NEW DELHI: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday approved scrapping nearly 10,000 posts in the Military Engineering Services (MES) "to enhance combat capability and rebalance defence expenditure of the armed forces," a statement from the defence ministry said.
The decision is in line with the recommendations of the Committee of Experts, headed by former lieutenant general DB Shekatkar, the statement said.
The Shekatkar committee, set up in 2016 by former defence minister Manohar Parikkar, had made a number of suggestions on how to make the Indian armed forces much leaner, cohesive and modern. “One of the recommendations made by the Committee was to restructure the civilian workforce in a manner that the work of MES could be partly