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The South Coast Railway (SCoR) zone, India’s 18th railway zone, volition beryllium afloat operational from Monday (June 1, 2026), marking a important milestone successful the region’s railway infrastructure. Headquartered successful Visakhapatnam, the portion was constituted pursuing a gazette notification issued by the Ministry of Railways connected May 4, 2026.
The administrative set-up of the caller portion is successful place, and Sandeep Mathur is the wide manager, railway sources told The Hindu connected Sunday (May 31, 2026).
Mr. Mathur has been overseeing infrastructure projects, including capableness augmentation and way development, peculiarly the third- and fourth-line projects successful the Visakhapatnam area.
The SCoR portion has 4 divisions: Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Guntakal and Guntur. It covers a obstruction web crossed Andhra Pradesh and parts of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Its main officers see Vineet Kumar (principal main operations manager), T. K. Sinha (principal main electrical engineer), B. S. K. Raj Kumar (principal main engineer), P. Hariprasad (principal fiscal advisor), L. V. S. S. Patrudu (principal main unit officer), D. Satyanarayana (chief commercialized manager/co-ordination) and B. Chandra Sekhar (officer connected peculiar duty).
Operating temporarily from the VMRDA iconic building, ‘The Deck’, successful Siripuram, the portion is designed to negociate astir 17,000 employees and grip important freight and rider traffic. The imperishable office is presently nether operation astatine Mudasarlova, for which Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the instauration chromatic connected January 8, 2025.
