Sahil Mendiratta — Senior Project Manager, National Virtual Library of India
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SAHIL MENDIRATTA
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National Virtual Library of India · IIT Bombay

Senior Project Manager for a national digital archive.

Nine years in project and programme management — seven of them delivering the Ministry of Culture’s flagship digital-heritage platform, from assistant to senior project manager.

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Profile

A platform, a ministry, and 49 institutions

Strengths span end-to-end delivery, multi-crore budgeting, government stakeholder management and digital library systems.

Leads a team of more than 18 staff and manages the Indian Culture Portal under the National Virtual Library of India at IIT Bombay — a public platform carrying close to 6 lakh digital and 52 lakh bibliographic records contributed by 49 Ministry of Culture organisations and partner institutions. Acts as the primary interface between the project, the Ministry and its subordinate organisations, covering requirement gathering, proposal and budget development, repository systems, national outreach, and audit, security and compliance reporting.

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Career highlights

What the last seven years produced

Delivery, finance, holdings, systems, outreach and governance — each with a named outcome.

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Professional experience

The work, in detail

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Current post
National Virtual Library of India (NVLI)

IIT Bombay, for the Ministry of Culture, Government of India · New Delhi · full-time

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Earlier roles

Before the archive: banking and insurance

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Core competencies

What I am hired to do

Programme delivery at government scale: the plan, the money, the stakeholders, the systems underneath and the reporting that proves it happened.

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Credentials

Education, certification, recognition

Education
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Contact

Open to programme leadership roles

Happy to talk about digital heritage, public-sector programme delivery, or library and repository systems at scale.