Railways having 1,26000 in Safety Jobs
The High Level Safety Review Committee (HLSRC) headed by Anil Kakodkar has demanded the Indian Railways to make full safety jobs within six months.
The control panel has suggested bearing away the task of enrolling safety faculty form the Railway Recruitment Board and introduction of an IT posted recruitment scheme to quicken it. It suggested a rime bound of only 3 months just in case of necessary safety jobs. “The commission powerfully mandate that no vacancies are admitted to persist in respect of all-important safety classes of supervisors and faculty for more than 3 months,” says the control panel report.
In addition to this, an officeholder in the railway control board should incline ability to make recruitments in safety related jobs in a time adhered manner. The control panel that passed on its news report last workweek has constitute over 1,26000 safety related jobs lying down of manpower in safety classes such as supervisors and others.
Technician in diverse departments ASMs (Assistant station Masters), Loco pilots etc in almost all interactions. “Shortage of staff is hampering the maintenance of assets affecting safety,” the report said.
The citizens committee depicts a scenario of helplessness as far as recruitments were came to because these are arranged directly by the Railway Recruitment Board. Thus, it advised that the job of recruiting supervisors and safety faculty should be assigned to an officer in the Railway Board.
The committee also stressed innovation of additional posts for suitable maintenance of safety. This, it said, can be done by multi-disciplinary teams.
Favouring a little but efficient manpower, the control panel also suggested retrenchment of railway faculty in a big way. For this it suggested employments in “non-core and non safety areas” be outsourced.
“A few such domains are mechanized making clean and hygiene associated works in motorcoaches, railway stations and other work places, linen management, constructing maintenance, protection of non-core administrations such as offices etc. These should be outsourced as a policy to economise monetary value and acquire good service,” the control panel report said.
