RRB Secunderabad – Recruitment, Vacancies, Complete Details

The Railway Recruitment Board’s regional body at Secunderabad conducts several recruitment exams throughout the year for both technical and non-technical posts. The Non-Technical Posts are popular and fought for, as are other non-technical popular job vacancies. The exam is hence called the RRB Secunderabad NTPC Exams. 

It also conducts Railway RRB Secunderabad Exams for technical posts like the Level 1 Posts, Group D Posts, Junior Engineer (JE), Chemical and Metallurgical Assistant (CMA), Depot Material Superintendent (DMS), and other Ministerial & Isolated Categories postings for all year recruitments in the Secunderabad region’s various railway departments.

Types of RRB Secunderabad vacancies and exams:

The RRB Secunderabad Recruitment Board, also called the Railway RRB Secunderabad, appoints people for various technical and non-technical posts that arise throughout the year through recruitment exams. To be eligible, you need to have a pass certificate in the Class XII exams or Graduation exams. Applications for the vacancies and details of the examinations are provided on the RRB Secunderabad’s official website.

Here are the popular exams held by the RRB for vacancies known as 

• NTPC or Non-Technical Popular Categories
• MIC or Ministerial And Isolated Categories 
• Level-1 Category 
• Group-D Category
• Technician and ALP Category
• DMS/JE/CMA Technical Categories.

NTPC vacancies and exams:

The Indian Railways Railway RRB Secunderabad job vacancies are non-technical and are grouped to form the NTPC Category (Non-Technical & Popular Categories).

Some of the vacancies under the NTPC category are

• Commercial Apprentice
• Senior Time Keeper
• Junior Time Keeper
• Station Master
• Traffic Assistant 
• Goods Guard
• Senior Commercial cum Ticket Clerk
• Typist cum Junior Clerk 
• Trains Clerk
• Typist cum Accounts Clerk 
• Ticket cum Commercial Clerk
• Typist cum Junior Account Assistant 
• Typist cum Senior Clerk 

You can expect to be recruited after several rounds like the CBT ( Computer Based) Test, PET or Physical Efficiency Test, Medical Examination, and Document Verification.

MIC- Ministerial and Isolated RRB Categories:

The MIC RRB category is filled through RRB Secunderabad exams for the following posts.

• Chief Law Assistant
• Stenographer
• Junior Translator Hindi
• Other ministerial posts

The examination and selection process includes a CBT or Computer Based Test and Skill Tests like the Translation Test/ Teaching skill Test/ Stenography Skill Test/ Performance Test etc., based on the vacancy’s skills required. After this, you are required to undergo a medical fitness examination and submit your documents for verification.

Group-D categories:

The Group-D posts are filled by the Railway Recruitment Board through an examination. The vacancies that recur are

• Helper/Assistant
• Grade-IV Track Maintainer 
• Assistant Pointsman
• Level-I posts

You can expect to be recruited after several rounds like the CBT Test, PET or Physical Efficiency Test, Medical Examination, and Document Verification.

Highlights 2022 Railway RRB Secunderabad Recruitment:

The exams for RRB Secunderabad Recruitment in 2022 highlights are as follows.

Particulars	Details
Organization	Railway RRB Secunderabad
Exam Frequency	Depends on the vacancies
Level of Exam	National and to fill vacancies in the Secunderabad region.
Posts Vacant	NTPC- Non-Technical Popular Categories. Group-D Posts Level-1 Posts DMS/JE/CMA Posts MIC or Ministerial & Isolated Categories Technicians & ALP
Application Exam and Notification mode	Online
Fees for applying	General & OBC candidates INR 500ST/ SC/ PWD/ EWS/ Women/EWS INR 250
Exam Duration	General- 90 minutes. PWD candidates- 120 minutes
Languages for exam	Hindi, English, Bengali, Assamese, Gujarati, Konkani, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Manipuri, Odia, Tamil, Punjabi,  Urdu, and Telugu.
Official Website	https://rrbsecunderabad.nic.in/
Official Notifications 2021	Nos. CEN 01, 02, 03 of 2021 and RRC CEN 1of 2021 for 130,000 non-technical, 870 JE/CMA/DMS vacancies, and 9785 other posts.

RRB Secunderabad Notification 2022

For 2022, the RRB Secunderabad NTPC Exam official notification is of 28th February 2019. The recruitment process is in its 6th phase, and the exam, notification, and important dates table are given below.

Event details	Date
RRB official notification release- NTPC	28th February 2019
Applications commence online	1st March 2019
Last Date	31st March 2019
Release Date for admit card NTPC-2022	22nd March 2022
Exam dates RRB-NTPC-2022	1st to 8th April 2022 (Phase 6)
Announcement of results	Will be announced later
Official Notification Release for RRB ALP	Expected in August 2022
Applying Online start date	Expected in August 2022
Last Date	Expected in September 2022
2022 RRB ALP Examination	Expected in November 2022
Results Announcement for 2022 RRB ALP	Will be announced later
JE 2022 Admit Card Release Date	18th May 2022
2022 RRB JE Exam	22nd May 2022
2022 RRB JE Results Announcement	Will be announced later

2022 RRB Secunderabad Vacancy Details:

The 3234 NTPC vacancies for RRB Secunderabad are available on the RRB official website and are given below.

Post	Number of vacancies
Station Master	841
Commercial Apprentice	1
Typist cum Junior Accounts Assistant	89
Goods Guard	858
Typist cum Senior Clerk	124
Ticket cum Commercial Clerk	630
Ticket cum Senior Commercial Clerk	466
Trains Clerk	29
Typist cum Junior Clerk	130
Typist cum Accounts Clerk	66

The Technicians and ALP vacancies at the Railway RRB Secunderabad are as below.

Post	Number of vacancies
Loco Assistant Pilot (Mechanical)	2649
Loco Assistant Pilot (Electrical)	70
Bridge Technician Grade III	06
Blacksmith Technician Grade III	27
Diesel Electrical Technician Grade III	10
Carriage And Wagon Technician Grade III	14
Power/Electrical Technician Grade III	21
Diesel Mechanical Technician Grade III	23
TRD (OHE)/ Electrical Technician Grade III	24
Train Lighting/ Electrical Technician Grade III	9
TRS/ Electrical Technician Grade III	101
TRD (PSI)/ Electrical Technician Grade III	12
Alinger cum Luter Technician Grade III	01
EMU Technician Grade III	04
Painter Technician Grade III	01
Plumber Technician Grade III	02
Signal Technician Grade III	74
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technician Grade III	07
Track Machine Technician Grade III	11
Telecommunication Technician Grade III	39
Welder Technician Grade III	17

The Level-1 posts of the RRB Secunderabad 7th CPC exams have 6,523 vacancies, as given below.

Post	Number of vacancies
Electrical Helper- TRS	79
Electrical Helper- General Services	165
Electrical Helper- TRD	165
P Way Helper	188
Bridge Helper	119
Track Maintainer Grade IV	3940
Mechanical Helper- Diesel Electrical	54
Mechanical Helper- Wagon & Carriage	451
Mechanical Helper- Diesel Mechanical	172
Signal Helper	16
S & T (Workshop)Helper	237
Hospital Attendant	53
Assistant Pointsman	884

Eligibility Conditions:

The RRB Secunderabad eligibility criteria include age, nationality, and educational qualifications that need to be filled correctly in the online application to avoid application rejection later. 

Nationality:

You must possess one of the below conditions. You must be

• An Indian citizen.
• A Tibetan Refugee seeking permanent Indian settlement before 1st January 1962.
• A subject of Bhutan or Nepal.
• A PIO (person of Indian origin) who migrated for permanent Indian settlement from Pakistan, Burma, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania (formerly Zambia, Tanganyika/ Zanzibar, Malawi, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Zaire.

Age Limit:

• If applying for the Class XII or Undergraduate level posts of the Railway RRB Secunderabad, you should be between 18 and 30 years.
• Graduates must be between 18 and 33 years.

Age Relaxation: 

The RRB offers age relaxation as set out below by the Government’s norm.

Category	Upper age relaxation
NCL or Non-Creamy Layer of OBC	Up to 3 years
ST/SC	Up to 5 years
General Ex-Servicemen	Up to 33 Years plus Years of Service plus 3 years
OBC Ex-Servicemen	Up to 33 Years plus Years of Service plus 3 years
ST/SC Ex-Servicemen	Up to 33 Years plus Years of Service plus 3 years
Unreserved PwBD	Up to 10 years
OBC-NCL PwBD	Up to 13 years
ST/SC PwBD	Up to 15 years
General Group-C, D Employees	Up to 10 years
OBC Group-C, D Employees	Up to 13 years
ST/SC Group-C, D Employees	Up to 15 years
General divorced/widowed/ judicially separated women	Up to 5 years
OBC divorced/widowed/ judicially separated women	Up to 8 years
ST/SC divorced/widowed/ judicially separated women	Up to 10 years

Qualifications

The educational qualification for non-technical posts in Railway RRB Secunderabad is that you should have passed the Class XII or Degree exams. For technical posts, the qualifications depend on the posts.

• The minimum qualification for posts like the Station Master, Commercial Apprentice, Goods Guard, Senior Commercial Cum Ticket Clerk, and Traffic Assistant require a Degree from a recognized University or its equivalent.
• Typist cum Senior Clerk, Typist cum Junior Accounts Assistant, and Senior Time-Keepers must have a recognized university degree or equivalent and typing proficiency in Hindi/ English and knowledge of computers.
• Commercial Cum Ticket Clerks will need to have passed Class XII or its equivalent with at least 50% aggregate marks. This minimum is not required for the ST/SC/ Ex-servicemen/ PwBD- Persons with Benchmark Disability and candidates with qualification levels higher than Class XII.
• Trains Clerk, Accounts Clerk Cum Typist, Junior Clerk Cum Typist, and Junior Time Keeper post contenders should have additional qualifications in Hindi/English typing proficiency and computer knowledge.

How to fill the 2022 Application Form:

The application form for the various RRB Secunderabad recruitment exams in online mode is to be filled on the official website as below.

• Step 1: Visit the RRB Secunderabad official website and register with your Email ID, password, and mobile number.
• Step 2: Click on ‘Apply Now.’
• Step 3: Fill in all details like address, name, age, etc.
• Step 4: Upload photographs and a good-quality signature scanned copy.
• Step 5: Review and check for errors before submitting your Application Form.
• Step 6: Pay your fees online using the many online payment options provided.
• Step 8: Save your soft copy and receipt of fee payment for future reference.

Application Fees 2022

The application form for RRB Secunderabad must be accompanied by the requisite fees as given below.

Category	Fee
General	INR 500
Other Backward Classes (OBC)	INR 500
SC/ ST/ PWD/Women/Ex-Sm/Transgender/ Minorities/ Economically Backward	INR 250

RRB NTPC Exam Pattern: 

CBT-1:

• The CBT- Computer Based Test is used to screen RRB Secunderabad candidates.
• The exam lasts for 90 minutes for NTPC candidates, and for PWD candidates, the exam is for 120 minutes.
• Negative marking is awarded for each wrong answer and is 0.25 Marks per the wrong answer.
• Unanswered questions do not lose marks.

The exam has three sections for a total of 100 marks. Namely, 

• Mathematics (30 questions)
• General Awareness (40 questions)
• Reasoning & General Intelligence (30 questions) 

CBT-2:

• The 2nd Stage of the CBT exam is for those shortlisted in CBT-1.
• The difficulty levels depend on the various posts.
• The duration is 90 minutes, and wrong answers lose 0.33 marks each.

There are three sections for a total of 120 marks. Namely, 

• Mathematics 35 questions
• General Awareness 50 questions
• Reasoning & General Intelligence 35 questions.

The technical RRB CMA/JE/DMS exam pattern is as below:

The 90-minute CBT-1 exam has four sections 100 marks. Namely,

• Mathematics (30 questions)
• General Awareness (15 questions)
• Reasoning & General Intelligence (25 questions)
• General Science (30 questions). 

The 120-minute CBT-2 exam has five sections for 220 marks. Namely,

• Physics and Chemistry (50 marks)
• General Awareness (50 marks)
• Basics of Environment Control & Pollution (10 marks)
• Basics of Computer Applications (10 marks). 
• Technical Ability (100 marks).

Admit Card:

The admit card can be downloaded from the RRB Secunderabad official website. The process involved is to log in to the portal using your Regn ID and password and then click on the admit card tab. The admit card can be downloaded until the exam date.

The details on your admit card are

• Name
• Registration number
• Date of Birth
• Date of Exam
• Reporting Time
• Name of Exam Centre
• Photograph and Signature
• Exam Instructions

In case of any errors in the Admit Card details, contact immediately the relevant RRB officials.

Cutoff:

On successful completion and merit-listing of the results, the Railway RRB Secunderabad announces the individual marks and the cutoff marks for selection to the various posts online on the official website. The expected cutoff marks as per the 2021 results were 

Unreserved category	80-84 %
OBC	77-79 %
SC	70-72 %
ST	66-68 %

Conclusion:

The OliveBoard platform is the best possible platform to train and practice for the RRB Secunderabad exams. Practice and time management are crucial in the RRB exams since negative marking is present. The average salary for placement in the NTPC cadre of Railway RRB Secunderabad and Class XII is between INR 19,900 and 21,700, for Level-1 posts between INR 25,500 and 35,400 and technical posts like the JE INR 35,400 to 112,400. There are several Central Government allowances, like LTA, DA, and more.

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