New Delhi: Indian Railways will start computer based tests for notified vacancies from 15th of December this year. Standard Operating Procedures for conduct of examination are being framed. Ministry of Railways in a statement said, norms of social distancing and other protocols prescribed by the various Central and State authorities need to be followed in the interest of safety of candidates.
Railways had notified three types of vacancies. There are 35,208 vacancies for Non Technical Popular Categories- like guards, office clerks and commercial clerks.
1,663 vacancies for isolated and ministerial categories like steno and 1,03,769 vacancies for Level 1 vacancies like track maintainers and pointsman.
In all, Railway Recruitment Boards- RRBs had notified a total of 1.40 lakh such vacancies and had received more than 2.40 crore applications. The Computer Based Test for the vacancies had to be deferred due to COVID-19 pandemic and resultant lockdown.
