New Delhi:
Engineers, postgraduates in management, science and commerce are vying to become gangman, cabinman, helpers, keyman, trackman and welder, which are level-1 posts in Railways. The minimum qualification for these 62,907 posts was Class X pass and a certificate from the National Council on Vocational Training or ITI, or have a National Apprenticeship Certificate.
TOI has learnt that besides nearly 1.9 crore Class X pass candidates, another 48.48 lakh under graduates and postgraduates had applied for the jobs. The Railways has now short-listed about 75,500 candidates after two rounds of selection process; computerbased test and physical efficiency test. Currently, the Railway Recruitment Board has started the process of document verification and medical test.
According to the advertisement issued by the Railways last year for filling these posts, the new employees will get Rs 18,000 per month as salary and other allowances. A detailed break-up of the applicants shows that 4.91 lakh undergraduate engineers and another 41,000 postgraduate engineers had applied for these jobs. The number of management undergraduate and postgraduate applicants was more than 86,000. The Railways had received about two crore applications for the level-1 posts, which the opposition had used to target the government on the issue of growing unemployment.
But the government maintained that high number of applicants for any government job cannot be a criteria to sense the job situation since there had been a trend of people applying for government jobs because of stability and other benefits. It had said many of the applicants could already have some job while applying for these posts.
The railways’ advertisement for filling these posts said the employees will get Rs 18,000 per month as salary, and other allowances
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