Tanvi Dandawate Auti

The journey began in 2003, when Pandurang B. Dandawate founded Dhruv Consultancy Services Ltd. with a simple but profound dream — to contribute meaningfully to India's development story. Supported closely by his brother Sandeep, Pandurang laid the foundations of an organization rooted in quality, perseverance, and purpose. With limited resources but an abundance of determination, Dhruv Consultancy slowly built its foundation project by project, nurturing a deep commitment to professionalism. For over a decade, growth was steady but modest, as the company steadily earned trust across government and private sector clients.

The real inflection point came around 2014-2015, as India entered a new era of infrastructure-led growth. It was during this time that Tanvi Auti took over the reins as Managing Director, representing a new generation of leadership. A woman leading in the male-dominated world of hardcore civil engineering was not just rare — it was revolutionary. But Tanvi never treated it as an obstacle. She embraced her role by nurturing a culture built on trust, merit, and integrity. Her leadership style, rooted in empathy, patience, and empowering others, created a unique organizational culture where people thrived and stayed committed for the long term.

A standout element of Dhruv's journey has been its approach to hiring — giving opportunities to talent from tier-2 and tier-3 towns across India, often grooming first-generation engineers into confident leaders. Many who joined the company in its early years continue to be the pillars of Dhruv today, some even rising to second and third lines of leadership. A strong sense of ownership, family-like bonding, and purpose-driven growth define the internal culture.

Today, Dhruv Consultancy is a name synonymous with world-class project delivery. Among its proudest milestones is the Mumbai-Pune Expressway Missing Link Project, a marvel that involved designing tunnels underneath the Lonavala Lake and constructing a massive viaduct bridging valleys. At a time when aerial surveys using drones were almost unheard of, Dhruv took bold steps to pioneer new methods and match international benchmarks.

Equally noteworthy is Dhruv’s contribution as a supervision consultant for the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, the first 8-lane expressway project of its scale in India. By enabling faster movement between India's political and financial capitals, the project is poised to significantly boost the country's economic dynamism. Other landmark assignments include the Raipur-Vishakhapatnam Expressway, Delhi-Dehradun Expressway, Bangalore-Vijayawada Expressway, and the Ganga Expressway — one of India's most ambitious greenfield projects.

Dhruv also played a heartfelt role in projects like the Palkhi Marg — infrastructure designed specifically to support thousands of pilgrims walking annually towards Pandharpur, blending infrastructure development with cultural preservation. The emotional satisfaction derived from such assignments goes far beyond commercial success, and remains deeply woven into the company's ethos.

Beyond highways, Dhruv is now leaving its footprint in railways, metros, airports, ports, and urban infrastructure. Its service portfolio spans across feasibility studies, detailed project reports (DPRs), project management consultancy (PMC), asset management, technical audits, and lenders' engineering. Whether it’s building a massive expressway or certifying home loans through infrastructure due diligence, Dhruv’s approach remains consistently meticulous, transparent, and future-ready.

In keeping with its vision to build globally competitive assets, Dhruv Consultancy has invested heavily in technology adoption. Transitioning from traditional manual processes to CAD-based Indian design software, SAP for accounting, and real-time ERP integration for project monitoring, the company is fully geared to lead in an AI-driven future. Its commitment to Indian software solutions also reflects its deep belief in supporting homegrown technological excellence.

As a publicly listed entity, Dhruv embraces the highest standards of corporate governance, transparency, and accountability. The responsibility towards stakeholders — clients, employees, shareholders, and society at large — is a cornerstone of how the company operates every day.

Looking ahead, Dhruv Consultancy’s ambitions are expansive and clear. The company aims to replicate its highway sector leadership into five more sectors — railways, metros, ports, airports, and urban infrastructure — within India by 2030. Beyond national boundaries, Dhruv is building its presence across Middle East, Africa, South-East Asia, and Central Asia, contributing to infrastructure development in emerging and developing economies through World Bank, ADB, JICA, and other multilateral funded projects.

Through its journey, Dhruv Consultancy is redefining what Indian companies can achieve — proving that world-class assets can be imagined, engineered, and delivered from Indian soil, with Indian talent, and Indian spirit.
Building World-Class Assets from India — this is not just Dhruv Consultancy’s ambition. It is their everyday reality, their proud commitment, and the legacy they are determined to leave behind for the world.