Delhi, December 3: Maintaning that the recruitment process for 1,20,579 vacancies notified in 2024 and 2025 in the Indian Railways is on, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday informed the Lok Sabha that the Railways has provided 5.08 lakh jobs in the last 11 years.
“Presently recruitment of 1,20,579 vacancies has been taken up on Indian Railways as per annual calendar 2024 and 2025. During 2014-2015 to 2024-2025, Indian Railways has provided 5.08 lakh jobs,” said the Union Minister.
“Occurrence and filling up of vacancies are continuous processes in Indian Railways considering its size, spatial distribution and criticality of operation. Adequate and suitable manpower is provided to cater to the regular operations, changes in technology, mechanisations and innovative practices. The vacancies are filled up primarily by placement of indents by Railways with Recruitment agencies as per operational and technological requirements,” said Vaishnaw.
The Minister said during January to December 2024, ten Centralized Employment Notifications (CENs) for 92,116 vacancies were notified for filling up of posts of Assistant Loco Pilots (ALPs), Technicians, Sub-Inspectors, Constables in Railway Protection Force (RPF), Junior Engineers (JEs)/ Depot Material Superintendent (DMS)/ Chemical & Metallurgical Assistant (CMA), Paramedical Categories, Non-Technical Popular Categories (Graduate), Non-Technical Popular Categories (Under-Graduate), Ministerial & Isolated Categories and Level-1 categories such as Assistants, Track Maintainers and Pointsman.
The Minister clarified that engagement on contract basis is purely contractual in nature and does not confer any right upon such personnel for regular employment, absorption, or continuance in Railway service.
“Since contractual engagement is carried out only to meet urgent operational requirements, there is no provision for regularization of such contractual staff in Indian Railways,” the Minister told the Lok Sabha.
This information was provided by the Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
