A viral message has been making its rounds on social media claiming that the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) released a notification for the recruitment of Sub-Inspectors and Constables under the Centralised Employment Notice (CEN) No.RPF 01/2024 and CEN No. RPF 02/2024. The alleged notification suggests around 452 vacancies for the Sub-Inspector post and 4208 for the Constable posts., Let’s verify this claim through this fact-check article
Claim: RRB released a Centralised Employment Notice for the recruitment of Sub-Inspectors and Constables.
Fact: RRB has not released any Centralized Employment Notice (CEN) for recruitment of the mentioned posts this year. The only CENs released by RRB in the current year are CEN No. 01/2024 for the recruitment of Assistant Loco Pilots (ALP) and CEN No. 02/2024 for the recruitment of technicians. The Press Information Bureau’s fact-check unit has denounced the notification circulating on social media as false and confirmed that the Railway Ministry did not issue such a notice. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
To verify the claim, we examined the official websites of the Secunderabad and Chennai Railway Recruitment Boards. Our search revealed that these RRBs had not released any Centralised Employment Notifications under the code CEN No.RPF 01/2024 and CEN No.RPF 02/2024 for recruitment of Sub-Inspectors and Constables.
Our findings showed that RRB has released two separate CENs this year. The first, CEN No. 01/2024, is for the recruitment of Assistant Loco Pilots (ALP), and the second, CEN No. 02/2024, is for the recruitment of technicians. This indicates that this viral notification is most likely to be a digital creation.
Furthermore, the fact-checking unit of the Press Information Bureau has addressed this claim about the Railway Recruitment Board releasing a notice for the recruitment of Sub-Inspectors and Constables. They confirmed that the Ministry of Railways has not issued any such notification.
To sum up, the viral claim that RRB has released a notification for the recruitment of Sub-Inspectors and Constables for the Railway Police Force is False.
