Profile of CVO, HCL

Er Harsimran Singh, IRSE has joined as Chief Vigilance Officer of Hindustan Copper Ltd. He is Gold Medallist in BE from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh. He has held several important posts including Chief Engineer (Construction), South Eastern Railway and Chief Project Manager/RVNL/Kolkata. He has over 21 years experience of working in Eastern Railway and South Eastern Railway, Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd.

Shri Singh has expertise of implementation of various kinds of infrastructure projects of Railway and Metro Systems. He has headed 48KM of Metro projects in Kolkata and Commissioned elevated Metro line from Joka to Majerhat (10.5 KM Stretch) with 7 stations. The Majerhat Metro station across suburban railway station and canal is first of its kind. He has successfully planned, executed and commissioned 6 Railway workshops from concept to commissioning for Diesel and Electric Locomotives, DMUs, EMUs, Metro trains and Vande Bharat trains. Further he has experience of various types of special infrastructure like Cable Stayed ROB.

Shri Singh has dealt with several types of tenders and contracts at all stages including tendering, award, execution of work, finalisation and arbitration at different levels in Zonal Railways and PSU.

He has received Certification in Project Management by Institute of Project Management Certification (IPMC) in Nov, 2012, Certification for Advanced Management from INSEAD, Singapore in Aug, 2018 and Certification for Advanced Management from The Iclif Leadership and Governance Centre, Kuala Lumpur in Sep, 2018.

He has knack of writing technical literature and has published nine technical papers in various journals and presented in various seminars. He has also published a book titled- “Engineer’s Handbook for Implementation of Industrial Projects”. Further he has published various coffee table books including the one about Joka-Taratala Metro unveiled by Hon’ble Minister of Railways.