Indian Railway Management service
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The Government of India's Ministry of Railways Indian Railway with UPSC has decided to recruit Group-A officers of Indian Railways through a separate examination called Indian Railway Management Service Examination (IRMSE) from 2023 onwards. In 2019, the cabinet approved the restructuring by merging existing 8 departments of Indian Railways into new services known as "Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS)".[1]
Background
[edit]In 2019, based on the 'Bibek Debroy committee' report of 2015, the Cabinet of India approved the plan to merge eight railway services. In 2022, the government released a gazette notification about the merger of existing eight services, which fall under the Central Civil Services, into a new Indian Railways Management Service (IRMS).[2]
The eight merged services includes:
- Indian Railway Accounts Service
- Indian Railway Personnel Service
- Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers
- Indian Railway Service of Engineers
- Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers
- Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers
- Indian Railway Stores Service
- Indian Railway Traffic Service.
IRMS examination eligibility
[edit]A candidate have to take either the Civil Services Examination or Engineering Services Examination for getting a seat in the IRMS. There is no other exam conducted separately for IRMS. Candidates from CSE can only take the Non Engineering posts of IRMS whereas candidates from ESE can only take the Engineering posts of IRMS. A candidate can appear on both exams and if the candidate qualify on both and wanted a seat in IRMS regardless of the background, the candidates has the freedom of choice to join any of the either post.
See also
[edit]- Indian Railway
- Central Civil Services
- Civil Services Examination
- Engineering Services Examination
- Indian Railways organisational structure
References
[edit]- ^ Thakur, Rajesh Kumar (13 February 2022). "Indian Railway merges eight service cadres into one newly created cadre". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
- ^ "Recruitment to Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) to be done through a specially designed examination (IRMS Examination)" (Press release). Government of India. Archived from the original on 11 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.