The Railway Board of 

Indian Railways has appointed Keshav Chandra as the new ‘member mechanical’.
He is currently serving as the General Manager of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), Guwahati and will continue to hold the additional post until further orders.
Previously, Chandra held Additional General Manager post in East Central Railway (Hajipur) and Northern Railway (New Delhi).
During his career, he worked as Divisional Railway Manager, Ambala Division of Northern Railway and as Executive Director, Research Design and Standards Organization (RDSO), the research arm of Indian Railways, and headed both the Testing and Quality Assurance Directorates.
He is credited with first set of successful trials for the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
He also worked as Railway Advisor for Europe and is well versed with the latest railway technologies and is credited with having brought several new technologies in Indian Railways.
Chandra has also written a paper, titled ‘Donate Once In A Life Time’ (DOIALT) scheme which advocates that if every healthy Indian donates blood only once in a lifetime, the shortage of safe blood in the country would be wiped out.
