38 Trains from (KI)KONDAPALLI to (VTM)VETAPALEMU

Shri Arun Kumar Jain has been promoted and posted as General Manager, South Central Railway, following the orders of Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, Government of India today i.e., 07th November, 2022. He belongs to the Indian Railways Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE), 1986 batch of Indian Engineering Services.

On South Central Railway, he worked as General Manager (In-Charge), Additional General Manager, Principal Chief Signal and Telecom Engineer and Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) of Hyderabad Division. During his tenure as DRM he was instrumental in augmenting passenger facilities at several stations and the division obtained four performance efficiency shields in various spheres including safety, Security and Transformation. He has undergone Management trainings at INSEAD, Singapore; ICLIF, Malaysia; ISB, Hyderabad; SDA Bocconi, Milan, ISB, Mohali.

Shri Arun Jain holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Gorakhpur and a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

He started his career in Indian Railways as Assistant Signal & Telecommunications Engineer and in over three decades of service, he held several important assignments o­n Central, North Central and South Central Railways. He has also worked in Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO), where he was responsible for developing advance signalling systems like Digital Axle Counters, Solid State Block, Train Protection & Warning System (TPWS), Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS). He has also worked as Chief Vigilance Officer & Group General Manager in RailTel Corporation of India Limited.

During his tenure as General Manager (In-Charge), SCR the zone has achieved a significant milestone of achieving the Maximum permissible Speed of train services to 130 Kmph in Secunderabad – Kazipet – Balharshah, Kazipet – Kondapalli sections in Secunderabad Division, Kondapalli – Vijayawada – Gudur of Vijayawada Division, Renigunta – Guntakal – Wadi of Guntakal Division. These sections cover the entire High-Density Route, Golden Quadrilateral and Golden Diagonal routes of SCR, except Vijayawada – Duvvada.