Union Public Service Commission UPSC
Special Class Railway Apprentices' Examination, 2012
The Special Class Railway Apprentices' Examination, 2012 for selection of candidates for appointment as Special Class Apprentices in Mechanical Department of Indian Railways will be held by the Union Public Service Commission on 29th January, 2012 at Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Allahabad, Bangalore, Bareilly, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi, Dharwar, Dispur, Gangtok, Hyderabad, Imphal, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Jorhat, Kochi, Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji (Goa), Patna, Port Blair, Raipur, Ranchi, Sambalpur, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati,Udaipur and Vishakhapatnam
The approximate number of vacancies, to be filled based on the results of the examination is 42. Four vacancies are reserved for physically challenged candidates belonging to Orthopaedically Handicapped having functional classifications OA, OL. The number of vacancies mentioned above is liable to alteration. Reservation will be made for candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Physically Disabled categories in respect of vacancies as may be fixed by the Government.
Applicant should be a citizen of India with exceptions as given in the Notification and must have attained the age of 17 years and must not have attained the age of 21 years on 1st January, 2012. Applicant must have been born not earlier than 2nd January, 1991 and not later than 1st January, 1995. Details of the relaxations in age is given in the Notification.
Educational Qualification: Applicant must have passed in the first or second division, the Intermediate/equivalent Examination/Higher Secondary (12 years) Examination under 10 plus 2 pattern of School Education of a University or Board approved by the Government of India with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subjects of the examination.
Graduates with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as their Degree subjects may also apply.
The following categories are also eligible to apply.
(i) Those who have passed the first year Examination of the 3-year Degree course of a University or the first examination of the 3-year Diploma course in Rural Service of the National Council for Rural Higher Education or the third year Examination for promotion to the 4th year of the 4-year B.A./B.Sc. (Evening College) Course of the Madras University with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subjects of the examination provided that before joining the Degree/Diploma course, he/she passed the Higher Secondary Examination or the Pre-University or equivalent examination in the first or second division.
(ii) Those who have passed the first/second year examination under the 3-year Degree course in the first or second division with Mathematics and either Physics or Chemistry as subjects of the Examination; provided the first/second year examination is conducted by a University
(iii) Those who have passed in the first or second division the Pre-Engineering Examination of a University, approved by the Government of India or who have passed in the first or second division the Pre-Professional/Pre-Technological Examination of any Indian University or a recognised Board, with Mathematics and at least, one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subjects of the examination conducted one year after the Higher Secondary or Pre-University stage
(iv) Those who have passed the first year examination under the five year Engineering Degree Course of a University, provided that before joining the Degree Course, he/she passed the Higher Secondary Examination or pre-University or equivalent Examination in the first or second division
(v) Those who have passed the first year Examination of the five-year Engineering Degree Course in the first or second division, provided the first year Examination is conducted by a University
(vi) Those who have passed in the first or second division the Pre-Degree Examination of the Universities of Kerala and Calicut with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subjects of the Examination
Candidates who are not awarded any specific division by the University/Board either in the intermediate or any other Examination mentioned above will be considered educationally eligible provided their aggregate of marks falls within the range of marks for first or second division as prescribed by the University/Board concerned.
Those who have appeared for the qualifying examination and are awaiting results and those who intend to appear at such a qualifying examination may also apply provisionally, subject to production of proof of having passed the requisite qualifying Examination along with the detailed applications which will be required to be submitted by the candidates who qualify on the results of the written part of the Examination. Those who have passed Diplomas in Engineering awarded by the State Boards of Technical Education are not eligible to apply.
Physical Standards: Applicants must be physically fit according to physical standards for admission to Special Class Railway Apprentices, Examination, 2012 as per Regulations given in Appendix-II of the rules for the Special Class Railway Apprentices, Examination, 2012 published in Gazette of India dated 22nd October, 2011.
A
pplication Fee: Female/SC/ST/PH candidates are exempted from payment of fee. Others have to pay a fee of Rs. 100/- by remitting the amount in any Branch of SBI by Cash or by using net banking facility of SBI or by using Visa/Master, Credit/Debit Card.
Application: Application has to be submitted online at http://www.upsconline.nic.in, till 11.59 p.m on 21st November, 2011. Detailed instructions for filling up online applications are available at this site. Only a single application should be submitted. If due to any unavoidable situation, another/multiple applications, are submitted, it should be ensured that application with the higher Registration ID (RID), is complete in all respects. If multiple applications are submitted, only the applications with higher RID will be entertained.
The fee paid against one RID will not be adjusted against any other RID.
The Examination will consist of two parts, with Part I being a Written Examination consisting of three papers, Paper-I General Ability Test (English, General Knowledge and Psychological Test), Paper-II Physical Sciences (Physics and Chemistry) and Paper-III Mathematics, each of two hours duration and each carrying 200 marks. The papers in all the subjects will consist of Objective, multiple choice questions only, set in English only and approximately of the Intermediate standard. There will be negative marking for wrong answers. Candidates are not permitted to use calculators. They should not, therefore, bring the same inside the Examination Hall.
The Commission have discretion to fix qualifying marks in any or all the subjects of the examination.The detailed syllabus of the examination is available at http://upsconline.nic.in/SCRA-2012-E.pdf
Part II is the Personality Test carrying a maximum of 200 marks in respect of those candidates who are declared qualified based on the results of Written Examination.
A candidate offered appointment as a Special Class Railway Apprentice will have to execute an agreement in the prescribed form binding himself/herself and one surety jointly and severally, to refund, in the event of his/her failing to complete training as a Special Class Railway Apprentices or to accept the service as an officer on probation in the Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers, if offered to him/her to the satisfaction of the Government, any money paid to him/her and any other money expended by Government on him/her, the Government being the exclusive judge of the quantum of such expense.
The apprentices will be liable to undergo practical and theoretical training for 4 years. The continuance of apprenticeship from year to year will depend on satisfactory reports being received from the authorities under whom the apprentices may be working. If any apprentice does not satisfy the superior authorities that he/she is making good progress; he/she will be liable to be discharged from the apprenticeship. The practical and theoretical training will be given in a Railway Workshop for four years of their apprenticeship. Special Class Railway Apprentice must pass within this period the Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (Ranchi).
The apprentices will be granted a stipend of Rs. 9100/- per month during the 1st and 2nd years and Rs. 9400/- per month during the 3rd year and first six months of 4th year and Rs 9700/- for last six months of 4th year. During the apprenticeship, the candidates will be required to undergo both theoretical and practical training. There will be in all Eight Semester Examinations passing each of which is compulsory. If unsuccessful at any of this examination, they will be depending on their performance, be asked to sit for and pass in supplementary examination or reverted to the next lower batch or removed from apprenticeship.
An apprentice will be considered to have obtained the qualifying standard if he/she obtains a minimum of 40 % marks in the aggregate in all the examinations held during the 8-Semester Examination of his/her training and 60 % marks in the reports of the Director Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, Jamalpur and of the Chief Works Manager, Jamalpur Workshop provided that in each of the Eight Semester Examination he/she has obtained a minimum of 40% marks in the aggregate and minimum of 40 % marks in all the subjects.
After the completion of 4th year of training, the apprentices will be listed in order of merit on the results of the examination held and the reports of the apprentices received during the period of apprenticeship. Successful apprentices will be appointed on probation for 18 months in the Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers.
More details about the training are given in the Notification at http://upsconline.nic.in/SCRA-2012-E.pdf
Special Class Railway Apprentices' Examination, 2012
The Special Class Railway Apprentices' Examination, 2012 for selection of candidates for appointment as Special Class Apprentices in Mechanical Department of Indian Railways will be held by the Union Public Service Commission on 29th January, 2012 at Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Allahabad, Bangalore, Bareilly, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi, Dharwar, Dispur, Gangtok, Hyderabad, Imphal, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Jorhat, Kochi, Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji (Goa), Patna, Port Blair, Raipur, Ranchi, Sambalpur, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati,Udaipur and Vishakhapatnam
The approximate number of vacancies, to be filled based on the results of the examination is 42. Four vacancies are reserved for physically challenged candidates belonging to Orthopaedically Handicapped having functional classifications OA, OL. The number of vacancies mentioned above is liable to alteration. Reservation will be made for candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Physically Disabled categories in respect of vacancies as may be fixed by the Government.
Applicant should be a citizen of India with exceptions as given in the Notification and must have attained the age of 17 years and must not have attained the age of 21 years on 1st January, 2012. Applicant must have been born not earlier than 2nd January, 1991 and not later than 1st January, 1995. Details of the relaxations in age is given in the Notification.
Educational Qualification: Applicant must have passed in the first or second division, the Intermediate/equivalent Examination/Higher Secondary (12 years) Examination under 10 plus 2 pattern of School Education of a University or Board approved by the Government of India with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subjects of the examination.
Graduates with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as their Degree subjects may also apply.
The following categories are also eligible to apply.
(i) Those who have passed the first year Examination of the 3-year Degree course of a University or the first examination of the 3-year Diploma course in Rural Service of the National Council for Rural Higher Education or the third year Examination for promotion to the 4th year of the 4-year B.A./B.Sc. (Evening College) Course of the Madras University with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subjects of the examination provided that before joining the Degree/Diploma course, he/she passed the Higher Secondary Examination or the Pre-University or equivalent examination in the first or second division.
(ii) Those who have passed the first/second year examination under the 3-year Degree course in the first or second division with Mathematics and either Physics or Chemistry as subjects of the Examination; provided the first/second year examination is conducted by a University
(iii) Those who have passed in the first or second division the Pre-Engineering Examination of a University, approved by the Government of India or who have passed in the first or second division the Pre-Professional/Pre-Technological Examination of any Indian University or a recognised Board, with Mathematics and at least, one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subjects of the examination conducted one year after the Higher Secondary or Pre-University stage
(iv) Those who have passed the first year examination under the five year Engineering Degree Course of a University, provided that before joining the Degree Course, he/she passed the Higher Secondary Examination or pre-University or equivalent Examination in the first or second division
(v) Those who have passed the first year Examination of the five-year Engineering Degree Course in the first or second division, provided the first year Examination is conducted by a University
(vi) Those who have passed in the first or second division the Pre-Degree Examination of the Universities of Kerala and Calicut with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subjects of the Examination
Candidates who are not awarded any specific division by the University/Board either in the intermediate or any other Examination mentioned above will be considered educationally eligible provided their aggregate of marks falls within the range of marks for first or second division as prescribed by the University/Board concerned.
Those who have appeared for the qualifying examination and are awaiting results and those who intend to appear at such a qualifying examination may also apply provisionally, subject to production of proof of having passed the requisite qualifying Examination along with the detailed applications which will be required to be submitted by the candidates who qualify on the results of the written part of the Examination. Those who have passed Diplomas in Engineering awarded by the State Boards of Technical Education are not eligible to apply.
Physical Standards: Applicants must be physically fit according to physical standards for admission to Special Class Railway Apprentices, Examination, 2012 as per Regulations given in Appendix-II of the rules for the Special Class Railway Apprentices, Examination, 2012 published in Gazette of India dated 22nd October, 2011.
A
pplication Fee: Female/SC/ST/PH candidates are exempted from payment of fee. Others have to pay a fee of Rs. 100/- by remitting the amount in any Branch of SBI by Cash or by using net banking facility of SBI or by using Visa/Master, Credit/Debit Card.
Application: Application has to be submitted online at http://www.upsconline.nic.in, till 11.59 p.m on 21st November, 2011. Detailed instructions for filling up online applications are available at this site. Only a single application should be submitted. If due to any unavoidable situation, another/multiple applications, are submitted, it should be ensured that application with the higher Registration ID (RID), is complete in all respects. If multiple applications are submitted, only the applications with higher RID will be entertained.
The fee paid against one RID will not be adjusted against any other RID.
The Examination will consist of two parts, with Part I being a Written Examination consisting of three papers, Paper-I General Ability Test (English, General Knowledge and Psychological Test), Paper-II Physical Sciences (Physics and Chemistry) and Paper-III Mathematics, each of two hours duration and each carrying 200 marks. The papers in all the subjects will consist of Objective, multiple choice questions only, set in English only and approximately of the Intermediate standard. There will be negative marking for wrong answers. Candidates are not permitted to use calculators. They should not, therefore, bring the same inside the Examination Hall.
The Commission have discretion to fix qualifying marks in any or all the subjects of the examination.The detailed syllabus of the examination is available at http://upsconline.nic.in/SCRA-2012-E.pdf
Part II is the Personality Test carrying a maximum of 200 marks in respect of those candidates who are declared qualified based on the results of Written Examination.
A candidate offered appointment as a Special Class Railway Apprentice will have to execute an agreement in the prescribed form binding himself/herself and one surety jointly and severally, to refund, in the event of his/her failing to complete training as a Special Class Railway Apprentices or to accept the service as an officer on probation in the Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers, if offered to him/her to the satisfaction of the Government, any money paid to him/her and any other money expended by Government on him/her, the Government being the exclusive judge of the quantum of such expense.
The apprentices will be liable to undergo practical and theoretical training for 4 years. The continuance of apprenticeship from year to year will depend on satisfactory reports being received from the authorities under whom the apprentices may be working. If any apprentice does not satisfy the superior authorities that he/she is making good progress; he/she will be liable to be discharged from the apprenticeship. The practical and theoretical training will be given in a Railway Workshop for four years of their apprenticeship. Special Class Railway Apprentice must pass within this period the Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (Ranchi).
The apprentices will be granted a stipend of Rs. 9100/- per month during the 1st and 2nd years and Rs. 9400/- per month during the 3rd year and first six months of 4th year and Rs 9700/- for last six months of 4th year. During the apprenticeship, the candidates will be required to undergo both theoretical and practical training. There will be in all Eight Semester Examinations passing each of which is compulsory. If unsuccessful at any of this examination, they will be depending on their performance, be asked to sit for and pass in supplementary examination or reverted to the next lower batch or removed from apprenticeship.
An apprentice will be considered to have obtained the qualifying standard if he/she obtains a minimum of 40 % marks in the aggregate in all the examinations held during the 8-Semester Examination of his/her training and 60 % marks in the reports of the Director Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, Jamalpur and of the Chief Works Manager, Jamalpur Workshop provided that in each of the Eight Semester Examination he/she has obtained a minimum of 40% marks in the aggregate and minimum of 40 % marks in all the subjects.
After the completion of 4th year of training, the apprentices will be listed in order of merit on the results of the examination held and the reports of the apprentices received during the period of apprenticeship. Successful apprentices will be appointed on probation for 18 months in the Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers.
More details about the training are given in the Notification at http://upsconline.nic.in/SCRA-2012-E.pdf
No comments:
Post a Comment