Shri Anupam Sharma
General Manager
Shri Anupam Sharma, General Manager, East Central Railway has taken over the additional charge of the post of General Manager, North Eastern Railway on Janaury 01,2022. Shri Sharma is an officer of the Indian Railways Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME) having joined the Indian Railways (IR) as a Special Class Apprentice in 1982.
He has a Masters Degree in Financial Management from Mumbai University (JBIMS), a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Management and Policy (PGD-PMP) from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and has attended leadership courses at Bocconi University at Milan, Italy and Carnegie Mellon University at Pittsburgh, USA. He has also visited Germany,Austria, UK, USA, France and China during various study tours concerning a variety of rolling stock.
Shri Anupam Sharma has more than 35 years of distinguished service with Indian Railways. He initially served in various positions of Central Railway including field postings in Bhusaval, Mumbai Divisions and Loco Workshop at Parel and later worked as Chief Motive Power Engineer of North Eastern Railway. He also served as Additional Divisional Railway Manager of Samastipur Division of East Central Railway and later as Group General Manager (Rolling Stock Design)on deputation with RITES. His tenure at RITES also included brief stints of secondment in Colombia and Saudi Arabia. On return from deputation, he served as Divisional Railway Manager, Chennai, as Executive Director Mech Engg (Traction) in Railway Board and as Additional General Manager, South Eastern Railway, Kolkata.
During the course of his career, he has won many professional awards including the prestigious National Award at Railway Board level in 1998 for his pioneering work in streamlining train operations over Mumbai Division of Central Railway.
He is a keen sportsman having played football and cricket at competitive level.