हमारी रेल : vacancy position in Railways

Employment News - Latest vacancy position in Railways - Report on Zonal wise as on 1.4.2013 - Total vacancies 1,311,959

The Minister of State for Railways Shri.Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said in a statement in the Parliament on 13th December 2013 that the filling up of vacancies is a continuous process and there is always a lag between occurrence of vacancies and processing the same for filling up which involves issue of notification, holding examination, finalization of select panels and issue of appointment letters.

The total number of employees as on 1.4.2013 is 1311959*, of which SC employees is 219682*, ST employees is 94,879* and Persons with disability is 8814*.

(*Provisional)

The number of fresh face substitutes engaged directly by the General Managers in various Railway Zones in last 3 years is 1784. General Managers on Zonal Railways have been authorized by the Ministry of Railways to engage Substitutes in exigencies of services against vacancies to the extent of 10% in Safety Category and 2% in Other Categories, in order to avoid Railway Services getting adversely affected.

The total number of vacancies in Railways, zone-wise as on 1.4.2013 is given as under:-

RAILWAYS	VACANCY
Central	19,945
Eastern	24,052
East Central	21,175
East Coast	11,457
Northern	28,958
North Central	16,577
Northeast Frontier	11,150
North Eastern	9,449
North Western	11,690
Southern	13,962
South Central	20,667
South East Central	11,332
South Eastern	16,702
South Western	6,336
West Central	10,375
Western	18,109
Total	2,51,936