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Indian Railways

Introduction of Indian Railways Indian Railways: 

Railways were first introduced to India in 1853.

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The first train on Indian sub-continent ran over a stretch of 21 miles from Bombay to Thane.

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Indian Railways is a departmental undertaking of Government of India.

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Indian Railways overseen by the Ministry of Railways.

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Indian Railways is the largest rail network in Asia and the world's second largest under one management.

Vision 

Indian Railways shall provide safe, efficient, affordable, customer-focused and environmentally sustainable integrated transportation solutions. It shall be a modern vehicle of inclusive growth, connecting regions, communities, ports and centres of industry, commerce, tourism and pilgrimage across the country.

Mission  To augment the capacity to handle freight services by constructing new lines, laying double lines where necessary and through signalling improvements  To take up necessary works to ease bottlenecks in the transportation network so as to achieve higher speed and throughput.  To induct modern rolling stock to derive the benefit of up to date technology

Railway zones Name

Headquarters

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Southern

Chennai

Northeast Frontier

Guwahati



Central

Mumbai

South Central

Secunderabad



Western

Mumbai

East Central

Hajipur



Eastern

Kolkata



Northern

Delhi



North Eastern

Gorakhpur

North Central

Howrah

South Western



South Eastern

Name

Headquarters

North Western

Jaipur

East Coast

Bhubaneswar Allahabad Hubli

ORGANISATIONAL ORGANISATIONAL CHART CHART

Recruitment (ment)

Recruitment (ment)

Recruitment & Selection IR classifies its employees in 4 groups.  The 

Gazetted staff,

Group “A” & Group “B” (Higher posts).

 Non-Gazetted

staff,

 Group

“C” (clerical, supervisory staff )

 Group

“D” (technical, other maintenance staff)

 Group

“A” & “B” officers are selected through the Union Public Service Commission, they are civil servants.

n

case of jobs in Group A and B, candidates belonging to SCs and STs will be given preference if equally qualified and meritorious

 All

zonal railways fill 15% and 7.5% of their vacancies in Group C and Group D categories from the candidates belonging to SCs and STs respectively

SELECTION PROCESS

Written examination

Verification of documents

Medical Fitness Test

Verification of educational

Ch Character

of

the candidate..

Personal Interview

Group A Group B Group C Group D

Recruitments are filled by UPSC by All India Competitive Examinations + Interview

Normally filled by promotion from serving Group C candidates and also by UPSC Exams Recruited by Railway Recruitment Boards (RRB)– Technical & Non Technical (Includes Interview) Railway Selection Boards (RSB) with assistance of the local employment exchanges

Training & Development  All

new recruits undergo training when they .

 Gazetted

officers train at 7 CTIs & additionally undergo management training courses at premier institutes, both in India and abroad

 The

training needs of non-Gazetted staff are being taken care of by 200 training centers located across IR.

 These

training institutes specialize in various functional training based on the different functions or departments.

Training centres 

Zonal Railway Training Institute/Bhusawal/CR

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Zonal Railway Training Institute/Bhuli/ER

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Zonal Railway Training Institute/Cdhandausi/NR

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Zonal Railway Training Institute/Muzaffarpur/ECR

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Zonal Railway Training Institute/Alipurduar Jn/NFR

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Zonal Railway Training Institute/Trichy/SR

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Zonal Railway Training Institute/Maula Ali/SCR

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Zonal Railway Training Institute/Sini/SER

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Zonal Railway Training Institute/Udaipur/NWR

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There are other 291 training centres wher employees like grade “b” and grade “d” will undergo training

Promotion & Demotion 

There are basically two types of promotions in Indian Railways.

1) Based on seniority. 2) Based on Merits. 

Demotion is done when officers are found doing illegal practices or following unethical practices..

Benefits to the employees from Indian Railways  Medical care  Provision of railway institutes and clubs for the recreation of railway staff,  Establishing holiday homes in suitable places where cheap accommodation is available for all railway staff for spending their holidays,  Provision of schooling facilities at many places.  Concessional ticket rate for employees

Draw backs in current HR practices in Indian railways  Low

Motivation due to surety of the job

 Corrupt  Caste  No

Practices followed

Biased

Performance Appraisal

 Promotion

based on seniority

 No

proper training

 No

Proper IT Facilities & R&D