RBE No. 18/2016: Traffic Apprentices

No.E(NG)I-2012/PM1/25, dated 16.02.2016

Sub: Posting of Traffic Apprentices as Station Masters without aptitude test

1. The Railways are aware that in terms of Board’s letter No.E(NG)I-2002/PM1/13, dated 22.08.2003 (RBE No. 144/2003), staff are subjected to Aptitude Test when they are directly recruited or promoted as ASMs, ALPs, and Motorman and at the stage of deployment of Drivers on High Speed Trains, running above 110 kmph; however, it has been brought to the notice of the Board that on some of the Railways, Traffic Apprentices, recruited through LDCE and DR quota, are utilized as Section Controllers, Station Masters, Yard Masters and Traffic Inspectors without being subjected to the Aptitude Test. The General Secretary AIRF has also raised this issue as PNM/AIRF item on the ground that posting of Traffic Apprentices without Aptitude Test is in violation of safety norms.
2. The matter has since been examined in consultation with AIRF, Zonal Railways and concerned Directorates of Railway Board and it has been decided that henceforth Aptitude Test will be mandatory for those Traffic Apprentices who opt for the Station Master category, meaning thereby that those Traffic Apprentices, who do not qualify in the Aptitude Test, may not be posted in SM/ ASM category.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 18/2016

Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.