SCRA Job Profile

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Special Class Railway Apprentice' (SCRA) mentions to a handful of contenders that are selected by the Union Public Service Commission India, after a rigorous selection process, to the undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Jamalpur.

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After the completion of their training, they are absorbed into the highest level leadership program in the Railway organization (also called Group A Officers).

This cadre of officers are attached to the IRSME.

On completion of the probation in SCRA, one is posted as an officer in the junior scale.
Promotion to the senior scale takes place after about two years of service in working post.
After 6 to 7 years of service, the officer is promoted to the Junior Administrative Grade, which has two levels.
One can be serving in various assignments at the Junior Administrative Grade for 8–10 years.
This is followed by the Selection Grade.

The next in seniority is the Senior Administrative Grade, equivalent to the Joint Secretary, Government of India which is obtained after 16–18 years of service.
Officers of this grade may be posted as heads of various workshops in the field, as heads of a department functioning at the Headquarters office, as Addition Divisional Railway Manager or as the Executive Director in the Railway Board.
After six to eight years, while remaining in the same pay scale officers are selected to be appointed as Divisional Railway Managers (DRM).