The details of the number of candidates empanelled by Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) for various Group ‘C’ posts (including Level 1) during 2020-2021 to 2022-2023 and current year (2023-2024, upto 30.06.2023) are as under:

Year	Total number of empanelment made by RRBs ( Level 1 to Level 7)
2020-2021	5450
2021-2022	4612
2022-2023*	85888
2023-2024* (upto 30.06.2023)	50885

*Provisional

 

The details of the number of contractual workers engaged by the Railways during 2020-2021 to 2022-2023 are as under:

Year	Number of Contractual Workers Engaged
2020-2021	4079
2021-2022	8823
2022-2023*	5013

*Provisional

 

There is no proposal to privatise the Indian Railways.

This information was given by the Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronic & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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(Release ID: 1942806)