The Railway Recruitment Board has released the admit card for the Group D exam under CEN 09/2025, allowing candidates to download hall tickets using their registration number and password.
Call letters for the Computer Based Test on August 3 and 4, 2026 are already available, with candidates appearing on later dates able to download theirs four days before their scheduled slot.
The exam will be held across August 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 25, 2026, run in three shifts each day.
The recruitment exercise 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 spread across 21 Railway Recruitment Boards nationwide, making this one of the largest active government recruitment drives in India.
Candidates have been told to carry a printed admit card along with a valid original photo ID to their exam centre, since entry will not be allowed without both.
Candidates are advised to carry a printed copy of their admit card along with a valid original photo ID to the examination centre, as entry is not permitted without both documents.
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.
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