DIMAPUR — Satish Kumar Pandey, a 1986 batch officer of Indian Railway Service of Engineers, has taken over charge as the general manager of Northeast Frontier Railway (Construction).
He was a graduate in civil engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and M. Tech in Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
An update from NFR chief PRO, Sabyasachi De, stated that he would be the overall in-charge of all railway construction activities within the jurisdiction of NF Railway including all north-eastern states including Sikkim and parts of West Bengal and Bihar.
Pandey joined Indian Railways in the year 1988 as probationary officer.
At the early stage of his career, he was posted as an assistant divisional engineer of Muzaffarpur. He has worked as an executive engineer at Flash Butt Plant and senior divisional engineer of Varanasi and Sonpur Division under North Eastern Railway. He was also in the charge of additional divisional railway manager of Lucknow division under North Eastern Railway from March 2007 till May, 2009.
During his service period, he was deputed in Research Designs and Standard Organisation (RDSO) as an executive director (QA/Civil) and executive director (track). During his tenure at Railway Board, he served as executive director (CE/P) from August 2015 to March, 2017. He was also in charge of the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS), NE Circle from April, 2017 to June, 2018.
Besides, he also served as chief track engineer and principal chief engineer of North Eastern Railway and principal chief engineer of Northern Railway.
Before joining as the general manager of NF Railway (Construction), he worked as the additional member under Railway Board.
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