A Professor's Successful Journey as first-generation enterpreneur he shares his fulfilling experience to bring to the drawing board the principles he once taught on the blackboard at the Indian Institute of Technology,Mumbai

Shirish S. Naik graduated in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 1976 in the discipline of Civil Engineering, and subsequently obtained his M.Tech and PhD in Environmental Engineering from the same Institute.

Started his career as Site-in-charge, Sewage Treatment Plant, Kudremukh Iron Ore Project, Karnataka for
M/s. Hydraulic & General Engineers Ltd. in 1977-78.

Worked as Project Engineer in Environmental Engineering Consultants in 1979-80; independently handled treatability studies for Burroughs Welcome, MINDIA (PIL), Rallis India Ltd. and GNFC.

Worked as a Consulting Engineer to the consortium of M/s John Tailor & Company U.K. and M/s Shah Technical Consultants Ltd. Mumbai on the World Bank funded water supply, treatment, sewerage and sewage treatment project in Maharashtra, in 1980-81. Project covered 6 towns and 104 villages in the vicinity of Mumbai. Dr. Naik’s role in the project was organization and supervision of reconnaissance and detailed surveys, development of design criteria, process, hydraulic and detailed engineering design, preparation of tender documents, evaluation of bids, etc. Dr. Naik also worked on a variety of sewage treatment plants, pumping stations, industrial wastewater treatment projects, guided feasibility studies and detailed engineering of Treatment plants.

Joined Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd. in 1982 and was member of a project team for Comprehensive Feasibility Studies on Delhi’s water supply system.
Joined the faculty of Environmental Engineering at The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai in 1983. At IIT, he was extremely active in Teaching, Research and Consultancy. Conducted a number of training programs for Industrial and Government undertakings on various aspects of Environmental Engineering.

Lectured at IIT for 6 years at the post graduate level. While in IIT, he completed a variety of Consultancy assignments, one of them being the Master Plan for Environmental Assessment in the State of Goa for the Goa State Pollution Control Board. He also visited England while pursuing collaborative research on Wastewater treatment system optimization with the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. After 6 years at IIT, Dr. Naik resigned and founded the NaikEnviro Group. As a consultant to M/s Electrowatt Engineering Services, Muscat he provided vital inputs on upgradation of Sewage Treatment plants at seven Vocational Training Institutes in the State of Oman.

Dr. Naik has also been a consultant to the World Bank for the study of Institutional Arrangements for Environmental Management in Mumbai. He has conducted Training Programs in Mumbai on behalf of the World Bank on Environmental Audit, Hazardous Waste Management and Risk Assessment.

Dr. Naik, as the Managing Director of NaikEnviro, is specifically involved in the design and detailing of Package Water and Wastewater treatment systems with emphasis on recycle/reuse. He has extensive experience in the field of turnkey projects for water and Waste Water Treatment, Pumping Stations, Air Pollution Control, Environmental Impact Assessment and Hazardous Waste Management and has executed over 100 projects in the above areas.