Sh. P. D. Sudhakar, Chairman

Shri P. D. Sudhakar joined the Commission as Chairman on 04.04.2011. He is a Gold Medalist from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur securing First Position in M.Sc.(Physics). He joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai for one year as a visiting Member, after completing M.Sc. (Physics). Later, he joined Indian Administrative Service in 1976. He has been awarded Diploma in Public Administration by Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi and M.Phil in Social Sciences by Punjab University, Chandigarh in 2007.

          Over a service span of more than 34 years he has held many important assignments in the Government of India as well as in the State of Uttar Pradesh. He has considerable field experience at the cutting edge level in the State including 4 ½ years as District Magistrate, Sitapur (1983-85) and Nainital (1988-91) and 4 ½ years as Divisional Commissioner, Nainital (1993-95) and Jhansi (1995-98). He has worked as Special Secretary in the Department of Power and later in the Departments of Planning and Finance in the State Government of UP and has actively participated in the Policy planning and implementation regarding Power sector. He participated in the Board Meetings of erstwhile UPSEB for 3 years as a nominee of State Govt. of UP.

As MD of UP State Industrial Development Corporation (2003-04) he handled creation and management of Industrial infrastructure in UP. Power Sector being an important part of infrastructure, a captive power plant by UPSIDC was completed during his tenure. In the Government of India he worked as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture (1998-2003) and Ministry of Panchayati Raj (2005-07). He has been Member Secretary, National Capital Region (Planning Board) in the Ministry of Urban Development (2007-08) which is working for creation of Urban Infrastructure facilities around Delhi to de-congest the population pressure on Delhi.  Various infrastructure projects in the field of roads, water supply, power and other infrastructural facilities in Rajasthan, Haryana, UP and Delhi in the NCR area have been successfully financed and completed during his tenure as Member Secretary NCR, Planning Board.         

He has handled matters relating to International Cooperation in the Ministry of Agriculture, Panchayati Raj and Corporate Affairs and has participated in various international programmes. He has worked for a year (2004-05) as Senior Advisor in the UNWFP Country office, New Delhi. 

          He is keenly interested in organizational reforms and Institution Building. He has contributed significantly in the path breaking initiatives of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs as Special Secretary like establishment of Competition Commission of India and Competition Appellate Tribunal, established by Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, operationalisation of Limited Liability Partnership Act -2008, MCA-21, e-Governance project etc.

Involvement in varied policy imperatives has thus given him a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the financial, administrative and operational aspects of different sectors including Power sector.  

Sh. Shyam Wadhera, Member

Shri Shyam Wadhera joined the Delhi  Electricity Regulatory Commission on 18 Nov 2008. He is an Electrical Engineer from IIT Kanpur and has over 36 years experience in the power industry, both in the private and public sectors.           

Shri Wadhera was Director (Projects), Power Finance Corporation for a 5 year term from Aug 2003 to July 2008 where he was responsible for business development as well as appraisal and sanction of generation, transmission and distribution projects of the state and private sector utilities. As part of PFC’s Mission to establish world class systems, he guided  PFC in obtaining ISO 9001:2000 certification for its project appraisal system.

Shri Wadhera was actively involved in discharging PFC’s role as Nodal Agency for the establishment of Ultra Mega Power Projects at a number of pit head and coastal locations in India.  He was for some time Chairman of the subsidiary companies established for development of the Sasan and Mundra Ultra Mega Power Projects till their transfer to the selected developers.

He was Executive Director (Corporate Planning) and Head, Strategic Management Group in NTPC from Aug 2008 to Nov 2008. Prior to taking over as Director (Projects), PFC in Aug 2003, Shri Wadhera spent over 26 years in NTPC, where as Executive Director (Commercial) he was responsible for commercial and tariff policy, regulatory interface, power purchase agreements and recovery of dues from state power utilities.  He was also on the Board of Power Trading Corporation as NTPC’s nominee and on the Boards of NTPC’s power trading and distribution subsidiaries.

He has been on a number of important Committees and has wide exposure to international utility practice. He has also been a Member of various delegations to a number of international forums.

Sh. J.P. Singh, Member

Shri J.P.Singh is a Gold Medalist and Graduate Mechanical & Electrical Engineer from the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Jamalpur.  He also holds a Masters Degree in Economics from Punjab University.  He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1977 and has held various important positions in the States of Delhi, Goa and Arunachal Pradesh as well as in Govt. of India.

            As Collector of Goa from 1982 to 1985, he helped in setting up advanced infrastructure facilities for the heads of Commonwealth Governments meeting in 1983.  He was Development Commissioner of the Union Territories of Daman and Diu at a time (1995-97) when heavy industrialization took place.  He has also served in various capacities in the Government of Arunachal Pradesh and Delhi.

            Shri J.P.Singh has considerable experience in formulation and implementation of various development projects .  He was the Project Director for the new Capital Township, Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh and subsequently for the Dwarka township of Delhi Development Authority in Delhi as well as Housing Commissioner in Delhi Development Authority from 1987-90.  As Industries Commissioner and CMD of Delhi State Industrial Development Corporation, during 1997-2001 he was actively associated with the design and implementation of the relocation projects for shifting 16,000 industries to approx. 4,000 acres of land on the periphery of Delhi.

            Shri J.P.Singh has also worked in the Government of India.  He was Deputy Secretary/Director in the Ministry of Steel from 1990 to 1995 when he was in charge of licensing at a time when the liberalization process had just started.  He was also in charge of policy formulation in respect of the raw materials sector.  He worked as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Steel from September 2002 to February  2006 and was looking after the Steel Development Wing where issues relating to international trade, safeguards and other WTO matters are being examined and policies formulated .  Shri J.P.Singh was also responsible for formulating the industrial policy for Delhi in 1998 and the new Steel Policy in the Ministry of Steel.  He has been a Government Director on the Boards of Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL), Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP), Indian Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (ILSCO), Metal Scrap Trading Corporation Ltd. (MSTC), Ferro Scrap Nigam Ltd. (FSNL) and Sponge Iron India Ltd. (SIIL).

            Shri J.P.Singh returned to Govt. of Goa as Chief Secretary in January, 2006 and worked there for over 3 years till February,2009.  He has taken major initiatives to develop infrastructure and promote e-governance in administration.  In particular, he spearheaded the Goa Broad Band Project in PPP mode which is meant to ensure that fibre-optic cable reaches all the villages and towns of Goa in a time bound manner and citizens have access to bandwidth between 2-10 MHz. He helped to develop adequate infrastructure to establish Goa as the permanent venue of the International Film Festival in India.

            Shri J.P.Singh returned to Delhi in February 2009 and was Principal Secretary (Health & Family Welfare) in the State of Delhi from March 2009 to June 2010.  He has developed many innovative PPP projects in the area of super-specialty care, provision of Radio-Diagnostics and Dialysis Care as well as Medi Call Centre in Delhi.  He was the Chief Executive of a Trust set up by the Govt. to provide Comprehensive Health Insurance to the relatively poor & deprived citizens in Delhi.  He has also taken up projects to improve accessibility and quality of health care in Delhi including NABH accreditation for 8 large hospitals.

He held additional charge of the post of Pr.Secretary (Finance), GNCTD since 11^th November 2009 and regular charge from 1^st July 2010. He took initiatives to strengthen the procedure for issue of expenditure sanctions and also hired a Consultant to study and advise on implementation of an integrated financial management system for the Govt. of NCT of Delhi. Shri J.P. Singh joined the DERC as Member on 14.02.2011.