Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering

Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering (IRICEN), Pune

Established	1988
Location	Pune
Coordinates	18°56′42″N 72°50′01″E / 18.94505°N 72.83352°E / 18.94505; 72.83352
Website	www.iricen.gov.in

Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering (IRICEN), Pune is the training institute for the Civil engineers of the

Located in the city of Pune, IRICEN imparts training to up to 100 engineers/ managers at a time. Engineers from railways of the developing countries as well as other government departments/private organisations are also trained. The training programmes are generally residential in nature. Available infrastructure for conducting various training programmes includes a well-stocked technical library, computer centre, material testing laboratory, model room/ museum, hostel, mess and recreational facilities for the trainee officers.

The institute also trains railway engineers for other agencies including

, MRVC etc.

Sister organizations

The IRICEN is one of six

that share the task of training of officers. The other Centralised Training Institutes are:

• Indian Railways Institute of Signal and Telecommunications Engineering, Secunderabad for engineers of S&T department,
• Jamalpur
  for mechanical engineers
• Nasik
  for Electrical Engineers,
• RPF Academy, Lucknow
  , for officers of Railway Protection Force and
• Railway Staff College, Vadodara
  functions as the apex training institute for the officers of all departments in general and Accounts, Personnel, Stores, Traffic and Medical departments in particular. This institute has been renamed as National Academy of Indian Railway.

See also

• Indian Railways organisational structure

References

External links

• Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering, Pune
• Indian Railways information portal