Defence Ministry abolishes 9,304 posts in Military Engineering Service

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today has given his nod to the proposal for abolition of 9,304 posts in Military Engineering Service (MES) out of the total 13,157 vacancies of the Basic and Industrial staff.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has given his nod to the proposal for abolition of 9,304 posts in Military Engineering Service (MES) out of the total 13,157 vacancies of the Basic and Industrial staff, the Defence Ministry said.

This has been done after recommendations were made by a committed chaired by Lt General Shekatkar, to abolish these posts in order to strengthen combat capability and rebalance defence expenditure of the Armed Forces.

In line with the recommendations made by the Committee, based on the proposal of the Engineer-in-Chief, MES, the proposal of the abolition of 9,304 posts in MES out of the total 13,157 vacancies of the Basic and Industrial staff has been approved by Raksha Mantri, the Ministry said.

"The recommendation was aimed at making MES an effective organisation with a leaner workforce, well equipped to handle complex issues in the emerging scenario in an efficient and cost-effective manner," the Ministry added.

"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," the press note said.

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