Anil Kumar Lahoti takes charge of new Chairman & CEO of Railway Board

(Anil Kumar Lahoti, Chairman & CEO, Railway Board)

New Delhi, India (Urban Transport News): Shri Anil Kumar Lahoti takes over the charge of new Chairman & CEO of Railway Board, Ministry of Railways today. The position was vacant after superannuation of V K Tripathi on 31st December 2022. Prior to this, Lahoti was working as General Manager of Western Railways and he was recently promoted as Member (Infrastructure), Railway Board by Ministry of Railways on 17th December 2022.

Lahoti possesses Master of Engineering (Structures) degree from IIT Roorkee (erstwhile University of Roorkee). He has varied experience in Railways. He joined the Central Railway and worked in various capacities over Nagpur, Jabalpur (Now on West Central Railway) and Bhusaval Divisions and Central Railway headquarters from 1988 to 2001. He has also worked as Officer on Special Duty to Member Engineering, Railway Board, Chief Engineer (Construction), Northern Railway, Executive Director (Track Machines), Railway Board and Principal Chief Engineer of North Central Railway. He was Chief Administrative Officer (Construction), Northern Railway.

Lahoti has played a key role in planning for development of New Delhi station as a world class station including commercial development of land and air space and development of Public Private Partnership model. He had also planned and constructed a new directional terminal in Delhi at Anand Vihar to decongest Delhi and development of the iconic second entry to New Delhi station. As a Chief Administrative Officer (Construction), Chief Engineer (Construction) he has executed several infrastructural projects of new lines, doubling, yard remodelling & important bridges.

Lahoti was also part of the team in formulating policy on safety, maintenance, rehabilitation and upgradation of permanent way, policy on operation of higher axle loads and higher speeds on track as Executive Director Civil Engineering (Planning), Railway Board. As member of committee on Track Maintenance Criteria, he was instrumental in developing an objective policy on objective maintenance criteria for track maintenance based on electronic track measurements to make the track maintenance regime efficient and effective. He has extensively worked in mechanisation and automation of track maintenance and was instrumental in laying a comprehensive Master Plan for complete mechanisation of track maintenance on Indian Railways. As Divisional Railway Manager, Lucknow, he dealt with several challenges related to passenger and freight operations and infrastructural upgradation on Lucknow Division.

Lahoti has training in Strategic Management Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, Executive Leadership Programme from Bocconi School of Management, Milan, Italy, Advanced Leadership and Strategic Management Programme from Carnegie Mellon University, USA and Contactless Track Recording in USA. He has travelled to USA, Germany, UK, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Hongkong, Japan, China on various official assignments.