Railway Board: The Chairman of the Railway Board and Chief Executive Officer have been appointed as Anil Kumar Lahoti. The former General Manager of Central Railway was appointed as Member (Infrastructure) of the board a week ago, and will be taking over the chairmanship from Vinay Kumar Tripathi on January 1.
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Lahoti joined the Indian Railway Service of Engineers (IRSE) in 1984, and his appointment is a result of a reorganisation of the railway board’s top management. Over the past months, no full-time appointments for the member positions were made in the railway board, as it was transitioning to a new integrated service – Indian Railway Management Service.
Experience of Anil Kumar Lahoti:
- Lahoti served in a number of important roles for the zonal railways as well as the Delhi railway board before being named general manager of Central Railway in July 2021. He reportedly also worked on developing the public private partnership model for station redevelopment, along with important infrastructural interventions leading to decongestion in stations in Delhi during his tenure with Northern and North Central Railways.
- He will be taking over at a time when the railway board looks to turn things around for the national transporter. From earlier being infamous for delayed execution and poor capacity planning, the railways aims to execute more capital expenditure and bettering freight and passenger services in the run-up to the FY24 Budget.
