Ajay Shukla Takes Charge as New Member Traffic, Railway Board

New Delhi,
Ajay Shukla  has taken the charge as the new Member Traffic here today, Railway Board. It is in addition to his own duties as Additional Member (Commercial) Railway Board.

Shri Shukla is a senior officer of 1979 batch of Indian Railway Traffic Service.  He has rich and varied experience of working on several important posts in the Indian Railways, like Chief Passenger Traffic Manager and Chief Safety Officer, Northern Railway; Divisional Railway Manger, Dhanbad, East Central Railway; Chief Operations Manager, North Western Railway and South East Central Railway; Additional General Manager, East Central Railway. He also attended training courses in Australia and France

Shri Shukla did his Graduation in Science and Post Graduation in  History from Lucknow University and was University Representative of Delhi Press Group of Magazines during university period. He started writing short articles in Hindi as well as in English since college time and more than 100 articles written by him were published in various magazines and newspapers during college/university period between 1973-78. Some of the books in English authored by Shri Shukla include (i) Silent Raindrop – Collection of poetry, (ii) Philosophy of Bhagvada Gita, and (iii) Four Lane Expressway to Stress Management and Happiness and some of popular books written by him in Hindi are: ’Taj Mahal ka Tender’ (Play), ‘Doosra Adhyay’ (Play) and‘Pratibodh’ (1977) (Poem) and  ‘Prashnchihan’(Collection of poems).

For his outstanding service in office, Shri Shukla won various prestigious Awards which include DRM’s Award, General Manager Award, Railway Minister’s Award, and Railway Board’s Silver Medal for Rajbhasha.  In addition, he won Sahitya Kala Parishad National Award for his play ‘Doosra Adhyaya’, Mohan Rakesh Samman by Sahitya Kala Parishad for his play ‘Taj Mahal Ka Tender’ and National Award by All India Radio (Akashvani 2000) for Play ‘Hum Hongey Kaamyaab’

Shri Shukla has many e-books to his credit which include (i) Yoga-Karma to Nirvana,(ii) Awakening, (iii) Silent Raindrops, (iv) Muddle Management (v) My Life; as a Ghost and (vi) Four Lane Expressway to Stress Management and Happiness.

Shri Shukla takes interest in Yoga-Prayanaam, Music, Chess, Cricket and Photography.