Shri. Desh Ratan Gupta, has taken over as Chief Administrative Officer/Construction, South Western Railway, Bangalore Cantonment. An IRSE Officer of 1986 Batch, he has about 33 years of diverse experience – Railway tracks, Bridges, Buildings, Planning, Design, Real estate and policy making. He has undertaken time bound Doubling, Bridge works and Gauge Conversion projects of Railways as Dy. Chief Engineer and Chief Engineer, Construction on Southern Railway and Northern Railway. He has worked in Railway Board as Director & Executive Director in Land and Environment Directorate. He also worked on deputation as GM, Rail Land Development Authority. He has travelled abroad on various technical and higher management programmes to Washington, Toronto (Canada), UK, Singapore and Malaysia. Prior to joining as CAO, Construction, Bangalore, he has worked as CAO, Construction, North, East Central Railway at Patna.