BN Mahapatra, an officer of the Indian Railway Accounts Service, assumed office as the Additional General Manager of the East Coast Railway (ECoR) at its headquarters here on Friday.
Prior to this, he was working as Executive Director/Pay Commission of Railway Board in New Delhi.
Mahapatra, a Postgraduate with Political Science from the Delhi University, joined the Indian Railways Accounts Service in 1980. Thereafter, he worked in various capacities in Khurda Road, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur and Bilaspur Railway Divisions and also at the South Eastern Railway Headquarters in Kolkata.
He also worked as Executive Director (Establishment), Executive Director (Expenditure) and Advisor (Accounts) at the Railway Board.
He has undergone training in Strategic Management at the Rotman’s University, Toronto, and also visited the US, the UK, Spain, France, China, Austria and the Czech Republic on various assignments.
Mahapatra was born on January 15, 1958 at Chhatrapur of Ganjam district.