By The Railway Recruitment Board has released the admit card for the Group D exam under CEN 09/2025, and candidates can now download their hall tickets using their registration number and password.
Call letters for the Computer Based Test scheduled on August 3 and 4, 2026 are already out, with candidates appearing on later dates able to download theirs four days before their exam.
The exam will run across August 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 25, 2026, held in three shifts on each date.
The drive covers 22,195 Level-1 vacancies, with nearly 87 lakh candidates competing for posts including Track Maintainer Grade IV, Pointsman, Assistant (S&T) and Assistant (TL & AC).
The vacancies are distributed across 21 Railway Recruitment Boards across the country, making it one of the largest government recruitment exercises currently underway.
Candidates have been told to bring a printed copy of their admit card and a valid original photo ID to the exam centre, as entry will not be permitted without both.
The high applicant-to-vacancy ratio of nearly 87 lakh candidates for just over 22,000 posts underscores the continued demand for stable government employment among job seekers across India.
CEN 09/2025 is one of the largest single recruitment notifications issued by Indian Railways in recent years, reflecting the scale of staffing turnover across track maintenance, signalling and technical support roles nationwide.
Candidates can check their allotted exam city and shift timing in advance through the city intimation slip, which the Railway Recruitment Board typically releases a few days before the admit card itself.
The RRB Group D exam, conducted as a Computer Based Test, is held in multiple shifts to accommodate the large number of applicants across the country’s 21 Railway Recruitment Boards.
The 22,195 vacancies span multiple technical and support roles in Indian Railways, reflecting the scale of staffing needs across the network’s maintenance and operations divisions.
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