RRB JE Fee Refund Link 2022: Notification, Application, Dates, Admit Card, Cut Off, Selection Process

RRB JE recruitment is a recruitment exercise meant to recruit the Junior Engineer (JE), Junior Engineer (Information Technology) Depot Material Superintendent (DMS) and Chemical & Metallurgical Assistant (CMA) in various Departments of Railways. 

Railway Recruitment Boards were created initially with the name of service commissions and were created at different dates. Later in 1985, the Railway Services Commissions were renamed and restructured as the Railway Recruitment Boards. In the year 1998, all the RRBs came under the umbrella organisation Railway Recruitment Control Board (RRCB), which directly works under the Ministry of Railway (Railway Board).
RRBs are responsible for the recruitment of personnel at various positions. They coordinate, recruit through a centralised recruitment advertisement and conduct online computer-based test (CBT) across the nation.

RRB JE Latest Updates

March 4: RRBs released the notice for the objections fees refund. The candidates can see here the details about RRB JE fee refund link 2022

RRB JE 2022 exam notification will kick start the recruitment process. 

The eligibility criteria for the RRB JE recruitment is defined based on Nationality, Age and Educational Qualification. The candidates who fulfil all the eligibility conditions are supposed to fill out the application form because, in the absence of that, the candidature of the candidate will be liable to cancel at the advance stage of examination. All the original documents will be verified at the stage of document verification and in absence of any required document, the candidate will lose his candidature. Candidates waiting for the final results of the prescribed educational qualifications should not apply.

Nationality

(i) A candidate must be either:
a. a citizen of India, or
b. a subject of Nepal, or
c. a subject of Bhutan, or
d. a Tibetan refugee who came over to India, before the 1st January 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or
e. a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African Countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.

Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India. The person may be selected and recommended but the appointment letter will be issued to him only after he gets such a certificate from the Government of India.

Age Limit

The lower age limit for the RRB JE exam is 18 and the upper age limit is 33 years. The age relaxation is provided to the reserved categories as follows:

The lower and upper age limit indicated for a particular post(s) in the vacancy table will be reckoned as on January 1, 2022. If a candidate is eligible for a relaxation of age on more than one ground, he/she would be accorded the highest of the age re-laxations for which he/she is eligible

Educational Qualification

The candidates need to fulfil the educational criteria given in the official notification to appear in the RRB JE recruitment exam. The RRB JE exam is divided into 5 sub-groups to define the educational criteria, syllabus and other events. The subgroups and their educational qualification is defined as follows:

Candidates should ensure that they possess/fulfil all eligibility conditions prescribed for the post(s) as of the closing date of online registration. Candidates waiting for the final results of the prescribed educational qualifications should not apply. 

See Here: RRB JE exam pattern

RRB JE Dates

The following are the important dates related to the RRB JE Recruitment 2022

It is expected that the RRB JE 2022 vacancies will be higher than in the past years because of the expansion of railways across the nation. RRB JE recruitment 2019 notification mentioned 13,487 vacancies, but later with a notice, 74 vacancies were also added to the RRB JE 2019 and the total number of vacancies became 13,561. The post-wise vacancies for RRB JE 2019 are as follows:

RRB JE notification advertises the vacancies for each of the posts separately.

RRB JE application is the first step to enter the recruitment process of the exam. The RRBs issue centralised notification and invites application from the candidates for the nearest RRB. Later the RRBs also issues the Application status of the candidates. Application status is issued so that the candidates can confirm the acceptance of their application for the RRB JE exam. 

Respective RRBs had released the RRB JE application status related to their acceptance and rejection for the Computer-based test (CBT) on March 26, 2019. The application status were released after the scrutiny process of applications were complete. The candidates were given reasons for the rejection of their application. The status checking window was opened till March 31, 2019.

RRB JE exam is conducted in four stages starting from Stage I Computer Based Test( CBT) to the Medical test. The selection process has the following steps:

Filling up the Application Form

The RRB JE Recruitment application will be invited from the candidates after the notification. The candidates are given a time period of 25 to 30 days to fill the application form online. For the RRB JE 2019, the application fees was Rs.500 for the unreserved category and Rs.250 for the SC / ST / Ex-Servicemen / PwBDs / Female / Transgender / Minorities / Economically backward class.

It was also mentioned that this examination fee will be refunded fully to the reserved category candidates when they appear in the CBT-1 exam. The unreserved category candidates will receive INR.400 back in their account on appearing in the CBT-1.

The candidates were allowed to modify their application form twice only. For each modification in the RRB JE application form, the candidates were required to pay a fee INR .100.

Issue of RRB JE CBT -1 Admit Card

The RRB JE admit card is released for each stage of the exam separately and the candidates are required to download the admit card and present it at the exam centre. The other government ID proofs are also required with the adit card and can be asked at the time of exam by the competent authority.

The RRB JE admit card is released to all the candidates whose applications were accepted by the respective RRBs. The admit card for the RRB JE CBT-1 will be issued 4 days before the CBT-1 exam. 

RRB JE CBT -1 Exam

RRB JE CBT-1 exam is the first stage of the selection process. It is a computer-based test conducted to filter out the candidates for CBT-2. The CBT-1 is an online objective type test and the duration of this test is 90 Minutes. There will be 100 questions in the CBT-1 and each question was of 1 mark. There will be a negative marking of 1/3 in the RRB JE CBT-1. The score of CBT-1 will be decided after the normalisation of marks done in the manner defined in the RRB JE Notification.

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