RBE No.216/1985 Surplus Staff – Re-deployment of
No.E(NG)II-84/RE-1/10, dated 26.07.1985
Sub: Re-deployment of surplus staff.
1. The following recommendations of the Railway Reforms Committee in Part-XI of their reports have been considered by this Ministry and the decisions thereon are reproduced below:
| Recommendation | Decision of the Ministry | |
| 112 | The staff rendered surplus on closure of steam sheds should be suitably trained and redeployed in other activities. There should be no hesitation in absorbing skilled surplus staff in diesel sheds. (Chapter-VII, para 3.12) | Noted. Action will be taken to implement these recommendations to the extent feasible. |
| 113 | The additional staff required for augmenting maintenance facilities for wagons and coaches should be taken from the surplus staff of steam shed closed down or truncated. (Chapter-VII, para 3.12) | |
| 120 | Management should not be reluctant to solve the problem of redeployment of surplus staff in a forth right manner. | Accepted |
| The matter should be discussed between the labour unions and the Zonal Railway Managements periodically and the released labour absorbed in installations and places where vacancies exist. | ||
| To the extent possible, the absorption of such staff should be within the same division or none. (Chapter-VIII, paras 3.12 & 5.7) | ||
| 128 | Training and re-deployment of staff rendered surplus should be coordinated at the level of zonal railway through operation of a ‘surplus Staff Bank’ for which we have made some concrete suggestions. (Chapter-VII, para 8.2) | |
| 129 | Staff in the ‘Bank’ should be retained according to the present plan and re-deployed in other activities as early as possible. | Instructions already exist in regard to locating surplus and re-deploying them. Accepted. These instructions will, however, be reiterated for vigorous following up. |
| The operation of this ‘Bank’ including the training and re-deployment should be monitored by a high-level team at the zonal level. (Chapter-VII, para 8.3) |
Attention in this connection is (1) E(NG)II/81/2. RE 1/5, dated 15.01.1982 (2) E(NG)II/84/RE 1/10, dated 26.10.1984 (3) E(NG)II/84/RE 1/10, dated 09.04.1985, invited to the letters of this Ministry cited in the margin, on the subject which contain detailed instructions regarding identification, treatment and re-deployment of surplus staff on the Railways. The Ministry of Railways would like to take this opportunity to reiterate these instructions. They desire that in taking action as per these instructions, the aforesaid recommendations of the Railway Reforms Committee and the Ministry’s decisions thereon may be kept in view.