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Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh approves abolition of 9,304 posts in Military Engineering Service

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Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh has approved the proposal of Engineer-in-Chief of Military Engineering Services (MES) for optimisation of more than 9,300 posts in the basic and industrial workforce.
This In line with the recommendations of the Committee of Experts, headed by Lt General Shekatkar.

IMPORTANT HIGHLIGHTS

The Defence Minister has approved the abolition of 9,304 posts in MES out of the total 13,157 vacancies of the Basic and Industrial staff.
It was aimed at making MES an effective organisation with a leaner workforce, well equipped to handle complex issues in the emerging scenario in an efficient and cost effective manner.

ABOUT Lt. GENERAL SHEKATKAR COMMITTEE

The Union Ministry of Defence had constituted a Committee of Experts under Chairmanship of Lt Gen (Retd) DB Shekatkar for recommending measures to enhance the capabilities of the armed forces.
The committee had recommended measures to enhance combat capability and rebalance defence expenditure of the Armed Forces.
One of the recommendations made by the Committee was to restructure the civilian workforce in a manner that the work of MES could be partly done by departmentally employed staff and other works could be outsourced.

ABOUT MILITARY ENGINEERING SERVICE

Government defense infrastructure development agency in India.
Looks after in the engineering and construction for the Indian Armed Forces including the Indian Army, Indian Air Force, Indian Navy, Indian Ordnance Factories, DRDO and the Indian Coast Guard.
Director General-Shri Devendra Kumar
Founded on-26 September 1923

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