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Life after Graduation
Officers are assigned a Home Railway on completion of the course.
This is the regional zone that will usually be where the officer
will spend 15 to 18 years of working life.
The young officers go through a 18 month training and Bharat Darshan
(Tour of India) to better understand:
The span of the country and rail operations
Functional breadth of the IRSME job role
Motive Power Availability
Train Operations - Scheduling
Production of Locomotives, Coaches, Wagons, Wheel sets, etc.
Repair and Manufacturing workshops
Laws and rules governing the Railways
Business Processes and Standard Operating Procedures
On successful completion of this phase the officer is posted as a
junior officer, usually in a small town. Given the wide variety of
roles in the IRSME, this phase is very different for each person.
However the attempt of the administration is to ensure that
everybody gets a well rounded exposure to all aspects of operation.
Personal lifestyle options can be very different for the same reason
as above. Smaller towns offer a listing in the town's prominent
citizens. Cities offer a greater variety of entertainment and
cultural activities.
Professionally speaking, as compared to other engineers at that
level of experience, the scope of responsibility and professional
leeway is perhaps the broadest in the country. The number of people
and amount of money impacted as a course of duty is probably
unmatched. However, the quality of life can be less than desirable;
more so when contrasted with the service sector boom in India. This
has been a source of discontent in recent times with retention rates
dropping in the cadre. Till recently the turnover has been largely
in the ranks of junior officers, but of late this has been affecting
mid-career officers as well.
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