Shri H. K. Agarwal, who is presently working as Additional Member (Telecom), Railway Board has taken over the additional charge of Chairman cum Managing Director/RailTel Corporation India Ltd. (RCIL) w.e.f. 23.08.2018.

He belongs to the 1979 Batch of the Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE). He joined Railways on 07/01/1981. He has worked in all wings of Railways, viz., Construction about 20 years, Open Line about 12 years, RDSO about 3 years& Railway Board since 28/01/2016.

He handled major portion of the gauge conversion projects on N.Rly.(S&T portion) including commissioning of Gauge Conversion on DLI-Rewari section within one year of its sanction. He also worked as Principal CSTE (Chief Signal & Telecom Engineer) for about 8 years on 4 Rlys, viz., SEC Rly, N.C. Rly, E.C.Rly & N.E. Rly.

As an Addl. Member (Tele)., he has been supervising and guiding RAILTEL as being nodal officer in Rly. Board. This includes guiding RailTel in various current projects, viz., “Wi-Fi at 700 Stations initially and then expanded scope of about 6000+ stations”, “Video Surveillance System at 983 Stations initially and then expanded scope of about 6000+ stations”, “Rail Display Network at 2000 Stations” and “Content on Demand in 1300 trains (On-board Entertainment System)” etc..

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.

Sh. Sanjai Kumar is Director (Network, Planning & Marketing) of RailTel. He is one of the founding members of RailTel. He is an Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Graduate from University of Allahabad and joined Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE) of Indian Railways in 1992. During his stint in various capacities in North Eastern Railway (NER), he worked in the areas of Train Operation, Planning & Construction of Signalling Systems including commissioning of Panel Interlocking at more than 50 stations in Samastipur, Sonpur & Varanasi divisions of the then NE Railway.

He is a full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from prestigious Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurugram in 2001. Shortly after completing his PGDM, he joined RailTel Corporation of India Ltd in 2002 on deputation before taking absorption in 2008.

Being associated with RailTel from its formative years, he has valuable experience of building an organisation from scratch. He has been instrumental in creation of National Knowledge Network while associating with NIC. He has mostly been involved in various marketing activities and handling major government and Telco accounts. He also has rich experience to his credit for the planning and creation of pan-India state-of-the-art telecom network of RailTel including 100G DWDM backbone.

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.

Sunil Gupta, Fellow of Institution of Railway Signal Engineer (FIRSE), is currently holding the charge of Executive Director (Telecom Development) and Executive Director Mobility (Signal &Telecom) in Railway Board, An Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE) officer, B.E. (Electronics and Communication) from Delhi College of Engineering, joined Indian Railways in 1983. He has worked in various roles of Planning, Design & Construction of Railway Signalling arrangements for varying complexity of yard and station layouts, Monitoring of Railway’s Signalling and Telecommunication (S&T) Maintenance System and Protocols, Reliability performance for improving S&T Maintenance infrastructure and diagnostic facilities to smoothen and enhance safety and efficiency of Train operations, Undertaking Quality Inspection for the Materials manufactured for Railway’s requirements, Vendor development, laying down policy framework and norms of Quality Assurance(QA) to achieve sustained high Quality of Railway materials manufactured by Vendors and Workshops, Conducted regular and special designed courses on Modern Railway Signalling and Telecommunication Systems for Indian and foreign Railway Officers and supervisors as Head of department (Signalling) at unique Indian Railways Institute of Signalling Engineering and Telecom (IRISET) Secundrabad. Currently involved with “Mission Raftaar” to improve Average Speed of freight trains and coaching trains on Indian Railways and to improve Telecom infrastructure network in general and specifically provision of Wi-Fi and CCTV at all stations and in all running trains along with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep learning based video analytics for step improvement in Security regime for Rail Passengers.

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.

Smt. Rashmi Jain is an Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS) Officer. She has worked in various capacities in offices of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. She has held the charge of Joint Secretary and Financial Advisor in Lok Sabha, Parliament New Delhi and that of Sr. Financial Advisor in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. She also has rich experience of working in the Cabinet Secretariat. Apart from this, she has conducted Financial Audit of World Health Organisation and Indian Embassies abroad. Furthermore, she possesses extensive experience of Finance, Audit & Management.

She took charge as part-time non-official (Independent Director) in RailTel Corporation of India limited w.e.f. 25/07/2018.