Shri Pradeep Gaur IRSE (1987) presently Executive Director (ED), Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), has been appointed as Chairman & Managing Director (CMD), RVNL for a period of five years w.e.f. the date of his assumption of charge of the post on or after 01.09.2018.
Shri Gaur previously was working as Executive Director/Projects/South and was in-charge of PIUs/Chennai, Bengaluru and Rishikesh and was looking after prestigious projects of Rishikesh-Karnaprayag New Line in Uttarakhand, Obulavaripalle-Krishnapatnam New Line in Andhra Pradesh, Doubling of Madurai-Maniyachi-Tuticorin and Maniyachi-Nagarcoil in Tamilnadu and Doubling of Hospet-Tinaighat-Vasco da Gama in Karnataka & Goa.
Shri Pradeep Gaur is a 1987 Batch IRSE Officer and after working on Indian Railways from 1989 to 2005, he has been with RVNL in capacities of Chief Project Manager and ED since 2005. He has been directly responsible for commissioning of more than 800 km of New Line/Doubling/Gauge Conversion in RVNL. He commissioned 4.62 km “Longest Railway Bridge” in the Country in record 27 months (June 2007 to September 2009) in Cochin and was responsible for construction of 7 km tunnel in a record 25 months (December 2015 to January 2018 by working from two faces only) in Andhra Pradesh.
Chennai/PIU headed by him received Best PIU Shield” for last four years and “Maximum Expenditure Shield” for last eight years, besides shields for Best Project, Maximum commissioning and Best S&T Commissioning.
Shri Pradeep Gaur completed Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering from the then REC, Kurukshetrra (now NIT, Kurukshetra) in 1986 and Master of Technology in Structural Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh in 1987.
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