No Private Agency has been Authorised for any Railway Recruitment

No Private Agency has been Authorised for any Railway Recruitment 

183/2020-21

10-08-2020

Chennai

Clarificationabout an advertisement by a private agency in a newspaper regarding alleged recruitment in eight categories of posts on Indian Railways

Advertisement for any Railway recruitment is always done by Indian Railways o­nLY. No private agency has been authorized to do the same.

The said issuance of said advertisement in question is illegal and tantamounts to fraud.Railways to initiate strict against the agency.

New Delhi, 09th August, 2020

It has come to notice of Ministry of Railways that o­ne organization by name of “Avestran Infotech” having  website address www.avestran.in has given an advertisement in a prominent  news paper  o­n 8th  August 2020 calling for applications against a total number of 5285 number of post in eight categories o­n outsourcing basis o­n Indian Railways o­n 11 years contract. The applicants have been asked to deposit Rs.750/-as o­nline fee and last date for receipt of applications has been mentioned as 10th  Sept.2020.It may be informed to all that Advertisement for any Railway recruitment is always done by Indian Railways o­nLY. No private agency has been authorized to do the same. The said issuance of said advertisement in question is illegal. In this connection, it is also clarified that the recruitment  of various categories of Group ‘C’ and erstwhile Group ‘D’ posts o­n Indian Railways is presently catered to by 21 Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) and 16 Railway Recruitment Cell (RRC) o­nly and not by any other agency. Vacancies o­n Indian Railways are filled up by giving wide publicity through Centralized Employment Notifications (CENs). Railways On-line applications are called for from eligible candidates all over the country. CEN is published through Employment News/Rozgar Samachar and an indicative notice is given in National Daily and Local Newspapers. The CEN is also displayed o­n the official websites of RRBs/RRCs. The website address of all RRBs/RRCs is mentioned in the CEN. It is further clarified that the Railways have not authorized any private agency as yet to do the recruitment of staff o­n its behalf as  alleged by the above named agency.

Railways has initiated it's investigation and is going o­n to take strictest action as per law against the above agency/persons involved in above matter.

Source:Southern Railway