Being the second largest Railway system in the world, Indian Railways generates lots of jobs every year to the Indian Nationals. The broadly divided Zones of Indian Railways and its Divisions have technical and non-technical departments to which the recruitment's are done through Competitive Exams. These Exams are conducted by Union public service commission (UPSC) and Railway Recruitment Board (RRB). The entry is done through three different channels:
Group A officers are recruited by UPSC through:
- Civil Service Examination for Indian Railway Traffic Services (IRTS) and the Indian Railways Accounts Services (IRAS)
- Combined Engineering Service for Indian Railway Service of Engineers (IRSE), Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE), Indian Railway Services of Signal Engineers (IRSSE) and Indian Railway Store Service (IRSS)
Group B officers are directly promoted from Group C.
Group C officers are recruited through the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB). The 19 Railway Recruitment Boards in India (RRBs) have been functioning as prime recruiting agencies for all Zonal Railways, Production Units and other extra Zonal units of the Indian Railways. The Group C posts include assistant station masters, drivers, motormen, guards, signal and mechanical inspectors. Here again, staff are divided into technical and non-technical staff.
RRB Joint Employment Notice 2009 Recruitment Process:
- The selection is made strictly as per merit, on the basis of written / online examination. In addition, Aptitude/Skill Test/Interview etc. may also be conducted wherever applicable. Short listed candidates will be called for verification of the original documents according to merit, availability of vacancies and reservation rules.
- There shall be negative marking in written/online examinations and marks shall be deducted for each wrong answer @1/3 of the allotted marks for each question.
- The syllabus for the written / online examination will be generally in conformity with the educational standards and/or technical qualifications prescribed for the posts.
- The Questions will be of objective type with multiple answers and likely to include questions pertaining to General Knowledge, General English / General Hindi, General Arithmetic, Analytical and Quantitative Skills and those subjects covered as part of minimum educational/technical qualifications for the post.
- The question paper will be bilingual i.e. in English and Hindi and the duration of the examination will be 1 ½ to 2 hours with approximately 100 to 150 questions.
- The Railway Recruitment Board, at its discretion may hold additional written test(s) and/or interview/skill test if considered necessary for all or for a limited number of candidates as may be deemed fit by Railway Recruitment Board.
- The date, time and venue of the written /online examination and Aptitude/Skill Test/ Interview will be fixed by the RRB and will be intimated to the eligible candidates in due course.
Request for postponement of the examination/skill test/interview and change of center/ venue will not be entertained under any circumstances.
- Stages of examination are given against each post. Based on the performance of candidates in the examination, the candidates equal to the number of vacancies will be called for document verification in the main list.
- In addition 30% extra candidates are also called as standby candidates and they are considered for empanelment only if there is shortfall in empanelment from the main list.
- During document verification, the candidates will have to produce their original certificates. No additional time will be given and the candidature of the candidates not producing their original certificates on the date of verification is liable to be forfeited.
- The appointment of selected candidates is subject to their passing requisite Medical Fitness Test to be conducted by the Railway Administration, final verification of educational and community certificate and verification of antecedent/character of the candidates.
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