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RRB Group D eligibility highlights certain parameters such as age limit, educational qualification, nationality, and medical requirements. According to RRB Group D eligibility, the age limit of candidates should be between 18 to 33 years. Candidates must have passed Class 10/ITI/NAC to be eligible for the RRB Group D 2025 exam.

RRB Group D Eligibility 2025: Are you planning to apply for RRB Group D exam in the future? Then, do not forget to check the revised RRB Group D eligibility criteria in terms of educational qualification. According to the Ministry of Railways, the minimum educational qualification for RRB Group D 2025 exam for all posts will be 10th pass or ITI or equivalent or National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) granted by NCVT. ITI is not mandatory for RRB Group D 2025 exam. Read below to check the eligibility parameters in terms of age, nationality, educational qualification, and medical standards.RRB Group D Eligibility Criteria

RRB Group D Eligibility Criteria

RRB Group D Eligibility 2025: The Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) released an important notice related to RRB Group D 2025 eligibility. According to the notice, CCAAs of any trade trained in Railway Establishments can apply. RRB Group D eligibility was revised in terms of age limit and educational qualification. According to the Ministry of Railways, the minimum educational qualification for RRB Group D 2025 exam for all posts will be 10th pass or ITI or equivalent or National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) granted by NCVT. ITI is not mandatory for the exam. According to RRB Group D eligibility, the age limit prescribed for the exam is 18 to 36 years. Relaxation in the upper age limit is provided to candidates belonging to reserved categories. Candidates must check the RRB Group D eligibility before applying for the RRB Group D 2025 exam. 

RRB Group D 2025 notification was released to fill up a total of 32438 vacancies. Candidates who meet the eligibility criteria can only fill the RRB Group D application form online

RRB Group D eligibility includes various factors such as age limit, education qualification, nationality, physical fitness and medical standards. Read below for more details on RRB Group D eligibility. 

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Table of contents
  • RRB Group D Eligibility 2025 (New Order)
  • RRB Group D Eligibility (Previous Order)
  • RRB Group D Eligibility Criteria 2025: Highlights
  • RRB Group D Qualification 2025
  • Railway Group D Level-1 Age Limit
  • RRB Group D Eligibility 2025 for CCAAs
  • RRB Group D Medical Standards
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RRB Group D Eligibility 2025 (New Order)

The educational qualification prescribed for RRB Group D exam for all posts is 10th pass or ITI or equivalent or National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) granted by NCVT. All candidates who have completed Class 10/ITI/NAC are eligible for RRB Group D 2025 exam.

RRB Group D Eligibility (Previous Order)

In 2019-23, Railway Recruitment Boards made modifications to RRB Group D eligibility. According to the revised RRB eligibility criteria, the minimum education qualification for candidates applying to the technical departments that is Civil Engineering, Mechanical, Electrical and Signal & Telecom departments) and catering wing of Railways will be Class 10 pass plus National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) granted by National Council for Vocational Training or Class 10 pass plus ITI. The revised eligibility criteria in terms of educational qualification is applicable for all future recruitments notified after June 15, 2019 in Level-1 posts. Earlier, NAC or ITI was not mandatory to apply for RRB Group D exam. RRB Group D age limit is 18 to 33 years

RRB Group D Eligibility Criteria 2025: Highlights

Some of the important highlights of RRB Group D eligibility criteria are summarised below.

Particulars Eligibility Criteria

RRB Group D Age Limit

18 to 36 years

RRB Group D Educational Qualification

Class 10 pass

Nationality

Indian

Number of Attempts

Nil

RRB Group D Nationality 2025

RRB Group D Level-1 aspirants need to fulfil the eligibility criteria of nationality or citizenship. A candidates who is:

  1. A citizen of India, or
  2. A subject of Nepal, or
  3. A subject of Bhutan, or
  4. A Tibetan refugee permanently settled in India from and before January 1, 1962.
  5. A person of Indian origin migrated from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, East African countries of Uganda, Kenya, the United Republic of Tanzania, Malawi, Zaire, Zambia, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.

Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (2), (3), (4) and (5) presents a certificate of eligibility issued by the Government of India to the recruiting body.

RRB Group D Qualification 2025

RRBs/RRCs have prescribed minimum educational qualification for Railway Group D exam. The educational qualification has been revised for candidates applying to the exam. The previous and revised educational qualification is given below.

Previous Educational Qualification Revised Educational Qualification

Class 10 pass plus National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) granted by National Council for Vocational Training or Class 10 pass plus ITI

Eligibility for all posts will be 10th pass or ITI or equivalent or National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) granted by NCVT

Railway Group D Level-1 Age Limit

RRB Group D age limit calculated as on 01.01.2025 is 18 to 36 years. Relaxation in the upper age limit is provided to SC/ST/OBC and other eligible categories as per government rule. The category-wise age limit for RRB/RRC Group D exam is given below.

Age Group Upper limit of Date of Birth (Not Earlier Than) Lower Limit of Date of Birth

18 to 36 years

UR/EWS

OBC (Non-Creamy Layer)

SC/ST

For all communities/ categories

 02.01.1989 

02.01.1986

02.01.1984

01.01.2007

Age Relaxation

The category-wise age relaxation given to candidates is given below.

Category Age Relaxation

SC/ST candidates

5 Years

OBC Non-Creamy Layer candidates

3 Years

Ex-Servicemen candidates who have put in more than 6 months of service after attestation

Up to the extent of service rendered in Defence plus 3 years

Persons with Disabilities (PWD) UR

10 Years

PWD OBC Non-Creamy Layer

13 Years

PWD SC/ST

15 Years

Candidates have ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from 01.01.1980 to 31.12.1989

5 Years

Candidates who are serving Group 'C' and Erstwhile Group 'D' Railway Staff, Casual Labour and Substitutes in Railways who have put in a minimum of 3 years’ service (continuous or in broken spells) of UR Category

40 years of Age

Candidates who are serving Group 'C' and Erstwhile Group 'D' Railway Staff, Casual Labour and Substitutes in Railways who have put in a minimum of 3 years’ service (continuous or in broken spells) of OBC-NCL (Non-Creamy Layer) Category

43 years of Age

Candidates who are serving Group 'C' and Erstwhile Group 'D' Railway Staff, Casual Labour and Substitutes in Railways who have put in a minimum of 3 years’ service (continuous or in broken spells) of SC/ST Category

45 years of age

Candidates who are working in Quasi-Administrative offices of the Railway organization such as Railway Canteens, Co-operative Societies and Institutes

Up to the length of service rendered (or) 5 Years, whichever is lower.

Women candidates, who are widowed, divorced or judicially separated from their husband but not remarried of UR Category

35 years of age

Women candidates, who are widowed, divorced or judicially separated from husband but not remarried of OBC-NCL (Non-Creamy Layer) Category

38 years of age

Women candidates, who are widowed, divorced or judicially separated from husband but not remarried of SC/ST Category

40 years of age

Course Completed Act Apprentices applying for the posts for which minimum qualification is ITI/Course Completed Act Apprenticeship.

Shall be relaxed to the extent of Apprentice Training undergone by them under the Apprentice Act 1961.

Candidates who are Course Completed Act Apprentice under the Apprenticeship Act before attaining the age of 25 years of UR Category

35 years of age

Candidates who are Course Completed Act Apprentice under the Apprenticeship Act before attaining the age of 25 years of OBC-NCL (Non-Creamy Layer) Category

38 years of age

Candidates who are Course Completed Act Apprentice under the Apprenticeship Act before attaining the age of 25 years of SC/ST Category

40 years of age

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RRB Group D Eligibility 2025 for CCAAs

According to RRB Group D eligibility, CCAAs who have done training in Railway Establishments and have National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) granted by NCVT only are eligible. CCAAs having certificates issued by the Board/ Institute/Organization other than NCVT are not eligible. CCAAs trained in Railway Establishments, who have completed their training and possess National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) granted by NCVT should carefully fill the duration of training, certificate details, and marks in the online application. The candidates who have appeared in the NCVT examinations before the last date of online application result for which are not declared should fill date of the last examination in the online application.

RRB Group D Medical Standards

Candidates shortlisted for document verification are required to pass the medical fitness test to check whether they are fit for the job role or not. The medical fitness test is conducted by the railway administration. In 2019-23,  RRB Group D medical standards were revised. The medical standards for RRB/RRC Group D Level-1 post are given below.

Medical Standard Visual Acuity

A-2 

Distant vision: 6/9, 6/9 without glasses (No fogging test)
Near vision: Sn. 0.6, 0.6 without glasses and must pass tests for colour vision, binocular vision, night vision, mesopic vision, etc

A-3 

Distant vision: 6/9, 6/9 with or without glasses (power of lenses not to exceed 2D)
Near vision: Sn: 0.6, 0.6 with or without glasses and must pass the test for colour vision, binocular vision, night vision, myopic vision, etc. 

B-1 

Distant vision: 6/9, 6/12 with or without glasses (power of lenses not to exceed 4D)
Near vision: Sn. 0.6, 0.6 with or without glasses when reading or close work is required and must pass the test for colour vision, binocular vision, night vision, mesopic vision, etc. 

B-2 

Distant vision: 6/9, 6/12 with or without glasses (power of lenses not to exceed 4D)
Near vision: Sn. 0.6, 0.6 with or without glasses when reading or close work is required and must pass the test for binocular vision, etc

C-1 

Distant vision: 6/12, 6/18 with or without glasses
Near vision: Sn. 0.6, 0.6 with or without glasses when reading or close work is required

C-2 

Distant vision: 6/12 with or without glasses
Near vision: Sn. 0.6 combined with or without glasses where reading or close work is required

RRB Group D Post Parameters

The revised post parameters for RRB Group D exam are given below.


Designation


Dept

Medical Standard

Suitability for persons with Benchmark Disability
VI HI LD MD

Assistant (workshop)

Mechanical

C1

B,LV

D,HH

OL,LC,DW,AAV

YES

Assistant bridge

Engineering 

B1

NO

NO

NO

NO

Assistant c & w

Mechanical

B1

NO

D,HH

OL,LC,DW,AAV

YES

Assistant depot (store)

Stores

C1

LV

HH

OL,OA

YES

Assistant loco shed (diesel)

Mechanical

B1

LV

D,HH

OL,LC,DW,AAV

YES

Assistant loco shed (electrical)

Electrical

B1

LV

D,HH

OL,LC,DW,AAV

YES

Assistant operations (electrical)

Electrical

B1

LV

D,HH

OL,LC,DW,AAV

YES

Pointsman

Traffic

A2

NO

NO

NO

NO

Assistant signal and telecom

S and T

B1

LV

D,HH

OL,LC,DW,AAV

YES

Assistant track machine

Engineering

A3

NO

D,HH

OL,LC,DW,AAV

YES

Assistant tl and ac

Electrical

B1

LV

D,HH

OL,LC,DW,AAV

YES

Assistant tl and ac (workshop)

Electrical

C1

B,LV

D,HH

OL,LC,DW,AAV

YES

Assistant trd

Electrical

B1

NO

D,HH

OL,LC,DW,AAV

YES

Assistant works

Engineering

C1

B,LV

D,HH

OL,LC,DW,AAV

YES

Assistant works (workshop)

Engineering

C1

B,LV

D,HH

OL,LC,DW,AAV

YES

Hospital assistant

Medical

C1

B,LV

D,HH

OL,LC,DW,AAV

YES

Track maintainer grade iv

Engineering

B1

NO

NO

NO

NO

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