Mumbai: Hundreds of students and job seekers, including some 500 who are working as apprentices in different technical workshops of railways are, are protesting in Mumbai demanding permanent jobs and a hearing with Railway Minister Piyush Goyal.
Commuters and office goers were up for a surprise Tuesday morning when they found railway services hit due to the blockade by the job seekers. According to senior railways officials of the CR, the students have stopped traffic since 7 am on the tracks. Officials said they are running special trains for Kurla station in the down direction and diverting railway traffic from Dadar station in the up direction to facilitate commute.
“Due to some agitation between Matunga and Dadar, rail traffic affected between Matunga and CSMT. The Up slow local trains are terminating at Kurla and returning as special in down direction,” a senior railway official said.
Video footages showed hundreds of job seekers sitting on railway tracks. The protesting job seekers said they will not end their protest unless Railway Minister Piyush Goyal come and hear them. "We will not budge from here until and unless Railway Minister Piyush Goyal come and meet us. Our several prayers made to DRM (Divisional Railway Manager of Mumbai Division) have failed," another student said, as reported by PTI.
The protest in Mumbai came even as the Indian Railways have issued after a gap of four years notification to fill up more than 01 lakh vacancies. The last date to fill up these vacancies is March 31. Earlier, there were protests in Bihar, Kerala, Odisha and some other parts of the country over Railway Recruitment norms and criteria.
The Railway Recruitment Boards (RRB) had started receiving from Saturday February 10, 2018 online applications through the Indian Railways website to fill over 62,000 Group D posts in different categories. The last date to apply for exactly 62,907 RRB CEN 02/2018 Group D posts in level 1 of 7th CPC pay matrix was set as March 12, 2018. It was later extended to March 31. The Railway board did not announce the date of exam as of now.
According to the notification, the exam will be Computer based test (CBT) and it will contain questions on reasoning, aptitude and skills. On the basis of the computer-based test, the candidates will be shortlisted for the next stage of the recruitment process.
RRB CEN 02/2018 Group D posts include Track Maintainer grade IV (Trackman), Gateman, Pointsman, Helpers in Electrical/ Mechanical/ Signal & Telecommunication departments, porter, etc. The Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) was established in 1988. It is responsible for the appointment of new employees to work for various posts at Indian Railways. It calls eligible candidates for recruitment of various Technical, Non-Technical and Para Medical Posts in Group A, B, C and D Cadres through Online Application / Offline Application Format.
Besides Mumbai other RRB Regions are: RRB Allahabad NTPC Result 2016, RRB Mumbai NTPC Result 2016, RRB Ajmer NTPC Result 2016, RRB Secunderabad NTPC Result 2016, RRB Kolkata NTPC Result 2016, RRB Ahmedabad NTPC Result 2016. RRB Bhopal NTPC Result 2016, RRB Chennai NTPC Result 2016, RRB Bhubaneswar NTPC Result 2016, RRB Patna NTPC Result 2016, RRB Bangalore NTPC Result 2016, RRB Ranchi NTPC Result 2016, RRB Thiruananthapuram NTPC Result 2016, RRB Muzaffarpur NTPC Result 2016, RRB Guwahati NTPC Result 2016, RRB Chandigarh NTPC Result 2016, RRB Bilaspur NTPC Result 2016, RRB Gorakhpur NTPC Result 2016, RRB Siliguri NTPC Result 2016, RRB Malda NTPC Result 2016, RRB Jammu & Srinagar NTPC Result 2016.
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