{"id":323063,"date":"2020-05-07T17:47:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323063"},"modified":"2020-05-07T17:47:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:47:02","slug":"defence-minister-rajnath-singh-approves-abolition-of-9304-posts-in-military-engineering-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/defence-minister-rajnath-singh-approves-abolition-of-9304-posts-in-military-engineering-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approves abolition of 9,304 posts in Military Engineering Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-322540 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rajnath-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/rajnath-1.jpg 781w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/rajnath-1-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/rajnath-1-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/rajnath-1-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/rajnath-1-696x505.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/rajnath-1-579x420.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday approved the proposal of\u00a0abolition of 9,304 posts in Engineer-in-Chief of Military Engineering Services (MES). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The decision was taken after the recommendations of the Committee of Experts, headed by Lt General Shekatkar, which had recommended measures to enhance combat capability and rebalance defence expenditure of the Armed Forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">One of the recommendations made by the Committee was to restructure the civilian workforce in a manner that the work of MES could be partly done by departmentally employed staff and other works could be outsourced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In line with the recommendations made by the Committee, based on the proposal of E-in-C, MES, the proposal of abolition of\u00a09,304 posts in MES out of the total 13,157 vacancies of the Basic and Industrial staff has been approved by Rajnath Singh.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday approved the proposal of\u00a0abolition of 9,304 posts in Engineer-in-Chief of Military Engineering Services (MES). The decision was taken after the recommendations of the Committee of Experts, headed by Lt General Shekatkar, which had recommended measures to enhance combat capability and rebalance defence expenditure of the Armed Forces. One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323064,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323063\/revisions\/323064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}