NEW DELHI: Barely days after the personnel department (DoPT) allowed railways to recruit engineers through two different examinations, the railway board has notified that now there will be eight streams under the Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS), which the Cabinet had approved in 2019.
The eight services have been notified as a “sub-cadre” under IRMS and these include traffic, accounts, personnel, civil electrical, mechanical, signal & telecommunication and stores.The recruitment for first four services will be done through Civil Services Exam (CSE) and remaining will be through Engineering Services Exam (ESE). Earlier there was only one exam of CSE for recruitment under IRMS.
This move comes as a big relief for aspiring railway engineers. The rules notified is being seen as an effort to strike a balance between the Cabinet decision of 2019 to have a unified service but also to ensure that railways get both technical and non-technical manpower.
As per the notification, the entire IRMS cadre will have a total sanctioned strength of 8,458 and a maximum 1,961 will be in the civil engineering category, followed by 1,356 under mechanical and 1,101 under traffic.
