Senior South-Eastern Railways officers transferred

The Railways ministry Thursday transferred senior officers in South Eastern Railway, including those responsible for signalling & overall security, around three weeks after the train accident in Odisha that killed nearly 300 passengers. The transfers are being seen as a fallout of the accident even though Railways called the process routine.

The ministry transferred Kharagpur Divisional Railway Manager Shujat Hashmi and South Eastern Railway (SER) zones Principal Chief Signal & Telecommunication Engineer P M Sikdar, Principal Chief Safety Officer Chandan Adhikary, Principal Chief Security Commissioner D B Kasar, & Principal Chief Commercial Manager Md Owais.

Hashmi was replaced by K R Chaudhari, chairman of the Railway Recruitment Board, Ajmer.