Railway Minister Piyush Goyal tweeted a video to inform about the same.
In the video, CEO and chairman of RRB, VK Yadav informed that “We had notified 1,40, 640 posts. The vacancies were notified pre-Covid. There were 3 types of vacancies: Non-technical popular vacancies, isolated ministerial category, and Level-1 employees. For these vacancies, we received 2 crore 42 lakh applications".
"The scrutiny of these applications was completed and then due to Covid we could not conduct these exams. For all these vacancies, a computer-based test is to be conducted. Now considering the Covid situation and seeing that JEE exams are being held smoothly, the railways has decided that these computer-based exams will be held from December 15. The schedule will be announced very soon," he announced.
रेलवे में विभिन्न पदों की सभी 3 श्रेणियों के लिये भर्ती प्रक्रिया के आवेदनों की जांच पूर्ण की जा चुकी है, विभिन्न पदों पर भर्ती के लिये परीक्षाओं का आयोजन 15 दिसंबर से शुरु किया जायेगा। pic.twitter.com/FUqXkfjxl7
The CEN 01/ 2019 recruitment notification was put out on February 23. Over 1 lakh vacancies are for RRB level-1 posts while the rest 35, 277 posts under NTPC category recruitments are of non-technical popular categories (NTPC), paramedical staff, ministerial and isolated categories.
The exams were planned to happen between June and September however had to be postponed due to the coronavirus situation.
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