In what is being touted as the world’s biggest recruitment exercise, the railways has kickstarted the process to hire 89,500 employees, including assistant loco pilots, technicians, gangmen, switchmen, trackmen, cabinmen, welders, helpers and porters.
The state-run transporter’s move to provide jobs to around one lakh youth from high school pass students to engineers seems to be aimed at blunting the opposition’s criticism that enough jobs were not being created under the NDA government.