Shri M.S.Rao has taken over charge as Director (Operations & Technical) in Dredging Corporation of India Ltd., A Government of India Undertaking, Ministry of Shipping, with its Head Office at Visakhapatnam, with effect from 01.06.2015 in place of Shri P.Jayapal who has superannuated.

Shri M.S.Rao joined in DCI in the year 2006 as Deputy General Manager (Operations) and worked at different levels and presently working as General Manager and now appointed as Director (Operations & Technical). In DCI, he worked in various capacities as Head of Operations Department, Head of Marketing Department, Project Engineering Department, Human Resources Department. He was responsible for bidding for new dredging projects, execution of dredging projects/ contracts, capital dredging, maintenance dredging, land reclamation, chartering of dredgers, dredging sub-contracts, logistic support required for execution of the dredging projects.

Shri M.S.Rao is having vast experience of about 25 years in the field of Dredging (Operations, Marketing, Contracts, Project Engineering, etc.) and in other major Civil Engineering projects.

Shri M S Rao has obtained B.Tech (Civil Engineering) from the Regional Engineering College, Warangal (Now NIT, Warangal), in the year 1990 and MBA degree from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.

Prior to DCI, Shri MS Rao has worked as Assistant General Manager with SIDBI and NABARD as Banks Engineer at Mumbai and Lucknow.