History
IRIMEE had humble beginnings, when it started in 1888 as a technical school attached to the Railway Locomotive Workshop Jamalpur of the East Indian Railway. In 1905, this Technical School started the Apprentice Mechanics Scheme for Anglo-Indians. At the end of the five-year apprenticeship, the Apprentice Mechanics were appointed as Assistant Foremen or Assistant Superintendents on the East India Railway. The scheme was extended to cover other Indians, in 1911.
It came into national prominence when it started the training of Special Class Railway Apprentices as Mechanical and Electrical engineers, in February 1927. In 1974, the school was made a Centralised Training Institute (CTI), renamed as Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, and brought under the direct control of Railway Board. It is, therefore, the oldest of the CTIs.
The hostel for the Special Class Railway Apprentices is the Jamalpur Gymkhana
In 1988, the training of IRSME probationers was centralised under the control of Director, IRIMEE but with HQ at Kharagpur, where there was an Officer on Special Duty (OSD) co-ordinating the training with the Director. From 1997, HQ of IRSME Probationers was shifted to Jamalpur.
The IRIMEE is one of six Centralised Training Institutes that share the task of training of officers. The other Centralised Training Institutes are:
- Indian Railway Institute of Civil Engineering, Pune for civil engineers,
- Indian Railway Institute of Signal and Telecommunications Engineering, Secunderabad for engineers of S&T department,
- Indian Railway Institute of Electrical Engineering, 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.
The IRIMEE is headed by the Director, IRIMEE. The director is supported by a faculty of Professors. The senior faculty is made of officers of the Indian Railways on temporary assignment. Therefore the administration function is managed by the faculty without any specialist administrators.
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