NEW DELHI: In a response to the question raised in Lok Sabha today, the Minister of Railways, Piyush Goyal said that Indian Railways provide direct and indirect employment opportunities to the citizen of this country. Figures of direct recruitment during last 3 years are as under:
The vacancies in the organization are filled through open recruitment, indirect employment opportunities occur through schemes like Station Development Programmes that envisage private investments for construction, operation and maintenance of infrastructure, the commercial utilization of sparable Railway land and redevelopment of stations, all of which create many business opportunities and boost employment generation.
