Chairperson of the Railway Board

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Chairperson of Railway Board
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First holder Fateh Chand Badhwar

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.

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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. [2]

List of heads of Indian Railways

Chief Commissioners of Railway, 1922–51

List of chief commissioners of railway [3]
S. No.NameFromToDuration (months)
1Sir Clement Hindley01.11.192211.10.192863
2Sir Austen Hadow12.10.192815.10.192912
3Sir Guthrie Russell16.10.192916.07.1940128
4Sir Leonard Wildson17.07.194017.08.194449
5Sir Arthur Griffin12.09.194419.05.194620
6Col RB Emerson20.05.194610.09.194716
7KC Bakhle11.09.194731.03.195142

Chairperson Railway Board, 1951–present

List of Chairperson Railway Board [3]
S. No.NameCadreFromToDuration (months)
1 FC Badhwar IRSE 01.04.195130.09.195442
2G Pande IRSE 01.10.195431.12.195626
3PC Mukherjee IRSE 01.01.195725.06.195930
4KB Mathur IRTS 30.06.195918.04.196010
5Karnail Singh IRSE 18.04.196016.08.196235
6DC Baijal IRSE 16.08.196207.08.196526
7Kripal Singh IRSE 07.08.196521.01.196717
8GD Khandelwal IRTS 21.01.196706.01.197036
9BC Ganguli IRSE 07.01.197012.10.197121
10BSD Baliga IRSE 13.10.197112.10.197324
11MN Bery IRSE 12.10.197330.04.197631
12GP Warrier IRSE 01.05.197531.08.197716
13KS Rajan IRSME 01.09.197703.06.197921
14M Menezes IRSE 04.06.197916.11.198016
15MS Gujral IRTS 17.11.198006.02.198327
16KTV Raghvan IRSME 05.04.198331.01.198523
17JP Gupta IRSME 01.02.198530.06.19855
18Prakash Narain IRTS 01.07.198531.06.198724
19RK Jain IRSE 01.07.198731.07.198925
20MN Prasad IRSE 01.08.198931.07.199012
21RD Kitson IRSME 01.08.199031.03.199220
22YP Anand IRSE 01.04.199231.12.19929
23AN Shukla IRSME 01.01.199331.03.199415
24MK Rao IRSME 31.03.199430.06.19943
25Ashok Bhatnagar IRTS 01.07.199431.05.199511
26GK Khare IRSME 01.06.199530.06.199613
27CL Kaw IRTS 01.07.199630.04.199710
28M Ravindra IRSE 30.04.199731.12.19979
29VK Agrawal IRSE 31.12.199731.08.200032
30Ashok Kumar IRSME 01.09.200031.08.200112
31RN Malhotra IRSE 31.08.200131.03.20027
32IIMS Rana IRSE 01.04.200230.06.200315
33RK Singh IRSE 30.06.200331.07.200524
34JP Batra IRTS 01.08.200531.07.200724
35 KC Jena [4] IRTS 31.08.200731.01.200917
36S S Khurana [5] IRSEE 02.02.200931.05.201016
37 Vivek Sahai [6] IRTS 01.06.201030.06.201113
38 Vinay Mittal [7] IRTS 01.07.201130.06.201324
39 Arunendra Kumar [8] [9] IRSME 30.06.201331.12.201418
40A.K.Mittal [10] [11] [12] IRSS 31.12.201423.08.201731
41 Ashwani Lohani IRSME 23.08.201731.12.201816
42 Vinod Kumar Yadav IRSEE 31.12.201831.12.202024
43 Suneet Sharma IRSME 31.12.202031.12.202112
44Vinay Kumar Tripathi IRSEE 01.01.202231.12.202212
45Anil Kumar Lahoti IRSE 01.01.202331.08.20238
46 Jaya Varma Sinha [13] IRTS 01.09.2023 Incumbent

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