“You are not in Railways just to earn a living” — President Mukherjee's prescription to IR probationers

INDIAN RAILWAYS (IR) has a deeper meaning than being a mere transportation system, said President Pranab Mukherjee when he had interacted with a group of probationers of various Indian railway services — Indian Railway Service of Engineers, Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers and Railway Protection Force — at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday. President also reminded the probationers that they are not in Indian Railways merely for earning a livelihood, but for making a meaningful contribution to the nation. Based on the statement issued by Rashtrapati Bhavan, BoI here presents 8 major points that President Mukherjee made while addressing the young officer-trainees:

Charm of IAS forces young railway probationers flee IIM campus

A DESIRE to become IAS officers has forced many railway probationers currently undertaking a management training programme in IIM-Calcutta flee the campus as civil services (preliminary) examination, 2009 are scheduled to be held on May 17, 2009, sources in Rail Bhawan told Babu Blogger. This has upset babus in Rail Bhawan who championed the cause of introducing for the first time a 12-week-long executive general management programme for 60 Indian railway officers as a part of the 18-month-long programme for railway probationer officers. The Board had earlier commissioned the IIM-C to conduct the course for the new recruits. Yet, railway officials chose to flee from the IIM campus as trying their luck for entering the elite IAS cadre is much more satisfying than taking lessons on economics, human resource, public policy, behavioural science, marketing, ethics and finance at the IIM.

UPSC Prelims as scheduled on May 17 The civil services (preliminary) examination, 2009 will be held by the Union Public Service Commission on May 17, 2009 as scheduled, the ministry of personnel, public grievances & pension said in a press release on May 15. The release termed the news items appeared in a section of Hindi dailies regarding postponement of some of the examinations conducted by the Commission as false.

UPSC declares results of IES/ISS written test, 2008 Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) declared the result of the written part of the Indian Economic Service/Indian Statistical Service Examination, 2008 held from November 22 to November 25, 2008. The candidates who have qualified the written test will now appear for interviews.