Railways hand over appointment to 175 Assistant Loco Pilots with COVID negative reports
Ferozepur, December 3, 2020: The railways have issued appointment letters to 175 Assistant Loco Pilots – ALPs today.
These are critical safety and operational posts. Due to the Covid outbreak, earlier all form of training has been suspended to follow the social distancing norms and in order to limit the pandemics.
Giving this information, Divisional Rail Manager, Rajesh Aggarwal said, as many as 178 Assistant Loco Pilots, who have now successfully passed the initial training course of ALP were called for an appointment with COVID-19 negative reports on 3-12-2020. In all, 175 candidates reported and appointment letters were issued to all the 175 candidates within 8 hours under a single roof.
He further said, earlier on 10.11.20, total of 90 candidates for the posts of Tech-III were called, out of 90, appointment letters were issued to 87 reported candidates in a single day. This was jointly done by Personnel and Accounts team. Before that, the division had issued appointment to track men also in a similar fashion.