Dr. M. Beena IAS assumed the charge as Chairperson, National Handloom Development Corporation Limited on 11.10.2023.

A native of Trivandrum, Dr. Beena is a medical doctor by qualification and got into Indian Administrative Services from Kerala Cadre in the year 1999. She has served in various capacities in the State including Assistant Collector, Sub Collector, Director of various Departments. She has also served as District Collector of Thrissur and Ernakulam.

She has served as Chairperson, Cochin Port trust prior to joining NHDC. She has work as Managing Director, KSIDC and CEO, Smart City Trivandrum. She was also the Managing Director to the Roads & Bridges Development Corporation, Vyttila Mobility Hub, Kerala Books & Publications Ltd and SUPPLYCO.

During her service period of 24 years, she had multifaceted experience in various sectors like port management, Infrastructure development, Transportation, Industrial Development, Airport cargo handling, financial services etc.

Under leadership of Dr M Beena IAS, KSIDC achieved highest recorded profit in the year 2015-16. During the five years’ tenure of Dr. Beena as Chairperson of Cochin Port, Cochin Port has achieved highest turnover of Rs.763.56 Cr.

Commodore Rajiv Ashok (Retd) is a second-generation military officer who retired from the Indian Navy after 31 years of distinguished service. During his naval career, he qualified as a Combat Diver and Skydiving Instructor (with two LIMCA Book records), and held numerous command, operational, staff, and training assignments. His primary command assignments at sea included commanding INS Chamak, INS Taragiri, INS Ranvijay, and INS Ranvir. Ashore, he served as the Naval Officer-in-Charge (Gujarat), commanded INS Sardar Patel, and led both the Command Diving Team in Visakhapatnam and the Fleet Clearance Diving Team of the Eastern Fleet.

He transitioned from active military service in July 2022 as Managing Director of a CPSE, North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation (NERAMAC), at Guwahati, Assam. At NERAMAC, the Corporation from FY 2022-23, recorded profits for the first time in a decade. His most significant contribution was to explore new avenues of business and create multiple venues to reach the agriculture community while developing new streams of revenue for the Corporation. Some significant activities include, revival of two sick processing units and establishment of two new ones, work in both GI certification (30+ new products taken up) and Authorised User enrolment (close to 4000 for 13 GI produce), over 14,000 candidates were imparted skill training in Agri, Food Processing and Rubber sectors, NERAMAC became the distributor for Bharat Dal, Atta, and other agri-produce, for NCCF, considerable confidence building activities were undertaken with the eight NER state governments to brand NERAMAC appropriately and undertake projects of different scales.

He took over as Managing Director of National Handloom Development Corporation on 11 February 2025.

Shri Dhirendra Kumar has joined as Government Director on the Board of NHDC w.e.f. 16th June, 2023.

Presently working as Director (IFW) in Ministry of Textiles since March 2023.

He is holding degree of BSc., M.A History & M.B.A in Finance. He has joined service of Government of India in 1991.He has been associated in Ministry of Environment and Forest, Ministry of Finance and Food and Public Distribution.

He has successfully handled various assignments such as- International Cooperation and UNDP etc.