Hi I would like to have the information about Special Class Railway Apprentice as well as the details of the no of candidates selected through the SCRA Exam and the career progression of SCRA candidates?

Special Class Railway Apprentices Examination otherwise called SCRA is one of the most established and additionally presumed examination directed each year for choosing a modest bunch of contender for the undergrad program in Mechanical Engineering offered at Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (IRIMEE), Jamalpur (Bihar)

Scholastics: IRIMEE has marked a MoU with BIT Mesra, BIT's meeting speakers come to IRIMEE for conveying addresses all the time and understudies go for semester exams at BIT Mesra and subsequently at the effective fulfillment of the course, the understudies are granted the general BE (Mech) Degree of BIT Mesra.

Preparing: During the semester breaks of BIT Mesra, the Apprentices get prepared in down to earth designing and administration at Jamalpur Workshops, different units of Railways and in different establishments and industry.

This Mechanical Engineering Program was begun in the year 1927.

The Apprentices of Special Class Railway additionally get a stipend of Rs. 9100 every month and which increments over some stretch of time.

SCRA exam is directed by Union Public Service Commission and after a thorough determination process just 42 hopefuls are chosen each year for the program and the exam is taken by near 2.5 lakh applicants.

Subsequent to finishing the program, fruitful applicants are caught up in Indian Railways and allocated most elevated amount administration program in Railway Organization.

For SCRA, there is an application expense of Rs.100 for hopefuls having a place with general class while female/SC/ST/PH competitors are exempted from any application charge.

Valuable certainties about SCRA Exam

SCRA Program was begun in the year 1927, by the British keeping in mind the end goal to choose possibility for help them in their Railways Operations.

In 2013-14 2,79,695 hopefuls partake in the examination for only 42 seats.

SCRA exam concentrates on assessing the applicants in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English Language, General Knowledge, and Psychological Test (Mental Ability).

The applicants fruitful in the composed examination are required the Interview, trailed by a Medical Examination.

The examination depends on the syllabus of Class 12 endorsed by Central leading group of Secondary Education (CBSE).

The understudies experience a four-year thorough preparing program in Mechanical Engineering, for which the Institute has a Memorandum of Understanding with Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi.

The workshop instructional meetings are directed amid the occasions at BIT, Mesra.

Career progression in SCRA

Subsequent to finishing the probation in SCRA, the competitors are selected as Officer in the lesser scale. After around 2 years of administration, applicants might be elevated to senior level.

In the wake of serving 6 to 7 years, the officers are elevated to Junior Administrative Grade.

Advancement to Senior Administrative Grade is done following 8 to10 years of administration. The Senior Administrative Grade is identical to the Joint Secretary, Government of India.

Officers are elevated to Divisional Railway Managers (DRM) in the wake of serving at Senior Administrative Grade for a time of 6 to eight years.