- Confidential Cells has shown poor management and unsafe handling of such a sensitive papers of the promotion of IRSSE 2015 batch: IRSTMU
NEW DELHI. A file related to the “Junior Administrative Grade Panel of 2015 allotment year officers of The Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE)” has gone missing from the Confidential Cell of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Railway Board, Ministry sources said.
Unable to locate the file, the Board issued a ‘Search Memo’ on January 24, 2025 which while mentioning the file number said that the officer from the CRB & CEO Confidential Cell has intimated that the said file is untraceable.
Sources said that the said file might be continuing the documents of over 200 JAG officials of the Signal department.
“Section Officers, In-Charges, PSOs, Sr. PPSs, PSs, PAs and Stenos are requested to please make a thorough search for the above-mentioned file in their respective Branches/Sections/Officers’ rooms,” the Memo said.
It added, “The result of the search may be intimated either to the General Branch or to the branch concerned latest by 29.01.2025 positively.”
According to sources, the said file is still untraceable. Dilip Kumar, Executive Director, Information and Publicity, Railway Board didn’t respond to the Union.
When contacted, the office bearers of the Signal and Telecom Union expressed surprise and said that if these types of confidential documents go missing from CRB & CEO Confidential Cell, it suggests poor management and safety of sensitive documents.

Alok Chandra Prakash, general secretary, IRSTMU
“If senior officials’ files go missing from sensitive departments like this, imagine the mishandling of other important documents. The career and promotional prospects of these officials rest in that file and if it can be found, it will cause a huge problem for the concerned department,” Indian Railway S&T Maintainers’ Union general secretary Alok Chandra Prakash.
