Guwahati, Nov 2 Vivek Khare, a senior IRSME officer, has taken charge as the new General Manager of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), officials said on Monday.
Khare assumed charge on November 1, NFR Chief Public Relations Officer Kapinjal Kishore Sharma said in a statement.
As general manager, he will serve as the overall executive head of NFR, one of the largest and most challenging zones of Indian Railways, spread over 10 states and 36 Lok Sabha constituencies.
The zone is spread across Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Sikkim and parts of West Bengal and Bihar.
With over three decades of experience in railway operations, maintenance and modernisation across different zones, Khare’s expertise is expected to benefit NFR, the statement said.
Before taking charge as GM of NFR, he was posted as Principal Chief Mechanical Engineer at Modern Coach Factory (MCF) at Rae Bareli, and had briefly held additional charge as General Manager of MCF in March 2026, it added.
Khare joined the Indian Railways on March 3, 1991, in South Central Railway and worked at Secunderabad, Vijayawada, Lallaguda Workshop and Tughlakabad Diesel Shed of Northern Railway.
He handled major infrastructure projects in India and Bangladesh during his deputation to RITES from 2000 to 2005 as Deputy General Manager and Additional General Manager, and played a crucial role in research initiatives and design standardisation as Director at Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO), Lucknow, till 2013.
He also served as Additional Divisional Railway Manager in Raipur under South East Central Railway and as Chief Workshop Manager of Charbagh Workshop in Lucknow, and has undertaken management training at ISB in Hyderabad, the statement added.
(PTI News)
