The UPSC will conduct railway recruitment exam from next year. The railway ministry took the decision to address specialised technical requirements. The Ministry of Railways has announced that it will recruit officers for the Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) through both the Civil Service Examination (CSE) and the Engineering Service Examination (ESE). Civil service and Engineering service Exam both these exam are conducted by UPSC.
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Though UPSC has been recruiting for Indian Railway and now it will include engineer for recruitment.
The recruitment will be made to one unified service (IRMS) with sub-cadres in line with the functional areas of railways in the eight streams — traffic, accounts, personnel, civil, electrical, mechanical, signal & telecommunication and stores.
“The UPSC has included the indents placed by Ministry of Railways for recruitment of Engineers through Engineering Service Examination – 2025, the preliminary examination, which is scheduled to start from June 8, 2025.
Railway has placed the requirement of 225 personnel with UPSC for recruitment of engineers to the five sub-cadres of IRMS — IRMS (Civil)-75, IRMS (Mech.) 40, IRMS (Electrical) 50, IRMS (S&T) 40 and IRMS (Stores) 20”, the Ministry said in a statement.
The Civil Service exam is conducted for recruitment for various government department Group A posts such as IDES for Defense service, Indian Defense Accounts sections , Indian Post, Custom and Indirect Taxes.
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