July 31, 2023 10:30 am

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Railway Minister admits operational safety understaffed in Railways in response to MP Arora’s question

Published by: thefactnews
The Fact News Service
Ludhiana, July 31

Out of the total vacancies of 2,61,233 as on July 1, 2023, the vacancies of Operational Safety categories are 53,178, reveals Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw in reply to a question about vacant posts in Railways asked by MP (Rajya Sabha) Sanjeev Arora from Ludhiana.

Giving this information here today, Arora said he had asked whether it is a fact that as on June 2023, 2.74 lakh Group `C’ posts were lying vacant in Railways, of which 1.7 lakh were in the safety category; and if so, the steps taken by Government to fill up the vacancies in the wake of recent accidents and joblessness in the country.

While laying his statement on the table of the House the Minister for Railways stated that the occurrence and filling up of vacancies are continuous process on Indian Railways considering its size, spatial distribution and criticality of operation. The vacancies are filled up primarily by placement of indents by Railways with Recruitment agencies as per operational requirements.

Further, the Minister stated that while 411624 candidates were empanelled during the period 2004-2014 for appointment in Indian Railways, 486031 candidates (Provisional) have been impanelled in the nine year period from April 1, 2014 to June 30, 2023. Out of the total vacancies of 2,61,233 as on July 1, 2023, the vacancies of Operational Safety categories are 53,178.

Arora said the Minister further stated that a massive recruitment exercise has been completed recently for impanelling 1,39,050 candidates by conducting Computer Based Test (CBT) of approximately 2.37 crore candidates. CBT for Centralized Employment Notification (CEN) 01/2019 for Non-Technical Popular Categories (NTPC) was conducted for 1.26 crore candidates in 133 shifts in 68 days across 211 cities and 726 centres in 15 languages.

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