15. Which of the following are the recommendations given by Bibek Debroy committee?
i) The report recommends setting up an overarching Railway Regulatory Authority of India (RRAI) as an independent regulatory body.
ii) It recommended that present eight organized Group ‘A’ services in Indian Railways (recruitment process) can be broadly categorized in two bigger groupings viz. technical and non-technical services.
c) Both i and ii
Explanation:
• Railway Regulatory Authority of India (RRAI) as an independent regulatory body shall ensure fair and open access and set access charges; establish tariffs in cases where there the market fails to discover a price; and adjudicate disputes between the track-owning organization and train operators; and between competitors.
• Technical and non-technical services classification as suggested for recruitment process can be as follows: The Indian Railway Technical Service (IRTechS) comprising the existing five technical services (IRSE, IRSSE, IRSEE, IRSME and IRSS) and the Indian Railway Logistics Service (IRLogS), comprising the three non-technical services (IRAS, IRPS and IRTS).