Result for RRB NTPC exam by Railway Recruitment Board has been postponed

The Result for RRB NTPC exam by Railway Recruitment Board has been postponed. RRB exam result and RRB NTPC 2016 results were earlier scheduled to be announced by 1st June, however, the board has delayed the declaration of results until further notice. The exact date and time of RRB result hasn’t been notified by the board after the delay.

Indian Railways had issued an official notification in December last year for filling total 18,252 posts under Non Technical Popular Categories (NTPC) through Centralised Employment Notice number 03/2015. The posts notified to be filled through the recruitment process include Commercial Apprentice, Traffic Apprentice, Enquiry-cum-reservation clerk, goods guard, senior clerk-cum-typist, junior accounts assistant-cum-typist, assistant station master, traffic assistant and senior time keeper post.

As the number of vacancies was quite huge, over 93 lakh applications were received for the same. Ministry of Railways had decided to conduct common computer based test to be followed by aptitude test or typing skill test based on the nature of vacancy as the recruitment process. Common Computer based test was conducted in a long schedule between March to May this year and more than 9.3 million candidates are waiting for the declaration of RRB NTPC results.

As the exam was being conducted across the country, RRB NTPC exam was rescheduled at eight centres after irregularities were detected there. These centres included six in Allahabad, one in Pune and one in Delhi. RRB NTPC exam was also rescheduled at few centres in West Bengal as the assembly elections were going across the state.

There are 21 Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) under Ministry of Railways which issued notification for their zones. These RRBs include RRB Ahmedabad, RRB Ajmer, RRB Allahabad, RRB Bangalore, RRB Bhopal, RRB Bhubaneswar, RRB Bilaspur, RRB Chandigarh, RRB Chennai, RRB Gorakhpur, RRB Guwahati, RRB Jammu Srinagar, RRB Kolkata, RRB Malda, RRB Mumbai, RRB Muzzafarpur, RRB Patna, RRB Ranchi, RRB Secunderrabad, RRB Siliguri and RRB Trivandrum.

RRB NTPC result was expected to be announced on June 1, but it has been delayed. So far, no official confirmation regarding RRB NTPC result has been made, but all candidates will be timely intimated through SMS and e-mail by RRBs. All the RRBs will hold documents verification after completion of exam process.

RRBs have also confirmed that candidates equal to the number of vacancies will be called for document verification while additional 50 percent candidates will be kept under standby category. These candidates will be considered only if there is shortfall in empanelment from main list. RRB NTPC result will be followed by the publication of RRB NTPC merit list, based on which further recruitment process would be carried out. It is to note here that RRBs will start publishing the results in a sequence, and same would be accessible at respective official websites of RRBs. RRBs will also publish RRB NTPC cut off for each category and post separately.

The selection process is completely based on merit and is subject to rules and regulations furnished by the Ministry of Railways under Government of India.

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