Shri Sudheer Kumar

Part-time (Official Director)

 

Shri Sudheer Kumar has been appointed on the Board of IRCON as Part-Time (Official) Director in terms of Presidential Order dated 12th May, 2020 issued by the Ministry of Railways

Born on 27th June, 1960, Mr Kumar is B.Tech (Electrical) with Honours from GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Nainital. He belongs to Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE) officer of 1981 batch and has over 36 years of rich and varied experience in Railways. His earlier assignments included Divisional Railway Manager Dhanbad, the biggest Division on Indian Railways, Executive Director (Development) Railway Board, Executive Director (Energy Management) Railway Board, Principal Executive Director (Transformation) Railway Board, Advisor (Rolling Stock) Railway Board and Additional Member (RE) and Transformation Railway Board.

His present assignment as Additional Member (Planning), Railway Board, entails planning and budgeting of Railway Infrastructure projects including prioritization of investment and execution of the same. He was the founding Director and the representative of Ministry of Railways on the Board of Directors of JVs of Railways and NTPC (Bhartiya Rail Bijlee Company Limited) for setting up 1,000 MW power plant at Nabinagar, Bihar, and Alstom and Railways (Madhepura Electric Loco Company Limited, Madhepura) for setting up new Loco factory in Bihar, the biggest Make-in-India initiative of the GOI which brought in FDI in Railways.

As head of Transformation in the Ministry Of Railways for more than three years (since January, 2017), large number of Process, Structure and Cultural reforms have been introduced under his charge in order to galvanize the organization to improve ultimate service delivery to the customers.

He has widely travelled overseas (UK, USA, Germany, France, Switzerland, Japan) representing Indian Railways in various capacities and for different Trainings.