Jobs in Indian Railways

Indian Railways is the largest single entity employer

in India. It is one of the largest railway networks in the world and also the world's largest public utility corporation. The fact that it employs a workforce as large as 1.5 million employees explains the size of the organization. By virtue of growth in size, viz., addition of railroads, locomotives, passenger coaches, goods carriage, reservation and other services every year, the Indian railways generates tens of thousands of job opportunities every year.

Indian Railways is divided in to 16 railway zones, which is aimed at efficient carrying out of operations, construction and maintenance of coaches, railroad construction, recruitment and maintenance of workforce and other reasons. Each zone is headed by a General Manager who reports to the Railway Board. Under each zone there are Divisional Offices headed by Railway Divisional Managers who are reported by divisional officer cadres such as divisional officer engineering, mechanical divisional officers, electrical divisional officers, signal & telecommunication divisional officers, divisional accounting officers, divisional personnel officers, divisional operating officers, divisional officer for commercial operations and safety officers.

Railway Production Factories

Apart from the railway operations management the Indian Railways owns and operates six state of the art Production Units which are under the control of the Railway Ministry. The factories are highly employment intensive and create large number of new job opportunities every year. Jobs in Rail coach factories and Production Units are lucrative employment for lifetime for its workforce. Those manufacturing plants are:

Chittaranjan Locomotive Works
Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi
Diesel-Loco Modernization Works, Patiala
Integral Coach Factory, Chennai
Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala
Rail Wheel Factory, Bangalore
Rail Spring Karkhana, Gwalior

Railway Auxiliary Organizations
There are two independent organizations that work to upgrade railway facility by way of railroad electrification and plant modernization. They are also under the control of Railway Ministry.

Central Organization for Railway Electrification, Allahabad
Central Organization for Modernization of Workshops, New Delhi

Public Sector Corporations under Railway Ministry
Apart from these operational zones, Production Units and auxiliary organizations, a number of Public Sector Corporations which help Indian Railways to maintain, develop and modernize its systems. These corporations are also ideal employers for a variety of job applicants. These companies are:

Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS)
Container Corporation of India
Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India
Indian Railway Finance Corporation
Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation
IRCON International Ltd.
Konkan Railway Corporation
Rail Land Development Authority
Rail Vikas Nigam Limited
Railtel Corporation of India
RITES Ltd.

Indian Railway Recruitments
Indian Railways is an equal opportunity employer with recruitment norms is regulated and standard recruitment practices are followed. Recruitments of the Officers and Engineers are done by the UPSC through Engineers Service Examination and special recruitments. Recruitments to the lower categories of Indian Railways are done by separate Railway Recruitment Boards associated each railway zone.

Railway Recruitment Boards:
Separate Railway Recruitment Boards conduct the mass recruitment of operational staff positions in Railways. The following are the Railway Recruitment Boards:

Railway Recruitment Boards Ahmedabad
Railway Recruitment Boards Ajmer
Railway Recruitment Boards Allahabad
Railway Recruitment Boards Bangalore
Railway Recruitment Boards Bhopal
Railway Recruitment Boards Bhubaneswar
Railway Recruitment Boards Chandigarh
Railway Recruitment Boards Chennai
Railway Recruitment Boards Gorakhpur
Railway Recruitment Boards Guwahati
Railway Recruitment Boards Jammu & Srinagar
Railway Recruitment Boards Kolkata
Railway Recruitment Boards Malda
Railway Recruitment Boards Mumbai
Railway Recruitment Boards Muzaffarpur
Railway Recruitment Boards Patna
Railway Recruitment Boards Ranchi
Railway Recruitment Boards Secunderabad
Railway Recruitment Boards Thiruvananthapuram

BLOG

RSS