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Inspectors, Constables in Railway Protection Force (RPF), Junior Engineers (JEs)/ Depot Material Superintendent (DMS)/ Chemical & Metallurgical Assistant (CMA)

· 2025-02-07
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Date2025-02-07
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicgeneral
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Summary

Inspectors, Constables in Railway Protection Force (RPF), Junior Engineers (JEs)/ Depot Material Superintendent (DMS)/ Chemical & Metallurgical Assistant (CMA), Recruitment done in Indian Railways during 2004-2014 vis-à-vis during 2014-2024 is given as

Text of the circular

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA 
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS 
 
RAJYA SABHA 
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 610 
ANSWERED ON 07.02.2025 
 
RE-ENGAGEMENT OF RETIRED EMPLOYEES IN RAILWAYS 
 
610.   SHRI A.A. RAHIM: 
 
Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state: 
 
(a) 
the number of retired employees who have been re-engaged by the Railways in the last 
three years; 
(b) 
the number of vacant posts remain unfilled by new recruits during the same period; and 
(c) 
the criteria used to determine the necessity of re-engaging retired staff instead of hiring 
qualified young candidates? 
 
ANSWER 
MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, INFORMATION & BROADCASTING AND  
ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 
 
(SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW) 
 
(a) to (c) : Occurrence and filling up of vacancies is a continuous process on Indian Railways 
considering its size, spatial distribution and criticality of operation. Adequate and suitable 
manpower is provided to cater to the regular operations, changes in technology, mechanization 
and innovative practices. The vacancies are filled up primarily by placement of indents by 
Railways with Recruitment agencies as per operational and technological requirements. 
After easing of restrictions imposed on account of COVID 19, two major examinations involving 
more than 2.37 crore candidates had been conducted successfully during 2020 to 2022.

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Exam 
Candidates 
Cities 
Centres 
Days 
Shifts 
L2 - L6 
1.26 cr 
211 
726 
68 
133 
L1 
1.1 cr 
191 
551 
33 
99 
 
Based on these exams, 130581 candidates have been recruited in Railways. 
The RRB examinations are quite technical in nature entailing large scale mobilization of men 
and resources and training of manpower. Railway overcame all these challenges and successfully 
conducted the recruitment in a transparent manner following all laid down guidelines. No 
instance of paper leakage or similar malpractice has occurred during the entire process. 
Recruitment done in Indian Railways during 2004-2014 vis-à-vis during 2014-2024 is given as 
under:- 
Period 
Recruitments 
2004-2014 
4.11 lakh 
2014-2024
5.02 lakh 
 
Further, as system improvement, the Ministry of Railways has introduced a system of publishing 
the annual calendar from 2024 for recruitment to various categories of Group ‘C’ post. The 
introduction of the annual calendar will benefit the aspirants in the following manner: 
• 
More opportunities for candidates; 
• 
Opportunities to those becoming eligible every year; 
• 
Certainty of exams; 
• 
Faster Recruitment process, Training and Appointments 
 
Accordingly Ten Centralized Employment Notifications (CENs) for 92,116 vacancies have been 
notified during January to December 2024 for filling up of posts of Assistant Loco Pilots, 
Technicians, Sub-Inspectors, Constables in Railway Protection Force (RPF), Junior Engineers 
(JEs)/ Depot Material Superintendent (DMS)/ Chemical & Metallurgical Assistant (CMA),

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Paramedical Categories, Non-Technical Popular Categories (Graduate) and Non-Technical 
Popular Categories (Under-Graduate), Ministerial & Isolated Categories and Level-1. 
 
For four notifications, Computer Based Tests (CBTs) have been completed from 25.11.2024 to 
30.12.2024. The details are as under:- 
Exam 
Candidates
Cities
Centres
Days
Shifts
1st Stage CBT for the post of ALP (18,799 
vacancies) 
18,40,347 
156 
346 
5 
15 
CBT for the post of RPF-SI (452 vacancies) 
15,35,635 
143 
306 
5 
15 
1st Stage CBT for the post of JE/DMS/CMA 
(7,951 vacancies) 
11,01,266 
146 
323 
3 
9 
CBT for the post of Technician (14,298 
vacancies) 
22,83,812 
139 
312 
9 
27 
 
However, sometime in order to meet exigencies, retired Railway employees are re-engaged 
against the vacant posts temporarily based on competency, experience etc. to ensure smooth 
progress of the developmental and other works.  
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