<p>Before joining Border Roads, he was serving as additional director general in financial planning directorate in the defence ministry headquarters, a ministry release said.<br />Shankar was commissioned into Corps of Engineers (Madras Sappers) in 1972 and has held various staff, instructional and command appointments.<br /><br />Some important posts he held were as commanding officer of an engineer regiment; commander of an engineer brigade; deputy military secretary at integrated headquarters of ministry of defence; commandant of selection centre east, Allahabad; and chief engineer at headquarters of Eastern Command. <br /><br />He has been an instructor at the College of Military Engineering, Pune, the Indian Military Academy, Deharadun, and the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.</p>
<p>Before joining Border Roads, he was serving as additional director general in financial planning directorate in the defence ministry headquarters, a ministry release said.<br />Shankar was commissioned into Corps of Engineers (Madras Sappers) in 1972 and has held various staff, instructional and command appointments.<br /><br />Some important posts he held were as commanding officer of an engineer regiment; commander of an engineer brigade; deputy military secretary at integrated headquarters of ministry of defence; commandant of selection centre east, Allahabad; and chief engineer at headquarters of Eastern Command. <br /><br />He has been an instructor at the College of Military Engineering, Pune, the Indian Military Academy, Deharadun, and the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.</p>