Railway Board cancels all pending departmental Group C selection due to 'irregularities'

No further selection may be initiated until further orders. Further instructions to regulate the selections will be issued in due course, the circular read.

Citing "irregularities" in the process, the Railway Board has cancelled all pending departmental selections on Group C posts that were not finalised and approved till March 4, officials said on Wednesday. Also read: RRB NTPC exam date news live updates.

Railway Board cancels all pending departmental Group C selection

In a circular sent to the General Managers of all railway zones on Wednesday, the board said, "Due to several irregularities noticed in the departmental selection in the recent past, it has been decided to revisit the departmental selection framework and all the pending selections/LDCEs/GDCEs (within Group C) which have not been finalised and approved by 04.03.2025 may be treated as cancelled."

"No further selection may be initiated until further orders. Further instructions to regulate the selections will be issued in due course," it added.

Earlier in the day, in a significant move, the Railway Ministry roped in the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) to hold all departmental promotion examinations through a centralised computer-based test.

Before the ministry's decision, the departmental promotion exams were held by railway divisions and zones internally and of late several allegations of corruption and use of unfair means were reported in these exams.