An officer of Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS 1983 batch) and with 40 years of administrative and techno-managerial experience, Mr. NVS Reddy pioneered systemic improvements in various Government organizations and successfully led several major challenging infrastructure projects. He won many prestigious awards for the outstanding contribution he made in his various assignments.
Presently as the managing Director of Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited, he is heading the mega Hyderabad Metro Rail project (69 km). Successful implementation of this project with an investment of about Rs. 22,000 crore (US $3 billion) under public private partnership (PPP) with innovative financial engineering is his bold initiative in mass transit system and infrastructure development. It is the world’s largest Metro Rail project in PPP mode. Apart from inducing engineering excellence and innovation in the project, he converted it from a pure transportation project into a broader urban rejuvenation project to facilitate transformation of an Indian city into a people friendly green city. The project has already bagged over 325 national and global awards so far. As MD of another Government Company, Hyderabad Airport Metro Limited, he is also helming implementation of another major infrastructure initiative – the Hyderabad Airport (31 km) as a fully owned Telangana Government project at a cost of Rs.6,250 crore (US $762 million).
He is known for his financial acumen, engineering innovation, leadership qualities and open minded approach. He has vast experience in Rail and Urban Transportation; Urban Rejuvenation; Project Structuring and Management; and PPPs. He has varied interests and lectures on a variety of topics in prestigious engineering and management institutes/for in India and abroad.
