Ministry Of Railways to Increase Vacancies for Technicians to 60,000 Posts
Ministry of Railways likely
to substantially increase the vacancies of Assistant Loco Pilots &
Technicians from 26502 posts to about 60,000 posts
Maximum care has been taken to allocate centres to the candidates in their own
or nearby cities
Ministry
of Railways had earlier announced the recruitment for Assistant Loco Pilots
(ALP) & Technicians for 26502 posts in February 2018. More than 47 lakh
candidates have applied for ALP & Technicians Examination against CEN
01/2018. The notified vacancies of 26,502 for the posts of ALP and
Technicians are likely to be increased substantially to about 60,000 vacancies.
It is
also to be noted that the notified 26,502 vacancies are spread over different
Railway Zones and States and candidates from all over India have applied
against these pan India vacancies. About 40 lakh candidates (83%) have
been accommodated within 500 Kilometres. Priority has been given to women and
Divyang (Persons with Disabilities) candidates in allocating centres within
their own or nearby cities. However, in few states, the candidates have
applied in very large proportions as compared to the available capacity of
suitable exam centres, equipped with requisite critical security features. From
Bihar about 9 lakhs, from UP about 9.5 lakhs and from Rajasthan about 4.5 lakh
candidates have applied and hence interstate movement of some candidates from
these states is inevitable. Here again it has been ensured that the candidates
who had applied early have been accommodated in their own or nearby cities and
states, whereas those candidates who had applied late, towards last date of
application have been allocated to farther cities.
In
conventional recruitment pattern, exams were conducted in decentralized manner
by different RRBs and candidates travelled to the respective RRB zones to which
they had applied. Centralized Computer Based examination provides the
opportunity to reduce the travel requirements. That is how, about 40 lakh
candidates have been allotted centres in their own/nearby cities and almost all
women and Divyang (Persons with Disabilities) candidates have been allotted
centres within short distance of 200 Kms. However, due to the constraint of
availability of suitable exam centres, despite best efforts, everyone could not
be accommodated in their own/nearby cities. Candidates are, therefore,
requested to make necessary arrangements to appear in this examination, as
scheduled. Candidates are advised to refer to the following link for the
updated information:
Source:PIBNEWS
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