Suneet Sharma

Suneet Sharma
2nd Chairman & CEO of Railway Board of Indian Railways
In office
1 January 2021 – 31 December 2021
Preceded byVinod Kumar Yadav
Succeeded byVinay Kumar Tripathi
General Manager of the Eastern Railway
In office
September 2019 – 31 December 2020
Succeeded byManoj Joshi
Personal details
BornDecember 1961 (age 62)[1]
EducationB.E
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
OccupationCivil servant, Engineer, Bureaucrat
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Suneet Sharma is the 2nd Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Railway Board, Indian Railways and the ex-officio Principal Secretary to the Government of India. Sharma is a Central Government Engineer of IRSME cadre of the 1982 batch (SCRA of 1978 batch).[2][3]

He was the General Manager of the Eastern Railway from September 2019 to December 2020. Sharma was the general manager of the Modern Coach Factory, Raebareli. He was the also the divisional railway manager of Pune in Central Railway and Chief Mechanical Engineer of Banaras Locomotive Works.[4]

Sharma is credited for introducing various administrative reforms in the Railways, including simplification of the procedure for establishing new benchmarks.

He is credited for increasing the services of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.[5]

  1. ^ "Irsme (Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers) -". 9 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Suneet Sharma Appointed New Chairman and CEO of Railway Board". News18. 31 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Suneet Sharma is the new chairman and CEO of the Railway Board". Hindustan Times. 31 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Suneet Sharma takes charge as new Railway Board Chairman". TimesNow News. 1 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Suneet Sharma takes over the charge of new Chairman & CEO of Railway Board". January 2021.