There are instructions, which envisage that the Course Completed Act Apprentice in Railway Establishment can be given preference over the Course Completed Act Apprentice ... Railways vide letter dated 18.6.2004. On the other hand, the Railway Board issued a letter dated 21.6.2004 in the following terms:
Some of the Railways
categories of apprentices.
(i) Trade apprentices-either fresh candidate or M
qualified candidates;
(ii) Technician apprentices (Diploma Holders); and
(iii) Graduate Engineer apprentices ... professional qualification for apprentices seeking employment in
their respective trades. Additionally, Graduate Apprentices, Technician
Apprentices, and Technician (Vocational) Apprentices are awarded
Certificates of Proficiency
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EIR (East Indian Railway) and GIP (Great Indian Peninsula) Railways.
Apprentices would train at their railway's largest workshop
(i.e. Jamalpur ... payment of a fee or honorarium:(vii) Apprentice period of
Special Class Apprentices (Authority: Railway Board's letter
rest 50% through the Special Class Railway Apprenticeship (SCRA) examination. An appointee (sic) Special Class Railway Apprentice has to undergo practical and theoretical training ... years at the Indian Railway Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Jamalpur. As per rules, Special Class Railway Apprentices have to pass either Part
only under the
Railways establishments. No rule or instructions of the
Railways have been brought on record to show that the
Railways had taken ... Railways of
an equal opportunity for applying for these posts.
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11. Reliance has been placed by learned counsel
appearing for the Railways trained apprentices
those who have undergone their apprenticeship training with the Railways and non-railway trained apprentices and interpreting the word ''preference' held that ... preference does not mean that the Railways trained apprentice will have an exclusive right to the exclusion of all others to be considered for appointment
employee of the Railway Administration. Section 3(7) of the Indian Railways Act defines a 'railway servant'. A railway servant means any person ... learned Assistant Government Pleader. 'Apprentices, has been defined in the Apprentices Act, 1961 . Section 2(a) states-'Apprentice means a person
Departments) : (i) Indian Railway Traffic Services (IRTS) (ii) Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS) (iii) Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS) (iv) Indian Railway Service of Civil ... IRSE) (v) Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME) (vi) Indian Railway Service of Signal and Telecommunication Engineers (IRSSE) (vii) Indian Railway Service of Electrical
Railway Recruitment Board. In the mean while, considering various references received from the Zonal Railways, the Railway Board clarified that Course Completed Act Apprentices ... gazetted Railway servants are contained in Indian Railway Establishment Manual. Rule 179 of Indian Railway Establishment Manual Volume-I authorises the Railway Administration to recruit
Apprentice ~
1. Trade Apprentices -either 10" standard candidates or ITI
qualified Candidates.
2. Technician Apprentices (Diploma Holders).
3. Graduate Engineer Apprentices (Degree Holders ... than one lakh various posts in different Zonal
Railways including East Central Railway (in the said Railway
