{"id":7852,"date":"2020-05-11T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T11:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7852"},"modified":"2020-05-11T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T11:41:40","slug":"shekatkar-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/shekatkar-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Shekatkar Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Defence and security<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.examrace.com\/Current-Affairs\/posts\/fb\/fb20c59f4a152faf74de7ee2cedc47701f7632c8589d130a89f23b86df49127c\/Image-of-Recommendations-of-D-B-Shekatkar-Committee.webp\" alt=\"Recommendations of D. B. Shekatkar Committee (Important ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 Defence Minister has approved a proposal for the abolition of 9,304 posts in the Military Engineering Service (MES) out of the total 13,157 vacancies of the basic and industrial staff.<\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This is in line with the recommendations of the Lt. Gen. D.B. Shekatkar (Retd.) Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>The 11-member committee, appointed by the late Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar in 2016, had made about 99 recommendations, from optimising defence budget to the need for a Chief of the Defence Staff.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 These recommendations, if implemented over the next five years, can result in savings of up to \u20b925,000 crore in defence expenditure. Of these, the first batch of 65 recommendations pertaining to the Army were approved in August 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 One of the recommendations was to restructure the civilian workforce so that the work of the MES could be partly done by departmentally employed staff and other works could be outsourced. It was aimed at making the MES an effective organisation with a leaner workforce.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Defence and security Why in news? \u2022 Defence Minister has approved a proposal for the abolition of 9,304<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions\/7853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}