The NaMo administration has cleared the empanelment of as many as 25 officers for holding General Manager or GM Equivalent posts in the Zonal Railways. Few insiders said that none of the empaneled officers who are considered among the makers of Vande Bharat Express are there on the approved list/panel:-

MAIN PANEL FOR THE YR 2020:

1. SK Goal (IRSSE:1984)
2. A Gangal (IRSME:1985)
3. Sunil Bajpai (IRSME:1985)
4. VK Tripathi (IRSEE:1985)
5. Satish K Kashyap (IRSEE:1985)
6. Om Prakash Singh (IRSE:1985)
7. Rajesh Argal (IRSE:1985)

EXTENDED PANEL FOR THE YR 2020:

1. Sunil Sharma (IRPS:1985)
2. Arun Arora (IRSME:1986)
3. AK Agarwal (IRSME:1986)
4. SN Dubey (IRSEE:1986)
5. RK Saxena (IRSS:1986)
6. Sanjeev Kishore (IRSME:1986)
7. A Sharma (IRSME:1986)
8. Alok Kumar (IRSME:1986)
9. AK Pandey (IRSME:1986)
10. DC Sharma (IRSME:1986)
11. Ashesh Agarwal (IRSME:1986)
12. Vivek Kumar (IRSME:1986)
13. SK Yagnik (IRSME:1986)
14. RK Mangla (IRSME:1986)
15. Sanjay Chadha (IRSME:1986)
16. Anil K Lahoti (IRSE:1986)
17. Ms Anjali Goyal (IRAS:1986)