The Railway Recruitment Board has released the admit card for the RRB Group D exam under CEN 09/2025, with candidates able to download their call letters using their registration number and password.
Admit cards for the Computer Based Test scheduled on August 3 and 4, 2026 are already available, with candidates appearing on later dates able to download theirs four days ahead of their scheduled exam.
The exam will run across multiple dates — August 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 25, 2026 — conducted in three shifts across the country.
The recruitment drive covers 22,195 Level-1 vacancies with close to 87 lakh applicants in contention, spanning 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 government recruitment exercises currently underway in the country.
Candidates have been advised to carry a printed admit card along with a valid original photo ID to their examination centre, as entry will not be permitted without both documents.
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.
The 22,195 vacancies span multiple technical and support roles in Indian Railways, reflecting the scale of staffing needs across the network’s maintenance and operations divisions.
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.
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