The DMF Trust is headed by the District Collector who acts as the Chairperson-Cum-Managing Trustee of the Trust and Project Director (PD), District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) acts as the Member & Chief Executive Officer of the Trust.

Board of Trustees

Board Member

The Planning Co-ordination Department, Odisha has constituted the Board of Trustees of District Mineral Foundation for the District of Jharsuguda vide Notification No. 7666 dt. 12/06/2017. The Board of Trustees for the District Mineral Foundation Trust, Jharsuguda are presented in the table below.

Sl. No.Name / Position in districtDesignation in Board of Trustee
1Collector, JharsugudaChairman-cum-Managing Trustee
2Project Director, DRDA, JharsugudaChief Executive Officer and Ex-officio, Member
3Additional District Magistrate, JharsugudaEx-officio, Member
4Deputy Director, Mines, SambalpurEx-officio, Member
5Divisional Forest Officer, JharsugudaEx-officio, Member
6Executive Engineer, Rural Works, Jharsuguda DivisionEx-officio, Member
7Executive Engineer, RWS&S, Jharsuguda DivisionEx-officio, Member
8Executive Engineer, R&B, Jharsuguda DivisionEx-officio, Member
9District Welfare Officer, JharsugudaEx-officio, Member
10CDM&PHO, JharsugudaEx-officio, Member
11Shri Suresh Pujari, Hon’ble MP, (Lok Sabha), BargarhEx-officio, Member
12Shri Naba Kishore Das, Hon’ble MLA, JharsugudaEx-officio, Member
13Shri Kishore Kumar Mohanty, Hon’ble MLA, BrajarajnagarEx-officio, Member
14Deputy Director, DPMU, JharsugudaEx-officio, Member
15Shri Samal Naik, Member of Zilla Parisad, LakhanpurEx-officio, Member
16Smt. Shanti Pradhan, Chairperson, Panchayat Samiti, LakhanpurMember
17Shri Rajendra Naik, Sarpanch, Bandbahal G.P, LakhanpurMember
18Smt. Sobhagini Bhoi, Member of Panchayat Samiti, Chandinmal G.P, JharsugudaMember

The Chairperson may invite such other officials to the meetings of the Board, as he may consider necessary. The Board shall meet at least twice in a financial year. The quorum for the Board shall be fifty percent of the members

Managing Committee

In pursuance to Rule-6 of the Odisha DMF rules, 2015 the Collector & Chairman-cum-Managing Trustee of the DMF Trust, do here by constitute the Executive Committee of the Trust with the following members: –

Sl. No.Name / Position in districtDesignation in Board
1Collector, JharsugudaChairperson
2PD, DRDA-cum-CEO, DMF, JharsugudaMember-cum- Secretary
3Divisional Forest Officer, JharsugudaMember
4Executive Engineer, RWS&S, Jharsuguda DivisionMember
5Executive Engineer, Rural Works, Jharsuguda DivisionMember
6Deputy Director, Mines, SambalpurMember
7Asst. Director, Horticulture, JharsugudaMember

M/s PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt, Ltd, who is a multinational management consulting firm in India as well as Globally has been selected by DMF Trust to establish and manage a dedicated Project Management Unit (PMU) for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the DMF. The resources of this PMU have been deployed since 30th November 2017.

Meetings of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee

No of MeetingBoard MeetingExecutive Committee Meetings
121-04-201619-07-2016
222-08-201619-08-2016
307-03-201729-09-2016
423-11-201704-11-2016
509-04-201819-12-2016
623-12-201929-03-2017
723-05-202029-05-2017
825-08-202126-10-2017
9 21-03-2018
10 06-01-2018
11 27-07-2018
12 05-10-2018
13 18-01-2019
14 25-09-2019
15 19-03-2021