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.

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for civil engineers, * Indian Railways Institute of Electrical Engineering,

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for Electrical Engineers, *

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, Jamalpur for mechanical engineers * Indian Railways Institute of Signal and Telecommunications Engineering,

for engineers of S&T department, *

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, for officers of Railway Protection Force and * As the alma mater the

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(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 1957 establishments in Andhra Pradesh Educational institutions established in 1957 {{India-rail-transport-stub