Rail Vikas Nigam Limited announced the appointment of Shri A.K. Khandelwal, Principal Executive Director (GS), Railway Board as Part-time Government Director on the Board of the company. The Board of Directors of the company has approved the appointment of Mr. A.K. Khandelwal as Additional Director, effective March 27, 2023. Shri A.K. Khandelwal is an IRSE Officer of batch. He did his Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from MNIT, Jaipur and M.Tech from lIT, Roorkee. He is a fellow and life member of many reputed institutes. He has a vast experience of 33 years in construction and maintenance of Railway's infrastructures, completed large number of Railway Projects in difficult working areas. He has taken keen interest in
mechanisation of track maintenance and implementing 'Make in India' Policy for manufacturing of track machines in India. He has put the long pending Kashmir Valley Rail connectivity project on a fast track while working as Chief Administrative Officer, USBRL Project. He was also involved in construction of the higher Railway Bridge in the world i.e, Chenab Bridge. Presently, heading the GatiShakti directorate of Indian Railways as Principal Executive Director/Railway Board for Infrastructure development including Station Development Programme over Indian Railways.