Indian Railways

Senior Divisional Engineer, Northern Railway, Moradabad Division

• 1. Delivered eight structurally and ecologically complex works in a single reporting year across the Haridwar–Dehradun region, several long stalled by regulatory, ecological or inter-state constraint rather than by engineering difficulty.
• 2. Designed and executed flood-mitigation and scour-protection works on the Ganga bridge (Bridge No. 1248) end-to-end within six months — in-house hydrological and flood-prediction assessment, contracting and execution — securing the bridge against monsoon flood and scour through close liaison with the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand governments and their irrigation departments.
• 3. Replaced a 125-year-old arch bridge (No. 39) on a single-line section with an RCC box of adequate waterway, cast and launched in one traffic block, eliminating a long-standing structural bottleneck and chronic waterway choking; rebuilt two further distressed mainline bridges (Nos. 1263 and 1286) within sanctioned blocks with no disruption beyond scheduled possession.
• 4. Prepared the region's capital blueprint: techno-feasibility and master plans converting Haridwar and Dehradun into 24-coach stations — turning a Dehradun expansion previously declared infeasible into a phased, workable plan through minimised regrading — alongside sanction and commencement of the Gati Shakti Cargo Terminal at Pathri and a costed land-transfer proposal for the old Rishikesh station.
• 5. Commissioned the division's first contractor-owned track-renewal machine to mechanise complete track renewal through the ecologically restricted Rajaji Tiger Reserve, improving quality on a stretch previously resistant to mechanisation.

Divisional Engineer, Northern Railway, Moradabad Division

• 1. Transformed an 84-kilometre section (Najibabad–Saharanpur) with historically poor running characteristics — the up-line carrying a majority of reverse curves ahead of bridges — into one of the fastest on the route, raising mainline speed 10 percent after realigning 55 curves to increase transition length and speed potential.
• 2. Cut high-magnitude track geometry peaks by 91 percent within a year, from 0.46 to 0.03 per kilometre on the up-line, and lifted the section's track quality index from 92 to 99 — achieved through total-station survey and design-mode tamping across 147 kilometres of plain track and 146 turnouts, not through additional expenditure.
• 3. Rebuilt the track structure at scale: 61 turnouts converted from lighter 52 kg to heavier 60 kg rail, all compound joints eliminated from the mainline, 40 mainline turnouts deep-screened, 1,019 bridge sleepers renewed, and 14 girder-bridge alignments corrected using a bridge-shifting jack developed in-house.
• 4. Remodelled Rishikesh yard to receive full-length 24-coach trains, up from 18, at a civil cost of 4.5 crore rupees; commissioned a boulder-impact protection tunnel and an electronic interlocking system inside the Rajaji Tiger Reserve under severe ecological and single-line operational restriction.

Assistant Divisional Engineer, Varanasi, Northern Railway, Lucknow Division

• 1. Rebuilt a double-track mainline bridge (No. 4, UP and DN) on the congested Varanasi–Mughalsarai route in a single six-hour block against an original four-block, sixteen-hour plan — a 60 percent time compression by resequencing — upgrading the structure two rating classes and lifting its speed caution immediately.
• 2. Removed seven decades-old speed restrictions after sustained work on track alignment, substructure and strengthening, saving up to 10.7 minutes per train in one direction on a corridor carrying 54 million gross tonnes annually — executed through COVID with blocks secured almost daily.
• 3. Eliminated every wooden sleeper from the section, a generational safety upgrade, including 1,881 steel channel sleepers and over 2,000 metres of guard rail renewed on the important-category Malviya bridge with zero missing fittings.
• 4. Cleared 8,500 square metres of long-entrenched encroachment across defence, state, police and paramilitary authorities, unblocking stalled third- and fourth-line expansion at Varanasi.

• 1. All Indian Rank 02 in Indian Engineering Services Examination 2015 conducted nationally by Union Public Service Commission
• 2. Admitted on Scholarship (25%) to the PGPX program at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
• 3. Principal Chief Engineers Award in 2024 for Ushering in Efficiency by Speed Raising in the Critical Najibabad-Saharanpur Railway Route after removing Infrastructure Bottlenecks by methodical and mechanised maintenance
• 4. Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Award (Individual) in 2021-22 for meritorious service

• BTech in Civil Engineering, JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida

• 1. Micromasters degree in Data Economics and Design of Policy, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Earned a full semester worth of credits in Microeconomics, Data Analysis, Designing and Running Randomised Evaluations, Developments in Global Poverty and Foundations in Development Policy
• 2. Certificate in Supply Chain Analytics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

• 1. Won several prizes (1st and 2nd) in Music (instrumentals and performance) across years 1998 through 2011; Including in International COFAS competition 2005; performed on invitation at the Commonwealth Youth Festival, New Delhi 2010
• 2. Won the Silver Medal in Badminton Doubles at the IRSE probationer all batch tournament
• 3. Won the Silver Medal in Cricket tournament held across batch at National Academy of Indian Railways, Vadodara