RRC NWR Apprentice Recruitment 2026: 2,008 Posts, Apply by 22 November

RRC NWR Apprentice Recruitment 2026 is open again, but not on the dates most job sites still show. The Railway Recruitment Cell in Jaipur cancelled its first notice for this drive and issued a revised one dated 21 October 2026. The slots stay the same at 2,008 Act Apprentice places across North Western Railway, and the new application window runs from 23 October to 22 November 2026 on rrcjaipur.in.

You need a 10th pass with at least 50 percent marks and an ITI certificate in the notified trade. There is no written exam. RRC builds the merit list from your 10th and ITI marks, so the marks you already hold matter more than anything you can still prepare.

RRC NWR Apprentice Recruitment 2026 at a glance

The deadline moved, and most listings missed it

The first notice for this drive went up on 1 October 2026, with applications from 7 October to 6 November. RRC Jaipur cancelled it on 21 October because of a partial change in the requisition, and the revised notice is now the only valid one. The unit wise and trade wise seats changed with the revision, and new trades came in, including Plumber, Stenographer, Draughtsman and Forger and Heat Treater.

That matters because the old dates are still everywhere. Search results and job sites that never updated still show 6 November as the last date.

Today is 6 November, so a candidate reading one of those pages would think the drive has closed. It has not. The revised window stays open till 22 November 2026 at 11:59 PM, which leaves 16 days from today.

One question the revised notice leaves open. It says nothing about what happens to applications filed between 7 and 21 October under the cancelled notice. If you applied in that window, do not file a second application on your own.

The notice rejects every application when a candidate files more than one, so check the helpline on rrcjaipur.in first. The helpline runs from 23 October, 10 AM to 5 PM, except Sundays and holidays.

No exam. Your old marks decide it

Selection runs on a simple average. RRC takes your matriculation percentage, counted across all subjects, and your ITI percentage in the trade, from the provisional or final certificate, and averages the two. A candidate with 72 percent in Class 10 and 84 percent in ITI scores 78.

The 50 percent floor in Class 10 is strict. The notice says no rounding off will be done, so 49.9 percent does not count as 50.

There is no centralised merit list. RRC prepares separate lists for each division or unit, each trade and each community, equal to the number of slots. Your competition is the set of candidates who picked your unit and your trade, a much smaller group than all 2,008 applicants.

That is why the choice of unit matters so much. Fitter at DRM Jaipur, with 549 slots in the unit, is a different contest from a trade with a handful of seats at a workshop.

Ties break on age first. The older candidate goes first, and if the dates of birth match too, the one who passed matriculation earlier goes first. Candidates who clear the list are called for document verification and a medical at the unit they chose.

You must produce a medical certificate in the format in the notification, signed by a government authorised doctor not below the rank of Assistant Surgeon of a Central or State hospital. Unfilled seats do not stay empty. If SC seats stay unfilled they pass to ST candidates, and the other way round, and unfilled OBC and EWS seats pass to unreserved candidates.

Two groups should not apply at all. The notification bars anyone already undergoing apprenticeship training, or who has already completed it. Engineering graduates and diploma holders are also not eligible, because they fall under a separate apprenticeship scheme.

Who can apply

You must have completed 15 years of age and must not have completed 24 years as on 22 November 2026. That works out to a date of birth between 23 November 2002 and 22 November 2011. The upper limit relaxes by 5 years for SC and ST candidates and by 3 years for OBC candidates. PwBD candidates get 10 years of relaxation, and ex-servicemen get up to 10 more years on top of their service, subject to the conditions in the notification.

On qualification, the rule is a 10th class pass or its equivalent under the 10+2 system with minimum 50 percent marks in aggregate, from a recognised board, plus a National Trade Certificate in the notified trade issued by the National Council for Vocational Training or the State Council for Vocational Training. You must hold both qualifications on the date you apply. Candidates waiting for final results should not apply.

Keep your Aadhaar number ready. Registration asks for the 12 digit Aadhaar number, and you produce the original at document verification. Your name, your father's name and your date of birth must match your Class 10 certificate exactly. The notice says any deviation found at verification leads to cancellation of candidature and debarment.

You pick one unit only. Read the trade wise slot tables for that unit first. If you pick a unit where your trade has no slot, the application becomes meaningless, and the notification says you cannot change it after final submission.

One application per candidate. File two with different details and both get rejected.

Eight units, and a total that does not add up

The eight units are the DRM offices at Ajmer, Bikaner, Jaipur and Jodhpur, plus B.T.C. Carriage and B.T.C. Loco at Ajmer and the carriage workshops at Bikaner and Jodhpur.

Jaipur has the most seats at 549, followed by Ajmer at 488, Bikaner at 482 and Jodhpur at 445. The four workshops share the rest.

Add those up and you get 2,234, not 2,008. The notice invites applications against 2,008 slots, and that is the figure this post uses, but its own unit tables sum higher. RRC has not explained the gap.

Your chances depend on the seats in your own unit and trade, so read the tables in section 7 of the notice before you choose, and treat the headline total as provisional. The notice says the numbers can go up or down at the time of selection. PwBD and ex-servicemen seats sit inside the totals, not on top of them.

Trades on offer include Fitter, Electrician, Welder, Diesel Mechanic, Electronics Mechanic, Carpenter, Painter, Computer Operator and Programming Assistant, Plumber, Mason, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Pipe Fitter, Turner and Machinist, Draughtsman, Stenographer, Chemical Laboratory Assistant and Dental Laboratory Technician. Some trades exist at only one unit. Pipe Fitter, Forger and Heat Treater, Stenographer and Draughtsman seats are only at DRM Jodhpur, and Mason and Plumber seats are only at DRM Bikaner and DRM Jaipur.

Fee, photo and signature

The fee is Rs 100, paid online through the payment gateway as part of the application. You can pay by card or net banking, and any transaction charges fall on you. SC, ST, PwBD and women candidates pay nothing.

The fee is non-refundable in every case. If money is deducted but the form does not download, log in again and use the Verify Payment button on the portal instead of paying again. No change is allowed after payment.

The photograph must be a recent colour photo, 3.5 cm by 3.5 cm, taken within three months of the application, in JPG or JPEG format at 100 DPI, with the file between 20 KB and 70 KB. It needs a clear front view without cap or sunglasses.

The notification says RRC can reject an application at any stage for an old or unclear photograph, so do not reuse a photo from an old form. If your photo file is the wrong size, the site's exam photo resizer fixes it before you upload. Keep two extra copies of the same photograph ready for document verification.

The signature goes up as a scanned image, 3.5 cm by 2.5 cm, in JPG or JPEG at 100 DPI, with the file between 20 KB and 30 KB.

How to apply on rrcjaipur.in

Open rrcjaipur.in and find the apprentice application under revised Notice No. 04/2026. Register with your details, fill in the bio data, choose one unit and your trade, and upload your photograph and signature, your 10th mark sheet and date of birth proof, and your ITI mark sheet and trade certificate, plus a caste or disability certificate if you claim one.

Pay the fee through the gateway, submit before 22 November 2026 at 11:59 PM, and save the registration number the portal issues. Print the submitted application and the payment receipt and keep them safe.

Do not send any printout to RRC by post. The notice says no cognizance will be given to a physical copy. Do not wait for the last day. The notification itself advises applying well before the closing date, because the portal slows down under last day traffic.

What the training will not give you

Read the fine print before you pay the fee. This is an apprenticeship under the Apprentices Act, 1961. It is training inside railway workshops and divisions, and the notification says plainly that it carries no promise of a railway job afterwards. The employer is not obliged to offer employment on completion, and you are not obliged to accept it.

The training period and the stipend follow Railway Board rules, and the notice fixes no figure for either, so do not trust any site that quotes one for this drive. No hostel is provided, so you arrange your own stay. Before training starts, you or your guardian, if you are a minor, sign a contract of apprenticeship with the employer. After selection, no request to change the division, unit or trade is entertained.

The same railway month has other openings worth a look. The Central Railway Apprentice Recruitment 2026 post on this site covers 2,861 slots that close on 2 December 2026, and the RRB Isolated Categories Recruitment 2026 post covers 191 posts that close on 4 December 2026.

Sources & verification: Railway Recruitment Cell, North Western Railway, Engagement of Apprentices Notice No. 04/2026 (NWR/AA), revised, dated 21 October 2026, read 6 November 2026 from the official PDF on rrcjaipur.in. Slot total 2,008, dates, age, qualification, fee, merit rule, photo and signature specs and helpline hours as published in that notification. The cancellation of the 1 October 2026 notice and the cover note are per RRC cover note No. 740E/RRC/Act Apprentice Selection/2026-27, as reported from the notice. Apply only through rrcjaipur.in.