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There are approximately 36000 vacancies in group ‘D’ as on 31.3.2005. Arising and filling up of vacancies is a continuous process. Vacancies arise due to normal retirements, voluntary retirements, death, etc. and are filled up through open market recruitment, compassionate appointments and through promotions. Action towards filling up of promotee quota vacancies as also direct recruitment quota vacancies has been initiated.
Stating this in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today the Minister of State for Railways Shri R. Velu informed the House that Indian Railways’ rightsizing activities are in accordance with the initiatives taken by the Government to rightsize the manpower in the Government of India. Further railways have been adopting modern technology in various facets of railway working e.g. abolition of steam traction, modern track structure & signaling system, improved operating practices, induction of high capacity rolling stock, computerization, etc. This leads to reduced requirement of manpower in certain activities while needing manpower in newer areas and thus necessitating retraining, redeployment and recruitment. Railways have also been using the benchmarking principles to develop and implement the best practices, which would help in rationalizing the workforce vis-à-vis activities.
He further stated that the number of employees (Group ‘C’ & ‘D’) in Railways are as under: -
As on
Group ‘C’
Group ‘D
31.03.2003
869965
588264
31.03.2004
860077
567154
31.3.2005*
861981
545169
* (Provisional)
Year wise and Group-wise number of candidates empanelled by Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) are as under: -
As on
Group ‘C’
Group ‘D
2002-2003
3993
78
2003-2004
14137
2655
2004-2005
14368
2385
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