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It is however possible in the present environment that some of the
departments are still holding on to surplus posts and are unwilling to
surrender them for the fear that other departments will get the benefit of
their surrender and will create posts in other departments. This psychosis
needs to be addressed at the level of General Manager. It is
recommended to form multi- disciplinary teams of 3 officers, one each
from Personal, finance and the concerned department, who should go
into cadre of the respective departments to identify surplus posts at
the Divisional, Hd. Qrs. and production unit levels. Such identified
posts should be surrendered to build up a surplus bank. Multidisciplinary
teams should also carry out the exercise for identifying
the need for creation of additional posts under safety category and
should put up their recommendations. GM should take action based
on these recommendations to ensure that creation of additional posts
is rightfully done in the deserving safety categories utilizing the
surrenders giving first preference to the departments surrendering
posts. This exercise should be accomplished with 3 months and
posts for which surrender is not available GMs should be empowered
to create additional posts with finance concurrence under Safety
categories. The Committee strongly mandates that no vacancies are
allowed to remain in respect of essential safety categories of
supervisors and staff for more than 3 months.
2.11.4 It was brought to the notice of the Committee that individual Directorates in
Board’s office have issued staff yardsticks with the concurrence of Railway
Board finance for operation and maintenance of assets under their control.
Considering that there is need of right sizing the organization as staff cost is
very high on Indian Railways and the induction of new technology almost in
all areas, the Committee recommends that the existing yardstick
should be looked afresh in a dispassionate fashion and the same
should be issued to the zonal railways within 3 months.
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