New Delhi:
The railways will undertake another mega recruitment drive in two phases to hire nearly 2.3 lakh employees in the next two years and 10% of these jobs will be reserved for the economically weaker section, Union railway minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday.
The railways had kicked off a mega recruitment process to employ over 1.51 lakh 14 months ago, which will be completed by March-April, railway board chairman V K Yadav said.
Goyal said a total of four lakh people will be hired in the next two years. “We have about 12 lakh employees and annually about 50,000 retire. We have planned in advance so that no posts will remain vacant... railways has become the first to implement the 10% EWS quotain jobs,” he said.
Interestingly, ministry officials avoided giving any direct answer to how many jobs have been provided in the past four and half years.
An official release said the first phase of fresh recruitment of 1.31 lakh posts shall be initiated in February-March and completed by April-May, 2020. Then recruitment of 99,000 personnel against vacancies due to retirements shall be initiated.
Goyal cites pvt portal on hiring outlook
Piyush Goyal on Wednesday cited the findings of a reputed private job portal on its “hiring outlook” for the next six months to counter the opposition narrative that the jobs are shrinking in the current regime. Quoting the findings, which claimed that 84% of the recruiters surveyed were expecting an increase in hiring and only 1% felt they would lay off employees, Goyal claimed expectations of the “least lay off” was perhaps projected for the first time in the country’s history.
