365telugu.com online news, Mumbai, 22nd October, 2021: “The PM Gati Shakti NMP is a path-breaking cross-functional initiative that strikes at the very root of the decades old problems in execution of infrastructure projects. My bows to the visionary leadership of our PM and resolve of senior Ministers. PM Gati Shakti is about convergence, integration, synergies and collective work culture, which will lead to real time visibility and monitoring of development projects in our nation. Gati Shakti will expedite multi-modal inter-operable infrastructure that will integrate and provide the long awaited mobility and connectivity for India’s development and fast track economic growth. Gati Shakti will also drive speed and reduction in our Logistics cost and provide impetus to manufacturing and employment creation.”
Kamal has been spearheading top global and Indian brands as President & CEO for nearly two decades and, since 2014, he is the President & Managing Director of the Swedish major’s Indian outfit, Volvo Group India, headquartered in Bangalore. A distinguished alumnus of IIT Roorkee’s 1981 batch,Kamal did his schooling from St. Joseph’s Academy, Dehradun.With an illustrious career spanning four decades, predominantly in the automotive & engineering industry, Kamal has worked for well-known Indian brands (such as EICHER and ESCORTS) and established multinational corporations in India, including the Italian major, ‘SAME DEUTZ-FAHR GROUP’ as also Singapore Technologies Kinetics (STK). He has accumulated precious cross-functional knowledge, is respected for his values’-based leadership and professionalism with strong ethos.
Recently, Kamal was Knighted and awarded one of Sweden’s highest honours in the Royal Order of the “Polar Star: Commander” by Their Majesties, the King and Queen of Sweden for his untiring support to the Swedish commerce & industry in India. He is also the recipient of the prestigious “2019 Machinist Lifetime Achievement Award” by the Times of India Group for his outstanding contribution in the field of Manufacturing. Mr Kamal Bali holds the following board / governing council positions: –
. Board Member of Volvo Group India
. Board Member of Volvo Financial Services India
. Chairman of Swedish Chamber of Commerce India (SCCI)
. Independent Director on the Board of Antrix Corporation Limited (Department of Space,
Government of India)
. Board Member of Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB) as well as Member of the Joint
Board of Directors of Xavier Emlyon Global School of Business (XEMGSB)
. National Council Member of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
. Past Chairman of CII Karnataka (2017-18)
Based in Bangalore for the last two decades, Kamal is married to Gina who is Masters in English
Literature, has a son who is a commercial pilot, and his daughter is an educator in an international
school. He loves driving in the hills and, on most weekends, he tries to dabble with a game of golf.