According to The Hindu, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will conduct an exclusive examination for recruitment of officers to handle specialised services in the newly created Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) following unification of 8 different Railway services.
The examination is for Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) is expected to be held in the next recruitment circle of 2021.
Procedures
- As per the Indian Railway sources, Indian Railway could convey to the UPSC for the requirement of 200 officers with 20 each engineers in civil, electrical, mechanical/stores and electronics, and the fifth will be for general service for traffic, accounts and personnel wings.
- Candidates from engineering will have to take the main examination on their specialised domain course and not any other subject.
- According to the Railway Board Chairman Vinod Kumar Yadav, the 350-odd officers joining the Railway service annually will all have an equal opportunity of reaching the top posts of Divisional Railway Managers (DRMs) and above, including General Managers, as well as to the Railway Board.
- For the IRMS, Indian Railway will benchmark performance and personal integrity for all those joining service based on their 15-year tenure by a group of three senior officers.
