Suneet Sharma is new Chairman & CEO, Railway Board

Suneet Sharma has been appointed as new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Railway Board on 31st December 2020. He is a 1981 batch Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineer (IRSME) officer.

A Special Class Railway Apprentice (SCRA) Officer of 1978 batch, Shri Sharma comes with strong technical background and has expertise in different spheres of Railway working.

He has worked at various levels – as SrDME, CWM, ADRM, DRM, GM/MCF – in Zonal Railways, Workshops, Diesel Loco Sheds.

Shri Sharma has 34 years of experience in Indian Railways.

He is known for introducing various administrative reforms including simplification of procedure for establishing new benchmarks in Indian Railways.

He has a major contribution in bringing modernization in Railways as well as conservation of energy and preservation of environment.

While working in Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi, he played a pivotal role in conversion of Diesel Locomotives to Electric Locomotives to achieve Indian Railways’ aim of 100% electrification.

Shri Sharma was Divisional Railway Manager, Pune, Central Railway, Chief Rolling Stock Engineer (Freight), Central Railway, Chief Mechanical Engineer (Planning), Central Railway, Principal Chief Mechanical Engineer, Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi.

Prior to taking over as GM Metro Railway and GM Eastern Railway, Shri Sharma has served as General Manager, Modern Coach Factory, Rae Bareilly.

Apart from attending different training programmes in various Railway Institutes, he attended training in Germany and France on “Railway Workshops Maintenance Practices and Costing Systems”, in Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA on “Advance Management Courses” and in RAI, Tehran, Iran on “Assistance in Loco Production in Iran”.

Shri Suneet Sharma is younger brother of Dr Sushum Sharma, who was a Physician (SrDMO) in NRCH long ago! He took VRS from IRMS around 2005 and joined Max Hospital in Gurugram. For last one decade or so he is in Dubai. His wife, Dr Hema Sharma was also SrDMO/Gynaec in NRCH. In 2014, she also took VRS and moved to Dubai with her husband.

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