Ravindra Gupta, formerly Chief Mechanical Engineer, Western Railway, Mumbai, late on Wednesday evening, assumed charge as General Manager of the South Central Railway, ostensibly on a ‘remote mode’, that is, while not being physically present.
An officer of the 1975 batch of Special Class Apprentice (SCA), his academic recognitions include the distinction of a Gold Medal for being first in AMIE (Mechanical Engineering). Beginning his career as Assistant Mechanical Engineer (Diesel) at Itarsi, he has held several important positions in a 34 year-long career.
Earlier, after P.K. Srivastava demitted office as GM, SCR on June 30, P.K. Saxena, GM, South Western Railway, held charge as GM of SCR till this evening, a press release said.
