Technical services & Non technical services (IRMM 503)

Technical services & Non technical services 

(IRMM 503)

The various gazetted services on Railways should be divided in to two categories as follows:-

(1) Technical services:-
(i) Railway Engineering Services (Civil, Electrical, Signal, and Mechanical)
(ii) Indian Railway Traffic Service.
(iii) Special Class Railway Apprentices.
(iv) Posts in the Marine Establishments.
(v) Indian Railway Medical Service

Note: Even though Indian Railway Medical Service has been declared as 'Technical', the standard of medical examination applicable for candidates for recruitment to this service shall not be the same as applicable to the technical service on Railways. The candidates will be medically examined in accordance with the standards prescribed for technical services of Central Govt.(i.e other than the technical services under the Ministry of Railways) as laid down in the 'Hand book on Medical Examination' issued by the Ministry of Health And Family Welfare as amended from time to time. ( Bd.'s No 82/H/5/9 dt. 21/08/1982 and dt. 15/06/1984)
 
(2) Non technical services:-
(i) Indian Railway Accounts Service.
(ii) Indian Railway Stores Service.
(iii) Railway Protection Force.
(iv) Railway Board Secretariat Services, class I and class II.
(v) Chemists and Metallurgists.
(vi) All other class I and class II services on the Railways which are not connected with the train working or use of trolleys.