(ET)
The Railway Board has reversed its order delegating power to divisional railway managers (DRMs), rolling back a key reform that had been implemented last year. DRMs are additional secretary or senior joint secretary rank officials and operational heads of the railways across all its 68 divisions.
The earlier order of delegation of powers to DRMs was issued to end the archaic departmentalisation that prevailed at the national transporter, which has a total of eight cadres of group A services.
The high number of services and departments in railways has been holding up operational efficiency at the ground level by delaying the decision-making process, several expert committee reports have said in the past.
