<p class="title">The Indian Railway has recruited over 3,000 women candidates in technical categories in the last three years, Union minister Piyush Goyal informed Parliament Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Goyal said in the past few years, against notifications issued for various technical posts, a total of 2,79,60,224 applications were received and out of these, 46,76,928 (16.73 per cent) were from women.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Around 3,650 women candidates have been given employment in the Indian Railways in technical categories in the last three years," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Goyal also said the application fee collected from women candidates are refunded to those who appear in the examination.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also, an upper age limit in cases of widows, divorced women and women judicially separated from their husbands, who are not remarried, is relaxed up to the age of 35 years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In addition, for Level-1 categories, relaxed qualifying standards for the physical efficiency test (PET) for women candidates are applied.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Provisions of separate restrooms, cloakrooms, changing rooms and crèches have been made to ensure safe working conditions for women employees," he said. </p>
<p class="title">The Indian Railway has recruited over 3,000 women candidates in technical categories in the last three years, Union minister Piyush Goyal informed Parliament Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Goyal said in the past few years, against notifications issued for various technical posts, a total of 2,79,60,224 applications were received and out of these, 46,76,928 (16.73 per cent) were from women.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Around 3,650 women candidates have been given employment in the Indian Railways in technical categories in the last three years," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Goyal also said the application fee collected from women candidates are refunded to those who appear in the examination.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also, an upper age limit in cases of widows, divorced women and women judicially separated from their husbands, who are not remarried, is relaxed up to the age of 35 years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In addition, for Level-1 categories, relaxed qualifying standards for the physical efficiency test (PET) for women candidates are applied.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Provisions of separate restrooms, cloakrooms, changing rooms and crèches have been made to ensure safe working conditions for women employees," he said. </p>