Chennai: Following the retirement of ICF General Manager Sudhanshu Mani on 31 December 2018, South Western Railway General Manager Ajay Kumar Singh took the additional charge as the new ICF General Manager from 1 January.
According to a press release, Ajay Kumar is a mechanical engineering graduate from AMIE (India) under Special Class Railway Apprentices Scheme/Jamalpur.
He joined Indian Railways on March 1983. An officer from the 1981 batch of Indian Railways Service of Mechanical Engineering (IRSME), Ajay Kumar has held various important posts on Indian Railways such as Principal Chief Mechanical Engineer in North Eastern Railway at Gorakhpur, Chief Workshops Engineer and Chief Motive Power Engineer in North Eastern Railway at Gorakhpur.
Divisional Railway Manager of Jabalpur Division of West Central Railway, Chief Mechanical Engineer/Planning in North Frontier Railway at Guwahati, Chief Workshop Manager of Workshop of North Central Railway at Jhansi, and also as a Officer on Special Duty at Southern Railway here in Chennai. Ajay Kumar has also undergone training for senior managers at Carnegie Mellon University in USA and computerized measuring machines in Germany.