5^th July 2006

Mr. D. C. Mitra takes over as Managing Director of Rail Vikas Nigam Limited

Mr. D.C. Mitra, took over as Managing Director of Rail Vikas Nigam Limited on 5th July, 2006. Born on 11th September 1949, Mr. Mitra is a Civil Engineer from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and has immense experience in Project management on Indian Railways.

In his career spanning about 33 years, he started with Engineers India Limited where he acquired expertise in design of complicated structures. He has held various prestigious positions in Indian Railways, which include Principal Chief Engineer/Southern Railway and South-Eastern Railway, Divisional Railway Manager/Sealdah, Kolkatta and Deputy Chief Engineer (Construction)/Malda. As DRM, Sealdah, he created number of all time high records, which involved multi-disciplinary teamwork. He also created number of records over Indian Railways regarding performance of Track machines. As Deputy CE (Construction)/Malda, he executed numerous complicated projects well ahead of schedule.

He has participated in various National and International Conferences and Programmes such as Rail Mechanization in USA and Italy, High speed Routes and Turnouts and Working of Track Machines in Germany and Austria under World Bank and UNDP Scheme and Setting up of Concrete sleepers Plants in Egypt.

Mr. Mitra has the flair for executing works entrusted to him with quality and in scheduled time. His above qualities would definitely help RVNL to execute its projects with high standards and in time bound manner.