Vivek Khare
Maligaon, November 2 (MExN): Vivek Khare, an Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME) officer of the 1989 batch, assumed charge as General Manager of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) on Sunday, officials said.
Khare, who joined the railways in March 1991, was earlier the Principal Chief Mechanical Engineer at Modern Coach Factory (MCF), Rae Bareli. He also held additional charge as MCF General Manager in March this year.
As GM, he will head NFR, which spans Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Sikkim, besides parts of West Bengal and Bihar, covering 36 Lok Sabha constituencies, an NFR release said.
Khare began his career in South Central Railway and has served at Secunderabad, Vijayawada, Lallaguda Workshop and Northern Railway’s Tughlakabad Diesel Shed. He was on deputation to RITES from 2000 to 2005, handling infrastructure projects in India and Bangladesh. He later served as Director at the Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO), Lucknow, till 2013, and as Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Raipur, under South East Central Railway. He was also Chief Workshop Manager at Charbagh Workshop, Lucknow.
Khare has undergone management training at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
