Sheetal R Duraiswami holds a masters degree in Finance. She has 18 years working experience in reputed private firms viz M/s Kinetic Lease & Finance Ltd., M/s Kirloskar Oil Engines, M/s DEUTZ Engineers (I) Pvt Ltd prior to joining CIRT. In these firms, she has extensively worked on custom clearance, bill of entries, pricing, letter of credit, sales tax, income tax, central excise, inventory management, salary, professional tax etc.

At CIRT, she is handling the Accounts Section independently and is having in-depth knowledge and workings of CIRT’s budget preparation, Finalisation of Accounts, Investment Plans, day to day accounting activities, statutory financial audit, service tax audit, costing for technical testing etc.

As a Coordinator (Dues & Payments) for training section, Mrs Duraiswami was also responsible for recovery of outstanding dues and during her tenure, maximum outstanding dues were recovered. She is active member in allied committees like Financial Advisory Committee, CIRT’s tender committees, scrap sale committee, civil infrastructure project (ie., IDTR) evaluation committee for bill of quantities for etc.

Apart from above activities, she has played crucial role in STU consultancy projects - preparation of detailed project report for procurement of bus under JnNURM scheme and given technical advice on formation and workings of accounts & finance department in STUs. She has also conducted various national level training programmes in the areas like Finance for Non Finance Executives. She has attended several seminars, workshops, conferences etc. and also participated in number of technical discussion.