ONLINE applications are invited from eligible candidates for engagement as Act Apprentices for imparting training under the Apprentices Act-1961 & RBE.No.120/2015 dated 06.10.2015 in the designated trades at Integral Coach Factory, duly giving preference to candidates from Tamil Nadu. Applications completed in all respects should be submitted online till 26/07/2022 students from all parts of country can apply
Apprentices will be engaged in the following trades. The slots available in various trades with communal break up are tabulated below for the information of candidates. Vacancies indicated below are tentative and are subject to change and the administration reserves the right to modify them.
Note: (i) Candidates with qualifications viz. Engineering Degree / Diploma and Course Completed Act Apprentices are not eligible to apply. (ii) This notification is purely for giving Apprenticeship training and not for employment. (iii) In case of any clarification, candidates may contact 044-26147708 during office hours only i.e. from 09:30 to 17:30 hrs on week days and from 09:30 to 12:25 hrs on Saturdays. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF PERSONS WITH BENCHMARK DISABILTIES: Vacancies are reserved for persons with disability under the following physical standards as per extant provisions. Training in the relevant trade will be subject to permissible disability in the trade as noted
Abbreviations: OL–One Leg, BL–Both Legs, LV–Lower vision, HH– Hard of Hearing. 2.1 Definition of Disabilities: (a) Blindness: Blindness refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions, namely (i) Total absence of sight; or (ii) Visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses. (iii) Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse. Low vision: “Person with low vision” means a person with impairment of visual functioning even after treatment or standard refractive corrective but who uses or is potentially capable of using vision for the planning or execution of a task with appropriate assistive device. (b) Hearing Impairment: “Hearing impairment” means loss of 60 decibels or more in the better ear in the conversational range of frequencies. Hearing impairment would also include persons who are deaf and dumb. (c) Locomotor disability: “Locomotor disability” means disability of the bones, joints or muscles leading to substantial restriction of the movement of the limbs or any form of cerebral palsy
Cerebral Palsy: “Cerebral Palsy” means a group of non-progressive conditions of a person characterized by abnormal motor control posture resulting from brain insult or injuries occurring in the pre-natal, peri-natal or infant period of development. All the cases of orthopedically handicapped persons would be covered under the category of “locomotor disability or cerebral palsy”. Only such persons would be eligible for reservation in services/posts who suffers from not less than 40% of relevant disability. 2.2 Disability certificates: A physically handicapped person who wants to avail the benefits of reservation would have to submit disability certificate issued by the central/state government. 2.3 Sources of engagement of Act Apprentices (As per Railway Board’s letter No.E(MPP) 2001/6/7 dated 22.07.2002). 1. Nearest Employment Exchanges. 2. SC/ST Organisations. 3. ITIs wherever existing and 4. Wards of Railway employees. The applicants who have registered with a local employment exchange falling within the State of Tamilnadu alone are eligible to apply. The date of registration with local employment exchange should not be beyond the last date of receipt of the application. However, this condition does not apply to wards of Railway employee who at the time of document verification have to submit a copy of Identity Card/‘SERVICE CERTIFICATE’ of the Railway Employee which should be attested by the Gazetted Officer of the concerned unit in which the Railway employee is/was working. 3. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS: 3.1 Age : 15 to 24 years. Age of the candidate will be reckoned as on 26.07.2022. The upper age limit is relaxable by 3 years for OBC candidates, 5 years for SC/ST candidates and 10 years for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD), candidates.'
HOW TO APPLY 4.1 APPLY ONLINE: Facility for submission of online application will be available from 27/06/2022 to 26/07/2022 till 17:30 hrs on ICF website https://pb.icf.gov.in/ (i) Application will be accepted only through online mode. (ii) Candidates who wish to apply need to log on to the ICF web portal https://pb.icf.gov.in/ (iii) Candidates should read the notification thoroughly and fill in the online application form correctly & submit. Before filling the application form, candidates should keep ready all the relevant documents/certificates and image of recent passport size photograph (not more than 200 KB) in jpg/jpeg format to fill the required data and to upload the photograph. (iv) System generated registration number is the candidate’s individual Registration ID. The password to generate acknowledgement is the date of birth. For login purpose, candidates should use the online registration number generated, with password as date of birth in “ddmmyyyy” format. (v) A processing fee of ₹100/- + service charges as applicable (non-refundable) is to be paid through online mode. No application fee is required to be paid by SC/ST/PwBD/Women candidates. (vi) No request of refund of fee once remitted by the candidate will be entertained by ICF under any circumstances. (vii) Before clicking the submit button, the candidate is advised to check whether the details fed in are correct. (viii) Processing Fee Payment instruction (For candidates other than SC/ST/PwBD/Women): After successful payment of processing fee of Rs.100/- through online, a unique Transaction ID starting with ‘DU’ will be sent by payment gateway system to the registered mobile number. Candidates should preserve this Transaction ID for future references of payment detail. (ix) Candidates are NOT required to send/submit any documents including system generated application form to ICF through Post/e-mail/FAX/By hand. (x) After final submission, candidates can generate the acknowledgement form from the system. The candidates are advised to take a printout of the acknowledgement generated by the system which is required to be submitted at the time of Document Verification.