Ravindra Kumar Jain, Managing Director, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd., is an officer of ‘Indian Railway Service of Engineers’ (IRSE) of 1986 batch. He completed his B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from MNIT, Jaipur and then did M.Tech. in ‘Environmental Engineering’ from University of Roorkee (now IIT, Roorkee).

He has vast experience of Civil Engineering and Project works. He has worked as Chief Administrative Officer/Construction in Eastern Railway, Kolkata and Executive Director, Civil Engineering/Planning, Ministry of Railways for about one year in 2019.

He has also worked as Divisional Railway Manager, Samastipur (East Central Railway) during 2017-19. His tenure is remembered for popularizing Mithila paintings on Madhubani Station and also on Bihar Sampark Kranti train. He received special appreciation at Minister’s level for this incredible work. He was also adjudged as Outstanding DRM in 2018 for manning large number of unmanned LCs in a very short time-bound schedule.

He has been awarded at various occasions with ‘General Manager’s medal’ and also ‘Letter of Appreciation’ for meritorious works on various occasions.

He has gained international experience at Tokyo, Kyoto & Osaka(Japan) as team leader for studying track maintenance practices in Japanese Railways as part of ‘Track Maintenance Group’ of Indian Railways in 2019. He attended ‘Executive Leadership Programme’ at Bocconi Business School, Milan, Italy in May, 2018.

DFC project picked up momentum after Shri Jain took over as its Managing Director. In a short period of 15 months since he took over as MD, he has successfully commissioned more than 1000 kms of DFC route – 659 kms in Western DFC from Rewari to Palanpur and 351 kms in Eastern DFC from Khurja to Bhaupur.