Indian Railways to begin world's largest recruitment drive, TCS to start hiring
New Delhi : Concerning the frequent leakage of entrance exam questions papers the government of India has decided to adopt a tech solution to prevent such malpractices in recruitment process.
Indian Railways is planning to conduct world’s largest recruitment drive by hiring one lakh eligible candidates in the coming months. Interestingly, it is the first major recruitment for government jobs to be conducted by a private company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
The online recruitment to be conducted by TCS is expected to bring transparency in the hiring process which often comes across corruption charges, bias and inefficiency. TCS also conducts a few of India’s popular entrance tests such as Common Aptitude Test (CAT) for admission to the Indian Institutes of Management, the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) on behalf of the Indian Institutes of Technology and the All India Engineering Entrance Exam.
Sources confirmed that the railways have received more than two crore applications for nearly one lakh job vacancies. “TCS will be the technology partner of the railways for phase-wise online examinations starting from August 9,” according to a Business Standard report. TCS would hold the test through its staffing division, TCS iON while two other private companies would look after the back-end operations.
In 2015, the Indian Railways had tied up with TCS to find a system to conduct its recruitment exams online to introduce transparency. The pilot process runs on TCS’s iON-cloud platform. The exam management tool allows secured question paper creation and distribution.
In 2016, TCS assessed 85 million candidates. It also managed evaluation of 1.94 lakh candidates the largest ever in a single sitting. TCS is now selling its iON cloud platform in many foreign countries such as Japan and Ireland.
