Piyush Goyal: 2,22,159 posts are vacant in the rail network

New Delhi, Dec 28: The Delhi-headquartered Northern Railways (NR) with 27,537 vacancies tops the list of rail zones with maximum vacant posts, followed by Eastern Railway (19,942 posts) headquartered in Kolkata, and Central Railway (19,651 posts) with its head office in Mumbai.

Railway minister Piyush Goyal said in a written reply, in the Lok Sabha that 2,22,159 posts are vacant in the rail network .

Over 2 lakh posts are lying vacant across many groups in the railways, with majority of them in the Northern Zone of the network, the parliament was informed Wednesday.

"Filling up of vacancies is a continuous process and is done through various modes of intake. There is always a time lag between occurrence of vacancies and processing the same for filling up as it involves notification of vacancies, holding examinations etc...recruitment process of railways is done regularly," Goyal said.