Mr. Anurag Kapil is Chemistry Honours from Hans Raj College and Masters in Business Administration from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi and Masters in Public Affairs from University of Minnesota, USA. He is an Officer of Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS) of 1998 Batch.
He has worked in various capacities in Indian Railways viz. 2 tenures of Sr. DFM, FA&CAO/Traffic, FA&CAO/Finance & General and Deputy CVO. He has also worked as Director in Ministry of Coal from 2013-17 and handled various important assignments. His current assignment is Executive Director Finance (Expenditure) in Railway Board, looking after the policy matters of finance and handling the Finance Expenditure of Indian Railways which also includes scrutiny of MOUs with Railway CPSEs, their yearly targets and related ministry level approvals, including the examining of proposals viz. bonus shares, splitting of shares, buy back of shares, PRP, etc.
He has a rich experience of 25 years in Finance Management, Government Accounting and Personnel Management. His skills and expertise include Leadership development, Policy Analysis, Project Evaluation & Funding, Qualitative and Quantitative Analytics, Negotiations, Strategic Planning & Management, PPP models in public transport, Contract management, Arbitrations, Cost Benefit Analysis, Budgetary Control and Program Evaluation. He is conversant with Inter-Ministerial working and proceedings of Parliament of India. He has formulated various policies viz. policy for Auction of coal blocks, policy of pricing of coal, Royalty to States, policy of valuation of cancelled coal blocks, drafting of Ordinance I and II and later Coal Mines Special Provision Act, 2015, Coal Blocks Allocation Rules, 2015 & 2017, etc. He has also overseen the disinvestment of Neyveli Lignite Corporation, Coal India Limited and formation Central Public Sector Enterprise Exchange Traded Fund.
He has been a delegate of various international conferences like China Mining-2013-Conference and Exhibition, Joint Working Group for Heavy Engineering at Prague, Czech Republic, Co-chaired the Sub Committee on Minerals Resources and Energy in Pretoria, South Africa, Clean Coal Technology at Melbourne, Brisbane and Queensland, Australia and various Road Shows for 10% disinvestment of Coal India Ltd with Foreign Institutional Investors and Bankers in USA (Boston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco) and London and Edinburgh, High Level Technical Mission in Australia for acquiring technology in Deep Mining, Under Ground Coal Gasification, Mine Safety, Rehabilitation and Reclamation of land and Visit of Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, Abu Dhabi, to explore possibilities of acquiring Clean Nuclear Power for Indian Railways as per the net zero carbon emission plan with Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation.
He has also been on the Board of various CPSEs as Govt. Nominee Director viz. Singareni Colleries Co. Ltd., Mineral Exploration Corporation Ltd., Railway Energy Management Company Ltd. and Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd. He has undergone numerous trainings in PPP at Planning Commission, Contract agreement and Arbitrations of Contracts, E-procurement, Vigilance, Management Development Program, Strategic Management Program, ISB, Alternative Sources of Rly. Funding and Living with Vigilance.
He was awarded with National Award for Outstanding & Meritorious Service in 2009 by the Ministry of Railways, Govt. of India.