Lok Sabha Question No. 2205 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-02
Subject: Vacant Posts of Gangman
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: Rakesh Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2205 TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.08.2023

## VACANT POSTS OF GANGMAN

† 2205. SHRI RAKESH SINGH:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  posts  of  gangman  are  lying  vacant  in  the  Rail Divisions falling under West Central Railways Zone, Jabalpur;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  of  the  vacancies  in  the  other  Rail  Divisions including Jabalpur Rail Division, Zone-wise;
- (c) whether  the  Government  would  take  cognizance  of  the  fact that  due  to  this  shortage  of  employees  the  workload  of  the working employees has increased, if so, the facts thereof;
- (d) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  fill  the  vacant  posts keeping  in  view  the  sensitive  issue  like  security  of  railway track; and
- (e) if so, the effective steps taken in this regard?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

(SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

(a) to (e) : A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (e)  OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2205 BY SHRI RAKESH SINGH TO BE ANSWERED  IN  LOK  SABHA  ON  02.08.2023  REGARDING  VACANT POSTS OF GANGMAN

(a) & (b) :  The details of vacancies of Track Maintainers (erstwhile Gangmen), Division-wise on Indian Railways as on 01.07.2023 are as under:

| Sl. No.   | Name of Zonal Railway   | Name of Division   |   Vacancy of Gangman/Trackman |
|-----------|-------------------------|--------------------|-------------------------------|
| 1.        | Central                 | Mumbai             |                           862 |
|           |                         | Nagpur             |                           398 |
|           |                         | Bhusawal           |                           259 |
|           |                         | Pune               |                           320 |
|           |                         | Solapur            |                           205 |
| 2.        | East Coast              | Khurda Road        |                            64 |
|           |                         | Waltair            |                           209 |
|           |                         | Sambhalpur         |                            72 |
| 3.        | East Central            | Danapur            |                           301 |
|           |                         | Pt. Deen Dayal     |                           524 |
|           |                         | Dhanbad            |                          1014 |
|           |                         | Sonpur             |                           682 |
|           |                         | Samastipur         |                           343 |
| 4.        | Eastern                 | Howrah             |                          1022 |
|           |                         | Sealdah            |                           831 |
|           |                         | Malda              |                           541 |
|           |                         | Asansol            |                           878 |
| 5.        | North Central           | Prayagraj          |                          1742 |
|           |                         | Jhansi             |                           428 |
|           |                         | Agra               |                           390 |
| 6.        | North Eastern           | Izzatnagar         |                           716 |
|           |                         | Lucknow            |                          1476 |
|           |                         | Varanasi           |                           839 |

| 7.   | Northeast     | Katihar         |   444 |
|------|---------------|-----------------|-------|
|      | Frontier      | Alipurduar      |   551 |
|      |               | Rangiya         |   427 |
|      |               | Lumding         |   688 |
|      |               | Tinsukia        |   390 |
| 8.   | Northern      | Delhi           |  1507 |
|      |               | Ambala          |  1175 |
|      |               | Moradabad       |  2178 |
|      |               | Lucknow         |   937 |
|      |               | Firozpur        |  1403 |
| 9.   | North Western | Jaipur          |   798 |
|      |               | Jodhpur         |   609 |
|      |               | Bikaner         |   708 |
|      |               | Ajmer           |   316 |
| 10.  | South Central | Secunderabad    |   318 |
|      |               | Hyderabad       |    44 |
|      |               | Guntakal        |   219 |
|      |               | Vijaywada       |   261 |
|      |               | Guntur          |   103 |
|      |               | Nanded          |    34 |
| 11.  | South East    | Bilaspur        |   459 |
|      | Central       | Nagpur          |   290 |
|      |               | Raipur          |   155 |
| 12.  | South Eastern | Kharagpur       |   881 |
|      |               | Adra            |   259 |
|      |               | Chakradharpur   |   677 |
|      |               | Ranchi          |   192 |
| 13.  | Southern      | Chennai         |   345 |
|      |               | Madurai         |   171 |
|      |               | Palghat         |   434 |
|      |               | Trichchirappali |   560 |
|      |               | Salem           |   232 |
|      |               | Trivandrum      |   312 |
| 14.  | South Western | Bangalore       |   297 |
|      |               | Mysore          |   352 |
|      |               | Hubli           |   309 |

| 15.   | West Central   | Jabalpur       |   1226 |
|-------|----------------|----------------|--------|
|       |                | Bhopal         |    692 |
|       |                | Kota           |    822 |
| 16.   | Western        | Mumbai Central |   1552 |
|       |                | Vadodara       |    405 |
|       |                | Ahmedabad      |   2051 |
|       |                | Ratlam         |    716 |
|       |                | Rajkot         |    577 |
|       |                | Bhavnagar      |    647 |

(c) :  On Indian Railway network, majority of regular Track Maintenance  activities  are  done  by  Track  machines  owned  by Railways and operated by permanent staff of Railways.  These are supplemented by Railway's Track Maintainers who carry out works of immediate attention, urgent repairs, patrolling and sundry maintenance activities.

(d) & (e) :  Occurrence and filling up of vacancies are a continuous process  and  the  latter  are  filled  by  placement  of  indents  by Railways with recruitment agencies as per operational requirements.

A  total  of  63,202  vacancies  for  Level-1  posts  were  notified  under CEN-02/2018.  Out  of  the  notified  vacancies,  35,573  were  of  Track Maintainers.  61,524  candidates  have  been  empanelled  against  the aforementioned notification. A total of 1,03,769 vacancies for Level1  posts  have  been  notified  under  CEN  RRC-01/2019.  Out  of  the notified vacancies, 40,539 are of Track Maintainers. 85,756* candidates  have  been  empanelled  as  on  30.06.2023  against  the aforementioned notification. *Provisional *****