Hopes for further seamless commutes on the Central Railway (CR) revived on Friday as the original planner of multi-modal integration of CR stations, Ram Karan Yadav, took charge as its General Manager. Yadav is a senior officer of the Indian Railways Service of Engineers (IRSE) from the 1986 batch.

Yadav was instrumental in building Dadar station’s widest footover bridge (FOB), integrating Ghatkopar station with the Mumbai Metro station, and remodelling Thane, Kalyan and CSMT. “As chief project director (station development) on CR, Yadav was involved in the development of the inter-modal station at Ajni, Nagpur, the integration of Metro station at Ghatkopar, remodelling of Thane, Kalyan and CSMT and monetisation of Railway land at Matunga station,” a CR spokesperson said.