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Railways Logistics - Human Resources Rlys faces key talent flight Mamuni Das
New Delhi, July 20 Indian Railways officials from the highly specialised arm of signalling and telecom are leaving for greener pastures. Signalling and telecom talent take care of train safety, maximising asset utilisation and the communication needs of the railway network. Only hunting groundIndian Railways’ monopoly has ensured it is the only hunting ground for railway signalling talent. Companies are ready to pay high salaries to get this talent. Almost half of those signalling officials who have left Railways have relocated to foreign locations such United Arab Emirates, the UK, Australia and Malaysia, while some are joining the signalling equipment and design multinationals whose India offices are working on their international or Indian Railways orders. Another lot is joining Indian firms working on similar mega contracts. “Atkins, Siemens, GE, Ansaldo, Kalindi Rail Nirman (Engineers), and Reliance ADAG are among the companies that have hired from the signalling pool of Railways,” said a senior Railways officer on the sidelines of a seminar of the Institute of Railway Signal and Telecommunications Engineers (India). Pay differentialMassive pay differential between Government and private sector is just one of the reasons for this exodus. Officials are offered at least four-five times their Government pay packets for the shift within India, while for foreign postings the differential is much higher. The lack of any University or Engineering college imparting courses in railway signalling is another key reason. All the rail signalling officials are trained at Secunderabad-based Indian Railway Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunications (IRISET) for long duration (8 months – 2 years), be they Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers recruited through the prestigious Indian Engineering Services exam, or section engineers or supervisors. “While exact data is not available, from about 700-800 IRSSE officers, some 100 odd officers have quit in the last three-four years,” said sources. Now, Indian train drivers in demand abroad Rlys makes Rs 4,500-cr provision for 6th Pay Commission outgo More Stories on : Railways | Human Resources
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