Shri Abhishek Kumar is an Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS) officer of 2001 examination batch, holding the post of Executive Director Finance (Budget) at Railway Board. He holds a degree in Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering from the Regional Engineering College , Calicut, (Now, NIT Calicut ). He also has PGDM (Exec.) in Finance from IMT Ghaziabad (CDL). He has experience of more than 20 years in Railways as Financial Advisor dealing with expenditure and earnings proposals for Railways, Government Accounting, Budgeting, Internal check etc. He has worked in these areas at all levels i.e Division, Head Quarter and at Ministry. At Railway Board he has worked in the Budget Directorate at Director level dealing with the preparation and presentation of the Railway Budget and coordinating with Ministry of Finance in this regard. He has also been associated with the pioneering project of Accrual based Accounting for Indian Railways as its Chief Project Manager. Prior to his current assignment as Executive Director (Budget) at Railway Board, he was on deputation to Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) as General Manager (Finance) and also looking after Accounting IT Applications i.e IPAS and GST module.
