Railways to conduct exams to fill 1.4 lakh vacancies

Sept. 5: The Indian Railways has decided to conduct entrance exams for 1,40,640 job vacancies from December 15 after a prolonged delay due to coronavirus pandemic. The computer-based exams will begin from December 15 for the three categories of posts and a detailed schedule will be announced very soon, said Railway Board Chairman Vin K Yadav.

There are three types of vaccines: 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 teaches, and 1,03,769 for level-one vacancies such as track maintainers and pointsman. The Railway Recruitment Board had received more than 2.40 crore applications for these posts.

Railways to start Computer Based Test for notified 1,40,640 vacancies from 15th December 2020 🖥️

Vacancies are of 3 types:

🚆 Non Technical Popular Categories(guards, clerks etc)
🚆 Isolated & Ministerial
🚆 Level 1(track maintainers, pointsman etc)

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— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) September 5, 2020

Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal in a tweet provided the details of the computer-based exams.