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Jaya Varma Sinha ( born 18 September 1963) is the former Chairperson of Railway Board (India) of the Indian Railways. [2]Sinha assumed office on 1 September 2023 becoming the first female Chairperson of the Railway Board in its 118-years history and served there till 31 August 2024.
In 2007, Indian Railways was ordered by courts to hold secret ballot elections for the first time to determine union representation in each of its seventeen zones. The court case was precipitated by the then Bharatiya Janata Party-led government's decision in 2002 to unilaterally grant recognition to its affiliate Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh. The ...
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).
Indian Railways is a state-owned enterprise that is organised as a deparmental undertaking of the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India and operates India's national railway system. [ a ] As of 2024 [update] , it manages the fourth largest national railway system by size with a track length of 135,207 km (84,014 mi), running track ...
The officers of IRAS along with the executives responded to the challenges and within a short period of 5–6 years, Indian Railways was a financially vibrant organisation. In the year 2007–08, Indian Railways had a cash surplus of 250 billion rupees.
The Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS) is a Prestigious Group 'A' Central Civil Service cadre of the Government of India. The central civil servants of this service are responsible for managing the Human Resources of the Indian Railways and welfare of railway employees and their families. Railways has a work force of about 1.4 million ...
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The civil engineering department, at the railway board level, is headed by Member Infrastructure (ex officio Secretary to the Government of India) which is the highest specialized post for an IRSE officer. Theoretically, an IRSE officer is on duty 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.