T P Singh takes charge as Northern Railway General Manager

NEW DELHI: T P Singh, General Manager, North Western Railway, Jaipur, took over the Additional Charge as General Manager, Northern Railway on Thursday. He succeeds Vishwesh Chaube who has taken over as Member Engineering, Railway Board & ex-officio Secretary to the Govt of India.

An officer of Indian Railway Mechanical Engineering Service of 1980 batch, T P Singh has held many distinguished positions on the Indian Railways –Additional General Manager, East Central Railway, Hazipur , Sr Dy General Manager, Central Railway, Chief Rolling Stock Engineer, North Western Railway, Divisional Railway Managerguntakal (Southern Central Railway), Additional Divisional Railway Manager-firozpur (Northern Railway), Chief Works Engineer-rail Coach Factory (Kapurthala), Chief Project Manager Rail Coach Factory (Kapurthala), Chief Personnel Officer-rail Coach Factory (Kapurthala), Chief Works Manager, Northern Railway Mechanical Workshop, Amritsar.

T P Singh graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Railway Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering–jamalpur and holds a MBA degree with operations as specialty from Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. He has undertaken training at Electro Motive Diesel (EMD) in La Grange, Chicago, United States for manufacturing of crankcase of EMD diesel locomotives. He was also nominated for Advanced Leadership Programme in Strategic Management Course in Tepper School of Management Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States.