New Restructured Railway Board to focus on providing better services to its customers : V. K. Yadav, CRB
No Indian Railway officer shall be at disadvantage in this new restructured, ‘Indian Railway Management Service’
New Delhi (PIB) : Vinod Kumar Yadav, Chairman Railway Board has said restructuring of Railway Board was a long pending reform suggested by many reform committees constituted on Railways. The reforms as suggested by various committees from time to time including Prakash Tandon Committee (1994) have been largely adopted.
Addressing media persons, Yadav said that the idea of restructuring the Railway Board is to provide cohesiveness and consequently better services to passengers and freight customers. In the new restructured Railway Board, there will be one CRB/CEO and four members on functional basis Member Infrastructure, Member Rolling Stock & Traction, Member Operation & Business Development and Member Finance.
Independent Members will be inducted in Railway Board as non-executive Members who will be in advisory role. They will not be involved in day-to-day functioning of Railways.
The modalities of restructuring the Railway Board will be decided by alternative mechanism. Exact number of non-executive Members will be decided by Government.
The idea to unify all eight services of Indian Railways into one service namely ‘Indian Railways Management Service’ is to break the departmentalism and make officers work in cohesion for the development of Railways.
Yadav said that officers of Indian Railways only will be considered for CEO post and no outsider will be posted as CEO.
Secondly career growth of Indian Railways officers is assured. No officer of Indian Railways shall be at disadvantage in this new restructured service.
He also added that offering apex level to the General Managers is a step to empower them for a better coordination with State authorities to take decisions swiftly and independently. This will enable Railway Board to concentrate on policy framing, strategic planning and coordination of Zonal Railways.
Yadav said that the priority of Indian Railways is to improve infrastructure and remove the bottlenecks. Indian Railway is aiming to run trains at 160 kmph on Kolkata-Delhi and Delhi-Mumbai corridor. We are hopeful that 3000 route km of dedicated freight corridor will be completed by 2021.
In next 10 years, Indian Railways will have independent dedicated freight corridor on all freight routes. Indian Railways aims to run trains on demand and redevelop stations under PPP mode.
In last five years, Railways investment has increased 3 to 4 times and projects have been prioritized into supercritical and critical to speed up upgradation of infrastructure. Railways has set a high growth target and to achieve this nimble and cohesive decision-making is the foremost requirement.
In other side social media war started between Officers against IRMS
“We were never consulted nor consented”
Dear Friends,
You must be aware of the recent development regarding the merger of the railways civil services with engineering services. It is one of the dark days in the history of civil services where the govt rips apart one service after another and not far are the days where other services might also stand to loose their identy.
They write, To be clear, we are not against the merger nor we are status quoist. We are simply against the destruction of civil services identity.
At this moment of crisis we call upon our brotherhood to come with and show us some of your solidarity in ensuring our civil services identity is protected.
Kindly share the matter with your contacts sources official non-official personal etc to ensure the news is well spread out.
We were never consulted nor consented. The decision is highly skewed in favour of engineering services. Please make our voices heard.
A lot of officers of civil side, requested to his colleagues that please do share your views on social media and add the hashtags #Yesfortwoservices #NoToIRMS in your tweets and messages (both are trending at the moment).