Union Cabinet ends departmentalism in Indian Railways to speedup decision making

December 26, 2019: The Union Cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved an organisational restructuring of the Indian Railways by unifying the eight departments into a single service called Indian Railway Management Service.

Unification of services is expected to end 'departmentalism' and promote the smooth working of Railways and speed up decision making. It has also reduced the number of board members from eight to four with chairman railway board (CRB) as its chief executive officer (CEO).

“Railway board will no longer be organised on departmental lines, and replaced with a leaner structure organised on functional lines. It will have a chairman, who will act as chief executive officer (CEO) along with 4 Members responsible for Infrastructure, operations & business development, rolling stock and finance respectively,” says the release.

In line with PM @NarendraModi ji's vision of making Railways the growth engine of India’s vikas yatra, Govt. approves the organisational restructuring of Railways.

This transformational reform will end departmentalism and ensure efficient functioning #UnifiedRailways pic.twitter.com/jJMQgKFtvm

— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) December 24, 2019