Recruitment and Vacancy Management in Indian Railways
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1571
ANSWERED ON 12.12.2025
STATUS OF VACANCIES IN RAILWAYS
1571. SHRI RYAGA KRISHNAIAH:
Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:
(a) whether it is a fact that the approximately 88,300 vacancies are there in the Railways;
(b) the steps taken to fill these vacancies;
(c) the estimated losses due to prolonged vacancies in the Railways; and
(d) the manner in which it affects the duties of pre-existing employees in terms of compensation for any additional duties they undertake?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, INFORMATION & BROADCASTING AND ELECTRONICS
& INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)
(a) to (d): 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, mechanizations and innovative practices. The vacancies are filled up primarily by placement of indents by Railways with Recruitment agencies as per operational and technological requirements.
Presently recruitment of 1,20,579 vacancies has been taken up on Indian Railways as per annual calendar 2024 and 2025.
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.
First stage/Single stage Computer Based Tests (CBTs) for 59,678 posts has been completed. Details are as under:-
|
Exam |
Candidates | Cities | Languages |
| 1st Stage CBT for the post of ALP(18,799 vacancies) | 18,40,347 | 156 | 15 |
| CBT for the post of Technician (14,298 vacancies) | 26,99,892 | 139 | 15 |
| 1st Stage CBT for the post of JE/DMS/CMA (7,951 vacancies) | 11,01,266 | 146 | 15 |
| CBT for the post of RPF-SI (452 vacancies) | 15,35,635 | 143 | 15 |
| CBT for the post of RPF-Constable (4,208 vacancies) | 45,30,288 | 147 | 15 |
| CBT for Paramedical Categories (1,376 vacancies) | 7,08,321 | 143 | 15 |
| 1st Stage CBT for Non-Technical Popular Categories (Graduate) (8,113 vacancies) | 58,41,774 | 141 | 15 |
| 1st Stage CBT for Non-Technical Popular Categories (Under Graduate) (3,445 vacancies) | 63,27,473 | 157 | 15 |
| CBT for Ministerial & Isolated categories (1,036 vacancies) | 4,46,013 | 139 | 15 |
| Total Candidates | 2,50,31,009 |
2nd stage CBTs for the posts of ALP, JE/DMS/CMA and Non-Technical Popular Categories (Graduate) have also been completed. Details are as under: –
|
Exam |
Candidates | Cities | Languages |
| 2nd Stage CBT for the post of ALP (18,799 vacancies) | 2,66,363 | 112 | 15 |
| 2nd Stage CBT for the post of JE/DMS/CMA (7,951 vacancies) | 1,17,339 | 118 | 15 |
| 2nd Stage CBT for Non-Technical Popular Categories (Graduate) (8,113 vacancies) | 1,21,931 | 129 | 15 |
| Total Candidates | 5,05,633 |
Computer Based Aptitude Test (CBAT) for the post of ALP has also been completed. Details are as under:-
| Exam | Candidates | Cities | Languages |
| CBAT for the post of ALP (18,799 vacancies) | 1,32,044 | 84 | 2 |
CBT for 32,438 vacancies for level -1 categories has commenced from 27.11.2025 in 140 cities in 15 languages. Physical Efficiency Test (PET) for 4,208 vacancies of Constable (RPF) has commenced from 13.11.2025.
Panels for more than 23,000 candidates including the posts of Technicians, Junior Engineers, Paramedical Categories, Sub-Inspectors (RPF) and Assistant Loco Pilots have been sent to indenting Railways. Majority of them are in safety categories.
In addition, as per Annual Calendar for the year 2025, seven Centralized Employment Notifications (CENs) for 28,463 vacancies have also been issued:
| SN | CEN No. | Post Name | No. of Vacancies notified | Month of Notification |
| 1 | 01/2025 | Assistant Loco Pilots | 9,970 | March 2025 |
| 2 | 02/2025 | Technicians | 6,238 | June 2025 |
| 3 | 03/2025 | Para-medical | 434 | July 2025 |
| 4 | 04/2025 | Section Controllers | 368 | August 2025 |
| 5 | 05/2025 | Junior Engineers / Depot Material Superintendent | 2,585 | October 2025 |
| 6 | 06/2025 | NTPC (Graduate) | 5,810 | October 2025 |
| 7 | 07/2025 | NTPC (Under-Graduate) | 3,058 | October 2025 |
The RRB examinations are quite technical in nature entailing large scale mobilization of men and resources and training of manpower. Railway overcame all these challenges and successfully conducted the recruitment in a transparent manner following all laid down guidelines. No instance of paper leakage or similar malpractice has occurred during the entire process.
Recruitment done in Indian Railways during 2004-2005 to 2013-2014 vis-à-vis during 2014- 2015 to 2024-2025 is given as under:-
|
Period |
Recruitments |
| 2004-2005 to 2013-2014 | 4.11 lakhs |
| 2014-2015 to 2024-2025 | 5.08 lakhs |
Further, as a system improvement, the Ministry of Railways has introduced a system of publishing annual calendar from 2024 for recruitment to various categories of Group ‘C’ posts. The introduction of annual calendar is benefitting the aspirants in the following manner:-
- More opportunities for candidates;
- Opportunities to those becoming eligible every year;
- Certainty of exams;
- Faster Recruitment process, Training and Appointments.
Railway servants (Hours of Duty & Period of Rest) Rules, 2005 formulated under the Railways Act, 1989, lay down provisions relating to classification of employment of the railway servants and also for their duty hours and periods of rest which are followed in preparation of duty rosters in order to provide adequate rest to staff.
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