Railway Recruitment (RRB) - ASM, ECRC, Traffic Apprentice, Commercial Apprentice -Total 6829 Vacancies for Graduates

Posts available and Eligibility

Age on 01.07.12 should be 18 - 33

Last date : 11.06.2012

For candidates residing in Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, Jammu & Kashmir, Lahaul & Spiti districts and Pangi sub-division of Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, Andaman, Nicobar and Lakshwadeep islands and for candidates residing abroad, the closing date for receipt of applications by posts will be 26.06.2012 up to 17.30 Hrs.

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RRB Exam

• Dates of all examinations and results are published in Employment News/Rozgar Samachar, local dailies and in the website of the Railway Recruitment Board (RRBs).
• Call letters for written examinations are sent to candidates by ordinary post.
• The candidates whose applications are rejected are also intimated through post along with the cause of rejection.
• The details of provisionally eligible as well as ineligible candidates for a particular post are also put on the website of the Railway Recruitment Board concerned at least one week prior to the written examination for that post.

Selection

• The function of the RRBs is to recommend names of suitable candidates to the Chief Personnel Officer of the Zonal Railway concerned / Production Unit who in turn issues the offer of appointment letter subject to the availability of vacancies and candidates being found medically fit and satisfying all eligibility criteria.

Salary

• Emoluments on initial appointment will be minimum pay in the pay band plus grade pay plus other allowances admissible at that time. During training period only stipend will be paid as applicable.

SC/ST Candidates

• Free Second Class Railway Pass as and when admissible will be issued to the candidates belonging to SC/ST communities when they are called for written examination /document verification provided they submit valid caste certificate.

General conditions

• Selected male candidates who are finally appointed are liable for active service in Railway Engineer’s Unit of Territorial Army.

Ladies

• Female candidates are also eligible. However, it may be noted that some categories involve duties, which are arduous in nature and call for working in shifts at odd hours, at road side station also away from headquarters.

Serving employees

• For the serving Group ‘C’ and Group ‘D’ Railway Staff and casual labour /substitutes, the relaxation in upper age limits will be upto 40 years for Unreserved candidates, 45 years for SC/ST candidates and 43 years for OBC candidates, provided they have put in a minimum of 3 years service (continuous or in broken) spells.

Fees

• No examination fees for SC / ST / Ex-Servicemen / Physically Handicapped / Women / Minorities / Economically backward classes candidates having annual family income less than Rs. 50000/-.
• For Unreserved Male / OBC Male candidates (who is not coming within the purview of minority/Economically backward communities) Examination fee of Rs. 60/- for each application.
• Candidates should send separate application for each RRBs.
• The examination fee is non-refundable.
• It should be paid in the form of a crossed Demand Draft valid for a period of Six months to be drawn at the main branch of any of the Nationalized Banks, or in the form of Crossed Indian Postal Order drawn in favour of “Assistant Secretary, or Deputy Secretary or Secretary or Member Secretary or Chairman of Railway Recruitment Board concerned.
• The candidates should write the Centralised Employment Notice No., Name of the post applied for, Category Number of the post and their name and postal address on the reverse side of the Bank Draft/Front side at the space provided in the Indian Postal Order.

Instructions to fill out application form

• Application Form should be in a good quality A4 size bond paper (80 GSM) using one side only.
• Application should be sent by ordinary post to reach concerned RRB before last date.
• A candidate shall be free to apply to more than one RRB but he / she will be doing so at his / her own risk as the examination will be held by all RRBs on the same date.
• The application form should be filled up by the candidate in his/her own handwriting, with blue or black ballpoint pen (not in pencil, fountain pen or gel pen) dated ,  signed and put his/her left hand thumb impressions at the prescribed places.
• The signatures must be in running hand and not in block capital or disjointed letters.  Candidates should note that only the Date of Birth as recorded in the Matriculation/High School Examination Certificate .
• Only international numerical i.e. 1, 2, 3 etc. should be used.
• The application form should be filled up in English or in Hindi only.
• Applications signed in capital letters/spaced out letters will be treated as invalid.
• The candidate’s Name, Address with Pin Code, Date of Birth, Father’s Name and nearest Railway Station should be written legibly in English in bold capital letters, even if the candidate fills up the application form in Hindi.
• The candidates should sign in the space provided in the box below the photograph. One identical extra colour photograph should be enclosed with the application, indicating candidate’s name and category number on the reverse of the photograph.
• In item No.9 of application form, the candidates should indicate any clear visible mark of identification on their body like a mole on the nose, cut-mark on the forehead in the left side or a scar mark below the left arm, etc
• The candidate should copy the paragraph at item No. 12 of the Information Sheet in English/Hindi in their own running handwriting (not in capital/spaced out letters).
• The candidates should put their Left Hand Thumb impression at the designated places in the Application Form and in the Information Sheet

Envelope

• One envelope should contain one application only.
• The envelope containing the application should be clearly super-scribed “Application for the Post/s of _________________________Category No./s __________ Centralised Employment Notice No.    of RRB/       , Community (SC/ST/OBC/PWD/Ex-SM)”.

ENCLOSURES:

• The following enclosures as applicable to each individual candidate should be firmly stitched along with the application in the given order.
• Application form in the prescribed format.
• Information sheet in the prescribed format.
• A valid Indian Postal Order or the Bank Draft for the amount as prescribed in the Centralised Employment Notice. Wherever required.
• One copy of identical passport size colour photograph firmly stitched to the application (apart from one copy pasted on the form).
• Self-Attested Photostat copy of caste certificate form competent authority in the case of SC/ST candidates.
• Disability Certificate in prescribed format by persons with disabilities.
• Declaration for visually handicapped candidates.
• Self attested copy of discharge certificate of Ex-serviceman.
• Income certificate in prescribed form for waiver of exam fee for Economically backward candidates.
• Self - declaration of Minority community for waiver the examination fees.

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