RRB ALP CEN 01/2025 Vacancy Increase

This page tracks RRB ALP CEN 01/2025 Vacancy Increase, a recruitment notification. The key figures are 2,025 vacancies, an application window closing 19 May 2025, and a fee of ₹500 for unreserved candidates. Everything below — dates, eligibility, fee and the official links — is set out in the order you will need it.

Indian Railways recruits through Railway Recruitment Boards (RRB) and Railway Recruitment Cells (RRC). Railway selection normally runs one or more computer-based tests followed, depending on the post, by a physical efficiency test, document verification and a medical examination with post-specific vision standards.

Applications open on 12 April 2025 and close on 19 May 2025, giving candidates 38 days to complete the process. The 38-day window is comfortable, though last-day traffic still causes portal failures every cycle — applying in the first half avoids it. Fee payment closes on 21/05/2025 — note that this can fall on a different day from the form deadline, and an unpaid form is not a submitted form. A correction window is listed (22-31 May 2025), so errors in the submitted form can be fixed within that period rather than by re-applying. The exam is currently shown for 13-18 February 2026   ; treat this as provisional until the admit card confirms it.

2,025 posts are advertised in this notification. At this scale the selection is normally decided on a single written or computer-based paper plus verification, with cut-offs set by category. Category-wise distribution, where the notification provides it, is shown in the vacancy table further down this page — check the count against your own category rather than the overall total, since reserved-category cut-offs and competition ratios differ substantially from the unreserved ones.

The age limit runs from 18 to 30 years for unreserved candidates. That is a 12-year band, so candidates near either edge should confirm the exact cut-off date the notification measures age against — it is usually a fixed reference date, not the date you apply.

Fee-paying categories are charged between ₹250 and ₹500, depending on category. Payment is accepted via debit card, credit card, and net banking. Pay only through the official portal linked on this page; the fee is normally non-refundable once the form is submitted.

Read the eligibility conditions in full before paying any fee. The most common reason applications are rejected is a qualification or age criterion that was missed at the form stage, and that cannot usually be corrected after the window closes.