With a sigh of relief the Railway Board has finally got its Member Traffic. Devi Prasad Pandey has taken charge today at the Rail Bhavan. The orders for his appointment came yesterday.
A stay order had been put in place on July 3, by the Bangalore Bench of Central Administrative Tribunal on the appeal of N.C Sinha who claimed that he was entitled to the position by virtue of his seniority. The hearing on the stay order took place on July 23 where Railway told its reasons as to why it should be allowed to continue with the process and also had to establish that there was no impropriety in the process.
D.P Pandey is a 1976 batch officer of the Indian Railway Traffic Service. Before this he was serving as General Manager for South Central Railways since April 2013. He also served as Additional Member (Traffic), Railway Board prior to his appointment as General Manager.
