Career in Special Class Railway Apprentices
 

I am interested in Special Class Railway Apprentices and would like to know what would be the career journey for Special Class Railway Apprentices?

Re: Career in Special Class Railway Apprentices
 

Special Class Railway Apprentices also known as SCRA refers to a handful of applicants that are selected by the Union Public Service Commission India, after a painstaking selection process, to the undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Jamalpur.


On completion of the probation in SCRA, one is posted as an officer in the junior scale.

Promotion to the senior scale takes place after about two years of service in working post.

After six to seven years of service, the officer is promoted to the Junior Administrative Grade.

This has two levels and one could be serving in various assignments at the Junior Administrative Grade for 8–10 years. This will be followed by Selection grade.

The next in seniority is the Senior Administrative Grade, equivalent to the Joint Secretary, Government of India.

Officers may posted as heads of various workshops in the field, as heads of a department functioning at the Headquarters office as:

Addition Divisional Railway Manager or

The Executive Director in the Railway Board.

After six to eight years, while remaining in the same pay scale officers are selected to be appointed as Divisional Railway Managers (DRM).

The Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) heads the organization at the division level.

There are currently 67 divisions on the system nationwide.