Indian Railways Mega Recruitment Drive Through TCSiON

Indian Railways Mega Recruitment Drive Through TCSiON

2.3 Crore Applicants for 160,000 Railway Jobs! The World’s mega recruitment drive by Indian Railways is going to be powered by TCS iON which will give Real-time Technology support for smooth conduct of the massive Recruitment drive by Indian Railways for filling up of vacant posts in different categories! Indian Railways gears up for Tight Security, Safety and also plan to run Special Trains to cater to the Huge Rush.

World’s Biggest Recruitment Drive – Some Facts:

• The recruitment drive will start from August 9th, and will go on for a month.
• Around 47 lakh people have already applied for the jobs, and out of them, 100,000 shall be recruited.
• Here is the breakdown of vacancies:
• 47 lakh applicants for 26,502 vacancies of assistant loco pilots (ALPs) and technicians (Level 2)
• 19 million applicants for 62,907 vacancies for Level-1 (erstwhile Group D)
• Railways will install close-circuit cameras, mobile jammers, and metal detectors in and around the examination centers to avoid malpractice
• TCS was selected after a stringent selection process, wherein the basic criteria was a yearly turnover of $150 million or more.
• Besides TCS, two other tech services providers have been roped in to provide backend services for the examination.
• The examination shall be conducted across 500 centers, in 15 languages.
• TCS has the capability to support 100 million or 10 crore job applicants for any examination, and they will be supporting this mega recruitment drive with 135,000 compute nodes.
• As we reported earlier, Indian Railways’ decision to go online for this massive exercise will result in saving of 10 lakh trees.

Source:RailNews