<span style="color: #222222;">Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved proposal of Engineer-in-Chief of Military Engineering Services for optimisation of more than 9,300 posts in basic and industrial workforce. </span><br />''<br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It is in line with the recommendations of the Committee of Experts, headed by Lt General (Retd) DB Shekatkar. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Committee had recommended measures to enhance combat capability and rebalance defence expenditure of the Armed Forces.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">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 done by departmentally employed staff and other works could be outsourced.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">   </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The proposal of abolition of 9,304 posts in MES out of the total 13,157 vacancies of the Basic and Industrial staff has been approved by Raksha Mantri. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The recommendation was aimed at making MES an effective organisation with a leaner workforce, well equipped to handle complex issues in the emerging scenario in an efficient and cost effective manner.</span><br />