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Chief executive of the Indian Railways From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chairperson and CEO of the Indian Railway Board is the administrative head of the Indian Railways, which functions under the overall control of the Parliament of India through the Minister for railways. The chairperson also serves as ex-officio Principal Secretary to the Government of India for the Ministry of Railways.
Chairperson of Railway Board | |
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Ministry of Railways | |
Type | Department |
First holder | Fateh Chand Badhwar |
The Indian Railway Board was constituted in 1922, with a Chief Commissioner of Railways as its head, who was solely responsible to the Government for decisions on technical matters and for advising the Government on matters of policy.
In April, 1951 the post of chief commissioner was abolished and the seniormost functional member was appointed the chairman of the board.[2]
S. No. | Name | From | To | Duration (months) |
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1 | Sir Clement Hindley | 01.11.1922 | 11.10.1928 | 63 |
2 | Sir Austen Hadow | 12.10.1928 | 15.10.1929 | 12 |
3 | Sir Guthrie Russell | 16.10.1929 | 16.07.1940 | 128 |
4 | Sir Leonard Wildson | 17.07.1940 | 17.08.1944 | 49 |
5 | Sir Arthur Griffin | 12.09.1944 | 19.05.1946 | 20 |
6 | Col RB Emerson | 20.05.1946 | 10.09.1947 | 16 |
7 | KC Bakhle | 11.09.1947 | 31.03.1951 | 42 |
S. No. | Name | Cadre | From | To | Duration (months) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | FC Badhwar | IRSE | 01.04.1951 | 30.09.1954 | 42 |
2 | G Pande | IRSE | 01.10.1954 | 31.12.1956 | 26 |
3 | PC Mukherjee | IRSE | 01.01.1957 | 25.06.1959 | 30 |
4 | KB Mathur | IRTS | 30.06.1959 | 18.04.1960 | 10 |
5 | Karnail Singh | IRSE | 18.04.1960 | 16.08.1962 | 35 |
6 | DC Baijal | IRSE | 16.08.1962 | 07.08.1965 | 26 |
7 | Kripal Singh | IRSE | 07.08.1965 | 21.01.1967 | 17 |
8 | GD Khandelwal | IRTS | 21.01.1967 | 06.01.1970 | 36 |
9 | BC Ganguli | IRSE | 07.01.1970 | 12.10.1971 | 21 |
10 | BSD Baliga | IRSE | 13.10.1971 | 12.10.1973 | 24 |
11 | MN Bery | IRSE | 12.10.1973 | 30.04.1976 | 31 |
12 | GP Warrier | IRSE | 01.05.1975 | 31.08.1977 | 16 |
13 | KS Rajan | IRSME | 01.09.1977 | 03.06.1979 | 21 |
14 | M Menezes | IRSE | 04.06.1979 | 16.11.1980 | 16 |
15 | MS Gujral | IRTS | 17.11.1980 | 06.02.1983 | 27 |
16 | KTV Raghvan | IRSME | 05.04.1983 | 31.01.1985 | 23 |
17 | JP Gupta | IRSME | 01.02.1985 | 30.06.1985 | 5 |
18 | Prakash Narain | IRTS | 01.07.1985 | 31.06.1987 | 24 |
19 | RK Jain | IRSE | 01.07.1987 | 31.07.1989 | 25 |
20 | MN Prasad | IRSE | 01.08.1989 | 31.07.1990 | 12 |
21 | RD Kitson | IRSME | 01.08.1990 | 31.03.1992 | 20 |
22 | YP Anand | IRSE | 01.04.1992 | 31.12.1992 | 9 |
23 | AN Shukla | IRSME | 01.01.1993 | 31.03.1994 | 15 |
24 | MK Rao | IRSME | 31.03.1994 | 30.06.1994 | 3 |
25 | Ashok Bhatnagar | IRTS | 01.07.1994 | 31.05.1995 | 11 |
26 | GK Khare | IRSME | 01.06.1995 | 30.06.1996 | 13 |
27 | CL Kaw | IRTS | 01.07.1996 | 30.04.1997 | 10 |
28 | M Ravindra | IRSE | 30.04.1997 | 31.12.1997 | 9 |
29 | VK Agrawal | IRSE | 31.12.1997 | 31.08.2000 | 32 |
30 | Ashok Kumar | IRSME | 01.09.2000 | 31.08.2001 | 12 |
31 | RN Malhotra | IRSE | 31.08.2001 | 31.03.2002 | 7 |
32 | IIMS Rana | IRSE | 01.04.2002 | 30.06.2003 | 15 |
33 | RK Singh | IRSE | 30.06.2003 | 31.07.2005 | 24 |
34 | JP Batra | IRTS | 01.08.2005 | 31.07.2007 | 24 |
35 | KC Jena[4] | IRTS | 31.08.2007 | 31.01.2009 | 17 |
36 | S S Khurana[5] | IRSEE | 02.02.2009 | 31.05.2010 | 16 |
37 | Vivek Sahai[6] | IRTS | 01.06.2010 | 30.06.2011 | 13 |
38 | Vinay Mittal[7] | IRTS | 01.07.2011 | 30.06.2013 | 24 |
39 | Arunendra Kumar[8][9] | IRSME | 30.06.2013 | 31.12.2014 | 18 |
40 | A.K.Mittal[10][11][12] | IRSS | 31.12.2014 | 23.08.2017 | 31 |
41 | Ashwani Lohani | IRSME | 23.08.2017 | 31.12.2018 | 16 |
42 | Vinod Kumar Yadav | IRSEE | 31.12.2018 | 31.12.2020 | 24 |
43 | Suneet Sharma | IRSME | 31.12.2020 | 31.12.2021 | 12 |
44 | Vinay Kumar Tripathi | IRSEE | 01.01.2022 | 31.12.2022 | 12 |
45 | Anil Kumar Lahoti | IRSE | 01.01.2023 | 31.08.2023 | 8 |
46 | Jaya Varma Sinha[13](First women Chairperson) | IRTS | 01.09.2023 | 31.08.2024 | 12 |
47 | Satish Kumar | IRSME | 01.09.2024 | Incumbent |
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