Are the EP members not eligible?

If sources are to be believed, many senior railway officers are sore over the composition of the Expert Panel(EP). It is said that the current EP, however, is constituted only of retired officers none of whom have been General Managers let alone Chairman, Members, or Secretaries to the Government of India. Most of them haven’t even been DRMs. Yet, they have been entrusted to decide the fate of General Managers. The EP was to be drawn out of retired Chairmen and Members of the Railway Board, retired Secretaries, General Managers, and others. The gazette notification says that the Expert Panel (EP) was only supposed to assist in assessing the ACRs/APARs, getting multi-source feedback, and evaluating the applications. In fact, the Expert Panel (EP) was not to prepare a shortlist, nor was it even to recommend a shortlist. Yet, the EP has been called upon to do that.