Ministry of Railways has sent a letter to all Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) regarding RRB Exam Calendar 2025, including expected duration of vacancy assessment deadline, preliminary vacancy assessment in OIRMS, demand for vacancies in OIRMS, draft Centralized Employment Notification. The proposal is shown. (CEN), and the expected period of issue of official notification. RRB Annual Calendar 2025 released for various posts including Assistant Loco Pilot (ALP), Technician, Non-Technical Popular Categories (Graduate and Graduate), Paramedical Categories, Ministerial and Isolated Categories, Junior Engineer, Depot Material Superintendent and Chemical & Metallurgical Is. Assistant
RRB Exam Calendar 2025 Released
The ministry has asked zonal railways and production units to assess their vacancies as per the schedule. Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) is responsible to follow the annual calendar released for the year 2025 for the recruitments. The RRB Exam Calendar 2025 approved by the Railway Ministry is as follows-
| exam/post | Assessment of vacancies in OIRMS | Demand for vacancies in OIRMS after approval | Proposal for draft of CEN | Period for issuing notifications | Till evaluation of vacancies |
| Assistant Loco Pilot (ALP) | November 2024 | December 2024 | January 2025 | January-March 2025 | 30 June 2026 |
| technician | January-February 2025 | February-March 2025 | March 2025 | April-June 2025 | 30 June 2026 |
| Non-Technical Popular Categories | April-May 2025 | May-June 2025 | June 2025 | July-September 2025 | 30 September 2026 |
| Junior Engineer, Depot Material Superintendent and Chemical and Metallurgical Assistant | April-May 2025 | May-June 2025 | June 2025 | July-September 2025 | 30 September 2026 |
| paramedical categories | April-May 2025 | May-June 2025 | June 2025 | July-September 2025 | 30 September 2026 |
| Ministerial and separate categories | July 2025 | August 2025 | September 2025 | October-December 2025 | 31 December 2026 |
The above table shows the schedule of upcoming railway examinations as follows-
- Firstly, zonal railways and production units will estimate the vacancies in their respective departments by subtracting the vacancies already in the recruitment year 2024.
- After this the evaluated vacancies will be approved.
- Then the draft proposal for Centralized Employment Notification (CEN) will be issued.
- Then the final notification will be released for the candidates which will contain complete information about the recruitment process including changes (if any) from the previous year.
- The date before which the vacancy filling process is to be completed has also been proposed by the Ministry through the RRB Exam Calendar 2025.
rrb exam calendar 2025 pdf
RRB Exam Calendar 2025 for Zonal Railways/Production Units has been released by the Ministry of Railways to estimate the number of vacancies to be filled in the next year. You can also download the Proposed RRB Exam Calendar 2025 PDF to check all the details mentioned by the Railway Recruitment Board regarding the various examinations to be conducted in the financial year 2025-26.
