Brief on Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) and its Jurisdiction
1.0 Introduction
The 21 (Twenty one) Railway Recruitment Boards(RRBs), functioning under the administrative control of Railway Recruitment Control Board(RRCB), Rail Bhawan, New Delhi are one of the largest recruiting agencies of Government of India which do direct recruitments for all the departments of Indian Railways. The Railway Recruitment Boards are mandated with the task of making recruitment to all Group ‘C’ (Technical and Non-technical) posts, Level-II to Level-VII of 7th Central Pay Commission. However, in 2018 it was also given the mandate to conduct the Computer Based Test for Level-I posts.
2.0 Railway Recruitment Control Board (RRCB)
All the RRBs function under the direct control of Railway Recruitment Control Board located at Rail Bhawan, New Delhi-110001. RRCB is headed by Director General(Staff), Railway Board as its Chairman. Additional Member(Staff) and Additional Member(Vigilance) are its other members while Principal Executive Director (REC) functions as its Secretary. RRCB issues instructions and guidelines to the RRBs to ensure that recruitment is done on the basis of merit and in accordance with Government policy.
Objectives
- Formulation of policy in regard to recruitment procedures.
- To monitor the activities of all Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) including expenditure incurred for recruitment.
- To evaluate the performance of RRB's and advise them on priorities as required.
- To organise a management information system for monitoring work done by RRB's.
Railway Recruitment Control Board is a government recruitment agency for Group C and Group D non-gazetted civil service and engineering posts in Indian Railways under Ministry of Railways , Government of India . It was set up in 1998 (27 April 1998) in the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board), New Delhi.
In 1942, a Service Commission with a chairman and two members was established for recruitment of Subordinate Staff on the then North Western Railway was known as Railway Service Commission.
In 1945, the Services Commissions were set up at Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Lucknow. In 1948, the Indian Railway Enquiry Committee reviewed working of commissions. In 1949, due to financial constraints a ban was imposed on recruitments on Indian Railways thus numbers of commissions was reduced to one centrally located at Bombay. In 1953-54 when Economic conditions of Indian Railway improved, four service commission were again set up at Bombay, Madras, Allahabad and Calcutta. In 1956, the Estimates committee generally approved the method of recruitment by the constitution of the Railway Service Commissions. In 1983, to cater to the needs of areas which were being neglected due to locations of the existing commissions, seven more commissions were set up viz, at Ahmedabad, Ajmer, Bhopal, Bhuvneshwar, Chandigarh, Jammu and Srinagar with sitting at Leh and Trivendrum. In 1984 two more service commissions were set up at Malda and Gorakhpur. In January, 1985 Railway Service Commissions have been renamed as Railway Recruitment Board (RRB). At present 21 Railway Recruitment Boards are functioning.
3.0 Type of Posts being recruited by RRBs.
Railway Recruitment Boards issue of Centralized Employment Notification (CEN), inviting online applications from candidates, conduct Computer Based Tests(CBT), Document Verification and coordinate Medical Examination for the following groups of posts:-
1. Senior Section Engineer and Junior Engineer Group.
2. Non technical popular category Group ( Graduate and Under Graduate level),
3. Paramedical Categories Group,
4. Assistant Loco Pilot and Technicians,
5. Ministerial and Isolated categories Group,
Besides, the Railway Recruitment Boards have also conducted the computer Based tests for Level-I posts of 7th CPC during the year 2018 as a special assignment.
The entire activities related to examinations such as receipt of applications, issue of e-call letters, conduct of Computer Based Tests, Evaluation of the CBT and declaration of results have been completely computerized.
4.0 Railway Recruitment Boards and their jurisdiction
Railway Recruitment Boards are situated in various cities of India after which they are named. They conduct examinations with the support and assistance of the Zonal Railways. These RRBs are mandated to make recruitment from Level-II to Level-VII posts of 7th Central Pay Commission for specific offices, Divisions and Production units of Indian Railways. While Railway Recruitment Boards function under direct control of RRCB, in matters of policies and procedures related to recruitment, but for certain matters of establishment, finance etc. they function under the administrative jurisdiction of General Manager of respective Railways.
The respective Zonal Railways and jurisdiction of different RRBs are given in the table below:-
S.N | RRB | Railway Zone | Divisions/Production Units |
1. | Ahmedabad | Western | Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar and Ahmedabad divisions |
2. | Ajmer | North Western | HQ Office of North Western Railway and Jaipur, Ajmer, Jodhpur & Bikaner divisions |
West Central | Kota division | ||
3. | Allahabad | North Central | HQ Office of North Central Railway and Allahabad, Jhansi & Agra divisions |
Northern | Lucknow & Moradabad divisions | ||
DLW | DLW/Varanasi | ||
4. | Bangalore | South Western | HQ Office of South Western Railway and Hubli, Bangalore & Mysore divisions |
RWF | RWF/Bangalore | ||
5. | Bhopal | West Central | HQ Office of West Central Railway and Bhopal & Jabalpur divisions |
Western | Ratlam division | ||
6. | Bhubaneshwar | East Coast | HQ Office of East Coast Railway and Khurda Road & Sambalpur divisions |
7. | Bilaspur | South East Central | HQ Office of SECR and Raipur, Bilaspur & Nagpur divisions of SECR |
Central | Nagpur Division | ||
8. | Kolkata | Eastern | HQ office of Eastern Railway and Howrah & Sealdah divisions |
South Eastern | HQ office of South Eastern Railway and Kharagpur division | ||
Metro | Metro/Kolkata | ||
CLW | CLW /Chittaranjan | ||
9. | Chandigarh | Northern | HQ office of Northern Railway and Delhi & Ambala divisions |
10. | Chennai | Southern | HQ office of Southern Railway and Chennai, & Tiruchchirappalli divisions |
ICF | ICF/Chennai | ||
11. | Gorakhpur | North Eastern | HQ Office of North Eastern Railway and Lucknow, Izatnagar & Varanasi divisions |
RCF/RBL | RCF/RBL | ||
RDSO | RDSO/Lucknow | ||
12. | Guwahati | Northeast Frontier | HQ Office of Northeast Frontier Railway and Lumding, Tinsukia & Rangiya divisions |
13. | Jammu Srinagar | Northern | Ferozepur division |
RCF | RCF/Kapurthala | ||
DMW | DMW/Patiala | ||
14. | Malda | Eastern | Malda & Asansol divisions |
South Eastern | Adra Division | ||
15. | Mumbai | Western | HQ Office of Western Railway and Mumbai Central division divisions |
Central | HQrs. Office of Central Railway and Mumbai (CST), Bhusawal, Sholapur & Pune divisions | ||
South Central | Nanded division | ||
16. | Muzaffarpur | East Central | Samastipur & Sonepur divisions |
17. | Patna | East Central | HQ Office of East Central Railway and Mughalsarai & Danapur divisions |
Workshop/Bela | Workshop/Bela | ||
18. | Ranchi | South Eastern | Ranchi & Chakradharpur divisions |
East Central | Dhanbad division | ||
19. | Secunderabad | South Central | HQ Office of South Central Railway and Hyderabad, Secunderabad, Guntakal, Vijayawada & Guntur divisions |
East Central | Dhanbad division | ||
20. | Silliguri | Northeast Frontier | Katihar and Alipurduar Divisions |
21. | Thiruvananthapuram | Southern | Palghat, Thiruvananthapuram & Madurai divisions |
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