Recruitment Process of Indian Railways

Public Advised to Ignore Fraudulent, Unauthentic & Faslse Recruitment Promises

It has come to notice that some unscrupulous elements have cheated and defrauded unemployed youth by making false promises of providing jobs in Indian Railways. For this they have forged documents like employment letters and extracted huge sums of money from the unsuspecting public/youth. Criminal action is being taken in this regard by the Ministry of Railways.

Process of recruitment for various posts in Railways is done through the following agencies, namely; 1) Railway Recruitment Board (RRBs), 2) Railway Recruitment Cells (RRCs) and 3) Railway Protection Force (RPF).

All the vacancies are widely advertised in all leading national and local newspapers including Employment News/Rozgar Samachar.

Besides, the vacancies are also put on the official website of all RRBs and RRCs.

Exam process includes a written Exam. Written Exam answer sheets are evaluated through computers. There is no human intervention in this.

Fees for Recruitment exams is only Rs. 100/-. No other money is required to be paid to anyone.

Results of exams are put up on official websites of RRBs and RRCs.

Authentic official websites of RRBs and RRCs are as under:-

The website addresses and telephone numbers of RRB

Sr. No.	Name of Place	Website Address	Phone Number
1.	Ahmedabad	www.rrbahmedabad.gov.in	079-22940858
2.	Ajmer	www.rrbajmer.org	0145-2423292
3.	Allahabad	www.rrald.nic.in	0532-2430472
4.	Bangalore	www.rrbbnc.gov.in	080-23330378
5.	Bhopal	www.rrbbhopal.gov.in	0755-2746660
6.	Bhubaneshwar	www.rrbbbs.gov.in	0674-2303015
7.	Bilaspur	www.rrbbilaspur.gov.in	07752-247291
8.	Chandigarh	www.rrbcdg.gov.in	0172-2793414, 2793415
9.	Chennai	www.rrbchennai.gov.in	044-28275323
10.	Gorakhpur	www.rrbgko.gov.in	0551-2201209
11.	Guwahati	www.rrbguwahati.gov.in	0361-2540815
12.	Jammu – Srinagar	www.rrbjammu.nic.in	0191-2476757
13.	Kolkata	www.rrbkolkata.gov.in	033-25432004, 32917928
14.	Malda	www.rrbmalda.gov.in	03512-264567
15.	Mumbai	www.rrbmumbai.go.in	022-23090422
16.	Muzaffarpur	www.rrbmuzaffarpur.gov.in	0621-2213405
17.	Patna	www.rrbpatna.gov.in	0612-2677680
18.	Ranchi	www.rrbranchi.org	0651-2462429, 26787114
19.	Secundrabad	www.rrbsecundrabad.nic.in	040-27821663
20.	Siliguri	www.rrbsiliguri.org	0353-2663840
21.	Thiruvanathapuram	www.rrbthiruvanathapuram.gov.in	0471-2323357

The zonal-wise website addresses of RRCs are:-

Northeast Frontier Railway (nfr.indianrailways.gov.in), Western Railway (rrc-wr.com),  Central Railway (rrccr.com), South Eastern Central Railway (secr.indianrailways.gov.in), West Central Railway (wcr.indianrailways.gov.in), East Central Railway(rrcecr.gov.in), South Central Railway (scr.indianrailways.gov.in), North Western Railway (rrcjaipur.in), Eastern Railway (rrcer.com), South Eastern Railway (rrcser.in & rrcser.co.in), South Western Railway- (rrchubli.in), Southern Railway (rrcmas.in), East Coast Railway (rrcbbs.org.in), North Central Railway (rrcald.org), Northern Railway (rrcnr.org) and North Eastern Railway (ner.indianrailways.gov.in)

          An announcement regarding vacancy/recruitment from any other source (other than the given above) may be considered fraudulent and unauthentic.

Funds for Modernization of Railways

Safety and modernisation related upgradation is a continuous process in Indian Railways and depends on traffic movement and accordingly funds are arranged. As on April 1, 2012 the funds required for New Lines are Rs. 89792 crore, for Doubling Rs. 38736 crore and Railway Electrification Rs. 6241 crore with respect to sanctioned works.

Funds for investment on these works are mobilized through internal resource generation, Gross Budgetary Support, market borrowings and through extra budgetary resources including Public Private Partnership.

The areas that have been identified for Public-Private Partnership in the Twelfth Five Year Plan are Logistic Parks, Private Freight Terminal and Freight Schemes, Captive Power, Renewable Energy, Energy Conservation, Loco & Coach Manufacturing Units, Station Development, High Speed (Mumbai-Ahmedabad) Corridor, Elevated Corridor (Church Gate-Virar), Dedicated Freight Corridor (Sonnagar-Dankuni), Port Connectivity Projects and connectivity required for coal & iron-ore mines.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri K. H. Muniyappa in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha