India’s national transporter, Indian Railway, which is also the largest employer has recently completed the employment process for 1.5 lakh posts in various capacities including to address the prime concerns of safety and security of the passengers as well as property of the railways.
Sources in the Ministry of Railways said that the railways’ recruitment arm- Railway Recruitment Board - has started with new process to bring out vacancies on a regular basis, practically every year because infrastructure and operations are increasing every year besides to counter the allegations on the BJP government in failing the employment expectations within then job seekers.
“Vacancies in multiple categories will be filled on a yearly basis. The recruitment of 5696 ALP (Loco pilots) has started. It is to be noted that the vacancies in ALP category are 3190. It means more number of recruitment process has been started than the ALPs vacancies. It is a regular process and recruitment being done as per the vacancies arise,” said a senior railways official.
IR is increasing its infrastructure and operations day by day. The vacancy assessment is done for every six months or sometimes less than that period also.
“We have recently completed the employment process for 1,50,000 new employees and immediately after concluding that, we started the new process of selection of ALP’s. There will be more employment opportunities in technical and non-technical popular categories and also in Group D. To ensure more opportunities for everyone, this will be an annual process,” said Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.