Thanks This way it worked !!
print("To run with multigpu, please change --gpus based on the number of available GPUs in your machine.")
! tlt ssd train --gpus 4 --gpu_index 0 1 2 3 \
-e $SPECS_DIR/ssd_train_resnet18_kitti.txt \
-r $USER_EXPERIMENT_DIR/experiment_dir_unpruned_4GPUs\
-k $KEY \
-m $USER_EXPERIMENT_DIR/pretrained_resnet18/tlt_pretrained_object_detection_vresnet18/resnet_18.hdf5