New Delhi: Taking a U-turn on one of the last remaining reforms undertaken as part of an ambitious merger of railway services, the Centre has said that railway departments will once again be headed by officers belonging to the corresponding services.

In a bid to end the infamous “departmentalism” in the railways, in 2020, the Centre restructured the Railway Board so that, for instance, a traffic service officer could head the mechanical engineering department.

A gazette notification issued 7 November announced the turnaround. Show Full Article

According to the notification, a member-finance will now belong to the accounts service; member-infrastructure will belong to engineering or signal engineering service; member-operations & business development to the traffic service; memb

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