Railways Initiates Recruitment process To Hire 89,500 Posts
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India Railways is unarguably one of the world’s largest railway systems. It looks like the government-backed enterprise is focusing on filling vacant positions across various categories. The Indian railways announced employment for 89,500 posts. These include pilots, technicians, gangmen, switchmen, trackmen, cabin men, welders, helpers, porters and other.
The posts are announced for those with 10th graduation to Bachelors. Official sources revealed that over 1.2 Lakh posts are lying vacant exclusively in the security segment itself. A high-ranked officer in railways informed that yearly 40,000 – 45,000 people are retiring from railways. The Railways is estimated to bear a burden of Rs 4,000 crores with the new recruitments.
The 2016 – 2017 year saw an expenditure of Rs 69,713 crores, while 2017 – 2018 saw Rs 72,705 crores as salaries for the Railway employees. This number is expected to reach Rs 76,451 crores in the upcoming 2018 – 2019 fiscal year.Meanwhile, insider sources in the government and Railway Ministry are hinting this mass recruitment as a ‘political move’ by the Centre. With less than 11 months for the General Elections announcement, mass recruitments like this will have a great impact on the polls, expressed a political analyst.
