The Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunication, Secunderabad is an Institute based on Signal Engineering and Telecommunications. Located in

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, this institute is run by the

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in 1957 as a subsidiary of Indian Railways. It caters to the specialized training needs of the Indian Railways' supervisors and officers in

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and

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. It also trains officials of Foreign Railways.

Overview

In the first year of its existence it was concerned only with imparting training to Apprentices JE( junior engineers) Signal and Apprentice JE (junior engineers) Telecommunication, but subsequently, in view of the rapid developments in the field of Signaling and Telecommunication, several specialised technical training needs of Officers and Staff of Signal and Telecommunication Department in Signal Engineering, Telecommunications Technology, Electronics and Information Technology Training have also been introduced. Facilities available in this Institute are also extended to foreign nationals.

Related Institutes

The IRISET is one of six Centralised Training Institutes that share the task of training of officers. The other Centralised Training Institutes are: * Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering, Pune for civil engineers, * Indian Railways Institute of Electrical Engineering,

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for Electrical Engineers, * Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering &

Jamalpur Gymkhana The Jamalpur Gymkhana, often referred to as ''Gymkhana'' (or merely Gym) by its members, is a hostel for young apprentice officers of the Indian Railways in Jamalpur, Bihar, India. It is also a club like any other Gymkhana Gymkhana () ...

, Jamalpur for mechanical engineers *

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for engineers of S&T department, *

RPF Academy The Jagjivan Ram Railway Protection Force Academy (JRRPFA), Lucknow is a civil service training institute run by the Indian Railways to impart training to new joiners to the Railway Protection Force (RPF). It was established in 1955 at Luckno ...

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, for officers of Railway Protection Force and * As the

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the Railway Staff College (Now called National Academy of Indian Railways),

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functions as the apex training institute for the officers of all departments in general and Accounts, Personnel, Stores, Traffic and Medical departments in particular.

External links

Official website of IRISET

References

Training institutes of Indian Railways 1958 establishments in Andhra Pradesh Universities and colleges established in 1958 {{India-rail-transport-stub