Management Team

Shri P.L. Haranadh took over the post of Chairman, PPA on dt. 07/10/2021. He is an Indian Railway Traffic Service Officer of 1994 batch. He hails from Andhra Pradesh. He studied MSc & Ph.D from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi. During his 27 years of service, he worked in Indian Railways for 22 years and 5 years in Ministry of Shipping. Under the leadership of Shri Haranadh, PPA expects to reach new heights in terms of Cargo Handling. Soon after his joining while interacting with the media, he emphasized on making PPA the No.1 Major Port in the country during his upcoming tenure. He solicited sincere cooperation from all the stakeholders like employees, Unions, Customers, Port users, Stevedores, Steamer Agent, Unions, Govt .Machinery etc. for realising the Mission No.1. He stressed on prioritising completion of various upcoming projects at PPA, including the much ambitious Western Dock project at the earliest. 
In his illustrious career in the Railways, Shri Haranadh worked as Sr.Divisional Operations Manager, Raipur Division and Chakradharpur Division. Dy. Chief Operations Manager of South Eastern Railway & South Central Railway and Chief Operations Manager (Marketing), East Coast Railway. Before joining PPA, he was working as Chief Freight Transportation Manager of East Coast Railway. He has rich experience in rail transportation, especially in freight operations, business development and traffic planning.
In recognition of many meritorious works, he received National Award for outstanding management in 2002 and in 2005 from Ministry of Railways.
He also worked as Deputy Chairman of Visakhapatnam Port from 2015-2020. He was instrumental in developing innovative marketing solutions like total logistics solutions to customers to attract cargoes like coal, containers etc. During his tenure, he contributed to overall growth of Visakhapatnam Port and the Port scaled up to 3rd position among major Ports.

Shri Nilabhra Dasgupta,IRS, assumed the charge of Deputy Chairman, PPA on dt. 11/05/2023. He is an Indian Revenue Service Officer of 2008 batch. He has a Masters in Linguistics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi and was pursuing a Direct PhD when he cracked the prestigious Civil Services examination in his very first attempt. He also has an LLB degree from Gujarat University and has completed his LLM. After assuming the office as Dy. Chairman, PPA, he said that his priority will be taking PPA to greater heights in the coming years and also to create and maintain a congenial atmosphere in the local Port Community, so that it  fuels further growth and development of the Port.   During his more than 13 years of service, he has handled multiple large and sensitive positions in tax-policy administration and management. He possesses work experience in a diverse portfolio of assignments covering the areas of Administration, Enforcement, Vigilance, Infrastructure, Corporate and International Taxation. He has a deep experience of working in a highly unionized set-up with an ability to work in close coordination with the Unions while ensuring that all the key result areas and organizational objectives are achieved. He has significant experience in project implementation in the infrastructure space and was also awarded certificate of merit for his services in preparing a Litigation Management Software to process litigation data and monitor litigation deadlines. His long tenure in the field of International Taxation, Transfer Pricing and Corporate Assessment has equipped him to work in an ITES enabled environment and strict time-barring schedules.

             In his last assignment as the Additional Director (Investigation), IT Department, Ahmedabad, he has planned and supervised multiple sensitive and large scale enforcement actions which involve effective coordination with numerous other agencies and processing of huge amounts of data which is both secret and time sensitive and requires a skill-set to deal with immediate crisis situations requiring quick planning, extremely low turn-around times and very high-risk outcomes in a high pressure environment. During his tenure in the Investigation Wing he was successful in effecting one of the largest cumulative cash seizures ever in the Gujarat region. He has also handled numerous additional responsibilities such as Nodal officer(Surveillance), Nodal officer (Election Expenditure Monitoring, Gujarat state),Nodal officer (Subsidiary Multi Agency Centre), Nodal officer (REIC & CEIB), Nodal officer (NDPSA-SAFEMA), which has enabled him to handle multiple sensitive portfolios across a wide spectrum of varied responsibilities simultaneously.

Shri D.N. Sondhi has taken over the charge of FA &CAO, Paradip Port Trust on 28^th Oct, 2020.

Shri Sondhi started his carrier in Rajasthan Government as Jr. Accountant on 6^th June, 1988; then he served various organizations at different positions in Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd, THDC India Ltd, Delhi Transco Limited, Delhi Power Company Ltd and Deendayal Port Trust. He also worked as nominee Director in Kutch Rail Company Ltd.

He is a fellow Member of Institute of Cost Accountants of India, also Masters in Commerce from Rajasthan University and Bachelor of Law from CCS University, Meerut. He has vast experience of more than 32 years in Govt, Power Sector and Shipping sector, in core area of finance, taxation, accounts and audit, regulatory issues and contract management etc.

Capt. A.C. Sahoo has joined PPT as Pilot on 05.10.2005 and promoted to the post of Harbour Master on 10.07.2018. Confirmed as Deputy Conservator, Paradip Port Trust on 26.10.2021.

       He graduated from Utkal University in Physics in the year 1991. Joined Shipping Corporation of India in 1993 as Trainee Nautical Watch Keeping Officer. Cleared his Masters Foreign Going Vessels in 2002. He continued sailing in Indian and Foreign Flag Ships till 2005 before joining Paradip Port Trust as Marine Pilot.

Sri Saroj Kumar Das joined as Chief Mechanical Engineer, Paradip Port Trust on 28^th January, 2019.  Prior to that he has experience of Chief Mechanical Engineer, Cochin Port Trust from January, 2015 to July, 2017 and as Chief Mechanical Engineer, Deendayal Port Trust from July, 2017 to January, 2019. After graduated from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), formerly known as UGC, Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha, he started his career from Paradip Port Trust as Asst.Engineer (Mech.) on 12.08.1989 and subsequently promoted to the post of Executive Engineer  and Supdt.Engineer. He joined as Dy.Chief Mechanical Engineer in Deendayal Port Trust  in June, 2010.

He has attended International Seminar on Port Logistics organized by APEC - Antwerp / Flanders at Antwerp, Belgium on 25.02.2013..

He has acquired Certificate in Project Management (CIPM) conducted by International Institute of Projects & Program Management issued on December 26, 2018 at Noida.