India’s Most Influential Personality in 2025

Raj’s diverse experience across engineering, supplier quality, and team leadership reflects his lifelong commitment to building reliable vehicles and empowered teams.

There are people who see machines as tools, and there are those who feel them breathe. Raj Kishore Naik belongs to the second kind. His connection with engineering began long before he led teams or managed projects. It began the day he stood beside a car engine at NIT Rourkela and watched it come alive for the first time. The hum, the vibration, the pulse of metal in motion, something about it resonated deeply within him.