Engineering Projects (India) Ltd.

Shri DS Rana (Chairman and Managing Director)

Shri D.S. Rana has assumed the charge of Chairman and Managing Director of Engineering Projects (India) Limited w.e.f September 19, 2019. Prior to this, he was working as Director (Infrastructure), Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd (DFCCIL) since October 27, 2014. Shri Rana is a Civil Engineer with Post Graduate qualification in Project Management and belongs to 1986 batch of Indian Railway Service of Engineers and has held many positions in the Construction, Procurement & Vigilance wings of Central Railway.

Shri Rana was with DFCCIL right from the inception stage and was one of the first officers to quit the coveted Railway service and join the Company on permanent basis

While working as CPM/Mumbai in DFCCIL, Shri Rana undertook many policy initiatives in the spheres of RRP & Compensation Matrix for affected PAPs to ensure land acquisition in highly urbanized areas of Mumbai. He is also credited with obtaining a multitude of statutory Environmental Clearances for the project in Maharashtra, which led to timely Financial Closure of Phase-II leg of Western DFC, in partnership with JICA. A Treatise written by Shri Rana on Environmental & Social issues has been widely circulated to various Infrastructure Ministries & PSUs to serve as a hand book for the Project Managers

Smt .Sukriti Likhi, Joint Secretary, Department of Heavy Industry, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India, belongs to the Haryana Cadre of the Indian Administrative Service.  She joined the IAS in 1993.

A graduate in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College, Smt. Likhi holds a Masters degree in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University.

She served in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India as Director in the Department of Financial Services and later as Counsellor Economic with the Embassy of India at Washington DC.

She has vast and varied experience in administration. Most recently she was Managing Director of the Haryana Power General Corporation Ltd., in Government of Haryana. Prior to which she was Managing Director HAFED (the Haryana State Cooperative Supply & Marketing Federation Limited) and Secretary Finance, Government of Haryana.

Smt. Neelam S.Kumar has been appointed as Part-time official Director of EPI as nominee of Govt. of India pursuant to DHI order dated 23.08.2018.  Smt. Neelam S. Kumar is an ICAS Officer of 1984 batch. Presently, She is posted as Chief Controller of Accounts, Ministry of Industry, looking after the Budget & Accounts, Payment and Treasury functions of DIPP, DHI, DPE and MSME. 

Dr. Anita Chaudhary. IAS ('76 Hy), retired as Secretary to Government of India, Department of Land Resources. She has done Ph.D from IGNOU on ‘Right to Information as a tool for good governance in rural areas’. She did Post graduation in English Literature, from Fergussan College, Pune and a Masters in Soc. Sc. from University of Birmingham, UK. She has undergone important training programmes within the country and abroad. The important ones being in Agriculture marketing in Korea and Finance and Public Policy at Harvard.

During her career of 37 years in the IAS, she has held important posts in State and Central governments in the fields of finance, home, Industry, urban development, rural development, food and textiles. She has been MD of the Central Cottage Industries Corporation of the Govt of India. She is also an Independent Director with NPCIL. She is also Independent External Monitor with Ministry of Home and IFCI