Pradeep Kumar, General Manager, North Centre Railways, will hold additional charge of Northern Railways as well. This post was vacated by VK Gupta. Kumar is presently holding the post of Railway Electrification (Core), Allahabad. A pass-out of 1977 batch, Kumar was earlier posted as General Manager, North Central Railways on 1 January, 2014.
He has worked as executive director of training and man power planning, Ministry of Railways. He has also headed South Central Railways, engineering department from September 2007 to August 2012.