Mumbai: Central Railway GM retires after three key achievements

Updated On: 31 May, 2019 07:08 AM IST | | Rajendra B. Aklekar

Devendra Sharma was instrumental in getting the CR its first Rajdhani, the Parel Terminus project, and the Belapur-Uran railway project

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Devendra Sharma served as the Central Railway general manager for 20 years

Devendra Kumar Sharma, the longest-serving Central Railway general manager in the past 20 years — from November 2016 to May 2019 — said that the heavily saturated Central Railway is facing its most critical challenges currently. He had never faced such challenges in his career, said Sharma who retires today.

Sharma was personally congratulated on Tuesday by Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal for three big achievements in Mumbai — the first push-pull Rajdhani of Central Railway, completion of Parel Terminus and the new suburban sector of Uran till Kharkopar.