Bhubaneswar, Jan 26: Pramod Kumar Jena has become the new Principal Chief Operations Manager (PCOM) of East Coast Railway (ECoR).

 Jena, an officer of the 1987batch of the Indian Railways Traffic Service (IRTS), has taken over as the head of the operations wing of the highest-loading Railway Zone in the country at a crucial point of time when the Zone has been given a tough target of 200million tonnes of freight loading this fiscal year.

 Prior to his new appointment he was working as PCOM of South East Central Railway atBilaspur and before that working as Principal Chief Commercial Manager (PCCM) in South Eastern Railway at Kolkata.

Jena, a native of Jagatsinghpur district has joined Indian Railways after completing MA in Economics from JNU in1984.

He has had all-round experience of Railway working and has served with distinction in the Freight Operations, Coaching Operations, Safety, Planning, General Administration Departments of the Railways. As the head of the Operations Department, his immediate priorities include achieving of the stiff loading target, improved punctual running of trains, putting infrastructure planning, better logistics supply to industries and strategic connectivity to ports.