Engagement of Apprentices in Central Railway – 2022

Notification No. RRC/CR/AA/2022

NOTIFICATION

Notification For Engagement of Apprentices in Central Railway – 2022

Engagement of Apprentices under the Apprentices Act 1961, over Central Railway.

Opening of Online Application: 17/01/2022

How to Apply to Engagement of Apprentices in Central Railway – 2022

Date and time of closing of Online Application : 16/02/2022

ONLINE applications are invited from interested candidates for engagement of Act Apprentices for imparting training under the Apprentices Act 1961 in the designated trades at Workshops/Units in the jurisdiction of Central Railway against 2422 slots. Applications complete in all respects should be submitted only ONLINE till 17:00 hrs. of the closing date.

Vacancy Notification Engagement of Apprentices in Central Railway – 2022

1. Candidates should note and take cognizance of the fact that this is a Centralized Notification for engagement of Act Apprentices under the Apprentices Act 1961 for Central Railway Units and Railway Recruitment Cell, Central Railway (RRC/CR) has been nominated as nodal agency for obtaining ONLINE applications from candidates and preparation of their merit list. Candidates can submit their applications ONLINE only on RRC’s website www.rrccr.com
2. After preparation of merit list, the same will be advised to respective Divisions/Units on Central Railway. Document verification will be held in opted Divisions/Units, as per the Cluster as mentioned in the Candidate’s applications.
3. Candidates must note that no centralized merit list will be formed.

MODE OF SELECTION:

• Selection will be on the basis of merit list prepared in respect of all the candidates who apply against the notification. The merit list will be prepared on the basis of percentage of marks in matriculation (with minimum 50% aggregate marks) + ITI marks in the trade in which Apprenticeship is to be done. The panel will be on the basis of simple average of marks in the matriculation and ITI.

For the purpose of calculation of percentage of matriculation, marks obtained by the candidates in all subjects will be reckoned and not on the basis of marks of any subject or a group of subjects like best of five etc.

For the purpose of calculation of percentage of ITI marks, average marks mentioned in consolidated statement of marks for all semesters of the trade applied / marks mentioned in the Provisional National Trade Certificate issued by NCVT / SCVT, will only be reckoned.

For the purpose of calculation of percentage of marks of SSC of candidates from Board of Secondary Education Andhra Pradesh, Board of Public Examination, Kerala etc RRC will take midpoint of range of grades obtained by the candidates. After obtaining midpoints of all the attempted subjects according to grades awarded, average will be calculated treating each subject is out of 100 marks, as there is no standard method or multiplying factor for calculation of average of matriculation for such Boards.

• In case of two candidates having the same marks, the candidate with older age shall be preferred. In case the dates of birth are also same, then the candidate who passed matriculation exam earlier shall be considered first.

• A final merit list will be prepared cluster/unit wise, trade wise and community wise, equal to the number of slots in the descending order of percentage of marks obtained by the candidate, as stated above.

• Candidates finally enlisted would be subject to verification of original testimonials uploaded and production of medical certificate as per annexure attached.

During submission of ONLINE application, a Registration number will be issued to each applicant. Candidates are advised to preserve/note their Registration Number for further stages of engagement process/correspondence with RRC.

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS

• The candidates should have completed 15 years of age and should not have completed 24 years of age as on 17-01-2022.
• Upper age limit is relaxable by 05 years in case of SC/ST candidates, 3 years in case of OBC candidates.

Accordingly for different communities, the eligible Date of Birth range shall be as follows :

Community Candidate should be born between (both dates inclusive)

UR: 17/01/1998 to 17/01/2007

SC: 17/01/1993 to 17/01/2007

ST: 17/01/1993 to 17/01/2007

OBC: 17/01/1995 to 17/01/2007

• For Persons with Disability, upper age limit is relaxed by 10 years.
• Upper age limit is relaxable by up to additional 10 years for exservicemen to the extent of service rendered in Defence Forces plus 03 years provided they have put in a minimum of 6 months service at a stretch, except Ex-servicemen who have already joined the Govt. service on Civil side after availing the Ex.servicemen status for the purpose of their engagement. However, regardless of community, Exservicemen will be considered against the Ex-servicemen quota,, if available. If UR vacancies are not available then only Ex. serviceman belonging to those particular communities where vacancies are available will be considered against the ex-servicemen quota.
• The candidates who want to avail the benefit of reservation of SC/ST, must upload his/her Caste certificate on Central Government format only issued by appropriate authority according to Annexure-I at the time of online application. Similarly, the candidates who want to avail the benefit of reservation of OBC, must upload Caste certificate and Non-Creamy Layer Certificate issued on or after 1/4/2021 on Central Government format only by appropriate authority as per sample Annexure-II at the time of online application, these certificates are required to be produced in original at the time of document verification also.
• The candidates who want to avail the benefit of reservation of Exservicemen and Armed Forces Personnel, must upload Discharge certificate and in case of children of Ex-servicemen and children of Armed Forces Personnel, they must upload discharge certificate or Armed Forces serving certificate respectively (as the case may be) of his/her parents at the time of online application.

EX-SERVICEMEN

• An Ex-servicemen candidate selected under the reservation provided for them is to be placed in the appropriate category viz. UR/SC/ST/OBC to which he belongs. Ex-servicemen, their children and children of Armed Force personnel will be engaged for Apprenticeship as per details mentioned below:

a) Children of deceased/disabled Ex-servicemen including those killed/disabled during peace time.   b) Children of Ex-servicemen

1. Children of Serving Jawans
2. Children of Serving Officer
3. Ex-Servicemen

MINIMUM EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

The candidate must have passed 10th class examination or its equivalent (under 10+2 examination system) with minimum 50% marks, in aggregate, from recognized Board and also possess National Trade Certificate in the notified trade issued by the National Council for Vocational Training or Provisional Certificate issued by National Council for Vocational Training / State Council for Vocational Training.

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