Anil Kumar Gupta
Chief Executive Officer
Shri Anil Kumar Gupta is a retired 1987-batch officer of the Indian Railways Service of Engineers (IRSE). His appointment at Pawandeep Nirman is scheduled for 10 December 2026. He served as Project Director at DMRC for two and a half years in Mumbai, heading its construction organisation for MMRDA metro works on Lines 6, 2B, 7A and 9 on a deposit-term basis. Earlier, he superannuated as Managing Director of Indian Port Rail & Ropeway Corporation Ltd. on 31 March 2024, after six years in management roles including Director Works. During this period, annual revenue increased from Rs. 63.83 crore in 2016–17 to Rs. 830.67 crore in 2023–24. From 3 March 2015 to 25 January 2018, he was Chief General Manager (Public Private Partnership) at IRCON International Ltd., handling PPP projects, railway doubling and new lines, railway station projects, and the Agartala–Akhaura new railway line between India and Bangladesh. He was a part-time director on the boards of seven IRCON joint ventures, including IRSDC, and was involved in awarding the first PPP concession for redevelopment of Rani Kamlapati (earlier Habibganj) railway station. He also chaired the unincorporated IRCON–AFCONS joint venture implementing the second Bhairab Bridge in Bangladesh and served on the joint venture board of IRCON–Mitsui–TATA Projects for DFCCIL contract packages on the Western Corridor. Before IRCON, he spent 26 years with Indian Railways, beginning as Assistant Engineer at Mughalsarai and subsequently serving as Divisional and Senior Divisional Engineer in the Mughalsarai and Dhanbad divisions of Eastern Railways, as well as at RDSO, Lucknow. From 2008 to 2014, he was General Manager, Railway Infrastructure, at the Rail Land Development Authority under the Ministry of Railways, working on commercial development of railway land, multifunctional complexes and station redevelopment, including the creation of IRSDC. He was the first Director in the Ministry of Railways’ PPP Cell from 2006 to 2008. He worked on Delhi Metro’s first phase from 1998 to 2003, initially as Station Layout Expert and later as Resident Engineer for the MC1A contract package through RITES/GC. He has authored 16 papers in journals, books and conference publications, including nine on PPP, contracts and general management, with work appearing in IIMB Management Review and Routledge & Taylor & Francis, London. He has delivered lectures at IIM Bangalore, MDI Gurugram, NIFM Faridabad, PMI NTPC Noida, ICISA Noida, IRICEN Pune, GSV Vadodara and IIT Delhi on PPP, EPC contract design and management, smart urban mobility, project finance and project management.
