Chairperson of the Railway Board
The Chairman 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.
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History
British Raj
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.
After Independence
In April, 1951 the post of Chief Commissioner was abolished and the seniormost functional Member was appointed the Chairman of the Board.[1]
List of heads of Indian Railways
Chief Commissioners of Railway, 1922–51
| S. No. | Name | From | To | Duration (months) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Chairmen Railway Board, 1951–present
| 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[3] | IRTS | 31.08.2007 | 31.01.2009 | 17 |
| 36 | S S Khurana[4] | IRSEE | 02.02.2009 | 31.05.2010 | 16 |
| 37 | Vivek Sahai[5] | IRTS | 01.06.2010 | 30.06.2011 | 13 |
| 38 | Vinay Mittal[6] | IRTS | 01.07.2011 | 30.06.2013 | 24 |
| 39 | Arunendra Kumar[7][8] | IRSME | 30.06.2013 | 31.12.2014 | 18 |
| 40 | A.K.Mittal[9][10][11] | 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 | Present | - |
References
- Rao, M.A. (1988). Indian Railways, New Delhi: National Book Trust, pp.49-54
- Raghuram, G. (February 2007), "'Turnaround' of Indian Railways:A Critical Appraisal of Strategies and Processes" (PDF), Working Paper No.2007-02-03, Ahmedabad, India: Indian Institute of Management, retrieved 2011-12-03,
Exhibit 21, p.49
- "K C Jena takes over as Chairman, Railway Board". Press Information Bureau. Ministry of Railways, Government of India. August 31, 2007. Retrieved 2011-12-03.
- "S.S.Khurana takes over as Chairman, Railway Board". Press Information Bureau. Ministry of Railways, Government of India. February 2, 2009. Retrieved 2011-12-03.
- "Vivek Sahai takes over as chairman, Railway Board". The Times of India. June 1, 2010. Retrieved 2011-12-03.
- Singh, Praveen Kumar (July 1, 2011). "Vinay Mittal appointed railway board chairman". Financial Express. Retrieved 2011-12-03.
- "Arunendra Kumar appointed chairman of Railway Board". The Times of India. October 16, 2013.
- Balchand, K. (October 17, 2013). "Arunendra Kumar is Railway Board chairman". The Hindu. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
- "AK Mittal appointed railway board chairman". The Times of India. December 31, 2014.
- "AK Mittal appointed railway board chairman". Zee News. December 31, 2014.
- "Centre appoints new Rail Board chief, eight GMs". The Indian Express. December 31, 2014.
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