Railways to declare revised NTPC results in first week of April

The Railways will be declaring the revised non-technical popular categories (NTPC) recruitment results in the first week of April, the ministry announced on Thursday, two months after it set up a a high-level committee to examine the concerns of irregularities raised by NTPC candidates, in January this year.

Hindustan Times had reported that the ministry agreed to accept the aspirants’ demand that results be declared on an individual basis, thus giving an opportunity to 250,000 students over those students who had passed the CBT (computerised based test), who number about 368,000.

Railways in a statement said, ”It has now been decided that unique candidates will be shortlisted (as per notification) 20 times, pay level wise, for second stage Computer Based Test (CBT) for NTPC. Revised results of all pay levels to be declared by the first week of April.”

“The candidates already announced as qualified will continue to remain qualified. NTPC (Level-1) will be a single stage exam. There will be no second stage CBT,” the ministry added.

The results of the first stage NTPC exams held last year were declared on January 15, leading to aspirants in Bihar, Jharkhand and parts of Uttar Pradesh staging widespread protests and arson, with protesters setting four bogies of an empty train on fire.

The aspirants demanded that authorities count candidates who applied for multiple categories for just one category so that more aspirants get the opportunity to take the tests.

The ministry also announced that the second stage CBT (for pay level 6) will be held in May 2022. However, the date of second stage CBT for other pay levels was not declared.

The CBT will be conducted by the Railway Recruitment Cell (RRC) for Level 1 (track maintainer grade-IV, helper/assistant) aspirants, Railways stated. “Maximum available capacity is recommended to be used, to significantly reduce the number of shifts involved for each RRC and to speed up the examination process. Percentile based normalization, which is simple and easy to understand, will be used wherever the number of shifts involved are more than one,” a railways official said, adding that CBT for Level 1 is planned to be held, tentatively, from July onwards.