Indian Railways to end colonial-era khalasi system halts hiring
According to the official request, there will be no new enlistment to the post
A month ago, the Railways had chosen to get rid of Dak couriers
Indian Railways is good to go to end pioneer period khalasi framework, following a request from the Railway Board, news office PTI announced. Khalasis or ‘lodge peons’ were delegated to work at the habitations of senior authorities. According to the official request, there will be no new enlistment to the post.
A month ago, the Railways chose to get rid of a British-time practice of sending private reports by means of individual or Dak couriers and trained zones to move to correspondence through videoconferencing. These dak couriers are normally peons who are recognized and given the obligation of shipping records, reports of delicate nature over the Railways’ system – from Railway Board to its different offices, to its zones and divisions.
Prior, the Railways had required a freeze in the formation of new posts, defense of labor at workshops, moving re-appropriated work to CSR, moving stylized capacities to computerized stages.
It additionally prompted the zones to control use by diminishing staff cost, supporting staff, and furthermore by causing them to play out different assignments.