Former Railway Board chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti was appointed as the chief of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday.
Lahoti, who’s a 1984 batch officer of the Indian Railway Service of Engineers (IRSE), has an illustrious profession with huge expertise in Railway administration and administration. He took cost as Chairman & CEO, Railway Board on January 1, 2023.
Prior to Railway Board Chairman, Lahoti labored as a Member (Infrastructure), Railway Board.
Lahoti was empanelled within the first panel of Indian Railways Management Service for Level-17. He graduated in Civil Engineering with Gold Medal from Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior and did his Master of Engineering (Structures) from the University of Roorkee (IIT, Roorkee).
During his greater than 36 years of profession in railways, he labored in varied capacities over Central, Northern, North Central, Western and West Central Railways and in Railway Board.
Lahoti earlier labored as General Manager, Central Railway and likewise taken care of the cost of GM, Western Railway for a number of months. His stint as General Manager is credited with attaining highest ever freight and parcel site visitors when it comes to tonnage carried and income earned together with working of the very best variety of Kissan Rails.
He additionally caused file enchancment in income by non-fare alternatives, sale of scrap and intensive ticket-checking drives. He efficiently steered and resolved the vexed subject of the growth of air-conditioned sub-urban companies in Mumbai. During his tenure, Central Railway recorded a quantum soar in execution and commissioning of infrastructure initiatives and commissioned the lengthy awaited fifth & sixth line between Diva and Thane in Mumbai.
He had labored as Divisional Railway Manager, Lucknow, Northern Railway, the place he took a number of initiatives to enhance freight motion on the Lucknow-Varanasi-DDU route as an alternative choice to the congested Ghaziabad-Prayagraj-DDU route. His stint noticed a considerable enchancment in passenger facilities and cleanliness requirements at stations on Lucknow division.
As Chief Administrative Officer (Construction) and Chief Engineer (Construction) on Northern Railway, he executed a lot of infrastructure initiatives of New Lines, Doubling and multi-tracking of monitor, yard remodelling, necessary bridges, station development, and so on. The Anand Vihar Terminal in Delhi and the enduring Ajmeri Gate facet station constructing of New Delhi station had been deliberate and constructed by him. He was additionally carefully related to planning for redevelopment of New Delhi station as a World Class station together with industrial growth of land and air area.
