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Board of Directors

 

Mr. Vivek Sahai, prior to joining as Chairman Railway Board and ex officio Principal Secretary to Government of India on 31ST May 2010 Shri Vivek Sahai was working as Member Traffic, Railway Board. Born on 5th June, 1951, Shri Vivek Sahai is a Post Graduate in Physics. He joined Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) in 1973. Before joining as Member Traffic/Railway Board, he was the General Manager of Northern Railway and prior to that General Manager, North Central Railway, Allahabad. An Officer of varied experience, Shri Vivek Sahai held various key positions on different Zonal Railways as well as in Railway Board. He has worked as Divisional Railway Manager, Mumbai Division, Central Railway and later on Additional General Manager, Western Railway. In the Railway Board, he held the assignments of Executive Director (Statistics & Economics) and also the post of Additional Member (Traffic). He has rich experience in working on different Departments and his specialization includes Operations, Planning, Information Technology, Safety, besides General Management. He has widely traveled abroad and his country of visit includes United Kingdom, France and United States of America.
Chairman
Mr. V.K. Kaul is a 1971 batch officer of Indian Railway Service of Engineers and has many accomplishments to his credit including successful completion of mega Railway Construction Projects both in India and abroad.  Prior to joining Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation in Sept., 2007, Mr. Kaul served as General Manager of Central Railway and Western Railway at Mumbai. Mr. Kaul was deputed as Railway Advisor to Nigerian Railway Corporation for a period of five years in the year 1980-1985. Mr. Kaul is a Masters in Engineering (Structures) and has also done specialized training in Bradford/London  on Project Implementation and Infrastructure Development.
Managing Director
Mr.R.K.Sinha is an officer of the 1973 batch of Indian Railway Accounts Service.  Mr.Sinha brings valuable experience through his six years deputation as Director Finance of Konkan Railway Corporation Limited during which he managed funds and bond issues from capital markets.  His earlier assignments include a four-year deputation in Iraq  for construction of rail infrastructure during which he was responsible for managing foreign exchange and letters of credit.  Additionally, Mr.Sinha has also taught at the Railway Staff College for a period of four years.  Mr.Sinha is a B.A., L.L.B from Delhi University and has undergone training programmes in Information Technology, Work Study and Bond Markets.
Director Finance
  Mr. B.B. Saran is an 1974 batch officer of the Indian Railway Service of Engineers and brings over 30 years of railway experience. He has been associated with a number of  important  construction projects including  doubling between Ganwa Road and Sonnagar and construction of 3rd line between Sonnagar and Mughalsarai. He  was deputed to Malaysian Railways for laying a double track railway line between Rawang and Seramban. Before joining DFCCIL he worked as Vice Chairman, Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA), an organization created for commercial exploitation of railway land. He has also worked as Divisional Railway Manager  at Ajmer.
Director Project Planning
  Mr.P.N.Shukla, is a 1976 batch officer of Indian Railway Traffic Service. He is a Rail Transport Operations & Logistics specialist. He holds a post graduate degree in Physics and is a Law Graduate from Allahabad University. He also has a degree in Business Management from Perth University, Australia. Mr.Shukla has worked in various capacities in Safety, Commercial and Operations departments of Railways. He has worked as Executive Director (ED)/Traffic Transportation, ED/Tourism & Catering and ED/Freight Marketing in the Railway Board. He was Divisional Railway Manager of the newly set up Railway Division at Guntur and worked as Chief Operations Manager of South Western Railway.
Director Operations &  Business Development
  Mr. ANIL KUMAR DUTTA is an Officer of 1977 batch of IRSEE.  He has a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from RANCHI UNIVERSITY and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Technology & Electronics from INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, BANGALORE.  He is an ELECTRIC TRACTION INSTALLATION SPECIALIST with 18 years’ experience in PROJECT MANAGEMENT of Railway Electrification projects of 25 KV & 2 X 25 KV AC traction system from execution to policy formation.  He has also implemented Transfer of Technology in the field of 3 phase propulsion technology of Electric Rolling Stock (Loco & EMU).  He is also a resource person at Indian Institute of Coal Management, Ranchi in the field of Vigilance Management, Motivation & RTI, with keen interest in Administrative Laws & NURO LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING (NLP).
Director Infrastructure
  Mr. Gajendra Haldea is currently working as Adviser to Deputy Chairman and Principal Adviser (Infrastructure) at Planning Commission. He heads the Secretariat for the Committee on Infrastructure (CoI), constituted under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister with the objectives of initiating policy changes to ensure time-bound creation of world class infrastructure. He has served on the Boards of National Thermal Power Corporation, Indian Railways Finance Corporation, Central Bank of India, Bank of India, and Andrew Yule and Company besides being a member of several committees on infrastructure. Mr.Gajendra Haldea did his Bachelors in Economics and Law from the University of Rajasthan and has a Fellowship from  the London School of Economics.
Part Time Director
Mr. Pradeep Bhatnagar is a 1975 batch of Indian Railway Traffic Service and is currently posted as Advisor(Infrastructure) Railway Board. Mr. Bhatnagar is the nodal officer for Dedicated Freight Corridor project at the Ministry of Railways. His  present role also includes co-ordination for implementation of PPP projects on Indian Railways.  Mr. Bhatnagar is a member of Steering Committees formed as per MOUs between Indian Railways and foreign railways of Germany, France, China, South Africa, Austria, Russia and Italy.  Earlier assignments include Deputy Chief Operations Manager, Divisional Railway Manager,, Chief Freight Traffic Manager and Chief Operations Manager at Zonal Railways. In his earlier stint at Railway Board, he served as Executive Director, Traffic Transportation.
Part time Director