Vivek Kumar Gupta, 1988-Batch IRSE Officer, Appointed Member (Infrastructure), Railway Board

Vivek Kumar Gupta, a 1988-batch officer of the Indian Railway Service of Engineers currently serving as General Manager of Western Railway, has been appointed Member (Infrastructure) of the Railway Board.

The Member (Infrastructure) position is one of the Railway Board's senior-most posts, carrying overall responsibility for track, bridge, and civil engineering infrastructure planning and execution across Indian Railways' entire network, coordinating capital expenditure priorities for infrastructure projects with the Railway Board's broader financial and operational planning.

Gupta's move from General Manager of Western Railway, a major zonal leadership role, to this Railway Board Member position represents a promotion from zone-level administration to apex-level policy responsibility spanning infrastructure planning across all zones rather than a single geographic jurisdiction.

His background as an Indian Railway Service of Engineers officer, combined with his experience leading Western Railway, one of the network's larger and more infrastructure-intensive zones, brings substantial civil engineering and zonal administrative experience to the Board-level infrastructure portfolio.

Indian Railways has continued to pursue an extensive infrastructure expansion agenda, including track doubling, new line construction, and station redevelopment projects across multiple zones simultaneously, work that falls directly under the Member (Infrastructure)'s coordination responsibility at the national policy level.

Railway Board Member-level appointments typically go to officers with extensive prior experience across multiple Chief Head of Department and General Manager-level postings, given the breadth of national infrastructure oversight the role requires.

The appointment was processed through the Railway Board's standard process for Member-level postings, requiring clearance from the Ministry of Railways.