Board of Directors :

Shri.Navin Kumar, IAS,Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, Chairman,from GoI

Mr. Navin Kumar is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, the senior civil service of India. With 35 years of extensive administrative experience behind him, Mr Kumar is presently holding the position of Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Urban Development.
Born in 1952, Mr. Kumar did Post Graduation in Physics with First Class academic credentials. He joined the Civil Service in 1975 at the early age of 23 and was assigned to the state cadre of Bihar. In his long career he has held positions of responsibility in the State and Central Governments in areas such as education, social security, youth affairs, water resources, energy, industries, broadcasting, IT and finance.
Mr. Kumar also worked as Technical Advisor to the Government of Sierra Leone for management of food aid under the Commonwealth Technical Cooperation Programme. With special interest in arts and media, Mr Kumar took up assignment as head of the national TV of India, Doordarshan, and served as its Director General from 2004 to 2006.
Extensively trained in Management and Public Policy, Mr. Navin Kumar is a tech-savvy person. He writes computer programmes in his spare time. Besides, he takes keen interest in drawing and painting, trying his hand at fine arts during his leisure.
Mr Navin Kumar is married and has two children

N. Sivasailam, IAS, (1985 Karnataka Cadre) Managing Director, from GoK

He has a Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi, and a Post-Graduate Degree in Business Administration from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. He has another Masters' Degree in Social Policy and Planning in Developing countries from the London School of Economics. He joined the Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME) in the year 1984, as a Probationary Officer. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in the year 1985 and was allotted Karnataka Cadre.
He has served as Assistant Commissioner and Sub-Divisional Magistrate in the Sub-Divisions of Jamkhandi in Bagalkot Dist. (erstwhile Bijapur District) and at Kumta in Uttara Kannada District. He has served as Deputy Secretary to the Government of Karnataka in the Departments of Animal Husbandry, Fisheries & Forests, Education and Commerce & Industries Departments. He served as Deputy Commissioner in Hassan District. He has served the Govt. of India as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions. In the Super time scale of the Indian Administrative Service, he has served the Government of Karnataka as Managing Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Housing Corporation, Bangalore, Secretary, Department of Rural Development & Panchayat Raj and Karnataka State Beverages Corporation Ltd.
He brings to this job considerable experience of working as part of many teams in managing a wide variety of Projects and Programs.
Contact details : email: sivasailam@bmrc.co.in,Phone : 91-80-22969202,22969203


B. S. Sudhir Chandra , Director (Project & Planning), Functional Director
He obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering (first batch) and Master's in Structural Engineering from IIT, Madras and was awarded the President's Gold Medal in 1964. He joined the Indian Railways Service of Engineers in November 1965 and has grown from being a probationary officer to Member, Railway Board. During his career, he held various positions in the Railways, the prominent ones being Divisional Railway Manager, Chief Track Engineer, Chief Administrative Officer (Construction), General Manager of Central Railway. He superannuated in August 2003, after 38 years of service. His forte has been survey and construction of new railway lines, double lines, gauge conversions, mass rapid transit line at Chennai, etc., involving construction of bridges/viaducts on pile/well foundations, prestressed concrete/steel girders superstructure, tunnels, industrial workshops and sheds etc. As CAO(C), Bangalore, he commissioned about 700 kms of double lines and gauge conversions in the states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala in a span of 3 years. He has visited Japan, Germany and USA for training and inspection of Railway track equipments. He was deputed to Zambia Railways for 5 years. Besides being a Life Member/Life Fellow of many Indian Technical and other Institutions, he was conferred 'Fellow of National Academy of Engineering' (FNAE) in 2004 in the prestigious Institution of 'Indian National Academy of Engineering'.'Fellow of Institution of Engineers' and 'Fellow of The Indian Institution of Bridge Engineers'.
Contact details : email: sudhirchandra@bmrc.co.in,Phone : 91-80-22969206


D.D.Pahuja, Director (Rolling Stock, Signaling & Electric),Functional Director

He obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh in 1971. After working in B.A.R.C, Mumbai and Asst. installation Engineer in A.I.R, New Delhi for sometime, he joined the Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (1975 batch) and has grown from being a probationary officer to Principal Chief Electrical Engineer, East Coast Railway, Bhubaneswar. During his career, he held various positions, the most prominent one being as Chief Electrical Engineer of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation for more than 8 (eight) years. He was associated with drawing up specifications, preparation of tender documents, invitation and evaluation of bids, selection of contractors, review of detailed designs, manufacture/installation, testing and commissioning of major sub-systems such as Rolling Stock, Electric Traction, Station Air-Conditioning and Tunnel Ventilation, Train Depot construction and equipment installation. He was also responsible for maintenance of rolling stock. Thus he was associated with DMRC Ist Phase project comprising of three lines of 65 Km length from CONCEPT TO COMMISSIONING from Aug-1997 to December 2005. Thereafter as principal Chief Electrical Engineer of East Coast Railway, he was heading a team of three Chief Electrical Engineers and host of other Electrical Engineers responsible for operation and maintenance of 200 Electric Locos, 25 KV AC traction distribution system and Electrics of coaching stock. He has visited a number of Metro Railway and mainline Railway Systems in Asia, Europe and USA during his career sparing 34 years. After taking voluntary retirement from East Coast Railway, he joined as Director (R.S.E), Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd., on 25th June 2007.
Contact details : email: pahuja@bmrc.co.in,Phone : 91-80-22969231


C.Gopinathan (Director Finance),Functional Director

He obtained his M.Sc from the University of Calicut. He joined as Lecturer at St. Thomas College, Trichur Kerala. Later he joined the Indian Audit and Accounts Service (1986) as Asst. Accountant General. He has worked at Kerala, Gujarat, W.Bengal, Manipur, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. He was the Accountant General of Manipur, Kerala and Karnataka and the Principal Director of Commercial Audit at Chennai.

He was trained at Australian National Audit Office, Canberra and at National Audit Office U.K, London. He was the team leader of the external audit of International Maritime Organization, U.K London. He has also visited Singapore, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Morocco for various official works.
Contact details : email: gopinathan@bmrc.co.in,Phone : 91-80-22969219