RITES Limited announced that "Shri Rajeev Kumar Dayal (Vertical Head/UI)" has superannuated on 31 October 2023 and thereby ceased to be among the Senior Management of the Company and "Shri Lalit Kumar (GM/Civil) has been designated as Vertical Head/UI w.e.f 01 November 1, 2023 and is thereby included in the Senior Management of the Company. Mr. Lalit Kumar graduated in Civil Engg from BITS, Pilani in 1991. He has nearly 31 years of professional experience in different fields of Civil Engg.

ranging from Detailed Design Consultancy, Construction Supervision, Alignment/Feasibility study for Road/Railway Tunnels, Tendering and Contract Management for consultancy works in tunneling/bridges projects of national importance. He joined RITES in August 2012 and is presently working as Regional Head,/Urban Infrastructure. Previously he has worked in the capacity of GM/CED/SBU Head and AGM/CED.

He has been responsible for various Alignment Studies, Feasibility Studies, Detailed Project Reports, Construction supervision of more than 250 tunnels in RITES for NR, NFR, SCR, SECR, NWR and other zonal railways, DFCC, NHIDCL, BRO, PWD etc. He has executed consultancy projects for various iconic bridge projects like Bogibeel, Muriganga, Bridge no 39, 43 and numerous ROB. projects.

He has international exposure and has executed Tunnelling Study for Mayumba-Mbigou-Franceville New Standard Gauge Railway Line in Gabon" for Govt. of Gabon and DPR for Assaita- Tadjourah Rail Link for client Ethiopian Railway Corporation. Previously he has worked with IRCON in different capacities.

He has worked for mega projects of Railways such as Udhampur- Srinagar- Baramulla new BG Rail Link (tunnelling of approx 45 km) and was instrumental in Construction Supervision of prestigious Pir Panjal Tunnel (11km long). Besides, he worked on Sivok (West Bengal) ­ Rangpo (Sikkim) New BG Rail Line Project (tunnelling of approx 33 km).