{"id":897,"date":"2019-09-24T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T09:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/?p=897"},"modified":"2019-09-24T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T09:49:41","slug":"now-railway-board-will-have-8-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Now Railway Board will have 8 Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>First time a Member exclusively for Safety<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0For the first time in its history, Railway Board\u00a0<\/strong>is all set to have a member to exclusively focus on safety issues of the national transporter, sources in the ministry said. A parliamentary panel had in August last year recommended the need for such a post to sharpen focus on safety in the backdrop of recurring accidents, and cautioned the Railway against its reluctance to set up the post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSuch an attitude reflects the Ministry\u2019s unwillingness to relinquish age-old practices and procedures,\u201d it had said. The sources in the ministry said that Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has already approved the creation of the Member (Safety) post, along with two others \u2013 Member (Materials Management) and Member (Signal &amp; Telecommunication) \u2013 to expand the Board, which had five members, to eight members. The ministry will soon move the Cabinet with the proposal for approval.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A railway panel for safety \u2013 the Kakodkar Committee \u2013 in its report had recommended the creation of an independent statutory Railway Safety Authority, with enough powers to have a safety oversight on the operational mode of Railways. It was in fact against the vesting of all powers in the Board itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Months before the approval for the creation of the post, the senior-most safety officer, Advisor, Safety, who used to report to Member, Traffic, started reporting to Chairman, Railway Board (CRB), indicating an impending restructuring, the sources said. They said that Goyal has also proposed turning the Member (Staff) post into a in-cadre post for Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS) while the new Member (Safety) post will be open to all services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>While the candidate for Member (Materials Management) will be drawn from the Indian Railway Stores Service (IRSS) cadre, Member (S&amp;T) will be from the Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE) cadre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The above posts along with other major administrative changes will now go to the Cabinet for approval before getting implemented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The step related to Member (Staff) is in the right direction as an expert in the personnel field will head the department which will help in better manpower planning and human relations in the railways,\u201d a source said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The railways\u2019 8 group \u2018A\u2019 organised services include Traffic, Accounts, Personnel in the civil services cadre and Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, S&amp;T, Stores in the engineering services cadre; and the RPF, which is also a civil service cadre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>PTI<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First time a Member exclusively for Safety New Delhi:\u00a0For the first time in its history,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koo_publish_custom_meta":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/railsamachar.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/rail-bhavan-1.jpg?fit=715%2C431&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}