Shri Puneet Chawla is a 1985 batch officer of Indian Railway Services of Signal Engineers (IRSSE), is presently working as the Chairman & Managing Director, RailTel. Prior to this we was shouldering the responsibilities of Executive Director (Safety), Railway Board, Ministry of Railways.

Prior to this, he has worked as Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), Ajmer, where he gave lot of thrust on developing infrastructure in areas of Safety, Capacity Augmentation (Doubling) and Railway Electrification. Large Scale passenger amenities like, Satellite stations, Second Entry at A1 and A class stations, lifts, escalators, Wi-Fi services, cashless services, water vending machines, Baby feeding rooms, Mechanized cleaning of stations round the clock etc. were put in place by him. Eco-friendly measures i.e. installation of Solar panels, LED bulbs for lighting, green walls, mass plantations on Railway land, were also taken up on a war footing. Divisional Hospital Ajmer became first Green Hospital of Indian Railways. Large scale land monetization initiatives were also taken by him.

Shri Chawla has handled many other important positions with Indian Railways i.e General Manager, Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. (RVNL), Chief Project Manager, Indian Railway Project Management Unit (IRPMU) etc. While working as Chief Project Manager, Indian Railway Project Management Unit, he was instrumental in taking the path breaking project of Modernization of Signaling & Telecom (S&T) system on Ghaziabad-Kanpur-Mughal Sarai Section (755Kms) involving installation of Electronic Interlocking (EI), Mobile Train Radio Communication on GSM-R to an advanced stage of completion. Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) for working of trains from a central place and Automatic Signaling on Optical Fiber backbone was implemented for the first time on Indian Railways under his leadership. He has also executed Yard Remodeling and Re-Signaling of Delhi Area’s big stations i.e. New Delhi, Delhi Main, Ghaziabad and Delhi Sarai Rohilla.

Armed with degrees of B.E./Electronic and Electrical Communication from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh (Where he was Gold Medalist) and M.B.A, Shri Chawla has long experience in Project Management and Administrative fields. Shri Chawla has versatile qualities of Team work and Man Power Planning. He has an image of being reliable and soft spoken. Shri Chawla has been awarded at National, Zonal and Divisional levels of the Ministry of Railways, and has attended many training programs in India and abroad.

Presently Sh. Ashutosh Vasant is Director (Project Operation and Maintenance) of RailTel. He is one of the founding members of RailTel and belongs to the 1990 batch of Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE) with lien on Western Railways. He is an Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Graduate from REC Bhopal, MACT now MANIT. After passing out in 1990 with 10 PSU, 3 Private Sector and 1 Indian Navy jobs in hand, he joined Larsen & Toubro after writing his UPSC exam. After his UPSC results, he joined the Indian Railways in 1990 batch. After serving in various capacities in Western Railways with the last being a Branch officer of a Division, 6 years ahead of his batch, with many firsts to his credit like the first pager system on Indian Railways for calling loco pilots on duty , first 181Kms train control on Radio on SBI-BTD section of BVP Division, first division to have integrated paging in Divisional office and all divisional hospitals, first division to have complete mobility in 1997 with radio trunking in all vehicles, first division with 100% solar lit LED signals, 1st Division to have multi-channel control on overhead and MARR, he joined RailTel as a founding member on the invitation of the first MD of RailTel without applying for deputation in advance

He has to his credit the first commercial agreement with Telcos for BW and colocation, first dark fiber agreement with MSOs for use of RailTel network, first multi drop and carry BW agreement with MSOs which is the first amongst Telcos, first model for managed tower infrastructure in Sarni, the unique business of shared pole mounts across Western Region , the managed RTTs in Mumbai suburban, the IRU model of long term leasing of towers, IRU model of bandwidth capacity leasing, procedure order for RailWire, finalization of High Definition Tele Presence as a Service, complete life cycle of Google engagement for station WiFi project, the presentation and approval of Railway Display Network (RDN) as a business with finalization of first draft RFP and is now engaged in the creation and delivery of the industry first model of managed network capacity creation on OPEX model.

He has been with RailTel from its formation and has the valuable experience of handling Marketing with out of box business models and agreements, Projects with creation of OFC networks with the ideology of zero maintenance during life cycle with use of innovative route markers, joint pits, protection material like PPRC, Procurement of equipment ranging from STM16/64, DXC, PTN,DWDM under crushed timelines, as Head of the Region (RGM Northern Region) taking the performance due North, Head of Special Business Unit (as CPM RailWire taking the business from Rs.24 Cr to Rs.97 Crores in less than a year) and now as the Director( POM) instilling a new wave of 100% uptime and perfection in every Project and O&M activity of RailTel.

Shri Sanjeev Jain is an Indian Railway Accounts Services (IRAS) Officer of 1992 Batch and has more than 24 years experience of working in various capacities on the Indian Railways. In addition, he has also worked on deputation to Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) and Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS). He is currently serving in Ministry of Railways as Executive Director (Finance), Railway Board. He has been awarded at National and Zonal level of the Ministry of Railways.

He holds a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi and has also done MBA from FMS, University of Delhi.

Sh. Sanjai Kumar is Director (Network, Planning & Marketing) of RailTel. He is one of the founding members of RailTel. He is an Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Graduate from University of Allahabad and joined Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE) of Indian Railways in 1992. During his stint in various capacities in North Eastern Railway (NER), he worked in the areas of Train Operation, Planning & Construction of Signalling Systems including commissioning of Panel Interlocking at more than 50 stations in Samastipur, Sonpur & Varanasi divisions of the then NE Railway.

He is a full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from prestigious Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurugram in 2001. Shortly after completing his PGDM, he joined RailTel Corporation of India Ltd in 2002 on deputation before taking absorption in 2008.

Being associated with RailTel from its formative years, he has valuable experience of building an organisation from scratch. He has been instrumental in creation of National Knowledge Network while associating with NIC. He has mostly been involved in various marketing activities and handling major government and Telco accounts. He also has rich experience to his credit for the planning and creation of pan-India state-of-the-art telecom network of RailTel including 100G DWDM backbone.

Dr. Madhukar Sinha is an Indian Railway Accounts Service officer of 1987 Batch and has worked in various capacities over the last 30 years in Government of India and other Government institutions, in Railway Board, Eastern Railway, East Central Railway, Northern Railway and West Central Railway of the Indian Railways, New Delhi Municipal Council, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd., Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India and the Planning Commission. He was Registrar of Copyrights for close to 3 years during which time he represented India in various negotiations at the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization. He was also a Professor at the Centre for WTO Studies of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in which capacity he was an advisor to the Department of Commerce of the Government of India on Intellectual Property Rights, Trade in Services and Government Procurement.

He has a Doctorate on ‘Economics of Intellectual Property Rights’. He also has a Post Graduate Degree each in Economics and Management from University of Delhi.

Shri Umesh Balonda is a 1996 batch officer of Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE), presently working as Executive Director, Telecom Development & Executive Director/S&T/Transformation, Railway Board, Ministry of Railways. He is part of the Transformation team of Ministry of Railways and associated with large scale transformation initiatives of IR regarding delegations, process reforms and digitisation and specially working on Medical, S&T, IT and establishment matters.

Shri Balonda has handled many important positions prior to this with Indian Railways i.e. Chief Coommunication Engineer, Northern Railway, Director/Effeciency & Research at Railway Board, Senior Divisional Signal & Telecommunication (Co-ordination) at Kota, Secretary to GM, WCR, Jabalpur, SrDSTE (Works) Jabalpur. While working as Secretary to GM, WCR, Jabalpur, has got rich experience of working in General Management, Coordination among various departments and divisions and dealing with public representatives & Employee Unions.

Shri Balonda has selected three times in Civil Services Exam and got 167 rank in 1997 Civil Services Exam, allotted IAAS but decided to stay in Railways.

Shri Balonda has designed WORKSAFE equipment for pre warning/remote warning about incoming train for the staff working on Track and has rich experience of commissioning of various important technological projects like Route Relay Interlocking (Commissioned Jabalpur, Satna & Maihar), Commissioned the IR’s first biggest digital axle counter system in 2008 at Jabalpur yard and e-office roll out over IR. He worked extensively on predictive maintenance and IoTisation of signalling and telecom systems. Also, worked on automatic train charting and utilization of datalogger for correct reporting of train timings.

Shri Balonda holds a degree of B.E. in Electronics & Communication Engg from Engineering College Kota, Rajasthan. He has a quality to lead a project team and plan, monitor and execute the projects meticulously. He was awarded at National level by Ministry of Railway (MR award) and various GM awards and got appreciation from Chairman, Railway Board.

Dr. Anupam Alok is freelance journalist, columnist and social activist. He has done Ph. D (Journalism) (1991), Master in Journalism (1987) and M. Sc (Physics) (1979) from Banaras Hindu University. He had held the position of the Chairman (State Minister Status) of Uttar Pradesh forest Corporation (including present Uttrakhand). He was also a founder Director of Vishwa Samvad Kendra (Media organisation), Lucknow (UP). Besides this he had also worked as Lecturer and taught journalism in the Department of Journalism, Lucknow University, UP.

Presently he is working as media advisor and consultant to various media organisation and also hold the position as ‘Trustee’ in Ramesh Chandra Vatra Charitable Memorial Trust, New Delhi.

He took charge as part-time non-official (Independent Director) in RailTel Corporation of India limited w.e.f. 01/04/2016.

Shri Ashok Goel, a qualified practicing Chartered Accountant by profession with rich experience in the field of Audit, Finance Management and Corporate Governance. He has worked in various reputed organizations, and he previously also held the position of OSD to MoS Chemical and Fertilizer (C & F) in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizer

He took charge as part-time non-official (Independent Director) in RailTel Corporation of India limited w.e.f. 01/04/2016.

Smt. Rashmi Jain is an Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS) Officer. She has worked in various capacities in offices of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. She has held the charge of Joint Secretary and Financial Advisor in Lok Sabha, Parliament New Delhi and that of Sr. Financial Advisor in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. She also has rich experience of working in the Cabinet Secretariat. Apart from this, she has conducted Financial Audit of World Health Organisation and Indian Embassies abroad. Furthermore, she possesses extensive experience of Finance, Audit & Management.

She took charge as part-time non-official (Independent Director) in RailTel Corporation of India limited w.e.f. 25/07/2018.

Started his practice as a chartered accountant in 1988, Chinnsamy Ganesan was in personal practice till 2005. He then served Lovelock & Lewes (network firm of PwC) for 6 years as Director and BSR & Co. LLP (network firm of KPMG) for 6 years as a partner in the audit practice. He was the lead partner for many Indian and multi-national companies and carried out audits, advisory on international financial reporting, taxation, due diligence and other assurance services.

He is presently the Senior Partner and Head of Audit & Assurance of M/s CNGSN & Associates LLP, Chartered Accountants, Chennai, a firm with 10 partners and around 120 team members.

Ganesan specialises in Financial Reporting (including Ind AS, IFRS and US GAAP), Company law matters, audit and taxation and is a recipient of The Jewel of India Award for his role in financial services and Certificate of Excellence for his contribution in the field of financial services by the International Business Council.

Ganesan specialises in Financial Reporting (including Ind AS, IFRS and US GAAP), Company law matters, audit and taxation and is a recipient of The Jewel of India Award for his role in financial services and Certificate of Excellence for his contribution in the field of financial services by the International Business Council.

Ganesan has presented 850+ papers at various seminars, workshops and conferences both in India and Overseas on these specialised subjects.

He has assisted 58+ companies on Ind AS (IFRS in India) transition.

He has also authored “A Quick Referencer on IFRS with model Q&A”, “The Revised Schedule VI Ready Reckoner”, “Ind AS Quick Referencer” and “Ready Reckoner for financial statements under Schedule III to the Companies Act 2013”.

Ganesan is closely associated with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and is guest faculty for all its 5 regional councils. He is presently a co-opted member of the Accounting Standards Board of ICAI (the apex body for financial reporting standards in India) and Ind AS Transition Facilitation Group. He was a co-opted member of the Ind AS Implementation Committee of ICAI (the committee involved in the implementation of IFRS in India) and the Auditing and Assurance Standard Board of ICAI (the highest standard setting body for the auditing profession).

Ganesan is also associated with many chambers of commerce (like CII, FICCI, Assocham), Universities (like University of Madras, Annamalai University, Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Madurai Kamaraj University, Vivekananda College) and staff training colleges of RBI, C&AG and other banks.

He is presently a co-opted member of the-

i)- Executive Committee of Institute of Directors, Chennai.

ii)- Board of studies of the Department of Commerce of the University of Madras.

iii)- Board of studies of the Department of Commerce of the Thiagarajar College, Madurai.