More than 2.65,000 posts, including more than 2,100 gazetted posts, are vacant on the Indian Railways, the government has told parliament. Responding to a question by Rajya Sabha member from Kerala (CPM) V Sivadasan, Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnav said there are currently a total of 2,65,547 posts vacant in the railways, of which 2,177 posts have been published and 2,63,370 posts are. ungazetted.
The details of vacant posts are – 56 in Central Railway, 87 in East Coast Railway, 195 in Eastern Railway, 170 in East Central Railway, 22 in Metro Railway, 141 in North Central Railway, 62 in North Eastern Railway, 112 in North East Frontier Railway, 115 in Northern Railway, 100 in North Western Railway, 43 in South Central Railway, 88 in South East Central Railway, 137 in South Eastern Railway, 65 in Southern Railway, 59 in West Central Railway, 172 in Western Railway. There are 507 Gazetted posts vacant in other units of Indian Railways.
A total of 27,177 non-gazetted posts are vacant in Central Railway, 8,447 in East Coast Railway, 28,204 in Eastern Railway, 15,268 in East Central Railway, 856 in Metro Railway, 9,366 in North Central Railway, 14,231 in North Eastern Railway, Northeast Frontier Railway 15,477, 37,436 in Northern Railway, 15,049 in North Western Railway, 16,741 in South Central Railway, 9,422 in South East Central Railway, 16,847 in South Eastern Railway, 9,500 in South Indian Railway, 6,525 in South Western Railway, 11,073 in West Central Railway ,
There are 26,227 job openings in Western Railway and 12,760 ungazetted posts in other units.
The Minister of Railways has said that the filling of vacancies is an ongoing process and it is done continuously by the Railways Recruitment Offices.
Railways last month suspended the recruitment process for 35,281 vacancies in various categories.
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