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| agency_name = [[Railway Board (India)|Railway Board]]<br />[[Ministry of Railways (India)|Ministry of Railways]]<br /> [[Government of India]]
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| jurisdiction = [[Government of India]]
| headquarters = [[Rail Bhavan]], Raisina Marg, [[New Delhi]] — 110001
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{{Politics of India}}
The Chairman and CEO of the [[Railway Board (India)|Indian Railway Board]] is the administrative head of the [[Indian Railways]], which functions under the overall control of the [[Parliament of India]] through the [[Minister of Railways (India)|Minister for railways]].

==History==
===British Raj===
The [[Railway Board (India)|Indian Railway Board]] was constituted in 1922, with a Chief Commissioner of Railways as its head, who was solely responsible to the Government for decisions on technical matters and for advising the Government on matters of policy.

===After Independence===
In April, 1951 the post of Chief Commissioner was abolished and the seniormost functional Member was appointed the Chairman of the Board.<ref>Rao, M.A. (1988). ''Indian Railways'', New Delhi: National Book Trust, pp.49-54</ref>

==List of heads of Indian Railways==
===Chief Commissioners of Railway, 1922–51===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+ List of Chief Commissioners of Railway<ref name=iim>{{citation | first = G. |last=Raghuram | contribution = ‘Turnaround’ of Indian Railways:A Critical Appraisal of Strategies and Processes | title = Working Paper No.2007-02-03 | publisher = Indian Institute of Management | place = Ahmedabad, India | date = February 2007| contribution-url = http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/publications/data/2007-02-03graghuram.pdf | chapter-format = PDF | quote=Exhibit 21, p.49|access-date = 2011-12-03}}</ref>
|-
! scope="col" | S. No.
! scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | From
! scope="col" | To
! scope="col" | Duration (months)
|-
| 1 || Sir Clement Hindley || 01.11.1922 || 11.10.1928 ||63
|-
| 2 || Sir Austen Hadow || 12.10.1928|| 15.10.1929 ||12
|-
| 3 || Sir Guthrie Russell || 16.10.1929 || 16.07.1940||128
|-
| 4 || Sir Leonard Wildson || 17.07.1940|| 17.08.1944||49
|-
| 5 || Sir Arthur Griffin || 12.09.1944|| 19.05.1946||20
|-
| 6 || Col RB Emerson || 20.05.1946|| 10.09.1947||16
|-
| 7 || KC Bakhle|| 11.09.1947 || 31.03.1951||42
|-
|}

===Chairmen Railway Board, 1951–present===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+ List of Chairmen Railway Board<ref name=iim/>
|-
! scope="col" | S. No.
! scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | Cadre
! scope="col" | From
! scope="col" | To
! scope="col" | Duration (months)
|-
| 1 || [[Fateh Chand Badhwar|FC Badhwar]]||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]] ||01.04.1951|| 30.09.1954||42
|-
| 2 || G Pande||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]] ||01.10.1954 || 31.12.1956||26
|-
| 3 || PC Mukherjee||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]] ||01.01.1957 || 25.06.1959||30
|-
| 4 || KB Mathur||[[Indian Railway Traffic Service|IRTS]] ||30.06.1959 || 18.04.1960||10
|-
| 5 || Karnail Singh||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]] ||18.04.1960|| 16.08.1962||35
|-
| 6 || DC Baijal||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]] ||16.08.1962|| 07.08.1965||26
|-
| 7 || Kripal Singh||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]] ||07.08.1965|| 21.01.1967||17
|-
| 8 || GD Khandelwal||[[Indian Railway Traffic Service|IRTS]] ||21.01.1967|| 06.01.1970||36
|-
| 9 || [[BC Ganguli]] ||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]] ||07.01.1970|| 12.10.1971||21
|-
| 10 || BSD Baliga||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]] ||13.10.1971|| 12.10.1973||24
|-
| 11 || MN Bery||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]] ||12.10.1973|| 30.04.1976||31
|-
| 12 || GP Warrier||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]] ||01.05.1975|| 31.08.1977||16
|-
| 13 || KS Rajan||[[IRSME]] ||01.09.1977|| 03.06.1979||21
|-
| 14 || M Menezes||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]] ||04.06.1979 || 16.11.1980||16
|-
| 15 || MS Gujral ||[[Indian Railway Traffic Service|IRTS]] ||17.11.1980|| 06.02.1983||27
|-
| 16 || KTV Raghvan ||[[IRSME]] ||05.04.1983 || 31.01.1985||23
|-
| 17 || JP Gupta || [[IRSME]]||01.02.1985 || 30.06.1985 || 5
|-
| 18 || Prakash Narain || [[Indian Railway Traffic Service|IRTS]] || 01.07.1985|| 31.06.1987||24
|-
| 19 || RK Jain||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]] ||01.07.1987|| 31.07.1989||25
|-
| 20 || MN Prasad||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]] ||01.08.1989|| 31.07.1990||12
|-
| 21
||RD Kitson
||[[IRSME]]
||01.08.1990
||31.03.1992
||20
|-
|22
||YP Anand
||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]]
||01.04.1992
||31.12.1992
||9
|-
|23
||AN Shukla
||[[IRSME]]
||01.01.1993
||31.03.1994
||15
|-
|24
||MK Rao
||[[IRSME]]
||31.03.1994
||30.06.1994
||3
|-
|25
||Ashok Bhatnagar
||[[Indian Railway Traffic Service|IRTS]]
||01.07.1994
||31.05.1995
||11
|-
|26
||GK Khare
||[[IRSME]]
||01.06.1995
||30.06.1996
||13
|-
|27
||CL Kaw
||[[Indian Railway Traffic Service|IRTS]]
||01.07.1996
||30.04.1997
||10
|-
|28
||M Ravindra
||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]]
||30.04.1997
||31.12.1997
||9
|-
|29
||VK Agrawal
||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]]
||31.12.1997
||31.08.2000
||32
|-
|30
||Ashok Kumar
||[[IRSME]]
||01.09.2000
||31.08.2001
||12
|-
|31
||RN Malhotra
||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]]
||31.08.2001
||31.03.2002
||7
|-
|32
||IIMS Rana
||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]]
||01.04.2002
||30.06.2003
||15
|-
|33
||RK Singh
||[[Indian Railway Service of Engineers|IRSE]]
||30.06.2003
||31.07.2005
||24
|-
|34
||JP Batra
||[[Indian Railway Traffic Service|IRTS]]
||01.08.2005
||31.07.2007
||24
|-
|35

||[[K. C. Jena|KC Jena]]<ref>{{cite news | title = K C Jena takes over as Chairman, Railway Board | date = August 31, 2007 | publisher = Ministry of Railways, Government of India | url = http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=30790 | work = Press Information Bureau | access-date = 2011-12-03}}</ref>
||[[Indian Railway Traffic Service|IRTS]]
||31.08.2007
||31.01.2009
||17
|-
|36
||S S Khurana<ref>{{cite news | title = S.S.Khurana takes over as Chairman, Railway Board | date = February 2, 2009 | publisher = Ministry of Railways, Government of India | url = http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=47188 | work = Press Information Bureau | access-date = 2011-12-03}}</ref>
||[[IRSEE]]
||02.02.2009
||31.05.2010
||16
|-
|37
||[[Vivek Sahai]]<ref>{{cite news | title = Vivek Sahai takes over as chairman, Railway Board | date = June 1, 2010 | url = http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-06-01/india/28304240_1_railway-board-mumbai-terror-attacks-s-s-khurana | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121104130117/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-06-01/india/28304240_1_railway-board-mumbai-terror-attacks-s-s-khurana | url-status = dead | archive-date = November 4, 2012 | work = [[The Times of India]] | access-date = 2011-12-03}}</ref>
||[[Indian Railway Traffic Service|IRTS]]
||01.06.2010
||30.06.2011
||13
|-
|38
||[[Vinay Mittal]]<ref>{{cite news | first = Praveen Kumar | last = Singh | title = Vinay Mittal appointed railway board chairman | date = July 1, 2011 | url = http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Vinay-Mittal-appointed-railway-board-chairman/811239/ | work = [[The Financial Express (India)|Financial Express]] | access-date = 2011-12-03}}</ref>
||[[Indian Railway Traffic Service|IRTS]]
||01.07.2011
||30.06.2013
||24
|-
|39
||[[Arunendra Kumar]]<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=October 16, 2013|title=Arunendra Kumar appointed chairman of Railway Board}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Balchand|first=K.|title=Arunendra Kumar is Railway Board chairman|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/arunendra-kumar-is-railway-board-chairman/article5240238.ece|access-date=14 November 2013|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=October 17, 2013}}</ref>
||[[Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers|IRSME]]
||30.06.2013
||31.12.2014
||18
|-
|40
||A.K.Mittal<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=December 31, 2014|title=AK Mittal appointed railway board chairman
|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/A-K-Mittal-appointed-railway-board-chairman/articleshow/45712669.cms}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[Zee News]]|date=December 31, 2014|title=AK Mittal appointed railway board chairman|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/india/ak-mital-appointed-as-chairman-railway-board_1523352.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|date=December 31, 2014|title=Centre appoints new Rail Board chief, eight GMs|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/centre-appoints-new-rail-board-chief-eight-gms/}}</ref>
||[[Indian Railway Stores Service|IRSS]]
||31.12.2014
||23.08.2017
||31
|-
|41
||[[Ashwani Lohani]]
||[[Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers|IRSME]]
|23.08.2017
|31.12.2018
|16
|-
|42
||[[Vinod Kumar Yadav]]
||[[IRSEE]]
||31.12.2018
||31.12.2020
||24
|-
|43
||[[Suneet Sharma]]
||[[Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers|IRSME]]
||31.12.2020
||Present
|| -
|}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

{{Indian Railways}}

[[Category:Ministry of Railways (India)]]
[[Category:Indian Railways officers]]

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