Railway Recruitment Boards warns aspirants against touts

ALLAHABAD: In the backdrop of the fact that Indian Railways (IR) is conducting recruitment for various posts, IR has issued a warning to all the aspirants, for thousands of posts across India, to beware of unscrupulous persons who may attempt to cheat these aspiring with job promise. IR has currently advertised 64 thousand posts of Assistant Loco Pilots and about 63 thousand posts of Level-1 like track maintainers, assistant pointsmen etc along with recruitment for 8619 constables and 1120 sub-inspectors in Railway Protection Force (RPF).

IR has made it clear that this recruitment is being conducted through Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) and by Director General of RPF. For Group’C’ posts, about 47 lakh candidates have applied. For Level-1 posts, about 1.89 crore candidates have applied. For constables and sub-inspectors in RPF about 58 lakh and 14 lakh candidates have applied, respectively.

According to a press release from IR, some persons are attempting to cheat the candidates by fraudulently claiming that there is a quota of Minister of Railways through which they can get selected on paying the bribe. It was learnt that about Rs 93 lakh was collected by a group of private persons from candidates in Maharashtra especially in Vasai.

Accordingly, Railways lodged FIR bearing No.210/2018 with Mumbai Police at Mata Ramabai Ambedkar Marg (MRA) Police Station under sections 419, 420 and 34 of IPC. Mumbai Police has promptly arrested two accused for the offence and further investigations are on.

It may be noted that recruitment for all of these posts is being conducted in most fair and transparent manner as per rules. The recruitment is based on Computer-Based Tests (CBTs). These tests are being taken in the secured environment in selected centres spread all over India. The centres have features like CCTV, secured internet connection etc. There is no way of getting selected by any illegal means.

Railways have time and again warned the candidates not to fall prey to fraudulent promises by any imposter, tout, broker etc. through notices in national and regional newspapers.

“It is once again re-iterated by Indian Railways that the process of recruitment is by rule and merit. Railways has not nominated any agent, coaching centres, intermediary or any other persons/institutes for recruitment, and therefore, any such persons/institutes found to be giving such false promises must be reported to the nearest Police Station and/or Indian Railways”, mentions the press release of IR.