Railways To Fill Up 1.4 Lakh Vacancies In A Mega Recruitment Drive Amid Strict Covid-19 Protocol

In a mega recruitment drive, Indian Railways has undertaken a massive exercise of filling up about 1.4 lakh vacancies in which more than 2.44 crore candidates will be appearing in different cities across the country.

Braving the pandemic, the recruitment examination would be conducted by 21 Railway Recruitment Boards in three phases from December 2020 this year.

The examination process is expected to be completed by June end next year.

There are 35,208 posts in non-technical popular categories (NTPC) like guards, office clerks, commercial clerks and others, 1,663 posts for isolated and ministerial categories such as steno and teachers, and 1,03,769 for level-one vacancies such as track maintainers and pointsman.

According to railways, candidates will be informed individually through email and SMS about their city of exam, date and shift of exam through a link provided on RRBs' official websites.

Link for downloading of e-call letters will be made live four days prior to exam date on official websites of all RRBs. Communication regarding next phases of recruitment will be released in due course.

RRBs have made extensive preparations for conducting examinations of this large a scale in Covid-19 pandemic times following SOPs laid down by the government, which entail ensuring social distancing, compulsory use of masks, sanitizers, curtailing shifts for conducting exams to only two shifts per day among others.

Efforts are being made by RRBs to ensure that as far as possible, the candidates are accommodated in their own state so that they can reach their exam centres overnight.

Chief Secretaries of the concerned states have also been requested to extend support to RRBs for conducting exams in a secure and safe manner.

Candidates will be checked for temperature at entry using thermal guns. Candidates having temperatures more than the prescribed limits will not be allowed inside the exam venue.

Intimation in this regard will also be sent to their registered email and mobile number regarding rescheduling of such candidates.

The exact date of the re-scheduled exams of such candidates will be intimated subsequently.

Candidates have to produce Covid-19 self declarations in the prescribed format at the entry gates and in absence of the same, he/she will not be allowed into the exam venue.

Proper arrangement of crowd management will be made as per Covid-19 protocol from the main gate to the exam labs. After each shift, the exam centre will be sanitised before another shift.

In order to safeguard the health of the candidates and other personnel involved in the conduct of CBT during Covid-19 scenario, all relevant protocols/guidelines will be strictly complied with. The latest instructions, guidelines and orders issued by the Central and respective State governments concerning Covid-19 will be followed and ensured.