Lok Sabha Question No. 2110 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-02
Subject: Vacancies in Railways
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: Chinta Anuradha, Imtiaz Jaleel Syed, P. Velusamy

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2110 TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.08.2023 VACANCIES IN RAILWAYS

2110. SHRIMATI CHINTA ANURADHA: SHRI SYED IMTIAZ JALEEL: SHRI VELUSAMY P.:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a) the total  number  of  vacancies  and  sanctioned  posts  in Railways   as on date zone/State-wise in different categories;
- (b)     the reasons for the high number of vacancies in Railways;
- (c)    whether Railways is proposing to start special class railways apprenticeship programme, if so, the details thereof;
- (d)      whether  the  Government  has  taken  any  steps  to  tackle  the high  number of vacancies in Railways;
- (e) if so, the details hereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (f) whether the Government has formulated a railway recruitment policy to ensure a time-bound and speedy recruitment process to fill the vacancies;
- (g)     if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (h)    whether  Southern  Railway  is  having  22,506  non-gazetted vacancies; and
- (i)      if  so,  the  details  of  gazetted  post  vacancies  at  present  in
- Southern Railway?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

(SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

- (a) to (i) A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (i)  OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2110 BY SHRIMATI CHINTA ANURADHA, SHRI SYED IMTIAZ JALEEL AND SHRI VELUSAMY P. TO BE ANSWERED IN LOK SABHA ON 02.08.2023 REGARDING VACANCIES IN RAILWAYS

(a) : The  details  of  sanctioned  (SS)  posts  and  vacancies  (VAC), Zone-wise and category/group-wise on Indian Railways as on 01.07.2023 are as under:

| Zonal   | Group 'A'   | Group 'A'   | Group 'B'   | Group 'B'   | Group 'C'   | Group 'C'   |
|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
| Railway | SS          | VAC         | SS          | VAC         | SS          | VAC         |
| CR      | 816         | 141         | 354         | -38         | 119372      | 25281       |
| ECOR    | 489         | 81          | 185         | 13          | 57311       | 8114        |
| ECR     | 718         | 121         | 326         | 66          | 92324       | 12812       |
| ER      | 815         | 242         | 355         | -26         | 128529      | 29869       |
| MR      | 101         | 30          | 22          | 7           | 5130        | 993         |
| NCR     | 573         | 108         | 223         | 27          | 81868       | 15962       |
| NER     | 514         | 78          | 202         | 1           | 59463       | 12830       |
| NFR     | 757         | 160         | 298         | 11          | 70064       | 12365       |
| NR      | 1157        | 138         | 448         | 30          | 163147      | 32468       |
| NWR     | 620         | 83          | 235         | 25          | 59076       | 9813        |
| SCR     | 734         | 110         | 333         | -33         | 92828       | 10338       |
| SECR    | 437         | 90          | 163         | -7          | 56119       | 7796        |
| SER     | 627         | 114         | 322         | 58          | 95704       | 13432       |
| SR      | 797         | 106         | 376         | 15          | 96313       | 15240       |
| SWR     | 439         | 86          | 152         | -32         | 41618       | 4843        |
| WCR     | 469         | 87          | 199         | -14         | 63841       | 11142       |
| WR      | 898         | 190         | 400         | 2           | 115324      | 25597       |
| Total   | 10961       | 1965        | 4593        | 105         | 1398031     | 248895      |

The vacancies of Operational Safety categories are 53,178.

(b) : Indian Railways is a large organisation. 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.

(c) : Presently, there is no proposal to start special class railways apprenticeship.

(d) to (g) :  Direct recruitment to Group 'A' Services on Indian Railways  is  mainly  done  by  UPSC.  Indent  is  placed  on  UPSC  and DoPT.

A  massive  recruitment  exercise  has  been  completed  recently  for empanelling  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 NonTechnical 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.  Similarly,  CBT  for  CEN-RRC  01/2019 (Level-1) was conducted for 1.11 crore candidates in 99 shifts in 33 days across 191 cities and 551 centres in 15 languages.

During period from 01.04.2022 till  30.06.2023, 1,36,773 candidates have  been  empanelled  against  various  Group  'C'  posts  (including Level 1). This includes 1,11,728*  safety category posts.

(h) & (i) : The  total  number  of  Non-gazetted  vacancies  (Group  'C' including Level-1) in Southern Railway as on 01.07.2023 is 15,240. The total number of Gazetted vacancies in Southern Railway as on 01.07.2023 is 121.

* Provisional

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