GAIL (India) Limited announced Shri Praveen Mal Khanooja, Additional Secretary, MoP&NG and Shri Kushagra Mittal, Deputy Secretary, MoP&NG are nominated as Government Nominee Directors on the Board of Directors of the company with effect from May 16, 2023 for a period of three years on co-terminus basis or until further orders, whichever is earlier. Shri Praveen Mal Khanooja is a B. Tech in Chemical Engineering and M. Tech in Management & Systems. He belongs to 1994 batch of Indian Audit & Accounts Service (IA&AS) and has worked in various capacities in Defence Audit, Railways Audit, State Government Accounts & Audit at many field and Headquarters' postings. He has also earlier served as Director (Finance) for the Department of Revenue and Central Board of Excise & Customs Expert in the State Audit Institution, Sultanate of Oman and Additional DG in the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau.

He is currently working as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. Prior to this assignment, he was Director General, Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell (PPAC), an attached office of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas since November 2019. Shri Kushagra Mittal is a B.Tech .

in Mechanical Engineering from MNNIT, Allahabad. He has subsequently pursued Master's in Public Policy from IIM, Bangalore where he was awarded Director's Gold Medal for best overall performance. Shri Kushagra Mittal is working as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas.

He is an IRTS Officer from Civil Services batch of 2010. He looks after the matters relating to Marketing division of the ministry and oversees Pricing Policy & LPG verticals. He has worked as Assistant Operations Manager, Divisional Operations Manager, Area Railway Manager and Senior Divisional Commercial Manager at various divisions of Western Railway where he oversaw train operations and business development in addition to general administration.

Prior to joining Civil Services, he has worked with BHEL, a Maharatna CPSE. He has keen interest in Business Processes and Financial Management and is a Behavior Economics enthusiast.