He is also having M. Tech degree from IIT/Kanpur in Environmental Engineering. He is from prestigious Indian Railway Service of Engineers of 1988 Exam batch. He has already put in more than 31 years of distinguished service in Railways and RVNL in various capacities in operations and maintenance, construction, bridge design, general administration and fast track implementation of turnkey projects.
While working in Railways he had Certificate of Merit (GM Award) 4(four) times. He also received the Railway Minister’s Award for the best project for Advanced Management Programme 2005-06. He was also receipt of Service Medal and certificate of Merit from Railway Minister for outstanding work for the year 2008-09. He has written more than 25 technical papers and presented in various forums.
Mr. Rajesh Prasad has earlier served as Executive Director of RVNL for over 3 years. In RVNL, flagship projects were completed and commissioned such as 3 nos. of major Workshop on turnkey basis in record time and also a Cable Stayed Bridge in Railway Yard at Barddhaman over busy Rajdhani route and its approach without affecting train operations. Live health monitoring system was conceived and installed by him in Barddhaman Road over Bridge – 1st of its kind on Indian Railways bridges. These projects diversified and added new dimension to RVNL. Besides these, 110 Km double and third line projects in High Density Route and 686M long railway tunnel in Left Wing Extremists area of Jharkhand have been commissioned and 33 Km of Metro in Kolkata has been constructed in different corridors and recently the Metro connecting Dakshineshwar has been commissioned and inaugurated by Hon’ble P.M.
He has visited Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Thailand and China in connection with various Metro works, projects related to Workshops and High Speed Railway.
