CEO

Mr. Rakesh R. Sahay is currently posted at Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport, Chandigarh as Chief Executive Officer. In his present position, his responsibilities are planning and implementing and monitoring steps to improve Customer Satisfaction Index, the 33 ACI defined parameters. He is also responsible for nor-traffic revenue at Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport, Chandigarh; increasing the NTR and dues recovery are his prime responsibilities. Other responsibilities include coordinating with local government for issues affecting the airport primarily land related and issues related to the police. His responsibilities also include ensuring legal compliance of all government regulations. As administrative and operational head of Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport, Chandigarh, he is responsible for ensuring day-to-day delivery of top class services to all passengers at the airport. As Chief Executive Officer, he is also responsible for numerically assessing the performance of Head of Departments KPA, midyear assessment and final review. In his current position he enjoys working on a plan to remove bottlenecks to enable the airport to provide much improved services to customers. He was previously posted as Airport Director, Raipur Airport, Chhattisgarh and Airport Director, Bagdogra-Darjeeling Airport, West Bengal.

His prior experience is as Air Traffic Controller for 20 years. He also worked as ATC on the Job Training Instructor (OJTI) working to train new radar controllers to work independently. He has rich experience is ATC System automation having received training on the system from vendors M/S INDRA of Spain, having worked on the INDRA system, having trained controllers from all across India to work on the INDRA system and as member of the core team responsible for activating the INDRA system at Ahmedabad Area Control Centre.