Pompa Babbar has taken over as the Financial Commissioner and ex-officio secretary of Indian Railways. Prior to this, she was General Manager of Integral Coach Factory, Chennai.
A 1975 batch Indian Railways Accounts Services officer, Ms Babbar had worked in various capacities as divisional railway manager (Alipurdar division of Northeast Frontier Railway), financial adviser and chief accounts officer in Western, Central and Northern Railways. She also worked as senior professor in Railway Staff College, Vadodara. She had earlier worked as General Manger (Accounts), while on deputation to Gujarat State Electricity Board between 1995 and 1998.
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more... her tenure as senior professor, Vadodara, she had conducted courses for financial management, training for trainers, communication skills, stress management, transactional analysis and team building, a railways release said.
She was instrumental in signing of MOUs between Indian Railways and Russian Railways. She also visited France in connection with accounting reforms, and visited Australia as part of a high level delegation for study of heavy hual system.
As advisor (finance), Railway Board, she had rendered financial advice on Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiatives and also of IR’s joint ventures.