Railway recruitment test on Thursday but no clarity on number of vacancies

Around 4.7 million candidates are appearing for these exams. The Railways had announced earlier it is going to hire over 100,000 people during the current financial year

With less than 24 hours to go for the world’s largest online recruitment drive, the Railways is still unclear about the exact number of vacancies available for selection of assistant loco pilots (ALP) and technicians.

The Railways had announced earlier it is going to hire over 100,000 people during the current financial year. The first stage of the massive hiring process extended over ten days, between August 9 and 31, was never short of controversies from delay in issuing notifications to allotment of far-away centres to candidates. For the current set of exams, initially, the Railways was planning to hire