Railway, one of the biggest employer, attracts lakhs of applications every year. There are 21 RRBs across India under the Ministry of Railways that successfully conducts the recruitment process for various posts in the railways. RRB NTPC exam dates have been awaited by 1.2 crore applicants who dreamt of being a railway employee. As per the official notice released by RRB, it is yet to finalize the exam conducting agency. The process has been delayed further due to the COVID-19 outbreak. India is facing a nationwide lockdown that has postponed all the government job examinations to maintain social distancing.
Various RRB exams such as RRB NTPC 2019-20, RRC Group D 2019-20 and RRB Ministerial categories are yet to be conducted whose applications were received at the start of the year 2019. As informed by a senior railways official, RRB needs a company that can manage to conduct exams for more than 1.2 crore aspirants. Hence, the board needs time to finalize the agency.
In a recent notice released by the Railway Board on its official website, it has revised the dates for submission of tenders to recruit the exam conducting agency. Check out the dates as mentioned below:
RRB also released a notice in September 2019 where it stated regarding the meeting with various exam conducting agencies to finalize one that will be conducting the RRB exams in future. Railway Recruitment Board is inviting prospective bidders for the conduction of various RRB exams to be held in the upcoming months. RRB also provided data regarding the successful conduction of exams in the past and the applications received by it in the past 2 years.
| Exam | No. of Vacancies | Number of applications received |
Computer Based Test Stage-I |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max candidates/ shift |
Total no. of shifts |
Total no of cities/centres |
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| RRB ALP & Technicians |
64,371 | 47,58,218 | 1,62,179 | 33 | 165/439 |
| RRB Group D | 62,907 | 1,89,82,719 | 1,64,026 | 152 | 166/405 |
| RRB JE | 13,487 | 24,92,554 | 78,269 | 35 | 104/356 |
| RRB NTPC | 35,208 | 1,26,30,885 | – | – | – |
| RRB Paramedical | 1,923 | 4,47,593 | 61,123 | 9 | 86/224 |
| RRB ministerial posts |
1,663 | 1,02,940 | – | – | – |
| RRC Group D | 1,03,769 | 1,15,67,248 | – | – | – |
| Total | 2,83,328 | 3,94,14,909 | |||
The vendors were invited by the RRB on 25th September 2019 where the eligible bidder was supposed to be recruited as the exam conducting agency who will be responsible for conducting the RRB NTPC, RRC Group D and RRB ministerial posts exams. The exams will be conducted after the finalization of ECA. The exams might get delayed further depending upon the conducting agency.
The various exams include RRB NTPC, RRB JE, RRB ALP & Technician, RRC Group D, RRB Paramedical, RRB ministerial posts etc. Aspirants wait eagerly for months to appear for the exams conducted by the RRB.
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