Shri S.K.G. Rahate

Chairperson

Shri S.K.G. Rahate took over as Chairperson, Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India on 14th May, 2024. Shri Rahate is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1990 batch from the Jharkhand cadre. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from the Pune University.

Shri Rahate has a distinguished career in the public service for more than three decades with wide ranging and diverse experience in public administration starting from District to State Secretariat and then to different Ministries/ Departments of Government of India (GoI). He worked as District Magistrate and Collector, Nawada, Bihar and Deputy Commissioner and Collector, West Singhbhum, Chaibasa, Jharkhand. Also, in the cadre he held the position of Principal Secretary, Energy; Principal Secretary, Labour & Employment and Home Secretary, Jharkhand. In Government of India, he worked as Director, MHA; Director, Rural Development; Joint Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture; Financial Commissioner, ESIC, Ministry of Labour & Employment; Additional Secretary, Ministry of Power and finally Secretary, Department of Justice, Ministry of Law & Justice before superannuating from the Government Service on 30th April, 2024.

Shri Rahate has worked at the level of programme implementation and development/ welfare administration at the Sub District/ District level as well as at the level of scheme conceptualization, formulation and monitoring at the State Government/ Government of India level and, thereafter, worked at the policy formulation level in the Ministries of Agriculture/ Power/ Justice, Government of India. He has good experience of infrastructure departments as well as corporate functioning of various PSUs like DVC, Power Grid, NHPC, REC, PFC, National Seeds Corporation, Coconut Development Board where he was a member of the Board of Director. As far as regulatory issues are concerned, he has closely seen the functioning of SERC, CERC and APTEL for various regulatory related issues and appeals of DISCOMs/ GENCOs/ TRANSCOs/ SERCs.

Smt. V. Vidya

Member

Smt. V. Vidya took over as Member, Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India on 10th May, 2024 (FN).

Ms. V. Vidya holds a Postgraduate Degree in Commerce from Bangalore University and is a Cost Accountant from the Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India.

Ms. V. Vidya has a rich experience of 34 years in Airports Authority of India, handling the entire gamut of finance and accounts functions across many Airports / Regional Headquarters / Corporate Headquarters of Airports Authority of India.

Prior to joining AERA, she held the post of Executive Director (Finance) at the Corporate Headquarters of Airports Authority of India and was in charge of the Joint Venture Cell and Tariff Regulatory Cell of AAI. She was AAI’s representative on the Boards of DIAL, MIAL, DIACL and AAICLAS.

Ms. V. Vidya has completed Airport Management Professional Accreditation Programme (AMPAP), conferred with IAP (International Airport Professional) by Airport Council International (ACI) in association with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). She has been a part of various Working Groups of the ICAO and has also submitted a Working Paper at the 39 th Session of ICAO Assembly, on the non-economic viability of the airports and cross - subsidizaion. She is also a Committee Member of the ACI-Asia Pacific Economics Committee.

Smt. Reema Prakash

Member

Ms. Reema Prakash assumed charge as Member, Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA) on 1 July 2026. She is an IA&AS officer of the 1992 batch with nearly three decades of rich and diverse experience in public sector auditing, financial administration, and international audit.Ms.Prakash holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics. She is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), reflecting her professional expertise in information systems and IS audit.

Prior to joining AERA, she served as Deputy Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG), Central Region. During her career, she has acquired extensive experience in the audit of Scientific Departments, Commercial Departments, and the Posts and Telecommunications sector, in addition to undertaking specialised work in information systems audit.

She has also held several important positions in the Government of India, including Joint Secretary in the Department of Food Processing Industries and Director in the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.

Ms.Prakash has extensive international audit and professional experience.She served as Resident Auditor in the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), United Nations for five years since 2010.With her extensive experience in public sector auditing, financial and compliance audit, information systems audit, government administration, and international organisations, Ms. Reema Prakash brings a broad and valuable professional perspective to her role as Member, AERA.