RRB NTPC Admit Card 2019 update: Formalisation of NRA will delay exams further
New Delhi, Feb 13: The RRB NTPC Admit Card 2019 will be released soon. The same once released will be available on the official website.
It may be recalled that the finance ministry had announced the setting up of a National Recruitment Agency (NRA) to conduct a common eligibility test for all governmental recruitment of non-gazetted posts. The NRA would be for the RRB NTPC and Group D recruitment as well.
While this announcement has been made, there is still no update on the RRB NTPC 2019 exam dates. The question now is will the exams be further delayed. There is a chance that the formalisation of the NRA would lead to the further delay of the exams. There are chances that the exam may be conducted in April.
The
Railway
Ministry
had
promised
in
January
2019
that
the
second
phase
of
the
recruitment
should
begin
in
May
2010
and
get
completed
by
July-August
2021.
This
would
be
the
second
recruitment,
the
first
one
being
the
RRB
NTPC
2019
and
RRC
Group
D
Recruitment
2019.
In
the
first
phase
the
railways
would
announce
99,000
posts.
The
problem
however
is
that
there
is
no
update
on
the
RRB
NTPC
Exam
and
RRB
NTPC
Admit
Card.
Candidates had to wait longer as the Railways is yet to float the tender to hire a new exam conducting authority. Board officials say that the dates are yet to be finalised. There is no further update and details of the exam conducting authority were not made known.
Although there is no official confirmation, there is a likelihood that the process may begin in March 2020. However an RTI reply from the board said that the exam schedule has not been fixed as yet. The board in its reply said that the dates will be finalised soon and announced on the website.
There are various reasons that has led to the delay. Firstly there were a large number of applications. Second it was the unavailability of good centres to conduct the exams. Third, the application process went on for a long time. Fourth, the centres were booked for the other RRB examinations.
Candidates
feel
that
the
board
must
keep
them
updated
about
the
ongoing
process.
This
is
a
very
important
process
for
us
and
we
want
to
ensure
that
everything
goes
on
smoothly.
The
sheer
number
of
candidates
who
have
applied
shows
how
big
the
process
is.
We
want
everything
to
go
on
properly
and
do
not
want
any
confusion,
a
Board
official
informed
OneIndia.
The RRB received a total of 1,26,30,885 applications to fill up 35,208 vacancies. A large number of applications is what led to the delay in the release of the admit card and exam dates.
"It was indicated in the employment notice that the 1st stage computer based test (CBT) is tentatively scheduled between June and September 2019. However, it has been postponed. The revised schedule will be published in the official websites of all RRBs later on," the notice from the Railway Recruitment Board said.