Discontinuation of Direct Recruitment to the posts of Senior Section Engineers – Railway Board Order GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD) RBE No. 166/2018 No. E(NG)II/2018/RR-1/31 New Delhi, Dated: 25.10.2018 The General Manager (P), All Indian Railways/PUs, New Delhi. Sub:-  Discontinuation of Direct Recruitment to the posts of Senior Section Engineers (SSEs). Attention is invited to Board’s letter No. E(NG)I/2008/PM1/15 dated 03.09.2009 which inter alia lays down that 20% of the vacancies in Group ‘C’ posts of Senior Section Engineer(SSE) in Civil Engineering, Electrical, Mechanical, Signal & Telecom and Track Machine Organization (TMO) Departments will be filled by direct recruitment. This provision of direct recruitment in the post of SSEs has since been reviewed by Board. It has been decided to provisionally discontinue direct recruitment in the post of SSEs. This decision will be reviewed after one year. Therefore, all direct recruitme...

RAILWAYS GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR) MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALAYA) (RAILWAY BOARD) No.E(NG)-II/94/RR-1/29/Pt.(3246807) New Delhi, dated:21.05.2018. The General Manager (P), All Zonal Railways/Production Units. Sub: Upper age limit for direct recruitment to non-gazetted posts on the Railways. Reference has been received from one of the zonal railways, seeking clarification, whether Board’s instructions contained in the letter of even number dated 21.02.2018 (RBE No.25/2018), regarding relaxation of upper age limit are applicable in the case of engagement of substitutes or otherwise. The matter has been looked into and it is clarified that relaxation in upper age limit provided vide RBE No.25/2018 are also applicable in the case of engagement of substitutes. (This disposes of South Central Railway’s letter No.P(R)/563/XII dated 06.03.2018) (Ravi Shekhar) Jt.Dir.Estt.(N)-II Railway Board Source: Railway Board

Direct Recruitment to Group C - Reservation Fixed on the basis of Population Direct Recruitment to Group C - Reservation Fixed on the basis of Population "In case of direct recruitment to Group C posts normally attracting candidates from a locality or a region, the percentage of reservation is generally fixed on the basis of proportion of their population in the respective States/Union Territories" Reserve category representation Article 16(4) of the Constitution enables provision of reservation to backward class of citizens, who are not adequately represented in the services under the State. As per extant instructions, reservation is provided to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes at the rate of 15%, 7.5% and 27% respectively in case of direct recruitment on all India basis by open competition. In case of direct recruitment on all India basis otherwise than by open competition, the percentage fixed is 16.66% for Scheduled Castes, 7.5% for Scheduled ...