24,38,271. Courses Indian Railways employs over 1.25 million personnel including 15,000 group ‘A’ and group ‘B’ officers. The Academy is the apex institution for Management Training of all Railway Officers and Centralised & Professional Training for Officers of Accounts, Personnel, Stores and Medical departments including the centralized training of newly recruited IRAS, IRPS, IRSS and IRMS Trainee officers. Nearly 100 courses for about 3800 officer trainees are planned in 2016. 120 courses were conducted in 2015. Professional Training of all officers including centralized training of the Officer Trainees of Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Signal & Telecom Engineering, Traffic Transportation & Commercial Departments and the Railway Protection Force of Indian Railways is conducted at Seven other Centralised Training Institutes (CTIs) viz, IRICEN-Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering, Pune IRISET-Indian Railways Institute of Signal and Telecommunications Engineering, Secunderabad IRIMEE-Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Jamalpur IRIEEN-Indian Railways Institute of Electrical Engineering, Nasik IRITM-Indian Railways Institute of Transportation Management, Lucknow Jagjivan Ram Railway Protection Force Academy Lucknow Centralized Training Academy For Railway Accounts Secunderabad. The training of non-gazetted staff is conducted at 55 Main Training Centers and 222 Other Training Centers (i.e., Area Training Centers, Basic Training Centers, Divisional Training Centers, Multi Disciplinary Training Centers etc. The Academy Shri S.P.S Chauhan is the current Director General of the Academy. The faculty comprises 24 experts drawn from various disciplines i.e., Finance, HR, Management, Engineering, Law, Safety, Security, Medicine, Rajbhasha etc. Faculty of the Academy- See Academy website The Academy along with all 7 other CTIs function under the administrative control of the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board). Training programmes Centralized Training for IRAS, IRSS, IRPS & IRMS The Academy is the ‘Centralised Training Institute’, for Officer Trainees assigned to ‘Indian Railway Accounts Service’, Indian Railway Personnel Service’, ‘Indian Railway Stores Service’ and Indian Railway Medical Service’ by UPSC. Training includes class room inputs, field training and visits to other CTIs. Officer Trainees of IRAS also attend short term Professional modules at National Academy of Audit and Accounts, Shimla, National Institute of Financial Management, Faridabad, National Academy of Direct Taxes Nagpur and Centralized Training Academy For Railway Accounts (C-TARA) Secunderabad, for discipline specific modules. Foundation & Induction Programmes for Group A and B Officers It is a combined programme for Officer Trainees of nine Organized Central Group A Civil & Engineering Services that are responsible for managing Indian Railways and the foundation and induction