Sh. Rahul Mithal is from the Indian Railways Service of Mechanical Engineers (SCRA 1985 Batch). He has had a long stint of more than 20 years in various key positions in Indian Railways. He has a wide exposure of various aspects of Design and Maintenance of Rolling Stock and Handling Equipment and has held various key assignments of Operations and Maintenance in the Railways. In the last 6 years in CONCOR, he has been closely associated with the Planning, Execution and Monitoring of various mega Projects and has played a key role in drafting the Strategic Plan : Vision 2020 of the Company. He also holds the additional qualification of MBA (Finance) from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai and is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK) and a Chartered Engineer registered with the Engineering Council (UK).

Shri Ajit Kumar Panda holds Degrees of BE (Hon’s) in Mechanical Engineering from NIT, Rourkela and M. Tech (Thermal Engineering) from IIT, Delhi. He has been an Officer of Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (1990 batch). In his career spanning more than three decades, Shri Panda has acquired rich experience and expertise in Railway services, operations, productions, infrastructure, Rolling Stock and Public Private Partnerships.

Shri Panda has served as Executive Director (Mechanical Engineering and Project Planning & Development) in Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), Director (Production Units and Efficiency & Research), Ministry of Railways (Railway Board), Chief Workshop Manager, East Coast Railway, Mancheswar and in various other positions of South Eastern Railway. He has also been a Director in Boards of four SPV companies, namely, Haridaspur Paradip Railway Company Limited, Angul Sukinda Railway Limited, Kutch Railway Company Limited and Krishnapatnam Railway Company Limited.

At RVNL, Shri Panda has led setting up several state of the art factories and depots by fast track turnkey execution through composite contracts. He piloted Rolling Stock plans at Railway Board to rapidly switchover to High Horse Power Locomotives and LHB type coaches and coordinated record production of locomotives, coaches ad wagons. He provided transformational leadership at Mancheswar Workshop through a series of interventions for organizational change and development.

Shri Panda has been two times recipient of Railway Minister’s National Award for Outstanding Service.

Shri Mohammad Azhar Shams is B.Tech (Computer Science) alongwith MBA. He is an ex-Indian Railways Traffic Service (IRTS) Officer of 1992 Batch. He started his career from South Eastern Railway and subsequently came to Northern/North Central Railway. During this period, he worked as DOM/Bilaspur, DTM/Tundla, Sr.DCM/Allahabad, Sr.DSO/Prayagraj.

In 2007 he joined CONCOR on deputation and was made incharge of Vizag Terminal as Sr.GM. He continued there till 2010 and subsequently joined back Indian Railways. From 2010-2015, he worked as Sr.DCM/Kharagpur, Sr.DOM/Kharagpur in South Eastern Railway and Dy.COM/Jabalpur in West Central Railway. During his tenure with Indian Railways, he received many awards and accolades including two General Manager Awards, one Railway Minister Award and a Business and Passenger Services Shield for outstanding performance.

In 2015, he came back to CONCOR on deputation and took absorption there in 2018. He has held various portfolios like GGM/Operations, GGM/Int’l Mktg&HR, CPRO, मुख्य राजभाषा अधिकारी, ED/ Int’l Mktg&HR, ED/BD&HR and ED/AREA III. During his CONCOR tenure in last few years, he introduced many business friendly schemes like Block Rake Movement, Concept of Container as Warehousing, Extended Gate facility, 45/90 days free time, Free Repositioning of Empty containers from Port to ICDs, etc. All these helped the Company in facing the ever-increasing competition in the logistic sector. As HR head also, he initiated many cost cutting measures like Restructuring the organisation from a three-tier to a two-tier system, zero based man power review, streamlining the deployment of security guards in the organisation, etc.

He is a Ghazal aficionado. His first book of Ghazal ‘Dar Haqeeqat’ got published in 2019.

Priya Ranjan Parhi is an officer of the Indian Railways Traffic Service (1996) with more than 26 years of involvement in leadership positions in the areas of Railway Operations, Project Planning & Funding, Containerised cargo movements, PPP policy implementation, Freight Corridors, High Speed Corridors and International Rail Cooperation. Concurrently, he holds the post of Executive Director (Infrastructure) in the Railway Board and is the key functionary for Policy Formulation and execution of Special Projects of National importance such as DFC and High Speed corridors. He has been instrumental in the inception of the PPP policy framework for infrastructure development in Railways spearheading investment plans through Joint Ventures and other modes up to Rs 30,000 cr. so far and was also responsible for negotiations with Multilateral funding agencies, the World Bank and JICA for debt financing of DFC and High Speed projects. He has closely monitored linking of Rail network with the upcoming customers such as NICDC for MMLPs and also for Port, Mines and Coal connectivity involving the stake-holders of these sectors. He is the nodal officer for Infrastructure Directorate of Railway Board for the progress monitoring of important projects under PM Gatishakti.

In the earlier assignments he gained knowledge and experience of the Container Logistic Sector working as Group General Manager and Regional Head of CONCOR dealing with Operations, Business Development, Project Planning and government/non-government collaborations for both EXIM and Domestic container business. Importantly, he had also served as Director, Transport Planning in the Railway Board during which the PPP policy for Rail Investment had evolved and fructified through Joint Ventures and other models. His field experience in the Railways has been predominantly in the Freight Operations, Marketing and Planning in the South Eastern, South East Central, East Cost and Northern Railways as Divisional Operations Head and Deputy Chief Operations Manager overseeing Ports, Coal, Steel, Cement, Ores and Container logistics.

As amember of various Inter-Ministerial Committees, his contributions towards policy formulation was recognised in the Task Force on 12th Five Year Plan for Coal and Power, Standing Coal Linkage Committee, Committee for Screening of Coal blocks and Committee on Site Selection for Powerhouses. Further, he has represented the Ministry of Railways in various International Multilateral Transport Forums such as UIC, UNESCAP, SAARC, ASEAN and BIMSTEC for various negotiations on Intergovernmental Agreements and policies on International Rail Corridors and Railway Cooperation.

Additionally, he holds Directorships in PSU/JV companies of IR such as Konkan Railway Corporation, Pipavav Railway Corporation, Hassan Mangalore Rail Development Corporation, Chattisgarh East Railway Company, Chattisgarh East West Railway Company, Mahanadi Coal Railway Company and Jharkhand Central Railway Company as a Government nominee of MoR.He was awarded Railway Minister's National Award for meritorious service in 2012 and General Manager's Award for meritorious service twice in 2007 and 2014.

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.