{"id":461886,"date":"2022-01-15T10:55:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T05:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=461886"},"modified":"2022-01-15T10:55:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T05:25:39","slug":"railways-guard-redesignated-as-train-manager-will-it-affect-pay-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-guard-redesignated-as-train-manager-will-it-affect-pay-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways \u2018guard\u2019 redesignated as &#8216;train manager&#8217;. Will it affect pay scale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways on Friday announced its decision to re-designate the post of \u2018guard\u2019 as \u2018train manager\u2019, fulfilling a long-pending demand. The ministry of railways said that the issue of designation had been under deliberation in Railway Board in consultation with recognised federations. The ministry added that the new designation of \u2018train manager\u2019 is \u201cmore in consonance with their existing duties and responsibilities\u201d and will improve the motivation level of the employees.<\/p>\n<p>In an order dated January 13, the ministry of railways said that \u2018assistant guard\u2019 and \u2018goods guard\u2019 will now be known as \u2018assistant passenger train manager\u2019 and \u2018goods train manager\u2019, respectively. The \u2018mail\/express guard\u2019 will be known as \u2018mail\/express train manager\u2019. Similarly, \u2018senior goods guard\u2019 and \u2018senior passenger guard\u2019 have been re-designated as \u2018senior goods train manager\u2019 and \u2018senior passenger train manager\u2019, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Will the redesignation affect the pay scale?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways on Friday announced its decision to re-designate the post of \u2018guard\u2019 as \u2018train manager\u2019, fulfilling a long-pending demand. The ministry of railways said that the issue of designation had been under deliberation in Railway Board in consultation with recognised federations. The ministry added that the new designation of \u2018train manager\u2019 is \u201cmore in consonance with their existing duties and responsibilities\u201d and will improve the motivation level of the employees. In an order dated January 13, the ministry of railways said that \u2018assistant guard\u2019 and \u2018goods guard\u2019 will now be known as \u2018assistant passenger train manager\u2019 and \u2018goods train [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-railways-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}