Recruitment examinations conducted by Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs): Rajya Sabha QA

Recruitment examinations conducted by Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs): Rajya Sabha QA

Recruitment examinations conducted by Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) in the last one decade and details of examination fee collected: Rajya Sabha QA

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 455
ANSWERED ON 09.12.2022

RECRUITMENT EXAMINATIONS CONDUCTED BY RRBs

455# SHRI RAM NATH THAKUR:
Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

a) the number of posts for which recruitment examinations have been conducted by Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) in the last one decade;

b) the number of candidates appointed through these examinations;

c) whether it is a fact that many examinations conducted by RRBs have been cancelled due to various reasons;

d) the zone-wise details of such cancelled examinations during the last five years;

e) whether the RRBs have earned a huge sum of money from the candidates; and

f) the details of examination fee collected by RRBs from candidates in the last five years?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

(a): The details of the number of vacancies notified by Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) during 2012-2022 are as under:

Year CEN No. Name of Category Vacancy Notified
 

2012

01/2012 Section Engineers (SE)/ Junior Engineers (JE) 6541
02/2012 Safety      categories       of       Chemical       and Metallurgical Assistant (CMA) 249
03/2012 Non Technical Popular Categories (NTPC) Graduate (G) Categories, Assistant Station Master (ASM) 6829
04/2012 Artisans (All categories.) 12594
05/2012 Para Medical 825
2013 No fresh CEN issued.
2014 01/2014 Assistant Loco Pilots (ALP) & Technicians 26567
02/2014 Senior Section Engineers (SSE), JE, Chief Depot Material Superintendent (CDMS), CMA etc. 6118
03/2014 Ministerial & Isolated Categories 1406
04/2014 Para Medical Categories 951
2015 01/2015 SSE, JE, CDMS, CMA etc. 3273
02/2015 Special Recruitment Drive for Persons with Disabilities (PWD)- NTPC- Undergraduate (UG) 651
03/2015 NTPC (G) 14023
2016 No fresh CEN issued.
2017 No fresh CEN issued.
 

2018

01/2018 ALPs & Technicians 64371
02/2018 Various Posts in Level 1 63202
03/2018 JE,   Depot   Material   Superintendent   (DMS), CMA 13538
 

 

2019

01/2019 NTPC (G & UG) 35281
02/2019 Para Medical Categories 1923
03/2019 Ministerial & Isolated Categories 1663
RRC 01/2019 Various Posts in Level 1 103769

 

(b): 481198 candidates have been empanelled by 21 RRBs & Railway Recruitment Cells (RRCs) during 2012-2013 to 2021-2022. This includes provisional figure of 4612 in 2021-2022.

(c): No, Sir.

(d): Does not arise.

(e) & (f): The details of examination fee collected by RRBs during last five years is as under:

S. No. Centralized Employment Notifications (CEN) Total Fee received (₹ in crores)
1 01/2018- Assistant Loco Pilots (ALPs) & Technicians 186.86
2 02/2018- LEVEL -1 692.71
3 03/2018- Junior Engineers (JEs) / Depot Material Superintendent (DMS)/ Chemical and Metallurgical Assistant (CMA) 97.17
4 01/2019- Non Technical Popular Categories (NTPC)- Graduate & Under Graduate level 441.53
5 02/2019- Para-medical categories 14.62
6 03/2019- Isolated & Ministerial categories 3.73
7 RRC-01/2019- Level-1 (erstwhile Group ‘D’) 418.31

 

Only a nominal fee is taken from candidates and ₹ 400 out of nominal fee of ₹ 500 taken from male candidates belonging to Unreserved (UR) & Other Backward Classes (OBC) categories is refunded to those candidates who appear in the exam. In respect of other categories of candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC)/ Scheduled Tribe (ST)/ Ex-Servicemen/ Persons with Disabilities, Women, Minorities and Economic Backward Classes, the whole amount of nominal fee of ₹ 250 is refunded to those who appear in exam.

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Source: Rajya Sabha 

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