Over 5,100 Doctors Recruited in Indian Railway Health Service During 2014–2025 Compared to 2,277 During 2004–2013; Indent for 620 Doctors Placed on UPSC for the Year 2025 and 2026 Railways Provides 41,343 Jobs So Far in FY 2025–26, Boosting Employment Recruitment for Technicians, Junior Engineers, ALPs, RPF and Paramedical Staff Underway Across Multiple Stages Indian Railways provide comprehensive healthcare to Railway employees, both serving and retired along with their eligible dependents. The healthcare facilities are provided through a network of railway health institutes. Presently, there are 582 Health Units and 128 Railway Hospitals existing on Indian Railways. These Railway hospitals have required infrastructure, essential medical equipment and trained healthcare personnel to provide comprehensive healthcare to Railway beneficiaries. Occurrence and filling up of vacancies including those of medical staff are continuous processes on Indian Railways considering its size, spatial distribution and criticality of operation. Adequate and suitable manpower is provided to cater to the regular operations, changes in technology, mechanisations and innovative practices. The vacancies are filled up primarily by placement of indents by Railways with Recruitment agencies as per operational and technological requirements. Recruitments in Indian Railway Health Service (IRHS) are made through Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) for the Ministry as a whole.
During the periods 2004–2013 and 2014–2025, a total of 2277 and 5,140 doctors, respectively, were recruited. In addition, indent for 620 doctors was placed on UPSC for the year 2025 and 2026. Railways, being Central Government organization conduct recruitment for non-gazetted personnel on all India basis. Presently, recruitment against 1,43,086 vacancies of non-gazetted personnel has been taken up on Indian Railways as per Annual Calendar 2024 and 2025.
During January to December 2024, ten Centralized Employment Notifications (CENs) for 92,116 vacancies were notified for which first stage/Single stage Computer Based Tests (CBTs) details are as under:- Exam Candidates Cities Languages 1 st Stage CBT for the post of ALP (18,799 vacancies) 18,40,347 156 15 CBT for the post of Technician (14,298 vacancies) 26,99,892 139 15 1 st Stage CBT for the post of JE/DMS/CMA (7,951 vacancies) 11,01,266 146 15 CBT for the post of RPF-SI (452 vacancies) 15,35,635 143 15 CBT for the post of RPF-Constable (4,208 vacancies) 45,30,288 147 15 CBT for Paramedical Categories (1,376 vacancies) 7,08,321 143 15 1 st Stage CBT for Non-Technical Popular Categories (Graduate) (8,113 vacancies) 58,41,774 141 15 1 st Stage CBT for Non-Technical Popular Categories (Under Graduate) (3,445 vacancies) 63,27,473 157 15 CBT for Ministerial & Isolated Categories (1,036 vacancies) 4,46,013 139 15 CBT for Level-1 post (32,438 vacancies) 1,08,28,261 152 15 Total Candidates 3,58,59,270 2 nd stage CBTs for the following posts has also been completed: Exam Candidates Cities Languages 2 nd Stage CBT for the post of ALP (18,799 vacancies) 2,66,363 112 15 2 nd Stage CBT for the post of JE/DMS/CMA (7,951 vacancies) 1,17,339 118 15 2 nd Stage CBT for Non-Technical Popular Categories (Graduate) (8,113 vacancies) 1,21,931 129 15 2 nd Stage CBT for Non-Technical Popular Categories (Under Graduate) (3,445 vacancies) 51,978 79 15 Total Candidates 5,57,611 Computer Based Aptitude Test (CBAT) for the post of ALP and Non-Technical Popular Categories (Graduate) and Computer based Skill Test for the post of Non-Technical Popular Categories (Graduate-level) and Ministerial & Isolated Categories have also been completed. Details are as under: Exam Candidates Cities Languages CBAT for the post of ALP (18,799 vacancies) 1,32,044 84 2 Translation Test for Ministerial & Isolated Categories 1,233 8 2 CBAT for the post Non-Technical Popular Categories (Graduate) 13,616 38 2 Computer Based Typing Skill Test (CBTST) for the post Non-Technical Popular Categories (Graduate) 30,341 58 2 Computer Based Typing Skill Test (CBTST) for the post Non-Technical Popular Categories (Under-Graduate-level) 13,145 44 2 Total Candidates 1,90,379 Panels for more than 41,000 candidates for various posts including the posts of Technician, Junior Engineers, Paramedical Categories, Sub-Inspectors & Constable (RPF) and Assistant Loco Pilots have been finalised. Majority of them are in safety categories. In addition, as per Annual Calendar for the year 2025, nine Centralized Employment Notifications (CENs) for 50,970 vacancies have also been issued. Details are as under: CEN No. Post Name No. of Vacancies notified Month of Notification 01/2025 Assistant Loco Pilots 9,970 March, 2025 02/2025 Technician 6,238 June, 2025 03/2025 Paramedical categories 434 July, 2025 04/2025 Section Controller 368 August, 2025 05/2025 Junior Engineer/Depot Material Superintendent 2,585 October, 2025 06/2025 Non-Technical Popular Categories (Graduate) 5,810 October, 2025 07/2025 Non-Technical Popular Categories (Under-Graduate) 3,058 October, 2025 08/2025 Isolated Categories 312 December, 2025 09/2025 Level-1 22,195 December, 2025 First stage/Single stage Computer Based Tests (CBTs) for 12,923 posts has been completed. Details are as under:- Exam Candidates Cities Languages 1 st Stage CBT for the post of ALP (9,970 vacancies) 10,03,719 141 15 CBT for the post of Section Controller (368 vacancies) 4,33,748 131 15 1 st Stage CBT for the post of JE/DMS (2,585 vacancies) 5,74,351 133 15 Total Candidates 20,11,818 The Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) examinations are quite technical in nature entailing large scale mobilization of men and resources and training of manpower. Railway overcame all these challenges and successfully conducted the recruitment in a transparent manner following all laid down guidelines. No instance of paper leakage or similar malpractice has occurred during the entire process. Recruitment done in Indian Railways during 2004-2005 to 2013-2014 vis-à-vis during 2014-2015 to 2024-2025 is given as under: - Period Recruitments 2004-2005 to 2013-2014 4.11 lakhs 2014-2015 to 2023-2024 5.08 lakhs 2025-26 till date 41,343 Further, as a system improvement, the Ministry of Railways has introduced a system