After the mega recruitment process of 1.5 lakh employees 14 months ago, Indian Railways has initiated fresh recruitment of approximately 2.3 lakh more employees under various cadres of Indian Railways. They will be recruited over the next two years in two phases.
The drives will fix long-standing issues of overtime work, delay in project implementation, low efficiency, and constraints on upgradation.
एक प्रमुख वेबसाइट के सर्वे में पता चला है कि 84% रिक्रूटर्स मानते हैं कि जनवरी से जून 2019 तक बड़ी मात्रा में नौकरियां निकलने वाली हैं, जो पिछले 6 महीनों से 20% अधिक है#JobsHeeJobs pic.twitter.com/bFqY82wf0V
— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) January 23, 2019
Due to the threefold increase in the investment in the last 4 years, the demand for people has also increased. Now it will be a job-led growth and expansion of Indian Railways.
Presently, Indian Railways has a sanctioned strength of 15,06,598 employees. Out of these, 12,23,622 personnel are on roll, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday. The remaining 2,82,976 are vacant posts.
Recruitment for 1,51,548 posts is going on, but the remaining are still vacant.
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Further, it may also be noted that approximately 53,000 and 46,000 railway employees shall retire in 2019-20 and 2020-21 respectively, causing an additional vacancy of approximately 99,000 employees.
Thus, after accounting for the current recruitments in progress, there will be total net vacancies of 1,31,428 and approximately 99,000 i.e. approximately 2,30,000 employees in the railways over next two years.
The first phase will start in February-March, 2019 for 1,31,328 posts. As per reservation policy of the Government, around 19,715, 9,857 and 35,485 number of vacancies shall be reserved for SC, ST and OBC candidates respectively. Further, as per 103rd Constitutional Amendment recently passed by the Parliament, 10% of these vacancies i.e. around 13,100 shall be filled in from Economically Weaker Sections (EWS). This cycle shall be completed by April-May, 2020.
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In the second phase of approximately 99,000 personnel vacancies will be fulfilled. Of these 15,000, 7,500, 27,000 and 10,000 posts shall be reserved for SC, ST, OBC and EWS candidates respectively.
Recruitment shall be for various cadres and minimum eligibility criteria shall vary from certification from Industrial Training Institutes or Diploma/above in Engineering or Graduation in any discipline, depending on the post for which the candidate is applying.
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