Office Order No. 65 of 2020: Cadre Controlling Authorities of Railway Services
Subsequent to reorganization of Railway Board on functional lines and distribution of work amongst the Board Members, following would be the Cadre Controlling Authorities (CCA) for the existing Railway Services before IRMS Cadre becomes functional:-
OSD(Safety) till 30.09.20 & subsequently 1.10.20 by M/TRS
5.
IRAS
Member
(Finance)-MF
6.
IRHS
CRB &
CEO through DG/RHS
7.
IRPS
CRB
& CEO through DG/HR
8.
IRPFS
CRB & CEO through DG/RPF
Members/DGs would be assisted by the Additional Member of the respective Cadre.
Now, Member/Infra, will head Engineering and S&T departments just like Member Engineering in old days. Member (Operations & Business Development) will be incharge of Traffic department just like Member Traffic. So, these orders are more or less in tune with present structure of top management of Railway board.
Revised Organisation Structure of Railway Board
Please read in details about revised organisation structure of Railway board in the process of restructuring…click
Subsequent to decision of the Cabinet dated 24.12.2019 and ACC’s approval on reorganization of Railway Board on functional lines, the revised Structure of Board would now be as under:-
Revised Organizational Structure of Railway Board and broad distribution of work to be handled by the Board Members are annexed at Annexure-I & Il respectively.
Annexure-I : Organisation Structure of Railway Board
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Annexure-II : Broad Distribution of work to be handled by the Board Members
VK Yadav, the current chairman of the Railway Board appointed as first CEO.
The appointments committee of the cabinet (ACC) on Wednesday (02.09.2020) formally approved the restructuring of the Railway Board and approved the appointment of Vinod Kumar Yadav, the current chairman of the Railway Board as its first Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Railway Board.
With this restructuring, Indian Railways will now have only a five member railway board; who will act as “Chief Executive Officer (CEO)” along with four members responsible for Infrastructure, Operations & Business Development, Rolling Stock and Finance respectively.
While Yadav has been appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO); Pradeep Kumar,IRSSE (1981 Batch) has been appointed Member, Infrastructure; PC Sharma, IRSS has been appointed Member, Traction and Rolling Stock; PS Mishra, IRTS has been made Member, Operations and Business Development; Manjula Rangarajan, IRAS has been appointed Member, Finance.
Sri Vinod Kumar Yadav also known as V.K. Yadav is 1980 batch IRSEE officer and current Chairman and CEO of the Indian Railway Board. He is an engineer holding BE in electrical engineering from University of Allahabad’s Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College (now Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad) (1980) who later did an MBA from Australia’s La Trobe University (2004).
More about Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav, IRSEE-1980 batch
Earlier, Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav, IRSEE (1980 Batch) was reappointed as Chairman, Railway Board, in the rank of Ex-Officio Principal Secretary to Government of India. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) approved the re-employment of Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav as Chairman, Railway Board for a period of one year w.e.f 01.01.2020.
Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav was appointed as Chairman, Railway Board (Ministry of Railways) and ex-officio Principal Secretary to Govt. of India on 01.01.2019. Prior to this assignment, Shri Yadav had worked as General Manager, South Central Railway.
Academic Qualifications
His academic qualifications including a Masters Degree in Business Administration –MBA (Technology Management) from La Trobe University, Australia and a Bachelors Degree in Engineering (Electrical Engineering) from Allahabad University, Uttar Pradesh. He holds immense experience in the fields of Project Management, General Management, Industrial Policy Formulation, Foreign Collaboration & Foreign Direct Investment, Management of Sector Specific International Technical Programmes and Co-ordination of World Bank and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Funding.
Shri VK Yadav held several important executive and managerial positions
During the course of his illustrious career, Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav held several important executive and managerial positions on Indian Railways and on deputation to various Organizations. In Indian Railways, his assignments included serving as Chief Electrical Engineer, Planning/Traction Distribution, Northern Railway; Divisional Railway Manager, Lucknow Division, North Eastern Railway and Additional Divisional Railway Manager (Operation), Delhi Division, Northern Railway.
Amongst the assignments he held on deputation are – Executive Director, Railway Electrification Projects, Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), New Delhi; Group General Manager (Electrical), Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited; Project Director, International Centre for Advancement of Manufacturing Technology at United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO); he was also Director, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Industry, Government of India.
He also held an important foreign assignment as Deputy Manager (Electrical), IRCON at Turkey, where he was instrumental in planning, execution and commissioning of Railway Electrification Project for Turkish Railway.
Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav is recipient of the first ever “Best Transformation Initiative Award” of the Ministry of Railways.
(ii) Re-designation of Shri Rajesh Tiwari. IRSEE, Member( Traction) as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) (Safety) by utilizing the existing vacant post of Director General (Safety) in apex scale as an interim measure for adjusting him till superannuation of Shri P.C. Sharma, IRSS on 30.09.2020.
(iii) Appointment of Shri Rajesh Tiwari. IRSEE as Member (Traction & Rolling Stock(T&RS)) on superannuation of Shri P.C.Sharma, IRSS {proposed for re-designation as Member, Traction and Rolling stock (T&RS)} on 30.09.2020 vice Shri P.C.Sharma, IRSS.
(iv) Surrender of three apex level posts i.e. Member (Staff), Member (Engineering) and Member (Materials Management) in Railway Board and utilization of the post of Member (Rolling Stock) for creation of the post of Director General (HR) in apex grade as Cabinet Decision.
VK Yadav, the current chairman of the Railway Board appointed as first CEO.
The appointments committee of the cabinet (ACC) on Wednesday formally approved the restructuring of the Railway Board and approved the appointment of VK Yadav, the current chairman of the Railway Board as its first CEO.
Its beginning of Restructuring of the Railway
With this restructuring, Indian Railways will now have only a five member railway board; who will act as “Chief Executive Officer (CEO)” along with four members responsible for Infrastructure, Operations & Business Development, Rolling Stock and Finance respectively.
Unification of the existing eight Group A services of the Railways into a Central Service called Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS).IRTS, IRPS, IRAS, IRSE, IRSEE, IRSME, IRSSE & IRSS will be merged and will be called as IRMS.
End of Departmentalism
Restructuring of Railway will end departmentalism, promote smooth working of railways, expedite decision making, create a coherent vision for organisation and promote rational decision making.
Railway board will no longer be organised on departmental lines, and replaced with a leaner structure organised on functional lines
Read More about Cadre merger… IRMS implementation…
Unification of the existing eight Group A services of the Railways into a Central Service called Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS).
IRTS, IRPS, IRAS, IRSE, IRSEE, IRSME, IRSSE & IRSS will be merged and will be called as IRMS.
End of Departmentalism
Unification of services will end ‘departmentalism’, promote smooth working of Railways, expedite decision making, create a coherent vision for organisation and promote rational decision making
Railway board will no longer be organised on departmental lines, and replaced with a leaner structure organised on functional lines
Chairman Railway Board will be the Chief Executive officer
Railway Board to be headed by Chairman Railway Board (CRB) who will be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with 4 Members and some Independent Members
Unification of services has been recommended by various committees for reforming Railways
Reforms undertaken with overwhelming support and consensus of Railway officers, at a two-day conference “Parivartan Sangoshthi” held on 7th & 8th December, 2019
Other important announcements made by MR
The modalities and unification of the services will be worked out in consultation with DoPT and Posted On: 24 DEC 2019 4:21PM by PIB Delhi The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved a transformational organisational restructuring of the Indian Railways. This historic reform will go a long way in achieving Government’s vision of making Indian Railways the growth engine of India’s vikas yatra.
The reforms include:
Unification of the existing eight Group A services of the Railways into a Central Service called Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) Re-organisation of Railway Board on functional lines headed by CRB with four Members and some Independent Members The existing service of Indian Railway Medical Service (IRMS) to be consequently renamed as Indian Railway Health Service (IRHS)
Railways has an ambitious programme to modernise and provide the highest standards of safety, speed and services to the passengers with a proposed investment of Rs. 50 lakh crore over the next 12 years. This requires speed and scale, and a unified, agile organisation to work single-mindedly on this task and capable of responding to challenges. Today’s reforms are in a series of reforms that have been undertaken under the present Government including merger of Rail Budget with Union Budget, delegation of powers to empower GMs and field officers, allowing competitive operators to run trains etc.
To meet next level challenges and deal with various existing difficulties there was a need to take this step. Unlike Railway systems the world over, which have been corporatized, Indian Railways is managed by the Government directly. It is organised into various departments such as Traffic, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Signal & Telecom, Stores, Personnel, and Accounts etc. These departments are vertically separated from top to bottom and are headed by a Secretary level officer (Member] in the Railway Board. This organization of the department runs deep down to the grassroot level of the Railways. Unification of services will end this ‘departmentalism’, promote smooth working of Railways, expedite decision making, create a coherent vision for organisation and promote rational decision making.
Unification of services has been recommended by various committees for reforming Railways including – the Prakash Tandon Committee (1994), Rakesh Mohan Committee (2001), Sam Pitroda Committee (2012) and Bibek Debroy Committee (2015).
This reform has been undertaken with the overwhelming support and consensus of Railway officers, at a two-day conference “Parivartan Sangoshthi” held in Delhi on 7th and 8th December, 2019. To act on this sentiment, and create confidence in Railway officers that their suggestions are valued, Railway Board held an Extraordinary meeting of the Board during the conference on 8th December, 2019 itself, and recommended a number of reforms including the ones mentioned.
It is now proposed to create a unified Group A’ service called “Indian Railways Management Service” (IRMS) from the next recruitment cycle. Creation of the new service will be done in consultation with DoPT and UPSC to facilitate recruitment in the next recruitment year. It will enable Railways to recruit engineers/non-engineers as per need, and offer equality of opportunity to both categories in career progression. The modalities and unification of the services will be worked out by the Ministry of Railways in consultation with DoPT with the approval of Alternate Mechanism to be appointed by Cabinet in order to ensure fairness and transparency. The process shall be completed within a year.
The newly recruited officers will come from Engineering and non-Engineering disciplines as per need and posted as per their aptitude and specialisation to allow them to specialise in one field, develop an overall perspective, and prepare them to take up general management responsibilities at senior levels. Selection for the general management positions shall be through a merit-based system.
Railway board will no longer be organised on departmental lines, and replaced with a leaner structure organised on functional lines. It will have a Chairman, who will act as ‘Chief Executive Officer (CEO)’ along with 4 Members responsible for Infrastructure, Operations & Business Development, Rolling Stock and Finance respectively. The Chairman shall be the cadre controlling officer responsible for Human resources (HR) with assistance from a DG (HR). 3 Apex level posts shall be surrendered from Railway Board and all the remaining posts of the Railway Board shall be open to all officers regardless of the service to which they belonged. The Board will also have some independent Members (the number to be decided by competent authority from time to time), who will be highly distinguished professionals with deep knowledge and 30 years of experience including at the top levels in industry, finance, economics and management fields. The Independent Members will help Railway Board in setting a strategic direction. The restructured Board will start functioning after approval of the Board taking due care to ensure that officers are posted in the restructured Board or adjusted in the same pay and rank till their retirement.
Today (19.02.2019), the Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the proposal for Cadre Review of 8 organized Group ‘A’ Services in Railways namely Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS), Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS), Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS), Indian Railway Service of Engineers (IRSE), Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE), Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers(IRSME), Indian Railway Stores Service (IRSS), Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE).
Cabinet has also approved encadrement of the post of Member(staff) a cadre post for IRPS and re-designation of the posts of Director General (Signal & Telecom), Director General (Stores) and Director General (personnel) as Member(S&T), Member (Materials Management) as Director General (Safety) respectively.
This Cadre Review was pending since 2012 and will benefit 900 officers of these services.
