Details of Examinations by Railway Recruitment Board: Notification with date, number of posts etc.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 1396
ANSWERED ON 12.02.2021
EXAMINATIONS BY RAILWAY RECRUITMENT BOARD
1396. SHRI ELAMARAM KAREEM:
Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:
(a) how many recruitment Notifications were released by RRB in last three years, details of each Notification with date, number of posts, number of candidates applied and selected;
(b) whether examinations have been conducted for all the Notifications of RRB, details of such Notifications for which examination has not been conducted and expected date for exams in each advertisement;
(c) details of recruitment examinations conducted by RRB where final result is announced and passed candidates are employed during this period; and
(d) year-wise data on number of persons recruited to Railways through RRB and number of contractual appointments for the last five years?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, COMMERCE & INDUSTRY AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)
(a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (d) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1396 BY SHRI ELAMARAM KAREEM ANSWERED IN RAJYA SABHA ON 12.02.2021 REGARDING EXAMINATIONS BY RAILWAY RECRUITMENT BOARD
(a) to (c): The details of the Seven Centralized Employment Notifications (CENs) released by RRBs in the last 3 years are as follows:-
| Year | CEN | Date of Notification | Number of Vacancy | Number of applications received | Candidates Empanelled | Present status of recruitment |
| 2017- | 01/2018 | 03.02.2018 | 64371 | 4758218 | 57498 | Recruitment |
| ALP & | Process | |||||
| Technicians | completed. | |||||
| 02/2018Level-1 (erstwhile Group ‘D’) | 10.02.2018 | 63202 | 18982719 | 58266 | Recruitment Process completed. | |
| 2018 | ||||||
| 2018- | 03/2018JE/DMS/CMA | 29.12.2018 | 13538 | 2492554 | 13382 | Recruitment Process completed. |
| 02/2019 Para-medical categories | 23.02.2019 | 1923 | 447593 | 1793 | Recruitment Process completed. | |
| 03/2019 Isolated & Ministerial categories | 23.02.2019 | 1663 | 102940 | At examination stage. Computer Based Test (CBT) completed on 18.12.2020. | ||
| 01/2019 Non Technical Popular Categories (NTPC)- Graduate & Under Graduate level | 28.02.2019 | 35281 | 12630885 | At examination stage. CBT commenced from 28.12.2020. | ||
| 2019 | ||||||
| RRC-01/2019 Level-1 (erstwhile Group ‘D’) | 23.02.2019 | 103769 | 11570444 | Examination Conducting Agency (ECA) appointed. | ||
| 2019- 2020 | No fresh CEN issued. | |||||
(d): The details of number of persons empanelled/ recruited through RRBs and number of contractual appointments for the last 5 years are as under:
| Year | Empanelment/ Recruitment by RRBs | No. of Contractual Employees Engaged |
| 2015-2016 | 27995 | 1930 |
| 2016-2017 | 19587 | 3115 |
| 2017-2018 | 19100 | 4903 |
| 2018-2019 | 1727 | 11302 |
| 2019-2020 | 131429* | 12622 |
Source: RAJYA SABHA
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