K Arul Jothi is new NFR IG-cum-PCSC

Guwahati, March 29 (MExN): K Arul Jothi took charge as the Inspector General cum Principal Chief Security Commissioner (IG-cum-PCSC) of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) on March 24.

As per an official release, Jothi is an officer from the 1995 batch of Civil Services Exam and will be the security custodian of all Railway assets, structures including track and fixtures, rolling stock, signalling gears and Railway buildings and establishments like Station premises, Booking Offices, Administrative Head Quarters etc. within the jurisdiction of NFR. The jurisdiction includes all North-East States and parts of West Bengal and Bihar.

Jothi has wide experience of working in field over many Zonal Railways and had served in many sensitive areas such as Mughal Sarai, Danapur, Malda, Sealdah and Secunderabad, the release from NFR CPRO informed.

Earlier in 2017-2019, he was posted as NFR’s Deputy IG-cum-PCSC and before his latest assignment, Jothi was the IG-cum-PCSC of Rail Wheel Factory based at Yelahanka, Bangalore.