Indian Railway: Train guards will now be called train managers, will there be a change in salary as well?

New Delhi: Train guards will now be called train managers. Railway Board has issued orders in this regard. This order has been implemented with immediate effect. According to the information given on the Twitter account of Indian Railways, the change in the name of the post will not have any effect on the pay scale. Apart from this, the process related to senior and promotion will also not be affected. That is, only the name has been changed, everything else will remain as before. In this regard, orders have been sent to all the zones.

Along with this, four other designations have also been changed. Under which now the Assistant Guard will be called Assistant Passenger Train Manager, Goods Guard will be called Goods Train Manager, Senior Goods Guard will be called Senior Goods Train Manager and Senior Passenger Guard will be called Senior Passenger Train Manager.

Rajesh Gupta, National Vice President of All India Guard Council, says that the above designations were not suiting the work, so there was a demand to change it at every level. All the railwaymen are happy after the order is issued, however according to Rajesh Gupta, there is no post called Assistant Guard in the Railways, so it should be deleted.

The decision of the Railway Board has fulfilled the years old demand of the employees. There was a demand to change the designation of the guard since 2004. The reasoning behind this was that the job of the guard is not just to flag and torch for the signal.