Indianmandarins has learnt that seven people have been shortlisted from around 30 applicants for the post of the Managing Director of National High-Speed Rail Corporation. The selection will take place this month. After the selection of the MD, posts of other directors in the corporation will be filled.
The shortlist before the three-member search-cum-selection committee (SCSC), headed by the Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha and assisted by Railway Board Chairman A K Mital and DoPT Secretary B P Sharma as members, is dominated by civil engineers. Only one of the candidates is a current, full-time officer of Railways, while the remaining are civil engineers working with other organizations, like metro projects and rail PSUs.
Even though the criteria laid down were service-neutral, not a single non-engineer has been shortlisted.
Among the shortlisted applicants is Achal Khare, a senior Indian Railways officer currently working as Adviser (Infrastructure) and heading the directorate in Railway Ministry that looks after the high-speed project and has conceived the new company.
Two directors from the Board of Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation Limited - Anshuman Sharma, Director (Project Planning) and D S Rana Director (Infrastructure) have also been shortlisted.
Sailesh Kumar Pathak, currently the Commissioner of Railway Safety (Northern Circle) under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, is the only one in the list who is neither from an SPV nor a PSU and is not involved in any kind of "project implementation" in the strictest sense.
Two members of the boards of metro railways - Mahendra Kumar, Director (Rolling Stock and Systems) at Lucknow Metro, and Subodh Gupta, Director (Project) at Mumbai Metro have also been shortlisted. They are joined by R S Khurana, Director (Project) at Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation Limited.
Sources said the basic criteria to apply for the post included an age limit of 55 years and a Higher Administrative Grade rank. Due to these criteria, many heavyweights were out of the race in the initial screening.
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Seven shortlisted for MD's post of high-speed rail
By IndianMandarins - 2017-01-09 10:55:07
Indianmandarins has learnt that seven people have been shortlisted from around 30 applicants for the post of the Managing Director of National High-Speed Rail Corporation. The selection will take place this month. After the selection of the MD, posts of other directors in the corporation will be filled.
The shortlist before the three-member search-cum-selection committee (SCSC), headed by the Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha and assisted by Railway Board Chairman A K Mital and DoPT Secretary B P Sharma as members, is dominated by civil engineers. Only one of the candidates is a current, full-time officer of Railways, while the remaining are civil engineers working with other organizations, like metro projects and rail PSUs.
Even though the criteria laid down were service-neutral, not a single non-engineer has been shortlisted.
Among the shortlisted applicants is Achal Khare, a senior Indian Railways officer currently working as Adviser (Infrastructure) and heading the directorate in Railway Ministry that looks after the high-speed project and has conceived the new company.
Two directors from the Board of Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation Limited - Anshuman Sharma, Director (Project Planning) and D S Rana Director (Infrastructure) have also been shortlisted.
Sailesh Kumar Pathak, currently the Commissioner of Railway Safety (Northern Circle) under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, is the only one in the list who is neither from an SPV nor a PSU and is not involved in any kind of "project implementation" in the strictest sense.
Two members of the boards of metro railways - Mahendra Kumar, Director (Rolling Stock and Systems) at Lucknow Metro, and Subodh Gupta, Director (Project) at Mumbai Metro have also been shortlisted. They are joined by R S Khurana, Director (Project) at Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation Limited.
Sources said the basic criteria to apply for the post included an age limit of 55 years and a Higher Administrative Grade rank. Due to these criteria, many heavyweights were out of the race in the initial screening.
