hajipur only 15 officials from the eastern and the northeastern railways have joined in the headquarters of the east central railway ecr zone here in the last one monththe ecr had sought options from officials of different rail zones on joining at the ecr headquarters in hajipur however the response is not satisfactory in that regard said a senior ecr official on the condition of anonymityaccording to official sources birendra kumar of the eastern railway has joined as the senior deputy general manager sdgm followed by saluja as the chief medical director cmd the chief bridge engineer and others from the eastern and the northeastern railways till date the ecr zone has been without any permanent chief public relation officer cpro for a long time and amrendra k chandra secretary to gm s c gupta is currently officiating as the cpro the last date for submitting options is september 30the priority of the ecr to have computerfriendly staff from other zones has not yielded the desired result there is a dearth of computersavvy staff who have proficiency in various applications of information technology in other zones and divisions as well however the ecr prefers to have only skilled staff disclosed a senior technical official on the condition of anonymitythe dream of railway minister nitish kumar to make the ecr headquarters in hajipur a model zone could derail if computersavvy staff from other zones do not opt for it said an ecr officialbesides the ecr has made it clear to railway personnel who want to be posted at hajipur that their seniority would be decided here in accordance with the instructions laid down by the railway boards letter no eng96er36 dated 972002sources in the ecr said that the competence of the computersavvy staff who opt for the ecr zone would be considered by competent authoritiesaccording to a senior official it is only the long and lengthy proceedings which force the staff of other zones and divisions not to join here in spite of the good working opportunity available in the ecr headquarters herethe administrative building of the ecr zone office would come up on an area of 12600 square metres while the total office space available after construction of all offices would be 19250 square metres informed official sources in the ecraccording to an official of the construction wing currently the number of staff quarters in hajipur is only 65 however once the zone becomes operational the number of staff quarters would be increased