Indian Railway Stores Service

Indian Railway Stores Service

Service overview
Founded	1936; 88 years ago (1936)
Country	India
Training Institute	National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR), Vadodara, Gujarat
Cadre controlling authority	Member (Traction & Rolling Stock), Ministry of Railways, Government of India
Minister responsible	Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Railways, Communication and IT
Legal personality	Governmental; Engineering
Duties	Supply Chain Management Goods and Services Procurement Inventory Control
Cadre strength	542 members
Selection	Engineering Services Examination (UPSC)
Association	IRSS Officers Association
Additional Member Railway Stores	R.K. Saxena, IRSS
Notable Alumini	A.K. Mittal (former CRB), R. Shrinivasan, VirendraRaj Mehta, Prem Narayan,

The Indian Railway Stores Service (IRSS) is one of the Group A central engineering services of the Government of India. The officers of this service are procurement and logistics specialists, contract managers on the Indian Railways, providers of logistics for the transportation of material from and within various railways as well as the planners and maintainers of the intelligent warehousing with automated storage and retrieval systems on the Indian Railways. The IRSS officers undergo training at National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR) for a period of 18 months which includes two months certification course at IIM Khozikhode and a foreign training.^[1]