Railway kickstarts India's biggest recruitment process, hikes upper age limit by 2 years

NEW DELHI: For the ongoing railway recruitment drive, Indian Railways has extended the upper age limit for all categories by two years. The national transporter is hiring around 90,000 employees for group C and D categories. "For the ongoing recruitment of Group C Level I and II posts, ministry of railways have decided to extend the relaxation in upper age limit by two years," rail ministry said in a statement. The age limit has also been extended for reserved categories.

"It has also been decided that the questions in regional languages like Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Odiya, Telugu, Bangla and others will be available for candidates to take the exam," the statement said.

Railways has announced one of the largest recruitment processes for 89409 posts in Group C and D categories.


Online applications have been invited for posts like assistant loco pilots, technicians, track maintainer, points man, helper, gateman and porters. This recruitment drive is open for candidates who have passed Class Xth and ITI for Group C posts and Class Xth and ITI or diploma in engineering or a graduation in engineering for Group C level II posts like assistant loco pilots and technicians.