Career
Record
A single line, read from the first station to the present. Dated entries carry a confirmed public date; undated stages appear in documented sequence with no year invented.
Service at a glance
01 Chronology
The route, station by station
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The Lawrence School, Sanawar
Head Boy and Best All-Round Student.
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B.Tech., Electrical Engineering — Gold Medallist
Graduated in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, as gold medallist.
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M.Tech. with a 10.00 CGPA
Completed post-graduate engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a perfect cumulative grade point average, and received the President’s Gold Medal for Best All-Round Student.
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Indian Railway Traffic Service
Enters the IRTS as an officer of the 1999 examination batch — the organised Group A service responsible for the operating and commercial working of Indian Railways.
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Operating and commercial charges
Posts held in the operating and commercial departments of the Western Railway.
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Operating and commercial charges
Further operating and commercial posts on the South Eastern Railway, extending his field experience across a second zone with a distinct traffic and freight character.
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Additional General Manager, Tourism
His first extended deputation to IRCTC, spanning five years in the corporation’s tourism vertical.
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Group General Manager, West Zone
A second deputation, this time in zonal command of IRCTC’s West Zone from Mumbai, carrying regional responsibility across the corporation’s business lines.
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Director (Tourism & Marketing)
Assumes charge as a whole-time functional director on the Board of IRCTC, providing leadership to Tourism, Information Technology, Human Resource Development, Infrastructure, Administration and Rajbhasha.
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Chairman, IRCTC Payments Limited
Chairs the wholly owned payments subsidiary of IRCTC Limited.
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Chairman & Managing Director, IRCTC
Assumes the additional charge of Chairman & Managing Director of IRCTC following the resignation of Shri Sanjay Kumar Jain, taking responsibility for the corporation’s overall operations and strategic direction while continuing as Director (Tourism & Marketing).
On dates. Only two appointment dates have been publicly stated — 16 February 2024 and 20 July 2026. The zonal postings and the two earlier IRCTC deputations are documented in IRCTC’s official listing without dates, and are therefore shown here in sequence only. See Documents & Sources.