Date: 25 September 2025
Category: CSR — News & Events
In an age when skylines change faster than conversations, it’s easy to equate development with the visible — towers, roads, plazas. But the deeper work, the work that lasts, lives in what those structures enable: communities that breathe, small businesses that find footing, neighbourhoods that gain identity. Mohit Bansal’s journey — recently profiled on Viestories — is precisely about that quieter, more consequential work: building ecosystems where life, commerce and care co-exist.
His story is straightforward, and yet quietly ambitious. Trained in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics in New York, Mohit could have chosen comfort and certainty. Instead, he returned — not for nostalgia, but with the conviction that Chandigarh and the Tricity region could be shaped into model, sustainable urban places. That conviction became GMI Infra (est. 2018) and then extended into complementary ventures—Whispering Homes and MindSci AI—each reflecting a different facet of the same mission.
What does this look like on the ground? At GMI, projects are conceived as living systems, not mere portfolios. The GMI Business Park (circa 90 acres), the GMI IT Tower adjacent to leading institutions, GMI Elite Homes and upcoming precincts like GMI Sky Greens and the planned GMI IT District — these are designed to be green, EV-ready, and community-centred. They aim for recognised sustainability standards while focusing squarely on how people will actually live and work there. That balance of purpose and practicality is a recurring theme in the Viestories feature.
Beyond projects, Mohit’s public work — through the GMI Charitable Trust and targeted CSR programmes in education, environment and grassroots sports — shows the same throughline: infrastructure that creates social value, not just revenue. Scholarships, tree-planting, grassroots sports sponsorship and community programmes are more than activities; in his view they’re an integral part of the ecosystem that infrastructure must serve.
Why does this matter for our region and for India? Because scale without soul is brittle. When policy, investment, technology and community come together — when builders listen to educators, and planners listen to local life — progress becomes durable. Mohit’s Viestories profile reminds us of that responsibility: to build with rigor and with care, to think like an urbanist and act like a neighbour. For anyone who reads the piece, it offers both a blueprint and an invitation — to imagine infrastructure that does more than exist; infrastructure that nurtures.
Read the full feature on Viestories to follow the arc of this journey and the concrete steps we are taking at GMI to turn vision into places where people thrive. For more updates and similar stories from our CSR work and community initiatives, visit our News & Events section. Viestories
