1.5 lakh Additional New Recruitments are in Process in Indian Railways: Union Railway Minister
The Indian Railways will recruit 1,48,463 people over the next one year. Read this article to know the complete details.
1.5 lakh Additional New Recruitments are in Process in Indian Railways: Union Railway Minister
The Indian Railways will recruit 1,48,463 people over the next one year as compared to the 43,678 people recruited on an average annually over the last eight years. Recently, the Union Railway Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw has tweeted, “3.5 lakh recruitments in Indian Railways is done between 2014-22 with more than 43000 avg annually. Approx. 1.5 lakh additional new recruitments are in the process at a steadfast pace.”
This move came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's instruction to recruit 10 lakh people in various departments and ministries in the next 18 months. Welcoming the move by the Prime Minister, Ministry of Railways tweeted that the railways ongoing recruitment processes will be accelerated to help achieve this objective.
Ministry of Railways has officially started the process to fill up the new recruitments. An official circular has been sent to all the General Manager of Zonal Railways. The circular has been sent for filling up non-gazetted posts in Railways, Classification of posts in safety category-civil, mechanical and electrical, etc.
Number of Gazetted & Non-Gazetted in Indian Railways
The break-up of gazetted and non-gazetted posts in Indian Railways is given below:
| Gazetted | Non-Gazetted | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 17894 |
1488405 |
1506299 |
Vacancies in Indian Railways
The zone-wise vacancies in Indian Railways as on February 1, 2022, under various gazetted and non-gazetted categories are given below.
| Zonal Railways | Vacancies as on 01.02.2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Gazetted category | Non-Gazetted category | |
| Central |
104 |
27483 |
| East Coast |
93 |
8142 |
| East Central |
179 |
15634 |
| Eastern |
195 |
28219 |
| Metro |
24 |
878 |
| North Central |
126 |
17838 |
| North Eastern |
82 |
14329 |
| Northeast Frontier |
141 |
15855 |
| Northern |
169 |
37433 |
| North Western |
113 |
15018 |
| South Central |
34 |
16878 |
| South East Central |
99 |
9434 |
| South Eastern |
156 |
17208 |
| Southern |
159 |
20161 |
| South Western |
62 |
6400 |
| West Central |
69 |
11111 |
| Western |
168 |
26351 |
| Production Units & other units |
546 |
13042 |
| Total |
2519 |
301414 |
Number of Candidates Empanelled in Indian Railways
The number of candidates empanelled in Indian Railways in last three years are given below.
| Year | New persons empanelled/recruited |
|---|---|
| 2019 |
16,851 |
| 2020 |
1,26,765 |
| 2021 |
4,534 |
| Total |
1,48,150 |
Ongoing Recruitment in Indian Railways
Currently, the recruitment in Indian Railways is underway for RRB NTPC, RRB Group D and Isolated & Ministerial categories
| CEN | No. of Vacancies (Notified/Modified) |
|---|---|
| 01/2019 Non Technical Popular Categories (NTPC)- Graduate & Under Graduate level |
35,281 |
| 03/2019 Isolated & Ministerial categories |
1,663 |
| RRC-01/2019 Level-1 (erstwhile Group ‘D’) |
1,03,769 |
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