Defence Minister abolishes 9,304 military engineering services posts

NEW DELHI, May 7: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved abolition of 9,304 posts in military engineering services on Thursday. Singh 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.

"It is in line with the recommendations of the Committee of Experts, headed by Lieutenant General Shekatkar, which had recommended measures to enhance combat capability and rebalance defence expenditure of the Armed Forces," the Defence Ministry said.

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 work could be outsourced.

In line with the recommendations made by the Committee, based on the proposal of engineer-in-chief, MES, the proposal of abolition of 9,304 posts in MES out of the total 13,157 vacancies of the basic and industrial staff has been approved.

The recommendation 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". (IANS) 

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