Overview

• Official orders published July 11 designated Sanjay Kumar Srivastava as general manager of South Central Railway and Vivek Kumar Gupta as general manager of Western Railway.
• Both officers formally assumed their roles on July 12, succeeding the previous zone heads who retired on June 30.
• Srivastava joined from the Central Organisation for Railway Electrification, where he led network electrification and civil engineering initiatives.
• Gupta left his post as managing director of the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited to oversee Western Railway’s infrastructure and modernization agenda.
• The new appointments conclude a three-week interim period during which neighboring zone general managers held additional charges to sustain ongoing projects.