Answer» Correct Answer - Option 2 : Vijaylakshmi Viswanathan
The correct answer is Vijaylakshmi Viswanathan.
- In 2002 Vijaylakshmi Viswanathan, a member of the 1967 batch, made it to the position of Financial Commissioner of the Indian Railways Board.
- Vijaylakshmi was also the first woman Divisional Rail Manager on the Indian Railways in the late 1990s.
- She was the additional manager general of the southern railway.
- She got promoted to the GM cadre and posted as an additional member of the railway board.
- Financial Commissioner for Railways:
- The Financial Commissioner for Railways was appointed in April 1923.
- This was followed by the Separation Convention of 1924 in which the Railway finances were separated from the General Finances of the Government of India.
- The process of the separation of the Accounting and Auditing functions on the Railways was completed in 1929.
- The Financial Commissioner for Railways represents the Ministry of Finance on the Railway Board.
- And also functions ex-officio as Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Railways in financial matters.
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