IREC Rule No.219: General Conditions For Recruitment

219.  General Conditions For Recruitment:-

The recruitment rules may provide inter-alia for;

(i)    Qualifications, age and the scales of pay applicable for the various posts in the service and important conditions of service, like leave, pension, non-contributory Provident Fund benefits, etc

(ii)   No male candidate who has more than one wife living or no female candidate who has married a person having already a wife living shall be eligible for appointment to a railway service, unless the competent authority exempts the candidate from the operation of this rule.

(iii)  Proportion of vacancies to be filled by direct recruitment and promotion of railway servants from subordinate services;

(iv)   In the case of probationers, consequences of failure to pass prescribed departmental examinations, if any, e.g. loss of appointment, stoppage of increments etc.

(v)   Passing obligatory language examination whenever prescribed in the recruitment regulations for each service in Group ‘A’.

Note: In the case of recruitment to Group ‘A’ and ‘B’ posts, the rules should be published in the Gazette of India in the section allotted to the statutory rules and Orders, viz. Part-II Section-3.