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GMs post to be upgraded to apex level: Chairman Railway Board
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SME Times News Bureau | 27 Dec, 2019
Chairman Railway Board V.K. Yadav on Friday asserted that with the
organisational restructuring of the railways through the unification of
the existing eight Group A services into one central service called the
Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS), no official will face a career
growth problem and also the post of the General Managers in the
national transporter will be upgraded to the apex level so that they can
take any decision in the field instantly.
He also refuted the
claims that the national transporter was going to increase the passenger
fares as he said that there is no such thinking and added that it was
only doing a study over the rationalisation of freight fares.
In
an interview to IANS at his office in Rail Bhavan here, Yadav said, "The
government has decided to restructure railway board on functional line.
Currently, there are eight board members and we are going to
restructure it into four functions. They are infrastructure, rolling
stock and traction, operation and business development and finance."
He
said now there will be four board members and beside these, there will
be a non-executive independent member, who will have an experience of
more than 30 years and they will be able to give their inputs and
suggestions to the railway board.
He was responding to a question
over the government's approval of organisational restructuring of the
railways through the unification of the existing eight Group A services
into one central service called the IRMS.
Speaking about the
motive of the restructuring of the organisation, he said, "It has been
restructured in such a way that the challenges of railways and board
like issues of passenger amenities and increase in freight loading are
addressed."
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday approved the organisational restructuring of the railways.
Yadav stressed that new recruitments in the railway services will now be done through the UPSC.
"I even met UPSC chairman and discussed the modalities for the railways," Yadav said.
Taking
the concerns of the General Managers, Yadav emphasised that the
government has decided to upgrade the post of General Managers to the
apex level.
"The motive behind this step is that the General Managers now will be empowered to take any decision in the field," Yadav said.
When
asked about many former Chairmen and other railway officials
questioning the organisational restructuring of the railways, he said,
"There were silos and all the committees which were formed earlier have
said that."
"The problem was that as there were eight services
many times it was found that people focused more on their services and
the corporate objective of the railways took a back seat. Thus to keep
those things away the government took this decision," he said.
He
also stressed that before implementing a big decision there are always
some hiccups. "But we will together overcome it with only one motive of
working for the growth of the railways," he added.
When it was
pointed out that many railway officers were fearing a block in their
career growth, he reassured them that no official will face a career
growth problem.
"Many officers are thinking that due to the
organisational restructuring some officers may face a problem in their
career growth. I want to assure them that no one will face any kind of
problem in their career growth and even the apex level post which was
earlier only 10 in railways will now be increased to 34," he said.
Yadav
added that all 34 posts will be open for all services. "So any railway
officer can reach there as it is open for all. And this has opened the
new dynamics for the railway officials," Yadav added.
When asked
about the passenger fare rationalisation, he said, "I would not comment
on rationalisation of passenger fares. I can only say that it has not
been thought of as of now. Rationalisation of freight fares was
discussed yesterday (Thursday)."
His remarks came a day after
some sections of the media misquoted that the national transporter was
studying rationalisation of passenger and freight fares.
Clarifying
his stand, Yadav said, "I discussed the fare rationalisation issue as
we found that the freight rates at a number of places are higher than
roadways, which is leading to a loss for the railways."
"So we
are studying the fare rationalisation in the national interest, as it is
more environment friendly. We have to reduce the logistics cost and
increase the freight services of the railways to support economic
growth. And yesterday, I said that that we are only doing a study so
that we can improve the freight share," Yadav said.
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