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Cabinet nod to organisational restructuring of Indian Railways, central service IRMS to be created

Railway Board will be headed by Chairman Railway Board who will work as the CEO with 4 members and some independent members.

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The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved a massive organisational restructuring of the Indian Railways as it gave its nod to the unification of the existing eight Group A services of the Railways into a Central Service called Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) among other steps. 

Railway Board will no longer be organised on departmental lines, and replaced with a leaner structure organised on functional lines, the government said. 

Under the new organisational structure approved by the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Railway Board will be headed by Chairman Railway Board (CRB) who will work as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with 4 members and some independent members. 

Unification of services has been recommended by various committees for reforming Railways,  including the Prakash Tandon Committee (1994), Rakesh Mohan Committee (2001), Sam Pitroda Committee (2012) and Bibek Debroy Committee (2015), a statement issued by the government said. 

The reforms have been undertaken with "overwhelming support and consensus of Railway officers, at a two-day conference "Parivartan Sangoshthi" held on December 7-8, 2019."

The modalities and unification of the services will be worked out in consultation with Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) and the approval of Alternate Mechanism appointed by Cabinet in order to ensure fairness and transparency, the government said. 

Alternate Mechanism to be appointed by Cabinet in order to ensure fairness and transparency. The process will be completed within a year.

The steps have been taken as the Railways moves ahead with its programme to modernise and provide the highest standards of safety, speed and services to the passengers with a proposed investment of Rs 50 lakh crore over the next 12 years. 

Creation of the new service will be done in consultation with DoPT and UPSC to facilitate recruitment in the next recruitment year and will enable Railways to recruit engineers/non-engineers as per need, and offer equality of opportunity to both categories in career progression, the government statement said. 

The independent members, the number to be decided by the competent authority from time to time, will be highly distinguished professionals with deep knowledge and 30 years of experience including at the top levels in industry, finance, economics and management fields.

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