In today’s competitive world, any enterprise needs quality infrastructure, employee satisfaction, and efficient management and retainment of a skilled workforce to succeed as an organization. These are the prerequisites that help companies actualize their goals of profitability and enhanced customer satisfaction at an effective cost. This is where facility management service providers have gained prominence as a value added to the business. With an emerging market and new priorities, facility managers have become indispensable and essential part of the decision-making authority of an organization. The activities of facility management span across various dimensions like organization resource management, asset management, procurement, employee safety, and services, among others.
BVG India Limited, India’s one of the Largest Integrated Services Company, is serving over 750 customers, including Supreme Court of India, Rashtrapati Bhavan (Residence of President of India), Residence and Office of Prime Minister of India, many ministries, local governments, state power utilities, along with private customers like Tata Motors, Bajaj, Mahindra, Volkswagen, Accenture, Tirupati Devasthanam, Shirdi Sai Baba Mandir, and many others. It provides services like mechanized housekeeping, gardening, landscaping, waste management, factory construction and relocation, civil engineering, farm management, power projects and many others.
Leading from Rural Maharashtra to a Nation Wide Network
BVG India Limited had taken roots as a non-profit Bharat Vikas Pratishthan in 1993, by the then engineering student HR Gaikwad, Chairman and Managing Director, inspired by Swami Vivekananda, set out to help rural youth with funds for education and opportunities for jobs and livelihood. Two years later, Gaikwad was inducted as a graduate trainee engineer in Telco (now Tata Motors), where he earned management appreciation for saving huge costs through his innovative use of cables otherwise meant to be scrapped. He used this opportunity to request the management for some jobs for rural youth from his village. The management agreed and BVG began informally as 8-member in-house outsourced housekeeping outfit within Telco (now Tata Motors) in 1997, with Gaikwad still employed in the company.
“Take up one idea. Make that idea your life. Think of it. Dream it. Live on that idea. This is the way to Success”- Swami Vivekananda
Taking inspiration from Swami Vivekananda, BVG started its operations in 1997 to cater the cleaning service requirements of a local industrial establishment. Since then, with a commitment to quality work, BVG has grown by leaps and bounds. Today it is known to be amongst the best Facility Management brands, and has over 30,000 employees, BVG family is spread over 70 locations all over India.
Stopped Recommending and Started Hiring
HR Gaikwad before leaving TATA Motors built a strong team of 200 people and earned 56 lakh rupees in the year 2000. Bharat Vikas had been recognized by many companies and was being recommended in places like Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and also Delhi. The organization has the capability to build, resurrect, or relocate any infrastructural facility. It could be lying of roads, or landscaping and plantation of public gardens, or constructing & relocating manufacturing factories, or rural electrification project, etc.
Engendering Waste to Wealth
Although, increase in the waste material is becoming a challenge but BVG took this as an opportunity to repay its debt to the society by looking at waste as a ‘resource’ and created a new business vertical ‘Waste to Wealth’. BVG serves government and private entities to process the inorganic and organic waste. It is a specialist in waste management and provides this service to many municipal corporations across India. The large ones include Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), New Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) and Brahat Bangalore Mahanagara Palika (BBMP). This includes door-to-door collection of waste, primary processing, secondary processing and disposal of waste In terms of lifting and dumping capacity, it handles over 3000 tons waste per day.
“The light of prosperity of my country spreads all over and I shall be a small soldier in it as a small clay lamp” says HR Gaikwad
Venturing into Farm Keeping and Animal Keeping
With a focus on introducing modern scientific methods in a major way to improve agriculture & livestock, BVG has formed a joint venture with France based Eurial International for goat cheese which is a premier and high-end food product and also goat milk powder which is very beneficial for infants. The first of its kind in India namely “BVG Agro Safe” is a 100% Non-Carcinogen yet very effective and efficacious product for the Agricultural Sector. It is a Zero Residue formulation with no pesticides in it and helps greatly in increasing the absorption of existing water and nutrients in plants.
BVG Agro Magic is another natural product which is made from superior nanotechnology – A plant & crop growth booster. It greatly reduced the number of fertilizers and water needed to be added to the soil also visible enhancing growth, hardiness, and yield. The entire farming community of India will benefit from increased yield of crops due to this product.
Implementing and Managing Emergency Response Services
Modern day progressive governments are realizing the need of providing swift assistance to citizens in such emergency, thus saving the loss of precious human capital. BVG India Ltd. implements medical emergency ambulance response service and civil emergency police response service for governments. BVG has implemented and now manages Dial-108 toll-free: Medical Emergency Ambulance Response Service (also known as Emergency Medical Services) for Maharashtra Government. Dial-108 is a free ambulance on call service for the medical emergency in Maharashtra. This is the world’s largest set up of its kind having 937 ambulances spread across Maharashtra, each with a doctor and life support equipment available 24 X 7 in the service of citizens within Maharashtra.
The service is manned through a central command center in Pune, equipped with latest technological tools to help the trained staff quickly record patient, location and emergency details. The command center then identifies and alerts the ambulance nearest to the patient. The in-ambulance doctor prepares for the emergency and the ambulance sets out to rescue the patient in distress. On the same model, Dial 100 has been started for MP Police which has been contacted by 25 lakh citizens.
Ensuring Beauty through Landscape and Gardening Services
BVG provides a full-fledged service to beautify cities, townships, roads, factory lands, etc. with the garden development and landscaping services. The BVG landscaping services have been ensuring the beauty of the various building, streets, and parks in the cities. In the year 1999, BVG started its own horticulture and agriculture division on contracts, and eventually gained its reputation in this discipline of landscaping and gardening. It has completed more than Rs.125 Cr of various garden development works.
India’s Best Integrated Food Park
Under the Government Food Processing Policy, BVG India has inaugurated Satara Mega Food Park. It is located amid rich bio-diversity of raw materials to process fruits, vegetables, spices, grains, as well as milk and sugar. With such wide availability of all types of inputs, food processing units in Satara Mega Food Park can produce all types of processed food.
Awards and Achievements
Bharat Vikas Group (BVG), has bagged the award for Facility Management Firm of the Year 2017 at the ‘9th Realty Plus Excellence Awards (West) 2017’. BVG contended against some of the big multinationals in this category and for the second time running has piped them to the post. Realty Plus Excellence Awards is the platform that recognizes the contributions made by companies in the real estate panorama.
The company’s philosophy is ‘ Non-Core Work is Our Core Work’.
Revolutionizing the Future of Indian Agriculture by Increasing the Yield
HR Gaikwad’s bigger plan is to double the income of farmers from agriculture, a goal espoused by the government, with products such as fertilizers, crop nutrients and crop protectors. He commits to a minimum 50% yield increase in one crop season and double in three crop seasons with the use of BVG Life Sciences products. The group company recently launched some products that Gaikwad said can revolutionize Indian agriculture. They include Comfert, a product tested by the Mumbai Veterinary University, which promises to increase the fertility of cows and buffaloes.
Over the next few years, new technologies, management techniques, customer requirements and value-chain approaches will have an enormous impact on the Facility Management industry. To enhance the competitiveness of their respective businesses, facility and service managers will be required to go beyond maintenance of the physical infrastructure and increasingly focus on innovating and differentiating the workspace and workplace environment. BVG has been demonstrating the use of its products across the country and claims to have tested them at leading government agencies, in addition to getting approvals from Ecocert, an organic certification agency.
BVG India: Emerging as India’s Best Facility Management Service Providers
