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.

  Shri H.N. Thakur(Director Projects)

Shri H.N. Thakur has assumed the charge of Director (Projects) of Engineering Projects (India) Ltd. w.e.f. October 21, 2019.  Prior to this, he was working as Executive Director, Incharge Northern Regional Office of Engineering Projects (India) Ltd.  since October 9, 2014.  Shri Thakur is a Civil Engineer having rich and varied experience spanning over 35 years in Cost Estimation, Tendering, Business Development, Contract Management and Planning and Project execution of various multi-disciplinary projects in India and Overseas.  He has been associated with EPIL from the year 1989.

  Shri P.M. Chandraiah (Director Finance)

Shri PM CHANDRAIAH has assumed the charge of Director (Finance) of Engineering Projects (India) Limited on 16th October 2020. Prior to this, Shri PM CHANDRAIAH was working as Managing Director (Addl. Charge) & Director (Finance), Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited (BCPL). He has been associated with BCPL since November 2014.

Shri PM CHANDRAIAH is a Cost Accountant and having a rich experience of 37 years in various PSUs like NTPC, IREDA, IRCON, NSPCL, EPIL and BCPL. He also has a working experience in departments like Human Resources, Vigilance, Financial Management, Marketing etc.

Under his dynamic leadership, Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited, the first Pharmaceutical Company of the Country has become a Profit making Turnaround Company in the year 2016-17 after continuous reporting of losses for 50 years i.e. Since 1967-68 to 2015-16 and has achieved the Net Profit consecutively for five years since 2016-17.

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.