‘First Announce, Second Think’: Congress slams govt after it ‘approves’ railway services demerger

Congress wide caput (In-charge, Communications) Jairam Ramesh cited a media study which claimed that astir 5 years aft merging the 8 services into a azygous civilian service, the Ministry of Railways has present decided that recruitment volition beryllium made done 2 antithetic examinations — the Civil Services Examination (CSE) for non-technical posts and Engineering Services Examination (ESE) for technical.

In a station connected X, Ramesh said, “This was not a lawsuit of Railway Reforms but really a lawsuit of Railway Deforms.” “Five years ago, the non-biological PM’s Government merged 8 railway services into the Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) and discontinued recruitment done the Engineering Services Examination,” helium said.

On October 5, 2024, the authorities rolled backmost its determination and volition present proceed to enlistee done 2 abstracted examinations, 1 for Civil Services and 1 for Engineering Services, helium claimed.

“The rollback was motivated by interest that excessively galore officers coming successful were generalists and lacked the method and engineering skills required,” Ramesh said.

“This FAST mentality of the non-biological PM – First Announce, Second Think – continues to spell information to our institutions especially,” the Congress person said.

The railways are fundamentally an engineering system, and the deliberate effort to hide this information successful the unreserved to standardise each recruitment was foolhardy, Ramesh said.