After protests in Bihar and Kerala, Ministry of Railways announced a relaxation in the upper age limit by 2 years in various categories in one of the world’s largest recruitment drive for about 90,000 jobs.
“For the ongoing recruitment of Group C Level I & II posts, Ministry of Railways have decided to extend the relaxation in upper age limit. Last date of submission of application would be extended suitably,” the ministry said in a statement.
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The Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) has also said that the option of taking the recruitment exam in regional languages including Bangla and Malayalam would be made available.
In the statement, the railways also said, “In the exam for assistant loco pilots and loco pilot, the revised upper age limit for the unreserved category has been fixed at 30 years, while it was 28 earlier. For OBCs it has been revised to 33 years from the earlier 31 years. For the SC and ST category, the age relaxation has been fixed at 35 years from the present 33.”
This recruitment drive is open to all those candidates who have passed Class X and ITI for Group C Level I posts and Class X and ITI or diploma in engineering or a graduation in engineering.
Note: To complete the application formalities, the interested candidates with class 10 certificate to engineering qualifications may visit Railway Recruitment Board website.
