Ministry of Railways

Shri Vishwesh Chaube appointed as new Member

(Engineering), Railway Board
Posted On: 01 NOV 2018 12:37PM by PIB Delhi

Shri Vishwesh Chaube has been appointed as new Member (Engineering), Railway
Board and ex officio Secretary to the Government of India and has assumed charge
with effect from 1st November 2018. Shri Chaube, an Indian Railways Service of
Engineering (IRSE) officer of 1980 batch, has worked in the key posts of General
Manager Northern Railway and Metro Railway Kolkata, Principal Chief Engineer
South Eastern Railway, Director Indian Railway Institute of Civil Engineering
(IRICEN), Pune and in Northern Railway as Chief Track Engineer (CTE) and
Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), Firozpur.

In Railway Board as Executive Director, he monitored implementation of multi-disciplinary aspects of

running higher axle load and briefed full Board on monthly basis on actions required to be taken by
Railways. He has also dealt with works of Safety Related Special Funds (SRSF) and implementation of High
Speed on pan India basis.

For the first time in modern times, in the Rail sector, large value contracts were successfully awarded and
executed by him in Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL). As Chief Engineer/Construction on Western Railway,
various innovative projects of infrastructure development have been executed by him. The first project in
Western Railway on Build Operate Transfer (BOT) basis, i.e. Viramgam-Mehsana Gauge Conversion project
was conceptualized and awarded by him.

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