Ajit Kumar Panda Email & Phone Number

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.