bodies at a national level. He is a board member of various committees like Asset Liability Management, Risk Management, New Bussiness, besides being a part of the top management board of directors in the Vigilance Advisory Committee. 

He is also associated with the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation ( IDC) and Industrial Corporation of India ( IFCI) at a Director level. He has been appointed as a Chairman of the state-level Export Promotion Committee for Orissa and Himachal. Being a member of the High Power Committee, he has efficiently constituted his duties in banking plans for the state of Jammu and Kashmir.  

He has been part of Prime Minister Rojgar Yojna and implementing various plans at MSME through Government initiatives as a Head of a Distinct Industrial Centre of the Government of Odisha. He has also served as a Chairman of Regional Rural Bank for three years, appointed by the Government of India.

He has presented various researched papers on Public Sectors Banks and Bussines Policies Vigilance in National Conferences on Small Micro Entreprises and Financial inclusion by the Department of Applied and Analytical Economics at Uktal University. Dr Das has been a role model for his illustrious service in education. 

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