Vinod Kumar Yadav assumes charge as CRB on reappointment for one year

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New Delhi : Vinod Kumar Yadav, IRSEE (1980 Batch), on January 1, 2020, assumed charge after being re-appointed as Chairman, Railway Board (CRB), in the rank of Ex-Officio Principal Secretary to Government of India. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) approved re-employment of  Vinod Kumar Yadav as Chairman, Railway Board, for a period of one year with effect from January 1, 2020.

Earlier, Vinod Kumar Yadav was appointed as Chairman, Railway Board (Ministry of Railways) and ex-officio Principal Secretary to Government of India on January 1, 2019. Prior to this assignment, Yadav had worked as General Manager, South Central Railway.

His academic qualifications includs a Masters Degree in Business Administration –MBA (Technology Management) from La Trobe University, Australia, and a Bachelors Degree in Engineering (Electrical Engineering) from Allahabad University, Uttar Pradesh. He holds immense experience in the fields of Project Management, General Management, Industrial Policy Formulation, Foreign Collaboration & Foreign Direct Investment, Management of Sector Specific International Technical Programmes and Co-ordination of World Bank and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Funding.

During the course of his illustrious career, Yadav held several important executive and managerial positions on Indian Railways and on deputation to various Organisations. In Indian Railways, his assignments included serving as Chief Electrical Engineer, Planning/Traction Distribution, Northern Railway; Divisional Railway Manager, Lucknow Division, North Eastern Railway, and Additional Divisional Railway Manager (Operation), Delhi Division, Northern Railway, according to a PIB release.

Amongst the assignments he held on deputation include Executive Director, Railway Electrification Projects, Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), New Delhi; Group General Manager (Electrical), Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited; Project Director, International Centre for Advancement of Manufacturing Technology at United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). He was also Director, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Industry, Government of India.

He also held an important foreign assignment as Deputy Manager (Electrical), IRCON, in Turkey, where he was instrumental in planning, execution, and commissioning of Railway Electrification Project for Turkish Railway. Vinod Kumar Yadav is recipient of the first ever “Best Transformation Initiative Award” of the Ministry of Railways.