Chairman Railway Board (India)
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The Chairman 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) |
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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 |
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Chairmen Railway Board, 1951–present
S. No. | Name | Cadre | From | To | Duration (months) |
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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 | till date |
References
- ↑ Rao, M.A. (1988). Indian Railways, New Delhi: National Book Trust, pp.49-54
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