Board of
Directors
Eleven members, chaired by Shri Devendra Kumar, IRTS. Nine seats are nominated by the company's shareholders.
Shri Devendra Kumar, IRTS
Shri Devendra Kumar was born in 1966. He belongs to the Indian Railway Traffic Service (1989 batch) and is presently serving as Additional Member/Traffic, Railway Board.
Prior to joining as Additional Member/Traffic, he served as Principal Chief Operations Manager, Northern Railway, New Delhi from 21 August 2024 to 14 July 2025. Before that, he held the position of Principal Executive Director (Coaching), Railway Board.
- Chairman since
- 18 July 2025
- Service
- IRTS, 1989 batch
- Present office
- Additional Member/Traffic, Railway Board
Composition
Seats on
the Board
Nine of the eleven Board members are nominated by the company's shareholders. The number of seats each shareholder holds broadly follows the size of its stake, so the Board reflects the ownership of the company.
Bar width shows seats held. The Chairman and the Managing Director are not shown, as neither seat is a shareholder nomination. Holdings as on 31 March 2025.
Executive
Managing Director
Shri Debaraj Panda
Shri Debaraj Panda has been serving as the Managing Director of HPRCL since 18 December 2020. As Managing Director he is the company's senior executive officer, and he chairs the CSR Committee of the Board.
- Managing Director since
- 18 December 2020
- Board committee
- Chairman, CSR Committee
Nominee directors
By nominating
shareholder
Grouped by the shareholder that nominated them, longest-serving first.
Rail Vikas Nigam Limited
Shri Saroj Kanta Patra
Director · RVNL CSR Committee Appointed 26 Aug 2019
Shri Anurag
Director · RVNL Appointed 23 Jan 2023
Shri Vikas Chandra
Director · RVNL Appointed 20 Mar 2025Sagarmala Development Company Limited
Shri Ananga Chandra Nayak
Director · SDCL Appointed 12 Apr 2023
Shri LVS Sudhakr Babu
Director · SDCL Appointed 27 Nov 2025Government of Odisha
Shri Saroj Kumar Sethi, IAS
Director · Govt. of Odisha CSR Committee Appointed 4 Dec 2023
Shri Kaustuva Dipta Pani
Director · Govt. of Odisha Appointed 14 Oct 2025Paradip Port Authority
Shri P. L. Haranadh
Director · PPA Appointed 23 Oct 2021Odisha Mining Corporation Limited
Shri Nrusingha Behera
Director · OMC Appointed 10 Oct 2025Board committee
CSR Committee
of the Board
Constituted under Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013. The Committee formulates the CSR policy, approves CSR expenditure, and reviews the policy from time to time.
Shri Debaraj Panda
Managing Director
Shri Saroj Kanta Patra
Director · RVNL
Shri Saroj Kumar Sethi, IAS
Director · Government of Odisha
Shri Devendra Kumar, IRTS
Shri Devendra Kumar was born in the year 1966. He belongs to the Indian Railway Traffic Service (1989 batch) and is presently serving as Additional Member/Traffic, Railway Board.
Prior to joining as Additional Member/Traffic, he served as Principal Chief Operations Manager, Northern Railway, New Delhi from 21 August 2024 to 14 July 2025. Before that, he held the position of Principal Executive Director (Coaching), Railway Board.
He has worked in various capacities earlier, including Divisional Railway Manager, Vadodara, Western Railway; Executive Director (Projects & Governance), Railway Board; and Director (Punctuality), Railway Board. He has also held several posts in the South Central Railway Zone.
Shri Devendra Kumar has also held a key position in IRCTC on deputation.
He has varied experience as a policy maker and administrator in the areas of Railway Operations, Commercial operations, Free Trade Warehousing Zones, Suburban Mass Rapid Transport, Shipping and Ports, Commerce, and Export Promotion.
He is an MBA graduate and has undergone several academic and professional training programmes at institutions such as GFCL, IIPA and NIFM.