South Central Railway Trackman Recruitment 2011

SCR Secunderabad Recruitment 2011

Railway Recruitment Cell,
Rail Nilayam,
Secunderabad – 500 071.

Closing Date & Time for the receipt of South Central Railway application form is 17.00 hrs. of 14.02.2011.

For residents of Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, Jammu & Kashmir, Lahaul & Spiti districts and Panji sub-division of Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh and Andaman & Nicobar, Lakshadweep Islands the Closing Date & Time is 17.00 hrs. of 28.02.2011.

Open Market Recruitment to posts in Pay Band–1 of 5,200-20,200/- with Grade Pay of 1,800/- including Special Recruitment Drive for Persons with Disabilities.

Railway Recruitment Cell / Secunderabad invites South Central Railway applications from citizens of India and such other candidates declared eligible by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India to fill up the following posts in Pay Band-1 of 5,200-20,200/- with Grade Pay of 1,800/- in Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Guntur, Guntakal, Nanded Divisions and Workshops at Tirupathi, Guntupalli, Lallaguda of South Central Railway.

Important :

Candidates to note that all the Zonal Railways are likely to issue Notification for recruitment to the posts individually. The Physical Efficiency Test will be held by all the Railways during the same period simultaneously. Similarly, the Written Examination for those who qualify in the Physical Efficiency Test will be held on the same day, simultaneously by all the Railways. Candidates should keep this in mind before applying for any particular Notification.

Important Note : This notification also includes Vacancies for recruitment of persons with disabilities ( PWD) as part of regular and special recruitment drive. The vacancies reserved for PWD are not separate but included in the total number of vacancies. The vacancies in the peon category are exclusively notified for persons with disability as part of special recruitment drive.

1. Eligibility Criteria for South Central Railway Recruitment 2010 :

1.1 Minimum SCR 2010 Educational Qualifications :

• Candidates should possess the qualification of 10th Pass or ITI or equivalent.
• Candidates appearing at and / or awaiting results of the final examinations of 10th / ITI or equivalent on the date of SCR application form are not eligible to apply.

1.2 Age Limit for SCR 2010 :

The normal age (in completed years) for the recruitment is 18-33 years reckoned as on 01.01.2011.

The upper age limit is relaxable for the following specified categories to the extent indicated below :

i) By 5 years for candidates belonging to SC / ST communities.

ii) By 3 years for candidates belonging to OBC communities.

iii) By five years to candidates who have originally been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from 01.01.1980 to 31.12.1989.

iv) For Persons with Disabilities (PWD) : 10 years for UR, 13 years for OBC and 15 years for SC / ST candidates.

v) For the serving Railway Staff, the relaxation in upper age limits will be up to 40 years for Unreserved candidates, 45 years for SC / ST candidates and 43 years for OBC candidates, provided they have put in a minimum of 3 years service (continuous or in broken spells).

vi) For those working in Quasi-Administrative offices of the Railway organization, the relaxation will be up to the length of service rendered subject to maximum 5 years.

vii) Upper age limit in case of widows, divorced women and women judicially separated from the husband but not remarried shall be relaxed up to 35 years for Unreserved, 38 years for OBC and 40 years for SC / ST candidates.

viii) The upper age limit in case of course completed Act Apprentices applying for those posts whose minimum qualification is Course completed Act apprenticeship shall be relaxed to the extent of apprentice training undergone by them under the Apprenticeship Act 1961.

ix) For Ex-servicemen upto the extent of service rendered in defence plus 3 years provided they have put in more than 6 months service after attestation.

2. South Central Railway Application Form Fee 2010 :

(i) 40/- (forty only) payable in a form of crossed Demand Draft from State Bank of India or from any other Nationalized Bank or crossed Indian Postal Order drawn in favour of Assistant Personnel Officer, Railway Recruitment Cell, Secunderabad. Remittance of examination fee in any other form will not be accepted. These instruments should not have been issued earlier to 15.12.2010.

(ii) Candidates should write their name and address at the back of the Indian Postal Order / Demand Draft.

2.1 The following categories are exempt from payment of examination fee :

• Candidates belonging to SC / ST communities.
• Women candidates
• Candidates belonging to minority communities.
• Candidates belonging to backward classes having annual family income of less than 50,000/-.
• Persons with Disabilities.
• Ex-servicemen

2.2 Minorities means Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Zorastrians (Parsis). For claiming waiver of examination fee, Minority candidates should furnish ‘self declaration’ along with SCR application form. At the time of document verification such candidates claiming waiver of examination fee will be required to furnish ‘minority community declaration’ affidavit on non-judicial stamp paper that he/she belongs to any of the above minority community. If the affidavit is not produced during document verification, the candidature will be rejected.

2.3 Economically backward classes means the candidates whose annual family income is less than 50,000/-. Such candidates have to submit Income Certificate on the letter head of the issuing authority and enclose with the SCR application form.

2.4 Persons with Disabilites (PWD) :

The suitability of a post for persons with disability has been indicated against each post. In case of some posts, certain vacancies are specifically reserved for them. However, they may also apply as normal candidates against the vacancies earmarked for their respective community, i.e. UR / SC / ST / OBC, for those posts which have been identified suitable for persons with disabilities even if no separate vacancies are earmarked for them.

2.5 Definitions of Disabilities :

(a) Blindness : ‘Blindness’ refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions, namely :

• Total absence of sight. (or)
• Visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses. (or)
• Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse.

(b) Low vision : ‘Person with low vision’ means a person with impairment of visual functioning even after treatment or standard refractive correction but who uses or is potentially capable of using vision for the planning or execution of a task with appropriate assistive device.

(c) Hearing Impairment : ‘Hearing Impairment’ means loss of sixty decibels or more in the better ear in the conversational range of frequencies.

(d)

(i) Locomotor disability: ‘Locomotor disability’ means disability of the bones, joints or muscles leading to substantial restriction of the movement of the limbs or any form of cerebral palsy.

(ii) Cerebral Palsy : ‘Cerebral Palsy’ means a group of non-progressive conditions of a person characterized by abnormal motor control posture resulting from brain insult or injuries occurring in the pre-natal or infant period of development.

(iii) All the cases of orthopaedically handicapped persons would be covered under the category of ‘locomotor disability or cerebral palsy’.

(e) Degree of Disability for Reservation : Only such persons would be eligible for reservation in services / posts who suffer from not less than 40 per cent of relevant disability. A person who wants to avail of benefit of reservation would have to submit a Disability Certificate issued by a competent authority.

(f) Competent Authority to issue a Disability Certificate :

Competent authority to issue a Disability Certificate shall be a medical Board duly constituted by Central or State Government consisting of at least three members out of which at least one shall be a specialist in the particular field for assessing locomotor / cerebral / visual / hearing disability, as the case may be.

(g) Visually Handicapped candidates / those candidates whose writing speed is affected by cerebral palsy can avail the assistance of scribe for writing answers on their behalf. For engaging the scribe the candidate will have to suitably inform the Railway Recruitment Cell.

The engagement of scribe will be subject to the following conditions :

(g) Visually Handicapped candidates / those candidates whose writing speed is affected by cerebral palsy can avail the assistance of scribe for writing answers on their behalf. For engaging the scribe the candidate will have to suitably inform the Railway Recruitment Cell.

The engagement of scribe will be subject to the following conditions :

1. The candidates will have to arrange their own scribes at their own cost during examination. Separate admit cards will be issued to the scribes accompanying the visually handicapped candidates. Admit card should contain the particulars and photograph of the scribe duly signed by him / her.
2. The academic qualification of the scribe should be one grade below the qualification prescribed for the post for which recruitment is made.
3. The scribe can be from any academic discipline different from that of the candidate. He / she should not have secured more than 60% marks in the qualification mentioned at (ii) above.
4. The candidates as well as the scribe will have to give a suitable undertaking along with the SCR application form confirming that scribe fulfills all the stipulated eligibility criteria for a scribe as mentioned above.  In case it transpires later, that he / she did not fulfill any of the laid down eligibility criteria or there has been suppression of material facts the candidature of the applicant will stand cancelled irrespective of the result of the examination.
   The visually handicapped shall be responsible for any misconduct on the part of the scribe brought by him / her. The under taking should be submitted by the visually handicapped candidates whose writing speed is affected by cerebral palsy along with his / her SCR application form.

(h) All one eyed candidates and VH candidates whose visual degree of disability is less than 40% shall not be considered as visually handicapped persons and the provision of engaging scribe shall not be applicable to them.

(i) All selected candidates will be subjected to medical examination by Railway Medical Authority at the time of appointment and only those confirming to the medical standards as laid down in the Indian Railway Medical Manual and other extant provisions as the case may be will only be eligible for appointment.