INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
AGRA: The response to an RTI query has exposed that more than 3.11 lakh posts out of 14,75,623 Group C posts and 3,018 out of the sanctioned
18,881 gazetted cadre positions are lying vacant in numerous departments of the Indian Railways
A bulk of the 39 railway zones and production systems do not have the required personnel, according to the data supplied in reaction to the
query submitted by this TOI correspondent.The 3,11,438 uninhabited Group C posts consist of jobs for Level 1 category staff, consisting of
trackspersons, pointsmen, electrical works, signal and telecom assistants
A majority of the uninhabited Group C posts consist of that of engineers, professionals, clerks, guards/train supervisor, station masters,
This directly impacts the train operations on a daily basis, said a leader of North Central Railway Employees Sangh (NCRES), asking for
The matter associated to vacant posts remains a common problem in every long-term arbitrator machinery (PNM) meeting with authorities at
divisional, zonal, and at the level of train head office
Administrative officers are aware of the problems brought on by the absence of the needed labor force
However the government is not interested in working with long-term personnel
They are keen towards privatisation of the railways, he added
As per the information, 5 out of nine posts at the apex level of the ministry of trains were lying vacant till September 15, 2022
23 out of 59 greater administrative group + posts, 44 out of 377 posts of higher administrative group, 77 out of 1,700 senior
administrative-level posts were uninhabited
Department-wise vacancies of gazetted officers consisted of 289 posts of Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS), 100 Indian Railway
Personnel Service (IRPS), 260 Indian Railway Service of Engineers (IRSE), 154 Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE), 324 Indian
Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE), 43 Indian Railway Store Service (IRSS), 215 Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers
(IRSME), 476 Indian Railway Health Service (IRHS), 145 Indian Railway Protection Force Service (IRPFS), 321 Indian Railway Traffic Service
(IRTS), 113 basic classification, and 578 miscellaneous
The optimum vacancy of 1,274 out of 2,785 sanctioned posts was in the junior scale, followed by 926 jobs out of 5,698 posts of Group B
A senior Indian Railway Traffic Service officer informed TOI, The high number of uninhabited posts particularly of group C has been a
subject of significant issue impacting general operations of the Indian Railways
The government is expanding the railway network, and high-speed rail operations have ended up being a need
In order to update operational safety and public convenience, the uninhabited posts should be filled in a time-bound way
Echoing similar beliefs, a 35-year-old supervisor stated, I have actually been working double shifts for as much as 16 hours at a stretch
since we do not have personnel to eliminate us
I remain sleep-deprived and have actually not had the ability to depart to spend time with household, because of personnel crunch
In November in 2015, the National Railway Mazdoor Union (NRMU) of the Central Railways had actually staged a tranquil demonstration at the
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus versus 28,705 uninhabited posts in the railways.Rail minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, in his reply to a question in
the Rajya Sabha, had actually admitted to this glut of vacancies for all posts and said directions had actually been provided to the zonal
railway divisions for filling up the posts, especially in the security and technical categories.
