Tag: railway recruitment row

Youngsters in Gaya, Bihar, went berserk in a massive protest over the recruitment services exam by the Railway Recruitment Board's Non-Technical Popular Categories (RRB-NTPC). The protest was to oppose the decision of Railways to hold the exam in two stages. As per students, the decision to conduct another round of exams for those who have already cleared the first stage was found unreasonable. The results for the first stage were declared on January 15, 2022. In a rage, students and youngsters first stopped the trains and later they set a passenger train on fire. In the early hours of Republic Day, reports about the protest started pouring in. Stones were thrown at one of the passenger trains and as the protest started escalating the other train was set on fire. Soon t...