Core Faculty & Centres

Prior to the current role in HUDCO, Shri Tekkam Sridhar was in Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) Limited; he joined as a Trainee Officer and was associated with REC from 1997 to 2024 in various capacities/assignments, including Senior General Manager (HR) / Regional Business Head.

For about 2 years, he was in Pawan Hans, CPSE under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India, as Executive Director (HR & Admin.) on lien with REC. He has more than 31 years of experience in all facets of Human Resource Management, Learning & Development, Administration, along with CSR and other allied functions, including heading a business unit of REC at Bhubaneswar.

He was also engaged as Faculty/Sr General Manager in RECIPMT (Training Institute of REC Limited at Hyderabad). Before REC, he served for about 2 years each in National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Maharatna CPSE, and Educational Consultants India Limited (EdCIL), CPSE under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, in the Human Resource functions.

Smt. Varsha Punhani is an architect-planner with over 35 years of experience in housing and infrastructure finance, architectural and planning consultancy services, research, and capacity building.

She has been the course coordinator for several MEA-sponsored Training Programmes for overseas professionals, the Department of Personnel & Training sponsored In-service training programme for Indian Administrative Service officers and the CITYNET Training Programme for middle and senior-level ULB officials.

With extensive field experience garnered from significant roles in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, in addition to her tenure in the Corporate Office, New Delhi, Smt. Punhani brings vast field experience and an understanding of grassroots realities and challenges in the implementation of housing and urban development projects.

Shri Anoop Seth is an architect-planner with over 30 years of experience. He has experience in the field of Project appraisal and monitoring, training, as well as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities.

In the past, he has worked at Guwahati Regional Office, Dehradun Regional Office, the Operations Wing and CSR Wing of the HUDCO Corporate Office.

As a Civil Engineer with more than 29 years of work experience in housing and urban development project formulation, financing, appraisal, monitoring, and default resolution, he has worked in HUDCO Regional Offices at Patna, Chennai, and Kolkata.

Some of the prestigious projects he has managed include the 2 X 250 MW Barauni Thermal Power Plant Scheme at Barauni, Bihar, and JP Ganga Setu, Patna (popularly known as Marine Drive) in Patna, Bihar.

Shri Atul Kumar Shrivastav is an urban economist with more than 31 years of experience in the field of housing and urban development.

He previously worked in the Economic Policy Analysis Cell of HUDCO before joining HSMI as Joint General Manager (Economics) and Fellow. His current work profile at HSMI includes coordinating training and capacity-building activities for key stakeholders in the urban sector.

Smt. Neetu B Malhotra is an architect with specialisation in Urban Planning, having work experience of over 23 years.

In HUDCO, she has worked in the Design and Development Wing and has been actively involved in the planning and design of a variety of projects. She coordinates and conducts training programmes for HUDCO, ULBs and overseas professionals.