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, ticket collectors etc.
This directly impacts the train operations on a daily basis, said a leader of North Central Railway Employees Sangh (NCRES), asking for privacy.
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.
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