RPF Constable Exam 2022: Latest News, Eligibility, Salary & Vacancies

About Railway authority and RPF exam

Indian Railways (IR) is a statutory agency that operates India’s national railway system under the Ministry of Railways, Government of India. It is in charge of the world’s fourth-largest railway network.

Furthermore, the candidates must know about the department which they are preparing for. In addition, the given table covers brief information about the RPF constable overview and the railway department.

RPF full form	Railway protection force
Kind	Statutory body
Commerce	Rail transport
Office	New Delhi
Established	8 May 1845 ( 176 years ago)
Holder	Government of India
Earnings	197, 214 crores ( 2018-19)
Total income	6, 014 Crores(2018-19)
Employment	Aviation services parcel career Passenger railways catering and tourism employment Parking lot operations, Other related services
Chairman and CEO of railway board	Suneet Sharma, IRMSE
Minister of railways	Ashwini Vaishnav
Number of employees	12.54 Lac
division	18 zones
Electrification	45,881 kilometres as of 1 April 2021
Distance	67, 956 kilometres 99, 235 kilometres 126, 366 kilometres as of 31st March 2020
Official Website	Indianrailway.gov.in

Through the RPF Constable Exam, Indian Railways recruits male and female Constables for the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF). RPF Constable Notification is issued by the Ministry of Railways to fill a significant number of vacancies across India’s railway zones. Therefore, the exam is held at a single location, although recruiting for different railway zones is done independently. However, the RPF Constable Test Notification for this year’s exam will be released soon. As a result, applicants must understand all of the exam’s fundamentals.

RPF Constable notification 2021 

The authority is yet to publish the notification in the form of pdf format as soon as possible. However, there is the previous year of notification pdf, which the candidate can go through but it’s not the final notification of 2021. So, the candidate must have to wait for it unless it gets published. Moreover, The notification will cover the details like eligibility criteria, selection procedure, exam pattern, exam dates, what you need to fill in the form, mode of payment, age relaxation, reservation, and many more. Due to the Covid pandemic, the authority is waiting for the right situation to announce all the information regarding their exam. However, they have published only some of the information.

RPF Constable exam date of 2021

The RPF constable recruitment exam date is yet to declare openly. The authority hasn’t announced the application form date, last date of the form, CBT Dates, PET/PMT Dates, and many more such details. Moreover, all the candidates have to wait for the authority announcement. Only then, we’ll able to apply for the exam.

RPF Constable eligibility criteria 2021

The RPF constable exam has it own eligibility standards and requirement. Hence, the candidate must meet the requirement. If not, they won’t be able to apply for the RPF Constable exam. Furthermore, there are some eligibility requirements for a candidate to be eligible. They are:

• Age limitation and age relaxation
• Nationality
• Educational qualifications.

Nationality

The candidates who want to apply for the RPF constable post must be a citizen of India. As we all know, the exam is held by the government of India railway authority, therefore, the exam has to be across India only.

Age limit

The age limit is one of the requirements for the RPF constable exam. In addition, the age limit is according to category wise and also has relaxation in a few of the categories, which we’ll discuss in the next paragraph.

Category	Maximum age	Minimum age
Other backward classes (OBC)	18 year	25 year
General
Scheduled tribes(ST)
Scheduled caste(SC)
Ex-serviceman

Age relaxation

Every government exam has age relaxation criteria. So that, the candidates who are 25 plus can have a second chance to apply for it. In addition, the RPF constable exam to have age relaxation, which varies from category to category.

Further are the details on the age relaxation one should know:

Category	Age relaxation
OBC (non-creamy layer)	5 years
Widows	UR- 2 years OBC NCL – 5 years SC/ST – 7 years
Scheduled tribes (SC)	5 years
Scheduled caste(ST)	5 years
Ex-workers	GEN.- 3 years OBC-NCL – 6 Years SC/ST – 8 years

Educational qualifications

The RPF constable has only one educational need. This post provides the job for the lower-section of railway members. In addition, the candidate must have completed their matric(12^th) from a well-recognized board.

RPF Constable Application form

This year RPF constable application form is not yet released. However, the candidates are humbly requested to read out the instructions, during form filling. Moreover, minor mistakes in the form filling may cancel your application form. Furthermore, the first step is to look out the eligibility criteria, and then if the student is interested, only then can apply for the RPF constable application form.

Application fee

The application form is based on online mode. Further details will be provided on the RPF official website. However, both online and offline method is allowed During the payment. in addition, the application form fee varies cast category to category. Furthermore, the provided fees for the RPF constable application form is as follows:

Gender	Category	Required fees
Female	OBC, General, SC, ST	250
Male	General	500
Male	ST, SC, OBC	250

RPF Constable vacancy

The RPF constable vacancy 2021 is yet to be released. The vacancy is based on the group and zones. The RPF Recruitment is given to all the candidates for the various posts by the railway department. a previous year the vacancies are about to 8619.

The RPF vacancy for the constable post is maybe 10 thousand plus this year. Furthermore, let’s check out the vacancies for the 2018 year.

Railway zone	Female	Male
OBC	SC	UR	ST	Total	SC	OBC	ST	UR	Total
Group B – WR, CR, SECR, and WCR	187	92	388	45	712	42	51	18	329	440
Group C – ECR, ECOR, SER, and ER	242	201	816	132	1391	184	92	134	877	1287
Group E-NFR	21	17	128	14	180	5	7	12	136	660
Group A – SCR, SWR and SR	138	114	621	54	927	82	32	34	656	804
Group D – NWR, NCR, NER and NR	144	141	646	75	1006	152	65	68	761	1046
Group F – RPSF	–	–	–	–	–	66	204	284	378	666
Overall	732	566	2599	320	4216	531	451	284	3137	4403

RPF Constable salary and job profile

The railway department always takes care of their workers even if they belong to lower posts, salary is one of them. The RPF constable salary is around 26 1000 to 32,000 depending on which areas will be provided. Before dreaming about the salary and status, candidates has to prepare for the exam stages and training. Therefore, the post provides all the needy requirements to the qualifying candidate also will be served by further accommodations like free travelling tickets, department work, house etc.

RPF Constable syllabus

The syllabus of the RPF constable includes various assorted topics which are easy to learn, read and understand. The topics are an intelligent test, reasoning, arithmetic and general awareness. Therefore this is the syllabus for the CBT exam for the RPF constable post. Furthermore, you will be qualified for the next stage that is the physical efficiency test:

• General knowledge
• Arithmetic
• Reasoning
• Intelligence test

RPF Constable exam pattern

Before knowing the exam pattern of an RPF constable, it must know the syllabus. The syllabus contains various topics. Therefore, each topic is important to study.  However, each section comprises a specific number of questions. Each section will contain 50 marks. Moreover, there will be a negative marking of 1/3 in each wrong answer. It must qualify the CBT round, only then you can proceed to the physical efficiency test stage.

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RPF Constable selection procedure

The selection procedure for the RPF constable exam is not too tough but not easy as it displays. The candidates will through almost 5 stages or levels. Let’s check out the selection process one by one.

• The first stage is a computer-based online test, which is held by the railway authority for taking the RPF constable exam. It’s compulsory to clear the exam to go through the next stages.
• The second stage is PET/PMT. The candidate has to clear the CBT exam first then will move to the PET/PMT test.
• The third stage is document verification. The candidates who have cleared the above two stages will move to this stage. The documents must be original and will submit a photocopy of each document.
• After that, the candidates will move to the fourth stage, which is the medical examination. There will be a medical check-up of each qualified candidate at the railway hospitals.
• The last stage is the training, after crossing all the hurdles, the candidate will move to the training areas. There he/she will learn how to work and perform in your field. This training will help the aspirants in their job.

RPF Constable admit card 2021

The RPF admit card release date will be announced later. As of now, the application form date is not yet published even. the admit card is the most important thing to carry along with the documents in the exam hall. , The candidates have to provide their right and original details so that, there will be no issue during printing the admit card. However, if there’s an issue, make sure to contact with authority or the head.

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RPF Constable result 2021

The RPF constable exam result is not even announced because the date of application forms is not even held. But, the candidates must prepare for all of these stages of the exam. once performance and activity, we will decide he/she is even able to come forward or not(in the stages).

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How to apply?

After all the information regarding the exam, if a candidate is interested in this post then he/she can follow these steps of filling the application form.

Step 1

• Visit their official site, click on the link of ‘RPF constable application form’.
• The new page will appear, in this, you have to fill in your all personal details. The details or the items which are printed on the page to fill in are shown in the given table:

Candidate’s name

Father’s name

Mother’s name

Category

Date of birth(as in birth certificate)

Education board

10th of 12th roll number

Phone number

Aadhar card number ( if required)

Email id

Candidate’s state

• The time when you will fill in these required details, immediately you will get a generated OTP, which you have to fill in the OTP box on the page. This OTP will contain your registered number, email id and contact number will have to keep safe for further use. Therefore, now you have completed the registering part.

Step 2 

• The application is not yet finished. Candidates should again register themselves on the same page with their provided registered number. Then, will move to the section of entering your other details, which is shown in the given below table:

Candidate’s  gender

Economically backwards group

ESM

Age relaxation( applicable only to those who can take the advantage of this.)

Religion

Minority

Candidate’s qualifications

• Entering all your details, aspirants will move to the payment part of the form. But, the enter details must be right and original only then will move to this part.
• The mode of payment is both online and offline. One can pay the fees category-wise. For online mode, you can choose up pay, debit card, credit card, bet banking etc to pay your fee. Whereas, for offline mode, you can choose the other mode section and can pay by post office challan or with a bank. Importantly, please check your required application form fee then do this step( Can also check in the above paragraph).
• After the submission of payment, you will be move to the next step. If any candidate pays the fee in the mode via bank, have to wait for a few hours to get the confirmation of payment. And via post the office, have to wait for at last one or two day.

Step 3 

• In this, the candidate will fill their necessary details like:

Choose your group and preferences of a zone

Choose the exam language

Details of your qualifications

Bank name

Account number

IFSC code

Beneficiary name etc.

• Now, you have to fill your desired zone/RPSF. Once a Group has been selected, applicants will only be evaluated for positions within that Group.
• In addition, for the Computer Based Test ( CBT), applicants must choose one of the following languages:

Bengali	Assamese	Malayalam
Telugu	Urdu	Odia
Tamil	Marathi	Gujarati
Hindi	Kannada	English
Konkani	Punjabi	Manipuri

The documents need to upload in the form – 

Following payment of the application fee, applicants must upload the following documents:

• Candidates must use the Upload Photo option to upload a recent colour photograph. Only colour passport photos with a white or light backdrop will be acceptable. The following information should be included in a scanned photograph:

Parameters	Items
Extent	15-40 KB
Layout	Jpg/jpeg format
Measurements	35 * 45 with date and name printed on it.

• Participants should submit professional photos shot in a workshop; pictures taken with a smartphone camera or portraits will be disqualified.
• During the test, your photograph should resemble the nominee’s genuine look. Participants must maintain 12 copies of the identical pictures that can be utilized for future direction.
• Schedule Caste (SC)/ Schedule Tribe (ST) applicants must likewise provide a printed copy of their SC/ST certificates (JPG/JPEG format, 50kb – 100kb) to be eligible for the free travel authorization (Second Class Railway Pass).

Statement 

• After uploading their photos, participants must validate their declaration statement before submitting their application. The full application will be displayed on the screen once more for a final check; once applicants have completed reviewing all data, they will be able to confirm it.
• It is recommended that all candidates print submission of the application form for their records.

Correction in your application form of RPF Constable exam

• Candidates must pay a modification charge of Rs. 250 if they make any errors when filling out the application form other than the state, email, and cellphone. Across all categories, the modification cost is the same.
• This type of application amendment is limited to two times.

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FAQs

Q. What is the application fee for SC/ST category Male?

The application fee of SC/ST category Male is rupees 250.

Q. Is the RPF constable application form is released?

The RPF constable application form is not yet released. It will be released instantly.

Q. What is the age relaxation for the OBC Non-Creamy layer group?

The age relaxation for the OBC non-creamy layer category is 5 years.

Q. What is the income of an RPF constable?

The income of an RPF constable is around 26000 to 32000.

Q. Is the candidate should be 12^th pass or not?

Yes, the candidates must be a matrix pass.

Q. How many vacancies should be released for an RPF constable post?

The RPF constable vacancy is yet to be released. However, the tentative number of vacancies is around 10,000 +.

Q. What is the age limit for an RPF constable post?

The age limit for an RPF constable post is maximum age- 18 and minimum age- 25.

Q. How many divisions or zones are there in the railway’s department?

18 zones are under the control of the railway department.

Q. What is the official site of the railway authority?

The official website is indianrailway.gov.in .

Q. What is the full form of RPF?

The entire configuration of RPF is the Railway protection force.