Rakesh Kumar has been unanimously elected as the new Chairman of IEML by its Board of Directors. The outgoing Chairman Raj Kumar Malhotra and Directors welcomed Rakesh Kumar on his new role.
Kumar has served in various professional associations in the field of Indian handicraft exports. He is also the Executive Director of the Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) and President of Indian Exhibition Industry Association (IEIA). It is Kumar who had conceptualized and commissioned India’s first state of the art infrastructure – India Exposition Mart Ltd for promotion of Indian Handicrafts & the cottage sector through Marts and Exhibitions at Greater Noida, NCR Delhi. He is one of the permanent Directors of the mart and has held the position of Managing Director from 2001-2009 at the mart.
Apart from setting up of India Exposition Mart Ltd, Shri Kumar is also the key architect of setting up of several important projects in India such as setting up of National Centre for Design & Product Development in New Delhi for design and product development and various craft pockets of handicrafts at Jodhpur, Jaipur, Saharanpur, Narsapur (A.P.), Moradabad, Northeastern Regions.
The India Exposition Mart is spread over to 58 acres and has built up complex of 1.7 million sq. ft. which was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister of India in 2006. The Exposition Mart has 8 exhibition halls and 1800 permanent marts with facilities at par with International standards and hosts many international events.
