Revised Training Module for Supervisors (JE/SE) of Signal & Telecom Department.

Railway Board Letter No
E(MPP)/2009/3/12
Date
RBE No
225/2009
Circular Subject
Revised Training Module for Supervisors of Signal & Telecom Department.

1. The Report of the Task Force under Human Resource Reforms Committee constituted to review the Training Modules for S&T Department has since been received. The Board (ML&MS) have approved the training modules recommended by the Committee. Accordingly, the revised training module for Supervisors of Signal & Telecom Department are circulated herewith. The details and sequence of the training programme is annexed at Annexure I and the training module is annexed at Annexure II.

2.         For better management of training, the following decisions/inputs are also communicated:

i)          Institutional training programme for Supervisors of S&T Department be continued to be held at IRISET. However, to improve the field training component of induction programme, it has been decided that the same should be controlled by the respective training managers viz. CSE for Signalling Supervisors and CCE for Telecom Supervisors on the respective Railways. 

ii)         A 52 weeks induction programme with Institutional Training at IRISET in 2 phases has been approved for all categories of directly recruited Supervisors which includes 12 weeks of attachment without giving them independent charge, for gaining on the job experience.

iii)         During the period of on the job attachment, the Trainee Supervisors should be attached with senior officials at the workplace, who would act as their mentors and guide them to learn how they are expected to discharge their official duties, when they are put on a working post. During this period, the Trainee Supervisors are not required to work independently or take decisions at their level, instead they would assist the officials with whom they are attached in discharge of their official duties. However, as the working in Telecom Branch does not have safety implications of the nature of Signal Branch, in the last phase of their training, the Telecom Branch Supervisors can be detailed on working post under the supervision of a senior official.

iv)        Refresher course and promotion course for Signal and Telecom Supervisors have been merged in a single course of four weeks duration. This would be held at IRISET, as at present. The supervisors are required to undergo this course once in four years. In between this period, modular courses of duration of three days to a week should be developed to enable the Supervisors to update their knowledge on technical as well as general subjects such as quality circles, organizational behaviour, leadership, industrial relations and labour laws etc. These modular courses should be delivered at S&T Training Centres on Zonal Railways preferably or any other institutes as may be decided by the respective Zonal Railways.

v)         The Course Content for General and Subsidiary Rules should be developed by IRISET, in consultation with the Railways and ZRTIs. This standardized course should be for 3 weeks period to be conducted by respective ZRTI’s of the Railways in between the spells of field Training on the job attachment.

v)         The detailed course contents and lesson plans would be prepared by IRISET, as at present.

Annexure 1 : Details and sequence of the training programme (i) Signal (ii)  Telecommunications.

 Annexure II : The training module (i) Signal (ii)  Telecommunications .