Special Class Railway Apprentices’ (SCRA) refers to a handful of candidates that are selected by the Union Public Service Commission India after a very rigorous selection process to the undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. This programme was started in 1927 and is one of the oldest in India. Earlier after training at their Railway’s largest workshop, i.e. Jamalpur Workshop, and for one year in United Kingdom, the selected candidates were required to appear in the Mechanical Engineering Degree Exmination held by Engineering Council (London).
SCRA Exam Centers 2010
SCRA 2010 Exam will be held at the following centres :
Area Code for Remote Areas and Abroad
The centres and the date of holding the SCRA examination as mentioned above are liable to be changed at the discretion of the Commission.
While every effort will be made to allot the candidates to the centres of their choice for examination, the Commission may, at their discretion, allot a different centre to a candidate, when circumstances so warrant.
Candidates admitted to the examination will be informed of the time table and place or places of examination.
Candidates should note that no request for change of centre will normally be granted. However, when a candidate desires a change in centre from the one he had indicated in his Application form for the Examination, he must send a letter addressed to the Controller of Examinations, Union Public Service Commission, giving full justification as to why he desires a change in centre.
Such requests will be considered on merits but requests received in the Commission’s Office after 27th October, 2010 will not be entertained under any circumstances.
2. The approximate number of vacancies, to be filled on the results of the examination is 44.
Note : Two SCRA vacancies are reserved for physically challenged candidates belonging to Orthopaedically Handicapped having functional classifications OA, OL.
The number of vacancies mentioned above is liable to alteration.
Reservation will be made for candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Physically Disabled categories in respect of vacancies as may be fixed by the Government.
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