Shri N. Kashinath who is presently working as Additional Member(Signal), Railway Board has taken over the additional charge of Chairman cum Managing Director/RailTel Corporation India Ltd. (RCIL) from 23.04.2018.

Shri N. Kashinath belongs to the 1980 Batch of the Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE) with his lien on Southern Railway. He has graduated in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Government Engineering College, Jabalpur. After passing out in the year 1980, he worked for about 1½ years in National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) before joining the Railways in February,1982. After serving in various capacities in Junior Scale, Senior Scale and Junior Administrative Grade over various Divisions and Construction Organisation of Southern Railway he was transferred to Northern Railway where he was associated with the Train Describer Project undertaken on Northern Railway. After his 2½ years tenure on Northern Railway he returned to Southern Railway and served in Trivandrum Division and in Construction Unit at Chennai till November,1999 when he was transferred to Northeast Frontier Railway on promotion to Senior Administrative Grade and joined there as CSTE (Construction). During his tenure on NFR he was associated with the initial deployment of Optical Fibre Cable on various sections of Northeast Frontier Railway and also in the Survey for the Mobile Train Radio Communication (MTRC) Project using GSMR on Northeast Frontier Railway. On return to Southern Railway in 2003, he has worked as Chief Signal Engineer (CSE) and Chief Signal and Telecom Engineer (Project) where he was associated with the 1st Train Protection Warning System(TPWS) Project of Indian Railway which was commissioned in 2008.

Thereafter, in July,2010 he moved to Visakhapatnam as Divisional Railway Manager and in 2012 to South Eastern Railway/Kolkata as Chief Safety Officer. Later he worked as Chief Signal and Telecom Engineer on Metro Railway, Kolkata and Chief Signal and Telecom Engineer on South Eastern Railway before joining as Additional Member/Signal Railway Board in October,2016.

Presently Sh. Ashutosh Vasant is Director (Project Operation and Maintenance) of RailTel. He is one of the founding members of RailTel and belongs to the 1990 batch of Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE) with lien on Western Railways. He is an Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Graduate from REC Bhopal, MACT now MANIT. After passing out in 1990 with 10 PSU, 3 Private Sector and 1 Indian Navy jobs in hand, he joined Larsen & Toubro after writing his UPSC exam. After his UPSC results, he joined the Indian Railways in 1990 batch. After serving in various capacities in Western Railways with the last being a Branch officer of a Division, 6 years ahead of his batch, with many firsts to his credit like the first pager system on Indian Railways for calling loco pilots on duty , first 181Kms train control on Radio on SBI-BTD section of BVP Division, first division to have integrated paging in Divisional office and all divisional hospitals, first division to have complete mobility in 1997 with radio trunking in all vehicles, first division with 100% solar lit LED signals, 1st Division to have multi-channel control on overhead and MARR, he joined RailTel as a founding member on the invitation of the first MD of RailTel without applying for deputation in advance

He has to his credit the first commercial agreement with Telcos for BW and colocation, first dark fiber agreement with MSOs for use of RailTel network, first multi drop and carry BW agreement with MSOs which is the first amongst Telcos, first model for managed tower infrastructure in Sarni, the unique business of shared pole mounts across Western Region , the managed RTTs in Mumbai suburban, the IRU model of long term leasing of towers, IRU model of bandwidth capacity leasing, procedure order for RailWire, finalization of High Definition Tele Presence as a Service, complete life cycle of Google engagement for station WiFi project, the presentation and approval of Railway Display Network (RDN) as a business with finalization of first draft RFP and is now engaged in the creation and delivery of the industry first model of managed network capacity creation on OPEX model.

He has been with RailTel from its formation and has the valuable experience of handling Marketing with out of box business models and agreements, Projects with creation of OFC networks with the ideology of zero maintenance during life cycle with use of innovative route markers, joint pits, protection material like PPRC, Procurement of equipment ranging from STM16/64, DXC, PTN,DWDM under crushed timelines, as Head of the Region (RGM Northern Region) taking the performance due North, Head of Special Business Unit (as CPM RailWire taking the business from Rs.24 Cr to Rs.97 Crores in less than a year) and now as the Director( POM) instilling a new wave of 100% uptime and perfection in every Project and O&M activity of RailTel.

Shri Sanjeeb Kumar is an IRAS Officer of the 1989 batch. He holds M.A., M.Phil. in Engilish and LLB degrees from the University of Delhi. He is currently serving the Indian Railways as Executive Director/Accounts, Railway Board. In addition to his duties, he has been entrusted to officiate as Director/Finance, RailTel Corporation of India Ltd. Prior to this, he has held many important positions on different Railways and public sector companies. He has about ten years of Corporate experience in DMRC and IRCTC where he was working a Group General Manager/Finance. He was associated in high value procurement decision making in IRCTC as well as East Central and Northern Railways.

Dr. Madhukar Sinha is an Indian Railway Accounts Service officer of 1987 Batch and has worked in various capacities over the last 30 years in Government of India and other Government institutions, in Railway Board, Eastern Railway, East Central Railway, Northern Railway and West Central Railway of the Indian Railways, New Delhi Municipal Council, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd., Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India and the Planning Commission. He was Registrar of Copyrights for close to 3 years during which time he represented India in various negotiations at the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization. He was also a Professor at the Centre for WTO Studies of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in which capacity he was an advisor to the Department of Commerce of the Government of India on Intellectual Property Rights, Trade in Services and Government Procurement.

He has a Doctorate on ‘Economics of Intellectual Property Rights’. He also has a Post Graduate Degree each in Economics and Management from University of Delhi.

Anshul Gupta, FIRSE, FIRSTE, MIET, is currently working as Executive Director, Telecom Development in Railway Board. Prior to this, he worked as Divisional Railway Division at Adra division of South Eastern Railway, a division known for its freight loading which adds to the growth of our GDP. He is a Master of Engineering in Computer and Information Sciences from Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, he joined Indian Railways in 1986. He has worked on Railways in various roles ranging from Monitoring, Operations and maintenance of Railways Signalling Systems, undertaking projects of Modernisation of Signalling and Telecom Systems, quality inspections for the Material manufactured for Railway's requirement. Development of QA processes for new technology product, Development of suitable policies for the introduction and absorption of modern Signalling systems on Indian Railways. He has also done MBA in public Policy from MDI, Gurgaon and George Mason University, Virginia, where he wrote a thesis on ‘Development of Integrated Logistic System for Dedicated Freight Corridor for Indian Railways”. His priorities are to make railway transportation, a safer, faster and efficient transport. He believes in converting passenger amenities into passenger delight.

Dr. Anupam Alok is freelance journalist, columnist and social activist. He has done Ph. D (Journalism) (1991), Master in Journalism (1987) and M. Sc (Physics) (1979) from Banaras Hindu University. He had held the position of the Chairman (State Minister Status) of Uttar Pradesh forest Corporation (including present Uttrakhand). He was also a founder Director of Vishwa Samvad Kendra (Media organisation), Lucknow (UP). Besides this he had also worked as Lecturer and taught journalism in the Department of Journalism, Lucknow University, UP.

Presently he is working as media advisor and consultant to various media organisation and also hold the position as ‘Trustee’ in Ramesh Chandra Vatra Charitable Memorial Trust, New Delhi.

He took charge as part-time non-official (Independent Director) in RailTel Corporation of India limited w.e.f. 01/04/2016.

Shri Ashok Goel, a qualified practicing Chartered Accountant by profession with rich experience in the field of Audit, Finance Management and Corporate Governance. He has worked in various reputed organizations, and he previously also held the position of OSD to MoS Chemical and Fertilizer (C & F) in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizer

He took charge as part-time non-official (Independent Director) in RailTel Corporation of India limited w.e.f. 01/04/2016.