New Delhi, May 01: There are 1,69, 813 vacancies in Railways as on April one, last year, the Rajya Sabha was told today.
Giving this information, Minister of State for Railways E Ahamed said to rectify this situation, streamlining of the working of Railway Recruitment Boards has been undertaken.
Under the new methodology, examination for a particular post will be held on the same date simultaneously by all the Railway Recruitment Boards and in addition to Hindi, Urdu and English, question papers shall be set in local languages, he said in a written reply.
A total number of 10395 posts of SCs and 12491 posts of STs were identified as lying vacant as on November 1 2008 including in Group A.
There are 1166 SC and 615 ST employees in Group A as on March 31, last year, he said.
–Agencies