Indian Railway Institute of Civil Engineering

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IRICEN is the training institute for the Civil engineers of the Indian Railways. The institute had a modest start in 1959 as the Permanent Way Training School for training entry level Civil engineers. It is now a Centralised Training Institute and trains officers of the IRSE cadre of the Indian Railways

The institute also trains railway engineers for other agencies including RITES, IRCON, NTPC, etc.

The IRICEN is one of six Centralised Training Institutes that share the task of training of officers. The other Centralised Training Institutes are:

• Indian Railway Institute of Signal and Telecommunications Engineering, Secunderabad for engineers of S&T department,
• Indian Railway Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering & Jamalpur Gymkhana, Jamalpur for mechanical engineers
• Indian Railway Institute of Electrical Engineering, Nasik for Electrical Engineers,
• RPF Academy, Lucknow, for officers of Railway Protection Force and
• Railway Staff College, Vadodara functions as the apex training institute for the officers of all departments in general and Accounts, Personnel, Stores, Traffic and Medical departments in particular.

[edit] References

Indian Railway Organisational Structure

[edit] External links

The OFFICIAL website of Indian Railway Institute of Civil Engineering, Pune [1]