Shri Sunil Kumar has taken over as Managing Director, Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). He will continue to hold the post of Advisor Safety in Railway Board in addition to his present post until further orders. An officer of the 1976 batch of Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS), Shri Sunil Kumar has done his MBA and MA (Political Science) from the University of Allabhabad. Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) was established in the year 1986 by Ministry of Railways with focus to provide consulting and IT services to Indian Railways - as partners to conceptualize and realize technology driven business transformation initiatives. CRIS work with Indian Railways to build new products or services and to implement prudent business and technology strategies in today's dynamic digital environment.
During his long career, he has worked as Adviser (PG),CPM(IT), N.Rly; Member (Traffic) Running Allowance Committee Railway Board; DRM (Vadodara)’ ED (Computerisation and Information Systems) Railway Board, Chief Commercial Manager (G) Northern Railway; Director Traffic Commercial (Claims) Railway board; Director (Moverment) in Ministry of Food, Govt. of India; Deputy Chief Commercial Supdt. Passenger Reservation System, Southern Railway, Madras; Sr. Divisional Traffic Supdt. Bangalore; Sr. Divisional Comml. Supdt. Palghat, Kerala; divisional Operating Supdt, Madras; Area Officer, Madras.
His most notable contribution while working as ED (C&IS) in Railway Board has been the concept of Internet Ticketing and UTS which has proved to be a boon to millions of travelers daily. His fields of specialization are usage of computer for various management applications by developing software and humanware in-house, as well as bringing in novel concepts in the field of multi-modalism.
While he completed the computerization project of Passenger Reservation System in Southern Railway in 89 days against the target of 15 months and has computerized every single office where he has worked since 1985, he gave the unique concept of Port side Container Terminal (PSCT) to CONCOR which today contributes more than 30% to CONCOR’s Rs. 1000+crore revenue. The first PSCT in the country was established by him at Madras in the year 1990. His paper on “IT vision 2025 for Indian Railways” written in 2002 is still the guiding document for all computerization efforts on Indian Railways.
He was awarded the Railway Minister’s medal, the highest honour of the Railway, in the year 1984 for his outstanding contribution as Sr. DCS Palghat Division in improving the earning of Railways by more than Rs. 1.5 crore through innovative means of raising revenue and also bringing in very high standards of services to the traveling public as platforms as well as on trains.
Sunil Kumar has visited Holland in connection with knowledge transfer related to multi modal operations and Bangladesh as member of the delegation which signed Indo-Bangladesh accord on sharing of transit facilities between the two countries on the reverine route. He has been to USA to represent Indian Railways on Information Security deliberations with US Government.
