KONKAN RAILWAY CALLING GRADUATE CIVIL
ENGINEERS OF JAMMU & KASHMIR
The Konkan Railway
Corporation (KRC), a public sector undertaking of the Ministry
of Railways, has planned to float ten Consulting companies each
with 10 to 15 civil engineers in Jammu and Kashmir, to train each
engineer of the so formed company and compensate them for the
work they would be doing on behalf of their newly formed such
companies. The compensation will be paid through the company that
they would form.
Such companies
would be given consulting work on contract basis once the civil
engineers manning them are trained for project execution, supervising
for Konkan Railway, earth work, bridges, tunnels, buildings involving
steel, pre-stressed concrete and heavy tunneling machinery on
attractive contractual terms.
The objective is
to provide gainful employment to civil engineers in the State.
When the project ends these companies will be in a position to
take off on their own with the rich experience gained.
The plan of KRC
aims at collecting applications from groups of civil engineering
graduates who are willing to come together to form such company.
No capital is needed except a degree in civil engineering of ones
domicile or born in Jammu and Kashmir.
In this regard, the
KRC is endeavouring to transfer value to the Kashmir Valley, buoyed
by its glorious success in accomplishing 760 kilometre long Roha-Mangalore
Konkan Railway line perceived to be engineering marvel of the
20th Century India.
The KRC has taken
up construction of Katra-Laole section of 293 kilometre long Broad
Gauge from Jammu to Baramullah, which is a national project funded
fully by the General Exchequer.
