Kallakuri NVSL Ramesh Posted as Director-II, Traction Rolling Stock CoE, RDSO Secunderabad

Kallakuri NVSL Ramesh, who was serving as Director-II, Traction Rolling Stock, Centre of Excellence, at the Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunications (IRISET), has been transferred to the Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO) and posted as Director-II, Traction Rolling Stock, Centre of Excellence, at Secunderabad. Ramesh is an officer of the Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE).

The posting keeps Ramesh within the same functional area, moving from a training-institute assignment at IRISET to a technical role at RDSO's Traction Rolling Stock Centre of Excellence, which is responsible for research, design evaluation and standard-setting related to electric locomotives and traction equipment used across the Indian Railways network.

RDSO's Secunderabad unit works closely with the Railway Board's electrification and rolling-stock procurement functions, reviewing technical specifications and testing standards for traction equipment before new designs are cleared for induction into the Railways' locomotive fleet.

The move is part of the same round of transfers that has seen several IRISET-based officers from the Traction Rolling Stock and Signal & Telecommunication centres posted to RDSO Secunderabad, suggesting a coordinated reshuffle affecting the training institute's technical staffing.

IRSEE officers typically rotate between training postings at institutes like IRISET and technical or field postings at RDSO or zonal railways over the course of their careers, a pattern that allows officers to bring both training expertise and updated field experience to each assignment.

As Director-II at the Centre of Excellence, Ramesh's responsibilities are expected to include technical evaluation of traction rolling stock designs and coordination with other RDSO directorates on standardisation work relevant to the Railways' electrification programme.

The posting takes immediate effect, according to the transfer order issued by the Railway Board.

Officers within IRSEE typically specialise across sub-domains such as traction, general electrical maintenance, or overhead equipment engineering, and postings to a Traction Rolling Stock Centre of Excellence are usually reserved for officers who have built specific technical grounding in locomotive and traction systems over the course of earlier field or training assignments.

The parallel appointment of both a Director-I and a Director-II at the same Centre of Excellence reflects the scale of technical evaluation work handled by the unit, which reviews design and performance data for a range of electric locomotive classes operated across the Indian Railways network, from mainline freight and passenger locomotives to newer high-speed variants.

RDSO's role in setting traction equipment standards has grown in step with the Railways' electrification programme, as an expanding electrified network has increased the volume of locomotives, transformers and associated traction equipment requiring technical clearance before induction or upgrade.

Postings such as this one are typically finalised through the Railway Board's routine officer-transfer process, which takes into account both organisational vacancies and an officer's specific technical background when making assignments to specialised units like RDSO's Centres of Excellence.

Ramesh's transfer forms part of the same batch of orders affecting several IRISET-based officers, reflecting a coordinated staffing decision by the Railway Board rather than an isolated individual transfer.

The parallel Director-I and Director-II postings at the Secunderabad unit are expected to divide oversight of the centre's technical evaluation workload between the two officers, based on the specific equipment categories or project streams assigned to each.

Both postings took effect through the same transfer order issued by the Railway Board, formalising the two-officer leadership structure at the Traction Rolling Stock Centre of Excellence.