The new railway recruitment announced and will be inducted through UOSC civil services exam held under five specialities, V K Yadav, Chairman Railway Board, days after the Cabinet approved the merger of its eight services into one the Indian Railway Management Services (IRMS).
Candidate should be aspiring to get into railways will have to appear for their prelims after which they will indicate their preference for IRMS under five specialities four of them engineering specialities for technical, civil, mechanical, telecom and electrical, and one ‘non-technical’ speciality which will recruit officers for accounts, personnel and traffic.
The exact details will be worked out, but the thinking is like this the aspirants take the prelim and then indicate their choices. They will be given an option to appear for IRMS also, Yadav said. We are going to send an indent specifying our recruitment for the five specializations four for engineers, including that of stores (department) and another for non-engineering in which anyone can come from humanities side who will be utilized for manning the accounts, traffic and personnel service. All of them will be promoted at the same time, also said. In 2021 the first batch will recruit, while the new five members of board merged with officers will be placed by the middle of next year, said by Yadav.
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