Railways – Digi-Locker in Recruitment by RRB / Zonal Railways

Railways – Digi-Locker in Recruitment by RRB / Zonal Railways

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
RAILWAY BOARD

No.2023/I & Trans. Cell /Digi-Locker in Recruitment

New Delhi, Date: 24.08.2024

The Chairman
Railway Recruitment Boards
All Indian Railways

The General Manager
PCPOs, PHODs
All Indian Railways

Subject: Digi-Locker in Recruitment by RRB / Zonal Railways

With the policy objective of sharply compressing recruitment timelines, between vacancy notices to joining, by leveraging Digital Infrastructure to make it better secured, to bring efficiency, transparency and eliminate redundancies, Railway Board and MeiTY (NeGD -National e-Governance Division) had collaborated on a policy initiative in October 2023 with RRB/Bengaluru as the nodal for integrating Digi-Locker in IR’s Recruitment process. First RRB recruitment notice in March 2024 went live successfully.

2. Government of India, MeiTY vide Gazette Notification GSR 111 (E) of 08.02.2017 (F.No. 3(29)/2016-EG-II) Rule 9-A of the Information Technology Act 2000 has notified the statutory provision that, issuing certificates or documents in Digi-Locker and accepting documents or certificates shared (as issued) from Digi-Locker are at par with original Physical Documents.

3. Gol, DARPG vide its O.M. No. Misc./Universal Digital Access/20-21 (e-6862) dated 28.12.2020 has directed to fast-track adoption of Digi-Locker and that “all Ministries / Departments including their attached / subordinate offices / autonomous / statutory organizations / PSUs / academic institutions / recruiting agencies etc. shall integrate their systems with Digi-Locker for issuing and verifying documents / certificates to the citizens and also ensure that the documents already issued earlier shall also be made available in Digi-Locker platform in mission mode approach in a time-bound manner.”

4. It has been decided that Chairman/RRBs and Zonal Railways shall ensure that:

• All recruitments are integrated with Digi-Locker in on-line application processes / notices.
• IR / RRBs would issue Appointment Letters and Travel Concession to eligible / qualified candidates on Digi-Locker (as issued document).
• Document verification would be Digi-Locker based and wherever physical document verification is to be done, it would be endorsed by the verifying officer that ‘physical documents not available as issued document in Digi-Locker’.
• Medical check-up / examination, on first appointment to Railways, would be done on the basis of appointment letter issued in Digi-Locker to the candidates and w.r.t. bio-metric verification at the Railway Hospital / Health Unit.
• Wherever, Training is mandatory before joining a working-post, like ALPs/Loco Pilots/ASMs etc., the letters issued by Railway Administration with reference to which trainees report to the Training Centre / ZTI, shall be issued in Digi-Locker and training performance also placed in Digi-Locker of the candidate.

5. Establishment (RRB) Directorate Railway Board is Nodal and for any Technical Assistance on Digi-Locker the SPOC (single point of contact) at MeiTY is Additional Director, NeGD (Mr Durgaprasad Dash, email durga@digitalindia.gov.in).

This issues with the approval of the Railway Board (DG/HR and the Chairman & CEQ). Kindly acknowledge receipt and ensure compliance.

Sd/-
(Rajiv Gandhi)
EDE (RRB)

(Pranav Kumar Mallick)
ED / Transformation
email: pranav.mallick@nic.in