In southern railway we have a funny order as the railnet connectivity will be available to offcers of jag grade and above or officers of independent charge. In the era of computeraisation and sharing info thro emails and downloading information from net from varius sources for prices of various commodoties helps accounts officers to function dynamicaly and react quickly. i am being an iras officer felt so bad of this order . Junior or sr.scale officers being denied of this facility qutionable. when we contact personaly for registeration they look at us suspeciously as we are misusers of inernet.
in this fast communication age,if i dont use net and lost contact for 5 yrs from now on with my fellow officers and i dont think i can reestablish my network and can be a vibrant officer. For example we dont have any clear cut policy guideline for earning contracts and we are out sourcing lot of activity now. iras time came in time and FA&CAO/g.ECR has the compendium and to be contacted thro mail for CD. if i see this after 5 yrs and finalise with best of my knowledge(ofcourse the decision would be reasonable ) without this added information i would be lacking in one or other aspects.
one side we talk of vibrant officers and other side make unreasonable decision which dissapoint officers at young age who come with full motivation and make them to become an "railway employees". even we junior and sr scale officer of southern railway can't see our web site and can get valuble information henceforth. can any officer at railway board level can help us?.
i wonder! is an austrrity measures? i bet i can save more money to railways thro my wide knowledge than what my bosses think that it is saved by eliminaating us from net connectivity.
on behalf of all officers of jr and sr scale
jaikumar.n
adfm/pgt/sr
