K&R Rail Engineering Limited appointed Shri K.P. Kalra, a senior and experienced Railway Technocrat as the President of the Company with effect from July 6, 2023. Shri K.P. Kalra has 19+ years of experience in execution of Complex Railway Projects. He has been associated with high value projects such as (i) 1.5 Billion USD Hyderabad Metro Rail, (ii) USD 110 Million Jaipur Metro, (iii) USD 300 Million Western Dedicated Freight Corridor and (iv) 1 Billion LLTR, Mirage (MLU).

He was worked as Chief Operating Officer of Texmaco Rail & Engineering Limited, a premier multi-discipline, multi-unit engineering and infrastructure Company, with 5 manufacturing units specializing in Rolling Stock, Steel Foundry, Traction and Coaching, Heavy Structure Fabrication and New Technologies into Rail Safety Products. The facilities extend over 170 acres around Kolkata with Global ties ups with Wabtec, Touax and ALTPRO. Sigma Rail is focusing on bringing in latest products to fulfill Indian and Global requirements.

He has also served as a Director of Strategic Sourcing in EMD Locomotives India Pvt. Ltd., (A Caterpillar Company). He also served in senior position in Hitachi, a Japanese conglomerate diversified into many industrial & consumer businesses with global sales of USD 100 Billion.

He will be Incharge of Strategic Planning of K&R Rail and will be instrumental in procuring major orders in the dedicated freight corridor and other expansion projects of the Indian Railways as well as handing international projects across the globe and executing Joint Ventures with equipment manufacturers and other global companies who wish to participate in the Indian Railway Infrastructure Projects.