The 1988 batch of Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS), Vikas Kumar, who was holding the position of Director (Operations) in Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), will be taking over charge as new Managing Director of DMRC from Friday.
Kumar is taking over charge from Dr Mangu Singh, who was the Managing Director of DMRC since January 1, 2012. Dr Singh’s illustrious tenure came to an end on Thursday.
“Kumar has over three decades of experience in rail based urban transportation projects. Kumar had also worked with the Indian Railways in various capacities before joining DMRC in September, 2004.
Ever since, he has been associated with DMRC for more than 17 years in key management positions,” said Anuj Dayal, Principal Executive Director of Corporate Communications, DMRC. “In DMRC, Kumar has headed the Operations wing of the organisation since 2007 in various leadership capacities such as General Manager (Operations), Executive Director (Operations) and Director (Operations).
He has played a key role in ensuring smooth commencement of Metro services in over 300 kilometres of Metro corridors in the Delhi-NCR,” said Dayal“He has also provided consultancy services to Dhaka Metro project as its Operations and Maintenance Rules Expert. This apart, he has been involved in providing consultancy for various Metro projects in India such as Jaipur, Kochi, Noida and Greater Noida, Mumbai etc,” Said Dayal.
“Kumar has also been DMRC’s senior benchmarking representative to deal with TSC (Transport Strategy Centre), Imperial College, London which is the coordinating agency for the CoMET group of Metros. DMRC is a member of CoMET which is a benchmarking group of large and medium sized Metros from across the world,’ Dayal added.
Kumar will be DMRC’s third Managing Director after Dr. E. Sreedharan and Dr. Mangu Singh.