● Ministry of railways(MoR) has terminated/stopped the recruitment of 'Group A Engineers' (hypocrisy is that MoR has kick-started to adopt modern technology and automation that too without engineers)

◆ As per Gazette of India CG-DL-E-10022022-233287 future recruitment of IRMS will be made through UPSC (Civil Services) and with same qualification of CSE.
By this decision; professional & specialised Engineering degrees like BTech/Mtech has lost its glitter and dreams of lakhs of engineers(graduated from IITs, NITs and other prestigious institutions) got shattered.
 After deduction of more than 250 seats of  Group A posts (of MoR) from ESE, It's really heart wrenching & appalling when highly qualified & well deserving engineers are living with depression & distress due to not having justifying & good profile job.  

◆ As Ministry of railways(Engineering led ministry) being run and managed by Engineers, So we demand:  

1. IRMS through ESE  (Because Engineers can do management work).

or
2. IRMS through separate exam like IFoS with technical paper (because engineers are the core of Railway)

or

3. Follow the erstwhile recruitment process for seats sharing which were being practiced untill 2019 i.e.  75% seats for technical officers( of 5 cadres recruited through UPSC ESE) and 25% seats for Non-tech officers ( of 3 cadres recruited through UPSC CSE). 
 
If Engineers are not getting good opportunities then either close all the IITs, NITs and other prestigious Engg colleges  or give us Group A posts.

All the engineers are depressed & devastated and strongly resist this futile decision, hence we engineers are requesting govt. to fullfill our demand by our folding hands.

 

Details: 

Ministry of railways halted/suspended recruitment in Indian Railways for its class-A officers since 2019. The well practiced system for the recruitment of young Class A officers for Indian Railways was functioning appropriately until 2019.

* Technical officers were being recruited through UPSC ESE( Engineering Services Examination) and Non-technical officers through UPSC CSE(Civil Services Examination). 

*Union govt has proposed a new cadre named IRMS(Indian Railway Management Service) i.e. unification of eight existing services of Indian Railways which are listed below:-

(a)Engineering Services Examination for

1. Indian Railway Service of Engineers (IRSE)  2.Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers(IRSME) 3.Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers(IRSEE) • Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers(IRSSE) • Indian Railway Stores Service (IRSS)

(Total 273 seats notified in ESE 2019 )

(b) Civil Services Examination for

1. Indian Railway Traffic Service(IRTS)  2.Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS) 3. Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS)

(Total 100 Seats approximately )

Railways (Group A) is a dream Job for engineers. IITs and NITs students have this governement job in their mind.

Technical  Aspirants are prepared and preparing for this prestigious organization but their dreams seems too be faded day by day .