First AC electric locomotive to run in Indian railway system with road number 20202, built by Siemens, Brown-Boveri, Alsthom, Krupp, Kraus-Maffei, Schneider-Westinghouse, La Brugeoise Et Nivelle, SFAC (Group for Study & Electrification of Railways at Single Phase 50 cycles). Imported in November 1958 by Indian Railways. It was dedicated to service of the nation on 1st January 1959. It was the advent of 25 KV AC traction on the Indian Railway System. This four axled, 74 ton loco comes with Bo-Bo bogie type, 2840 hp engine, Spring-borne Force-ventilated fully suspended AEC-Alstom-Siemens MG 710A traction motors, Monomotor bogies with air brakes for loco & vacuum train brakes as original equipment. Regenerative braking provided. Motors are permanently connected in parallel. Speed controlled by transformer taps. Four water-cooled Ignitrons rectifiers. Fitted with Faiveley AM-12 pantos.

Christened as 'Jagjivan Ram' after the then railway minister Shri Jagjivan Ram who inaugurated this loco. Earlier belonged to Kanpur shed later transferred to Asansol. On November 25, 1960, it hauled a special train for the congress of ECAFE (Economic Commission for Asia and Far-East) from Asansol to Pathardih via Pradhankhunta. The locomotive hauled various prestigious trains of Eastern Railway including Howrah-Delhi Kalka Mail, Coal Field Express, Black Diamond Express and Deluxe Express (rechristened as Poorva Express) on the Howrah-Asansol-Dhanbad-Mughalsarai route. It covered a total of 38,75,000 km till the end of its service life on October 22nd, 1997.