Railway expands job opportunities, recruitment to push automation

Railway recruitment to push automation

Paradoxically, the lowering of qualifications will help pull in more services in the Railways to the automation mode and create space to finance those. 

Subhomoy Bhattacharjee

New Delhi, 25 May 

Just before releasing the advertisements for recruitment to about 90,000 posts, the rail ministry this year decided to cut the level of qualification required for most of the jobs to that of class 10 pass instead of the more stiff ITI qualification.

This immediately expanded the universe of potential candidates from six million to a vastly larger catchment of nearly 63 million. 

Paradoxically, the lowering of qualifications