It is rather unusual for a Railway Board member to be given a post-retirement job by the Railways immediately after retirement. V K Gupta, who retired as Member (Engineering) in May, has been made the head of a one-man committee to prepare inter alia a National Rail Plan. Gupta has been given an office in the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) office in Delhi and the DFC will give him secretarial assistance for the job.