Indian Railways gives another chance to 70,000 candidates to apply again

The Railway ministry has asked these aspirants to rectify their mistakes in the application process by July 20

Indian Railways is giving a second chance to 70,000 candidates whose job applications were rejected for uploading faulty photos. The Railway ministry has asked these aspirants to rectify their mistake by July 20.

Indian Railways has received 4.8 million applications for 26,500 posts of assistant loco pilots and technicians.

"We realised that among the total applications that were found ineligible, around 127,000 candidates were found ineligible for invalid pictures. Out of the 127,000 people, now, 70,000 have been asked to make the changes in the pictures and upload them again," Rajesh Dutt Bajpai, Director Information and Publicity, Railway Board said to PTI.

An email and a message have been sent to the 70,000 applicants, who were given a second chance.

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The first phase of examination for the various posts will be conducted in September-November. The exams were postponed from May-June due to a high number of applications. The railways took time to scrutinise all the applications.

The Indian Railways will fill up over one lakh vacant posts by March-April next year.

The Railways received around 22.7 million applications for about 110,000 vacancies it had advertised.

Article Source : BS

Railways Invites Applications For Clerical Posts. Steps To Apply

The interested candidates can apply only online on the official website.

Business Standard : The Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) has invited the candidates for Junior Clerk-cum-Typist posts for Central Railway zone through General Departmental Competitive Examination (GDCE). The interested candidates can apply only online on the official website. There are total of 150 vacancies for different categories. Read below information for more details. The serving regular employees of Divisions/Units/Workshops/Headquarters of Central Railway, except RPF/RPSF Personnel, irrespective of the cadre in which they are working may register their applications for GDCE ONLINE within the stipulated date and time as per the instructions available on RRC/CR’s (Source: Main)

Important Dates:

Opening Date for Online application

1-12-2017 after 1:00 pm

Closing Date for Online application

30-12-2017 till 6:00 pm

Distribution of Posts as per Community:

Unreserved (UR): 80 posts

Scheduled Caste (SC): 23 posts

Scheduled Tribe (ST): 11 posts

Other Background Classes (OBC): 36 posts

Eligibility Parameters:

Age: For UR Community, as on 1-12-2017 the candidate must be of 42 years, born on or after 1-12-1975. For OBC Community, as on 1-12-2017 the candidate must be of 45 years, born on or after 1-12-1972. For SC/ST Community, as on 1-12-2017 the candidate must be of 47 years, born on or after 1-12-1970. The Ex-servicemen may also apply for the examination if they are within the prescribed age limit.

Educational Qualification: The candidate appearing for the GDCE must have passed 12th (10+2 stage) or its equivalent examination, on the date of notification with not less than 50% marks in the aggregate with Typing speed of 30 w.p.m. in English / 25 w.p.m. in Hindi. 50% marks is not to be insisted upon in case of SC/ST/Ex-servicemen. Note: w.p.m means words per minute

Zone Consideration: Only the regular serving Railway employees of Central Railway working in Level-1 are eligible to apply.

Pay Scale for Jr. Clerk-cum-Typist will be INR 19,900-63,200 in the 7th CPC.

How to Apply: As stated above, the applications will be accepted only Online.

1. Every candidate must visit the official website www.rrcr.com for instructions on online application.
2. You can translate the language of text into English and enter the home page of the website. Once you click on Enter you will be directed to the next page where you can find the notification as “Online Application for selection of Jr.Clerk-cum-Typist under the GDCE quota”. (more)