Pramod Kumar joins RCF as General Manager

Kapurthala, January 4, 2014: Pramod Kumar, a Mechanical Engineer by profession and an officer of Indian Railway Services of Mechanical Engineers has taken over as General Manager of Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala.  Prior to this assignment, he was working as Director General of National Academy of Indian Railways at Vadodara.
An alumni of IIT(Roorkee), Pramod Kumar joined Indian Railways in 1977. During the last 36 years, he has worked on various higher level management posts in the Indian Railways  and Public Sector which includes working as Divisional Railway Manager Nanded, South Central Railway ; ADRM Kota, Western Railway; Chairman  Railway Recruitment Board, Patna; Executive  Director , CAMTECH, Gwalior; Sr. Professor (Mechanical Engineering)  at the  Railway Staff College Vadodara etc. He has also in Senior positions worked  at various levels on Central Railway , RDSO Lucknow  and Diesel Locomotive Works , Varanasi.  
During the period 2008 -10, he  worked as Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Bhari Udyog Nigam  Ltd. under Ministry of Heavy  Industries & Public  Enterprises  at Kolkata. During this tenure, he was awarded ‘Udyog Rattan’ in 2010 for `quantum increase in turn-around and profit of his whole group  of companies including BBJ Construction & Braithwaite’.
His last tenure, just prior to posting as DG/NAIR, was Additional General Manager, South Eastern Railway.
He has undergone various training programmes abroad besides presenting a paper in an International Conference at USA. Also, he has been to various business assignments in African countries of Gabon and Ghana. // punjab news live, punjab news online, punjab news, punjab news headlines, punjab breaking news, india news, punjab news,