 He led Railways to achieve a quantum jump in infrastructure creation spending and improving connectivity, particularly in remote areas and challenging terrain like North Eastern India, Jammu and Kashmir etc.During his tenure, broad gauge line commissioning substantially increased the average km broad gauge lines commissioned to 7.7 km/day against past average of 4.3 km/day.He is also known for making India Railways more environment friendly by ensuring greater pace of electrification, installation of bio-toilets, commissioning of green corridors etc.