{"id":1344,"date":"2020-03-16T06:59:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2020-03-16T06:59:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:29:12","slug":"an-engineer-or-even-a-doctor-can-become-a-manager-but-a-generalist-cannot-become-an-engineer-yashwant-sinha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"An engineer or even a doctor can become a manager, but a generalist cannot become an engineer -Yashwant Sinha"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yashwant Sinha hits out at cadre merger in Railway services and amalgamation of Rail Budget<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u201cThere are some specialisations which must exist; so maybe at a later stage, after couple of decades of service, you create a cadre of senior managers, but if the cadres are merged to begin with, then how will a traffic man do an engineers job or vice-versa?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha said, \u201cAn Engineer or even a Doctor or a Chartered Accountants can become a manager but a generalist cannot become an engineer, CA, or a doctor.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Terming it \u201cinnovation for destruction\u201d,<\/strong> former finance minister Yashwant Sinha on Friday, 13th March hit out at the government\u2019s decision to unify all Railway services into a single cadre and to merge the Railway Budget with the General Budget.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking at the launch of the book \u2018Railwayman: An Engineer\u2019s Memoir\u2019 by former Railway Board Member RR Jaruhar, Sinha said \u201can engineer or even a doctor or a CA can become a manager but a generalist cannot become an engineer, CA, or a doctor.\u201d Railway Board chairman V K Yadav was also present at the event.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the Union Cabinet decided to merge the five Indian Railway engineering services and three civil services cadres into the Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) leading to protests from civil servants. It also decided to trim the size of the Railway Board from nine to just five members, including the chairman.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some specialisations which must exist; so maybe at a later stage, after couple of decades of service, you create a cadre of senior managers, but if the cadres are merged to begin with, then how will a traffic man do an engineers job or vice-versa?\u201d he asked, adding that disruptions, innovation and change must be thought through.<\/span><\/p>\n

He remarked that he preferred the system of a separate Rail Budget. \u201cAs a former finance minister, I would say that I would prefer to go back to the older system where the Railways had their own budget rather than being merged with the General Budget,\u201d he said as the audience, mostly retired and serving bureaucrats of the Railways, applauded.<\/span><\/p>\n

He noted that were \u201csome demands\u201d made to decouple the budgets in the discussions in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. \u201cEarlier, Parliament used to get two to three days to discuss the Rail Budget, which is now one of the departmental or ministry budgets,\u201d he said, adding that there should not be change for the sake of change and innovation for destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier, defending the decision to merge the cadres, CRB VKYadav said the move would produce the \u201cbest quality (?) of managers and best quality (?) of technical experts.\u201d But how it will be done, that he doesn’t clarified.<\/span><\/p>\n

#indianrailways #railwayboard #crb #vkyadav #NoToIRMS #YesToTwoServices #irms #pmo #NoToCadreMerger #cadre\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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