OREANDA-NEWS. April 01, 2011. Smt. Pompa Babbar, has taken over as the charge of the office of Financial Commissioner and ex-officio Secretary, Railways. Prior to this, she was General Manager of Integral Coach Factory, Chennai. Belonging to 1975 batch of Indian Railways Accounts Services, she has worked in various capacities as Divisional Railway Manager (Alipurdar Division of Northeast Frontier Railway), Financial Adviser & Chief Accounts Officer (FA&CAO) in Western, Central and Northern Railways. She has also worked as Senior Professor, Railway Staff College, Vadodara. She has also worked in Rajkot Division, Workshop and Stores (Finance) at Lahod and Divisional Finance in Rajkot Division and Baroda Division.

She has worked as General Manger (Accounts), while on deputation to Gujarat State Electricity Board between 1995 and 1998. During 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.

She has visited Moscow to attend a meeting on Steering Committee for signing of MOUs between Indian Railways and Russian Railways. She has also visited France in connection with Accounting reforms. She has also visited Australia as part of a High Level Delegation for Study of Heavy Hual System.

As Advisor (Finance), Railway Board, she has rendered financial advice on new initiatives of Public Private Partnership and Joint Venture on Indian Railways.