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The railway aspirants have started a massive agitation on Twitter demanding the release of the waiting list for the Railway Group D Recruitment 2019 and increasing the number of vacancies. Many candidates took to Twitter to post their demand with hashtag #railway_level1_waiting_do tagging Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav, Prime minister Narendra Modi, and other authorities in their tweets.

Aspirants have urged clarification from the Railway on the DV result, cutoff, and reservation criteria. Also demanded to issue a waiting list in the ratio of 1:1.5. Apart from this, aspirants say that this recruitment came out in 2019. Candidates are demanding new posts that have come in the Railways should also be included in this recruitment and the number of posts should be increased.

The Railway aspirant agitating on Twitter wrote in their post that only the normal candidates of that category are entitled to the reserved category (OBC, SC, ST, EWS). Due to the 20 per cent reservation to Course Completed Act Apprentices (CCAA) candidates, the reserve category cutoff of normal candidates has gone high.

Take a look at what the aspirants have to say:

The Railway Group D CBT exam was conducted from 17 August 2022 to October 11 2022 in five phases. The result was released on December 22. Physical tests were conducted in the month of January. This recruitment drive will fill up a total of 1.03 lakh vacant posts of Railway Group D. Approximately 1 crore 15 lakh people had applied for the recruitment of Group D posts.

Apprentice candidates (CCAA) who took training in railway establishments were exempted from Physical Efficiency Test (PET) in Group D (Level-1) recruitment. Under the Railway Group D (Level-1) Apprentices Act 2016, the Indian Railways has reserved 20 per cent (20,734 posts) of the 1,03,769 Group D vacancies for apprentice youth.

Under the Railway Apprenticeship Program, youth are trained from time to time so that they can learn the skills to work in the Railway department. These youths who have received training are called apprentices. In Railway Recruitment 2018, over 1288 Apprentices were hired on Group D posts.

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