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. Her professional interests are diverse, including pooled financing for funding infrastructural services, financial strengthening of ULBs and equitable, sustainable, and resilient urban development. Some of the noteworthy projects that she has worked on include the Site Management Plan of the Mahabodhi Temple Complex World Heritage Site, Tourist Circuit Plan for Buddhist sites and Cadastral and GIS-based Development Plans for small and medium-sized towns of Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.

Dr Anand Prakash Tiwari’s doctoral work is on infrastructure reforms focusing on Water Institutions. His major research interest areas are Public Policy, Water Resources and Management, Infrastructure and Institutional Economics. He has handled various portfolios pertaining to Urban Environmental Infrastructure at various positions with distinction and is presently handling research and training as a Senior Fellow at the Human Settlement Management Institute. He has widely presented and published his research work both in India and abroad.

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. She has worked as a Project Associate in the Urban Planning Department of SPA-Delhi, RITES on the New satellite township Project- Ranka, Gangtok, and the Feasibility report of Rehabilitation Schemes for the MRTS project.

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 has also worked on several projects in the field of office design, institutional and housing schemes, Tourist Development projects and preparation of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) for BSUP/IHSDP projects. She coordinates and conducts the training programmes for HUDCO, ULBs and overseas professionals.

Shashank Kumar Verma is a civil engineer with experience in diverse backgrounds spanning entrepreneurship, digital marketing management, sales, and business development. He has worked as Head of Sales and Business Development at Giglue Music Pvt. Ltd., a pioneering company in the industry. He assists in the development and coordination of training programmes.

Ms. Tuhina Rana is a Human Resource Management and Administration Trainee Officer with specialisation in Human Resources. She has worked as an Assistant Manager (Human Resources and Administration) at West Bengal State Electricity Transmission Company Limited for one year. During her tenure at WBSETCL, she was responsible for managing the day-to-day administrative operations. At HSMI, she is involved in the processing of the HUDCO Chair, along with the coordination of training programmes.