- Effect of Letter to Railway Minister by IRSTMU
The IRSTMU had earlier written to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and requested him “to fill up the vacancies of Signal and Telecom Department in all categories of Group C posts to strengthen the S&T maintenance activities”.
Railway Ministry to recruit 6374 technicians to fill vacant posts across all zones Railway Ministry to recruit 6374 technicians to fill vacant posts in Signal & Telecom depts
The Railway Ministry has decided to fill 6734 vacant positions in 51 categories of signal and telecommunication departments across all 17 railway zones in the country.
The Ministry wrote to all zones on June 10, 2025 and said that it assessed the vacancies of technicians placed by zones in the online human resource management system and “approved to issue Centralised Employment Notification for 6374 vacancies of Technicians in 51 categories for the year 2025.”
It has urged all the zones to revise the vacant positions in all the 51 categories and upload them on the online system in consultation with Chairman, Railway Recruitment Board (RRB), Bengaluru
Nodal RRB will consolidate the indents placed by the Railways/PUs (production units) and issue the Centralised Employment Notification, the Ministry said.
The Indian Railway S&T Maintainers’ Union (IRSTMU) has welcomed the decision and called it a right move in the safety of rail operations.
A week ago the Union wrote to the Railway Minister requesting him “to fill up the vacancies of Signal and Telecom Department in all categories of Group C posts to strengthen the S&T maintenance activities.
“The last recruitment in the Signal and Telecom Department was done in the year 2017 and thousands of post are lying vacant for eight years, so the Railway Recruitment Board should be directed to complete the recruitment process as soon as possible,” Alok Chandra Prakash, General Secretary, IRSTMU, had said in his letter dated June 3, 2025.
Prakash has also opposed one of the Ministry’s recent decisions to recruit S&T staff on contractual basis due to increase of workload on the existing employee strength.
He argued that S&T work is crucial for safe rail operations and allowing contractual staff to become familiar with crucial safety operations might make it vulnerable to sabotage.
