RRB Group D Eligibility Criteria 2025, Age Limit, Qualification

RRB Group D Eligibility Criteria 2024

RRB Group D Eligibility 2024: The Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) revised the educational qualification for RRB Group D 2025 exam. According to the Ministry of Railways, the minimum educational qualification for RRB Group D 2025 exam for all posts will be 10th pass or ITI or equivalent or National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) granted by NCVT. ITI is not mandatory for the exam. According to RRB Group D eligibility, the age limit prescribed for the exam is 18 to 33 years. Relaxation in the upper age limit is provided to candidates belonging to reserved categories. Candidates must check the RRB Group D eligibility before applying for the RRB Group D 2025 exam. 

RRB Group D 2025 notification is expected to be released soon by RRBs. Candidates who meet the eligibility criteria can fill RRB Group D application form. 

RRB Group D eligibility includes various factors such as age limit, education qualification, nationality, physical fitness and medical standards. Read below for more details on RRB Group D eligibility. 

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The educational qualification prescribed for RRB Group D exam for all posts is 10th pass or ITI or equivalent or National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) granted by NCVT. All candidates who have completed Class 10/ITI/NAC are eligible for RRB Group D 2025 exam. ITI is not mandatory for RRB Group D 2025 exam. 

RRB Group D Eligibility (Previous Order)

In 2019-23, Railway Recruitment Boards made modifications to RRB Group D eligibility. According to the revised RRB eligibility criteria, the minimum education qualification for candidates applying to the technical departments that is Civil Engineering, Mechanical, Electrical and Signal & Telecom departments) and catering wing of Railways will be Class 10 pass plus National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) granted by National Council for Vocational Training or Class 10 pass plus ITI. The revised eligibility criteria in terms of educational qualification is applicable for all future recruitments notified after June 15, 2019 in Level-1 posts. Earlier, NAC or ITI was not mandatory to apply for RRB Group D exam. RRB Group D age limit is 18 to 33 years

RRB Group D Eligibility Criteria 2025: Highlights

Some of the important highlights of RRB Group D eligibility criteria are summarised below.

Particulars	Eligibility Criteria
RRB Group D Age Limit	18 to 33 years
RRB Group D Educational Qualification	Class 10 pass
Nationality	Indian
Number of Attempts	Nil

RRB Group D Nationality 2025

RRB Group D Level-1 aspirants need to fulfil the eligibility criteria of nationality or citizenship. A candidates who is:

1. A citizen of India, or
2. A subject of Nepal, or
3. A subject of Bhutan, or
4. A Tibetan refugee permanently settled in India from and before January 1, 1962.
5. A person of Indian origin migrated from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, East African countries of Uganda, Kenya, the United Republic of Tanzania, Malawi, Zaire, Zambia, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.

Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (2), (3), (4) and (5) presents a certificate of eligibility issued by the Government of India to the recruiting body.

RRB Group D Qualification 2025

RRBs/RRCs have prescribed minimum educational qualification for Railway Group D exam. The educational qualification has been revised for candidates applying to the exam. The previous and revised educational qualification is given below.

Previous Educational Qualification	Revised Educational Qualification
Class 10 pass plus National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) granted by National Council for Vocational Training or Class 10 pass plus ITI	Eligibility for all posts will be 10th pass or ITI or equivalent or National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) granted by NCVT

Railway Group D Level-1 Age Limit

RRB Group D age limit calculated as on July 1, 2019, is 18 to 33 years. Relaxation in the upper age limit is provided to SC/ST/OBC and other eligible categories as per government rule. The category-wise age limit for RRB/RRC Group D exam is given below.

Age Group	Upper limit of Date of Birth (Not earlier than)			Lower limit of Date of Birth (Not later than)
18 to 33 years	UR	OBC (Non-Creamy Layer)	SC/ST	For all communities/ categories
	July 2, 1986	July 2, 1983	July 2, 1981	01.07.2001

Age Relaxation

The category-wise age relaxation given to candidates is given below.

Category	Upper Age Limit
Unreserved	33 Years
OBC-Non Creamy Layer	36 Years
SC/ST	38 Years

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RRB Group D Medical Standards

Candidates shortlisted for document verification are required to pass the medical fitness test to check whether they are fit for the job role or not. The medical fitness test is conducted by the railway administration. In 2019-23,  RRB Group D medical standards were revised. The medical standards for RRB/RRC Group D Level-1 post are given below.

Medical Standard	Visual Acuity
A-2	Distant vision: 6/9, 6/9 without glasses (No fogging test) Near vision: Sn. 0.6, 0.6 without glasses and must pass tests for colour vision, binocular vision, night vision, mesopic vision, etc
A-3	Distant vision: 6/9, 6/9 with or without glasses (power of lenses not to exceed 2D) Near vision: Sn: 0.6, 0.6 with or without glasses and must pass the test for colour vision, binocular vision, night vision, myopic vision, etc.
B-1	Distant vision: 6/9, 6/12 with or without glasses (power of lenses not to exceed 4D) Near vision: Sn. 0.6, 0.6 with or without glasses when reading or close work is required and must pass the test for colour vision, binocular vision, night vision, mesopic vision, etc.
B-2	Distant vision: 6/9, 6/12 with or without glasses (power of lenses not to exceed 4D) Near vision: Sn. 0.6, 0.6 with or without glasses when reading or close work is required and must pass the test for binocular vision, etc
C-1	Distant vision: 6/12, 6/18 with or without glasses Near vision: Sn. 0.6, 0.6 with or without glasses when reading or close work is required
C-2	Distant vision: 6/12 with or without glasses Near vision: Sn. 0.6 combined with or without glasses where reading or close work is required

RRB Group D Post Parameters

The revised post parameters for RRB Group D exam are given below.

Designation	Dept	Medical Standard	Suitability for persons with Benchmark Disability
			VI	HI	LD	MD
Assistant (workshop)	Mechanical	C1	B,LV	D,HH	OL,LC,DW,AAV	YES
Assistant bridge	Engineering	B1	NO	NO	NO	NO
Assistant c & w	Mechanical	B1	NO	D,HH	OL,LC,DW,AAV	YES
Assistant depot (store)	Stores	C1	LV	HH	OL,OA	YES
Assistant loco shed (diesel)	Mechanical	B1	LV	D,HH	OL,LC,DW,AAV	YES
Assistant loco shed (electrical)	Electrical	B1	LV	D,HH	OL,LC,DW,AAV	YES
Assistant operations (electrical)	Electrical	B1	LV	D,HH	OL,LC,DW,AAV	YES
Pointsman	Traffic	A2	NO	NO	NO	NO
Assistant signal and telecom	S and T	B1	LV	D,HH	OL,LC,DW,AAV	YES
Assistant track machine	Engineering	A3	NO	D,HH	OL,LC,DW,AAV	YES
Assistant tl and ac	Electrical	B1	LV	D,HH	OL,LC,DW,AAV	YES
Assistant tl and ac (workshop)	Electrical	C1	B,LV	D,HH	OL,LC,DW,AAV	YES
Assistant trd	Electrical	B1	NO	D,HH	OL,LC,DW,AAV	YES
Assistant works	Engineering	C1	B,LV	D,HH	OL,LC,DW,AAV	YES
Assistant works (workshop)	Engineering	C1	B,LV	D,HH	OL,LC,DW,AAV	YES
Hospital assistant	Medical	C1	B,LV	D,HH	OL,LC,DW,AAV	YES
Track maintainer grade iv	Engineering	B1	NO	NO	NO	NO

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