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.

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).

Sh. Manoj K. Dubey did his under graduation and post-graduation from the Hindu College of the University of Delhi. Before clearing Civil Service in very first attempt and joining IRAS of 1993 batch, he worked with UTI for two years in blazing the trail in the arena of educating and assimilating rural masses into various lucrative schemes of Mutual Funds. He did his MBA at Department of Management Studies of Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad and topped there with specialization in Finance and Human Resources and been conferred the overall Silver Medal for the batch 2011-13 from the then President of India.

A recipient of National Award for outstanding service at Minister of Railways level in the year 2011, he has paved the path in Indian Railways in ushering - payment of salaries through Bank to almost hundred percent employees of each Divisions he was associated with, e-Tendering, e-Auction, payment of the contractor/ supplier through RTGS/NEFT, computerization of all bill passing / pension settlement and PF etc. Attained several milestones in systems improvement and contributing phenomenally in operations, incentives and staff posting policy.

He has vast experience of Train Operations Management and Freight Loading Mechanism having worked as Head of Finance of three major loading divisions of Indian Railway viz., Dhanbad, Asansol and Mughalsarai for nearly fifteen years.

Being entrusted as Director/Executive Director in PPP Directorate and Finance Commercial Directorate in Railway Board for last five years, Shri Dubey has been associated in many prestigious projects like setting up of Loco Factories through PPP/FDI for Indian Railways at Madhepura and Mahrora; has been functioning pivotally in High Speed Rail of Indian Railways, and that in Dedicated Freight Corridor of Railways as key financial advisor to Infrastructure Directorate. He has also developed expertise in Tariff structuring of freight and passenger trains as well as for catering and tourism contracts at strategic level. He has the experience of drafting many Cabinet Notes and has vast experience of International Competitive Bidding for Mega Projects.

Shri Dubey was in the Board of Directors of a Joint Venture Company of General Electricals of USA and IR, Alstom of France and IR, and a Joint Venture Company of NMDC, SAIL and Indian Railways.

Apart from excelling in professional responsibilities, he has been equally active in the field of Promotion and Administration of Sports as well as Indian Classical Dance and Music. He has been the Manager/ Government Observer in many an Overseas Global Tournament.

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.