Mr. N.K. Gupta was born on 1st January 1957, at Rundal Manpura, a small village near Jaipur. His father, (Late) Shri Rood Mal Agarwal ran a small retail shop in the village and N.K. Gupta was the youngest sibling in a family of nine brothers and sisters. He did his initial schooling in the village itself. Thereafter, he left for Jaipur to pursue higher studies, where he completed his graduation as a Bachelor of Commerce from Agarwal College. Soon after graduation, he got engaged to Smt. Tara Devi.
He started his career, working as a Deputy Manager at Rajasthan Financial Corporation & Haryana Financial Corporation but his ambition was much greater. Simultaneously, along with his service, he also enrolled in a course in Chartered Accountancy and became a professionally qualified Chartered Accountant in 1979. Subsequently, he established numerous companies and partnership firms, keeping in line with the present trends in the real estate sector of constituting separate entities for different projects. In the times ahead, the group popularly came to be known as Manglam Builders and Developers, and later on, this Flagship Company was renamed Manglam Build Developers Limited.