NEW DELHI: The railway ministry on Wednesday roped in the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) to conduct all departmental promotion examinations through a centralised computer-based test. This comes a day after CBI arrested 26 officials of the East Central Railway for allegedly leaking papers of a departmental examination and seized Rs 1.2 crore cash during raids.
“All zonal railways will make a calendar for the examination. All the examinations will be conducted on the basis of a calendar only,” the ministry said. It added RRB has been given the responsibility after considering its experience of transparent, fair and highly appreciated examinations conducted in recent years.
As per the railways, since 2015, more than 7.7 crore candidates have appeared in exams through computer-based tests without any paper leakage, impersonation, remote log-in and use of spy devices. It said the fair examination has been made possible due to selection of exam-conducting agencies through open tender with the criteria of ‘quality and cost based selection, among various other conditions.