“I Am Safe.. Let Public Go And Enjoy Their Karma”

An interesting take on Railway Restructuring

By Rajaram, ExMD/KRCL

Thanks to Sri Piyush Goyal, Railway Board and Government of India a golden era now for engineers of India !! How?

Almost all metro projects are headed by IAS.

Reg professionalism less said the better. Bridge engineering used to be top proud seat but got progressively closed down . Then new culture of prime consultants, consultants etc layers finally even to certify bills put in place to assure safety while paying contractors but still assure fair returns to stakeholders.

The system has become putrid.

Anyway simple stores code application contract tender for design construction including engineering and trouble shooting in place, every technical job is now open to non technical person. Management is key word.

So UPSC will scrap all engineering services for railways and include IRMS under allied services in IAS exam I think. That’s rational consequence.

Minister says depending on aptitude the officer gets posted whether infrastructure or business development or rolling stock and traction.

So to my mind Railway Staff college may conduct to check for aptitude like we do for babies under a year age, which object the baby crawls to perhaps. By the way, why Railway University now At Vadodara? Not needed perhaps.

RDSO can be shut down and test facilities may be handed over to CSIR perhaps with all those assets.

Testing and certification too can be outsourced.

Trains and services privatized, infrastructure too maintenance privatized with another third party doing the QA checks.

So who will go to Zambia or Malaysia as tech experts from railways? RITES will have a problem to claim railway technical expertise. May be reverse technical advice will happen from those countries to us.

Happy times ahead with no responsibility but full safety to own self : “I Am Safe.. let public go and enjoy their karma”.