Vivek Khare takes charge as general manager of NF Railway

Vivek Khare has taken charge as general manager of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NF Railway), the railway zone headquartered at Maligaon in Guwahati, according to a railway release reported by The News Mill on Monday, November 2. He assumed office on Sunday, November 1.

Khare is an officer of the 1989 batch of the Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME). As general manager, he is the zone's overall executive head.

From Rae Bareli to Maligaon

Before this posting, Khare was principal chief mechanical engineer at the Modern Coach Factory in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, one of Indian Railways' coach-building units. He also briefly held additional charge as the factory's general manager in March 2026.

Three decades in the railways

Khare joined railway service on March 3, 1991, in South Central Railway, where he worked at Secunderabad, Vijayawada and the Lallaguda workshop. He later served at Northern Railway's Tughlakabad diesel shed in Delhi.

From 2000 to 2005 he was on deputation to RITES, the railways' engineering consultancy, as deputy general manager and additional general manager, working on infrastructure projects in India and Bangladesh. He then served as a director at the Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO) in Lucknow until 2013, working on design standards and technical improvements.

His other postings include additional divisional railway manager at Raipur in South East Central Railway and chief workshop manager at the Charbagh workshop in Lucknow, roles covering train operations, workshop modernisation and production, the release said.

A zone that spans the Northeast

According to the release, NF Railway's network covers 10 states and 36 Lok Sabha constituencies: all eight Northeastern states and parts of West Bengal and Bihar. It runs five divisions: Katihar, Alipurduar, Rangiya, Lumding and Tinsukia.

Khare takes over at a busy time for the zone. New lines are being built to connect state capitals in the region, including the Sivok-Rangpo line to Sikkim and the extension towards Kohima in Nagaland, and doubling and electrification works are under way across Assam.

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said last week that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had approved a northern bullet train corridor from Delhi that would end in Guwahati. That project would pass through NF Railway territory, including Siliguri, and is likely to be one of the large plans the zone handles in the coming years.

The release did not say who Khare succeeds or mention his immediate priorities.