Recruitment examinations conducted by Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs): Rajya Sabha QA

Recruitment examinations conducted by Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) in the last one decade and details of examination fee collected: Rajya Sabha QA

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 455
ANSWERED ON 09.12.2022

RECRUITMENT EXAMINATIONS CONDUCTED BY RRBs

455# SHRI RAM NATH THAKUR:
Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

a) the number of posts for which recruitment examinations have been conducted by Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) in the last one decade;

b) the number of candidates appointed through these examinations;

c) whether it is a fact that many examinations conducted by RRBs have been cancelled due to various reasons;

d) the zone-wise details of such cancelled examinations during the last five years;

e) whether the RRBs have earned a huge sum of money from the candidates; and

f) the details of examination fee collected by RRBs from candidates in the last five years?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

(a): The details of the number of vacancies notified by Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) during 2012-2022 are as under:

Year	CEN No.	Name of Category	Vacancy Notified
2012	01/2012	Section Engineers (SE)/ Junior Engineers (JE)	6541
	02/2012	Safety categories of Chemical and Metallurgical Assistant (CMA)	249
	03/2012	Non Technical Popular Categories (NTPC) Graduate (G) Categories, Assistant Station Master (ASM)	6829
	04/2012	Artisans (All categories.)	12594
	05/2012	Para Medical	825
2013	No fresh CEN issued.
2014	01/2014	Assistant Loco Pilots (ALP) & Technicians	26567
	02/2014	Senior Section Engineers (SSE), JE, Chief Depot Material Superintendent (CDMS), CMA etc.	6118
	03/2014	Ministerial & Isolated Categories	1406
	04/2014	Para Medical Categories	951
2015	01/2015	SSE, JE, CDMS, CMA etc.	3273
	02/2015	Special Recruitment Drive for Persons with Disabilities (PWD)- NTPC- Undergraduate (UG)	651
	03/2015	NTPC (G)	14023
2016	No fresh CEN issued.
2017	No fresh CEN issued.
2018	01/2018	ALPs & Technicians	64371
	02/2018	Various Posts in Level 1	63202
	03/2018	JE, Depot Material Superintendent (DMS), CMA	13538
2019	01/2019	NTPC (G & UG)	35281
	02/2019	Para Medical Categories	1923
	03/2019	Ministerial & Isolated Categories	1663
	RRC 01/2019	Various Posts in Level 1	103769

(b): 481198 candidates have been empanelled by 21 RRBs & Railway Recruitment Cells (RRCs) during 2012-2013 to 2021-2022. This includes provisional figure of 4612 in 2021-2022.

(c): No, Sir.

(d): Does not arise.

(e) & (f): The details of examination fee collected by RRBs during last five years is as under:

S. No.	Centralized Employment Notifications (CEN)	Total Fee received (₹ in crores)
1	01/2018- Assistant Loco Pilots (ALPs) & Technicians	186.86
2	02/2018- LEVEL -1	692.71
3	03/2018- Junior Engineers (JEs) / Depot Material Superintendent (DMS)/ Chemical and Metallurgical Assistant (CMA)	97.17
4	01/2019- Non Technical Popular Categories (NTPC)- Graduate & Under Graduate level	441.53
5	02/2019- Para-medical categories	14.62
6	03/2019- Isolated & Ministerial categories	3.73
7	RRC-01/2019- Level-1 (erstwhile Group ‘D’)	418.31

Only a nominal fee is taken from candidates and ₹ 400 out of nominal fee of ₹ 500 taken from male candidates belonging to Unreserved (UR) & Other Backward Classes (OBC) categories is refunded to those candidates who appear in the exam. In respect of other categories of candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC)/ Scheduled Tribe (ST)/ Ex-Servicemen/ Persons with Disabilities, Women, Minorities and Economic Backward Classes, the whole amount of nominal fee of ₹ 250 is refunded to those who appear in exam.

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Source: Rajya Sabha