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(Jobs) RRB : Recruitment of Non Technical Popular Category(Graduate), Assistant Station Master and Traffic Assistant - 2012

Government of India, Ministry of Railways
Railway Recruitment Boards

(Centralised Employment Notice No.: 03/2012)

Applications are invited in the prescribed format as enclosed( on a good quality A-4 size bond paper of 80 GSM using one side only) from eligible Indian Nationals for the Common Preliminary Examination for following posts of Non Technical Popular Category(Graduate), Assistant Station Master and Traffic Assistant.

Vacancy Details :

Name of the Posts :

  1. Commercial Apprentice   

    Minimum Educational Qualification  :
    Degree from recognized University or its equivalent. Diploma in Rail Transport and Management from the Institute of Rail Transport will be an additional desirable qualification.
  2. Traffic Apprentice    

    Minimum Educational Qualification  :
    Degree from recognized University or its equivalent. Diploma in Rail Transport and Management from the Institute of Rail Transport will be an additional desirable qualification.
  3. ECRC     

    Minimum Educational Qualification  :
    Degree from recognized University or its equivalent.
  4. Goods Guard     

    Minimum Educational Qualification  :
    Degree from recognized University or its equivalent.
  5. Jr. Accounts Assistant cum Typist    

    Minimum Educational Qualification  : Degree from recognized University or its equivalent.
  6. Sr. Clerk cum Typist  

    Minimum Educational Qualification  :
    Degree from recognized University or its equivalent.
  7. Assistant Station Master    

    Minimum Educational Qualification  :
    Degree from recognized University or its equivalent.
  8. Traffic Assistant      

     Minimum Educational Qualification  : Degree from recognized University or its equivalent.

Age Limit :

  • 18 to 33 year

  • The lower and upper age limit indicated will be reckoned as on 01.07.2012. The upper age limit is relaxable as under subject to submissionof requisite certificate.

  • 5 years for SC/ST candidates.

  • 3 years for OBC candidates.

  • For Ex-Servicemen, up to the extent of service rendered in defence plus 3 years provided they have put in more than 6 months service after attestation.5 years to candidates who have ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from 01.01.1980 to 31.12.1989.

  • 10 years for Physically Handicapped candidates (15 years for Physically Handicapped SCs/STs and 13 years for Physically Handicapped OBCs).

  • For the serving Group ‘C’ and Group ‘D’ Railway Staff and casual labours/substitutes, the relaxation in upper age limits will be up to 40 years for Unreserved candidates, 45 years for SC/ST candidates and 43 years for OBC candidates, provided they have put in a minimum of 3 years service (continuous or in broken spells). For those working in Quasi-Administrative offices of the Railway organization such as Railway Canteens, Co-operative Societies and Institutes, the relaxation in upper age limits will be up to the length of service rendered subject to maximum of 5 years.

  • Upper age limit in case of widows, divorced women and women judicially separated from the husband but not remarried shall be relaxed up to 35 years for Unreserved, 38 for OBC and 40 years for SC/ST candidates.

  • No age relaxation is allowed to SC/ST/OBC candidates applying against unreserved vacancies.

Examination Fee:

  • No examination fee for SC/ST/Ex-Servicemen /Physically Handicapped /Women/Minorities /Economically Backward classes candidates having annual family income less than Rs. 50,000/-

  • For Unreserved Male/OBC Male candidates (who is not coming within the purview of minority/economically backward communities) examination fee of Rs.
    for each application. Candidates should send separate application for each RRBs.

  • The examination fee is non-refundable. It should be paid in the form of a crossed Demand Draft valid for a period of three months to be drawn at the main branch of any of the Nationalized Banks, or in the form of Crossed Indian Postal Order drawn in favour of ‘Assistant Secretary or Secretary or Member Secretary or Chairman, Railway Recruitment Board' of concerned RRB as mentioned in the para 15 given below. The Bank Drafts/Indian Postal Orders should be payable at the place where the Railway Recruitment Board is situated as mentioned in the para 15 given below. The Indian Postal Order/Bank Drafts should not be obtained earlier to the date of issue of this Employment Notice or after the closing date of receipt of application.

How To Apply:

  • The Application Form as per Annexure 1 & 2 should be filled up by the candidate in his/her own handwriting, with blue or black ball point pen (not in pencil, fountain pen or gel pen) dated and signed. Only international form of numerals i.e. 1, 2, 3 etc. should be used. The Application Form should be filled up in English or in Hindi only, strictly observing all the instructions given in this Centralised Employment Notice. The candidates should affix his/her normal signature in English or in Hindi in the Application Form. Applications signed in capital letters/spaced out letters will be treated as invalid.

  • The candidate’s Name, Address with Pin Code, Date of Birth, Father’s Name, Mother’s Name and nearest Railway Station should be written legibly in English in bold capital letters, even if the candidate fills up the Application Form in Hindi.

  • Photographs: One recent (not earlier than three months from the date of application) colour photograph of size 3.5cm x 3.5 cm with clear front view of the candidate without cap and sunglasses should be pasted on the Application Form in the space provided. Xerox copy of photographs is not permitted. The candidates should sign in the space provided in the box below the photograph. One identical extra colour photograph should be enclosed with the application, indicating candidate’s name and category number on the reverse of the photograph. Candidates may note that the RRB may reject the candidature at any stage
    for pasting old/unclear photograph on the application or for any significant variations between photograph pasted in the application and the actual physical appearance of the candidate.

  • In item No.11 of Application Form, the candidates should indicate any clear visible marks of identification on their body like a mole on the nose, cut-mark on the forehead in the left side or a scar mark below the left arm, etc as the case may be . Incase there is no such visible identification mark on body, then “ NIL ” should be written in the place provided . The Application Form of the candidate is liable to be rejected if identification mark column is not filled up.

  • The candidate should put their Left Hand Thumb impression at the designated places in the Application Form and in the Information Sheet. The Thumb impressions must be clear and complete. Ridges of the Thumb impressions must be clearly visible.

  • The candidate should copy the paragraph at item No. 12 of the Information Sheet in English/Hindi in their own running handwriting (NOT in capital/spaced out letters), otherwise their applications will be rejected.

  • Applications which are illegible, incomplete, unsigned, signed in capital letters, not in prescribed format, without colour photo of candidate, not having IPO/DD or having IPO/DD purchased before date of issue of and after closing date of Centralised Employment Notice are liable to be rejected.

  • The envelope containing the application should be clearly super-scribed “Application for the Preliminary Examination for the notified categories of CEN No 03/2012 of RRB----- & Community (SC/ST/OBC/PWD/Ex-SM)” failing which the application will not be entertained.

Important Dates :

  • Date of publication: 12.05.2012
  • Date & time of closing: 11.06.2012 up to 17.30 Hrs.
  • Date of Preliminary Exam: 28.10.2012

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