No job cuts but profiles may change: Rlys
The Railways on Friday said certain job profiles of its employees might change in the coming days but asserted that there will be no job losses, a day after the national transporter issued a letter, asking its general managers to slash 50 per cent vacancies and freeze creation of new posts.
In an online briefing, Director General (HR) Railway Board, Anand S Khati said the Railways will be “rightsizing and not downsizing”. He said because of technological interventions in the national transporter, certain job profiles might change, wherein the personnel will be re-skilled, but there will be no job losses. “Let there be no doubt that the Indian Railways will remain the largest employer in the country. We will move from unskilled to more skilled jobs,” he said.
He said the order (sent on Thursday) was to surrender nonfunctional, non-safety vacant posts which would help in creating additional safety posts for new railway infrastructure projects already underway.
He asserted that all ongoing recruitment drives for various categories of posts will continue as usual, adding that those posts which have been notified or advertised will not be impacted in any way.
The Railways currently has 12,18,335 employees and spends 65 per cent of its income on payment of salaries and pension.