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<div style="background:#eef3fb;color:#303846;border:1px solid #c9d7ee;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 18px"><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#171d29">Checked 29 September 2026.</strong> Eligibility is fixed in each cycle's zonal notification. These conditions are from the 2025-26 cycle (reckoning date 01.01.2025). No notification for the next cycle had been issued on 29 September 2026.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The 30% Limited Departmental Competitive Examination (LDCE) for <strong>Assistant Engineer (AEN)</strong> is the merit route from Group C to Group B in the Civil Engineering Department of Indian Railways. AEN is a Group B post in <strong>Pay Matrix Level 8</strong>. Who may sit it is decided by a short paragraph in each zone's notification, and its notes narrow the headline rule in ways that are easy to miss. This guide takes the 2025-26 Southern Railway notification of <strong>29.08.2025</strong> line by line, sets it beside the 70% selection for the same post, and ends with a checker you can run against your own Service Register.</p>

ProSyllabus is an independent study site. We are not affiliated with Indian Railways, the Railway Board, RRB/Ajmer or any zonal railway. Every rule below is quoted or summarised from their published letters, and your zone's Personnel Department decides every application.

<div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;margin:18px 0"><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">Level 6+</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">feeder grade: Rs 35,400–1,12,400 and above (official)</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">5 years</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">regular, non-fortuitous service in Level 6 or above (official)</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">01.01.2025</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">reckoning date for the 2025-26 cycle (official)</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">30%</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">share of Group B vacancies filled by LDCE (official, IREM 201.1)</div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;margin:-8px 0 18px">Southern Railway notification of 29.08.2025 and IREM Vol I para 201.1.</p>

<div style="background:#fff8e8;color:#3a3020;border:1px solid #f0d9a8;border-left:4px solid #b7791f;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><p style="margin:0 0 8px;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#b7791f">Where other pages get this wrong</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29;line-height:1.5">The 30% LDCE for AEN needs five years of regular service in Level 6 or above. Three years is the rule for the 70% selection, not for the LDCE.</p><p style="margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#8a5300">Commonly published instead:</strong> "Three years of service in the grade" — the text still printed at IREM Vol I para 203.1 on the Railway Board website, which also names a pre-revised grade.</p><p style="margin:0;line-height:1.6">The page printed on the Railway Board website still names a pre-revised grade, so it may not show later amendments; staff news sites report that para 203.1 was substituted by RBE 05/2020 (ACS 271), using Level 6, for the 70% selection (reported, not verified by us). Either way, the 2025-26 notifications (Southern Railway 29.08.2025; North Eastern Railway 19.12.2025, citing RBE 216/2019) print five years in Level 6 or above as on 01.01.2025. Staff news sites summarise RBE 216/2019 as three years for the 70% selection and five for the LDCE (reported). Plan on five.</p></div>

The rule, as printed in the 2025-26 notification

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The eligibility paragraph reads, in substance: non-ministerial Group C staff of the Civil Engineering Department holding a post in <strong>Level 6 (Rs 35,400–1,12,400) and above</strong>, with <strong>five years of regular service</strong> in Level 6 and above (including regular service in the corresponding pre-revised grades) on a <strong>non-fortuitous</strong> basis <strong>as on 01.01.2025</strong>, may apply. Everything else is a note that narrows or explains those words. The vacancy cycle is <strong>01.01.2025 to 31.12.2026, including anticipated vacancies up to 30.06.2027</strong>.</p>

The notes are numbered as printed in the Southern Railway notification. Other zones print the same Board conditions in their own words; the North Eastern Railway notification is in Hindi and cites RBE 216/2019 for the service requirement.

The traps that turn a keen applicant into "not eligible"

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Read these against your own Service Register</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>Ad hoc is not regular.</strong> If your first spell in Level 6 was ad hoc and you were regularised later, your five years start on the regularisation date.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>MACP pay is not a post.</strong> A financial upgradation that puts you in Level 6 pay while you hold a lower post does not make you eligible, however long you have drawn it.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>Transfers restart a clock you may not notice.</strong> The Southern Railway notes ask for five years in the <em>current seniority unit</em>. RBE 34/2006 can count old-unit service after an own-request transfer in the same category, but only up to your immediate senior's service in the new unit. The same notification asks personnel officers to scrutinise anyone transferred on or after 01.01.2020 on IRMT, IDMT or IRTADT.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>Decategorised staff count from absorption.</strong> Service before absorption in the alternate post does not count toward the five years (PBC 108/2024 and 235/2024).</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>Lien decides where you apply.</strong> Staff in construction or ex-cadre posts apply through the unit that holds their lien, not where they work.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>The 70% extended panel can take you out of the LDCE.</strong> Southern Railway's list of 14.01.2026 named seven applicants it did not consider: two as ineligible under the notes, and five because they were already on the extended panel of the 70% AEN selection for 2025-26.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>A missing entry date can hold up verification.</strong> The notification says the date of entry into Level 6 (or its pre-revised grades) is often left blank, which makes eligibility difficult to decide, and asks forwarding officers to specify it. Write it, with the grade names of earlier pay commissions if they apply.</li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">All from the Southern Railway notification of 29.08.2025. Notes in other zones follow the same Board letters.</p></div>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0" id="aenelig"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Check your AEN LDCE eligibility</h3><p style="margin:0 0 12px;line-height:1.6">Answer from your Service Register, not from memory. The checker applies the conditions printed in the 2025-26 notification. Any single veto makes you ineligible; a "check" means the rule depends on how your Personnel Officer counts your service.</p><label style="display:block;margin:0 0 12px;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">Your department and category<select data-k="dept" style="width:100%;padding:8px;border:1px solid #c9c4b5;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;margin-top:4px;box-sizing:border-box"><option value="civ">Civil Engineering Department, non-ministerial Group C</option><option value="min">Civil Engineering Department, ministerial (office) staff</option><option value="oth">Another department</option></select></label><label style="display:block;margin:0 0 12px;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">How you held Level 6 or above on the reckoning date<select data-k="lvl" style="width:100%;padding:8px;border:1px solid #c9c4b5;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;margin-top:4px;box-sizing:border-box"><option value="reg">Regular, non-fortuitous appointment or promotion</option><option value="adhoc">Ad hoc promotion to Level 6</option><option value="macp">Level 6 pay only through MACP financial upgradation</option><option value="below">Below Level 6</option></select></label><label style="display:block;margin:0 0 12px;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">Date you entered Level 6 (or its pre-revised grade) on a regular basis<input data-k="d6" type="date" value="2019-06-01" style="width:100%;padding:8px;border:1px solid #c9c4b5;border-radius:8px;font-size:16px;max-width:100%;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:4px"></label><label style="display:block;margin:0 0 12px;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">Have you moved seniority unit since then?<select data-k="tr" style="width:100%;padding:8px;border:1px solid #c9c4b5;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;margin-top:4px;box-sizing:border-box"><option value="none">No transfer</option><option value="own">Yes, own-request transfer in the same category</option><option value="mutual">Yes, mutual transfer</option></select></label><label style="display:block;margin:0 0 12px;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">Date you joined your current seniority unit (ignored if no transfer)<input data-k="su" type="date" value="2019-06-01" style="width:100%;padding:8px;border:1px solid #c9c4b5;border-radius:8px;font-size:16px;max-width:100%;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:4px"></label><label style="display:block;margin:0 0 12px;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">Where are your lien and seniority?<select data-k="lien" style="width:100%;padding:8px;border:1px solid #c9c4b5;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;margin-top:4px;box-sizing:border-box"><option value="yes">In the cadre of the zone that is notifying</option><option value="dep">In that zone, but I am on deputation, construction or ex-cadre</option><option value="no">In another zone or unit</option></select></label><label style="display:block;margin:0 0 12px;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">Did you undergo pre-appointment training immediately before your appointment in that grade?<select data-k="trn" style="width:100%;padding:8px;border:1px solid #c9c4b5;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;margin-top:4px;box-sizing:border-box"><option value="no">No, or not relevant</option><option value="yes">Yes</option></select></label><label style="display:block;margin:0 0 12px;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">Are you already on the extended panel of the 70% AEN selection for the same cycle?<select data-k="ext" style="width:100%;padding:8px;border:1px solid #c9c4b5;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;margin-top:4px;box-sizing:border-box"><option value="no">No</option><option value="yes">Yes</option></select></label><label style="display:block;margin:0 0 12px;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">Were you medically decategorised and absorbed in an alternate post?<select data-k="dec" style="width:100%;padding:8px;border:1px solid #c9c4b5;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;margin-top:4px;box-sizing:border-box"><option value="no">No</option><option value="yes">Yes</option></select></label><label style="display:block;margin:0 0 12px;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">Reckoning date (2025-26 cycle: 01.01.2025; for a later cycle, use the date in its notification)<input data-k="r" type="date" value="2025-01-01" style="width:100%;padding:8px;border:1px solid #c9c4b5;border-radius:8px;font-size:16px;max-width:100%;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:4px"></label><div id="aenelig-out" style="margin:12px 0 0;padding:12px 14px;background:#ecf7ef;border-radius:10px;line-height:1.6"></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Our reading of the Southern Railway notification of 29.08.2025 (notes i to iv and g). It is a self-check, not a decision: the controlling Personnel Officer certifies eligibility from the Service Register and seniority list, and the zone publishes the eligibility list.</p><script>(function(){var R=document.getElementById('aenelig');if(!R)return;function v(k){return R.querySelector('[data-k="'+k+'"]').value;}function d(s){if(!s)return null;var t=new Date(s+"T00:00:00Z");return isNaN(t.getTime())?null:t;}function p5(t){var x=new Date(t.getTime());x.setUTCFullYear(x.getUTCFullYear()+5);return x;}function f(t){var s=t.toISOString().slice(0,10).split("-");return s[2]+"."+s[1]+"."+s[0];}function go(){var no=[],ck=[],o=document.getElementById('aenelig-out'),r=d(v("r")),s6=d(v("d6")),su=d(v("su"));if(v("dept")==="min")no.push("The notification is for non-ministerial Group C staff of the Civil Engineering Department.");if(v("dept")==="oth")no.push("AEN is filled only from Civil Engineering Department staff. 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Ask which reading your zone applies.":"For a mutual transfer, IREM Vol I para 310 decides how old-unit service counts."));}}var li=function(a){return '<ul style="margin:6px 0 0;padding-left:20px">'+a.map(function(x){return '<li style="margin:4px 0">'+x+"</li>";}).join("")+"</ul>";};if(no.length){o.style.background="#fdeeee";o.innerHTML="<strong>Not eligible on what you entered.</strong>"+li(no.concat(ck));}else if(ck.length){o.style.background="#fff8e8";o.innerHTML="<strong>Possibly eligible. Settle these with your Personnel Officer first:</strong>"+li(ck);}else{o.style.background="#ecf7ef";o.innerHTML="<strong>You meet every published condition you entered.</strong> Your five years in Level 6 were complete on "+f(due)+". Keep your last five APARs ready: the notification asks controlling officers to hold them.";}}var ins=R.querySelectorAll("select,input");for(var i=0;i<ins.length;i++){ins[i].addEventListener("change",go);ins[i].addEventListener("input",go);}go();})();</script></div>

Worked cases, our reading of the notification, for readers whose browser does not run the checker. Five years is counted by calendar date: service from 01.06.2019 completes five years on 01.06.2024.

30% LDCE or 70% selection: the same post by two roads

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Group B vacancies in a department are split <strong>70% by selection and 30% by LDCE</strong> where the LDCE scheme is in force (IREM Vol I para 201.1, citing Board letter E(GP)/2005/2/69 of 05.01.2006). Both lead to the same AEN post in Level 8. The difference is who may sit, how the paper is marked and how the panel is ordered.</p>

The 70% paper, marking and qualifying mark are from the RRB/Ajmer protocol of 23.04.2025 (official). The viva and panel rows come from RBE 10/2025 as quoted in a CAT Guwahati order of 12.11.2025, which dismissed a challenge to it (reported: we read the order, not the Board letter itself). Challenges to this rule have been filed before other benches too; if you are in a 70% selection, check whether any order binds your zone.

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Which road suits you is a timing question as much as a skill question. A junior engineer with three years in Level 6 can only take the 70% selection. From five years, both may be open in the same cycle, but Southern Railway did not consider for the LDCE anyone already on the 70% extended panel for 2025-26. The LDCE rewards a high score regardless of seniority, and it penalises guessing; the selection is ordered by seniority once you qualify. The Konkan Railway, a public sector company rather than a zonal railway, also recruits AEN (Civil) directly through GATE — its 2026 notification (CO/P-R/03/2026, 19.08.2026) asks for a civil engineering degree with 60% (50% for the ST post), a GATE CE score from 2023 to 2026 and an age of 18 to 30 as on 01.08.2026, relaxed for OBC-NCL (to 33), ST (to 35) and serving KRCL employees (official). That is a different job with a different employer, not a promotion route.</p>

Absence is not permission. If your Service Register raises any of these questions, ask your Personnel Officer before the closing date; the notification makes the controlling officer responsible for certifying eligibility.

How applications were filed and filtered in 2025-26

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Southern Railway opened its own online portal from <strong>17:00 on 29.08.2025</strong> to <strong>23:59 on 18.09.2025</strong>, and personnel officers had to forward verified applications to headquarters by <strong>17:00 on 25.09.2025</strong>. It named three grounds on which an application is invalid: <strong>unsigned</strong>, <strong>no recent photograph</strong>, or <strong>no verification by the supervisory or controlling official</strong>. North Eastern Railway, notifying on 19.12.2025, took applications through the <strong>HRMS</strong> module until 15.01.2026 (official, Hindi notification).</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The filter is real. Southern Railway's eligibility letter of <strong>14.01.2026</strong> listed <strong>328</strong> employees as provisionally eligible. North Eastern Railway's list of <strong>20.04.2026</strong> names <strong>227</strong> provisionally eligible and <strong>13</strong> not eligible (our count of the list; it prints no reasons). A false statement in the application can lead to action under the Railway Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1968 — the notification says so in as many words.</p>

Reserved categories, PwBD and pre-selection training

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Where seats are reserved for SC and ST, the zone runs <strong>Pre-Selection Training (PST)</strong> before the CBT; attending is optional and you choose it on the application. Southern Railway's 27 seats included <strong>one PwBD seat</strong> earmarked for clause (c), locomotor disability, as a horizontal reservation. On relaxed marks for SC/ST candidates, see the scoring guide in this series: RBE 69/2026 (31.08.2026, reported) sets relaxed standards for the 30% LDCE in <strong>non-safety</strong> posts only, and we found no official list that says which side AEN falls on.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Group B selections are <strong>normally</strong> held once in two years for the vacancies of two years (IREM Vol I paras 201.2 and 202.2). The 2025-26 cycle covered 01.01.2025 to 31.12.2026, including anticipated vacancies up to 30.06.2027. No Board letter or zonal notification for the following cycle had been published on 29 September 2026, so there is no reckoning date to count to yet. Our reading of the two-year pattern is that the next cycle should begin on 01.01.2027, but that is an inference, not a date anyone has announced. Use the checker with the reckoning date in the notification when it comes.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">More in this series</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/railway-ldce-aen-score-normalisation-90-marks" style="color:#255a45">Scoring: deletions, rescaling and normalisation at 90</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/railway-ldce-aen-vacancies-candidates-by-zone" style="color:#255a45">Zone by zone: seats, candidates and pass rates</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/railway-ldce-aen-syllabus-part-a-part-b" style="color:#255a45">Syllabus: civil, railway, rules and GK</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/railway-ldce-aen-previous-papers-answer-keys" style="color:#255a45">Previous papers and official answer keys</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/exam-alert-and-updates-for-railway-ldce-aen" style="color:#255a45">Railway LDCE AEN notice board — official updates</a></li></ul></div>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Sources</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://southernrailway.gov.in/srhqpb/home/Gaz/notifications/2025/G25049_Notification.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Southern Railway — 30% LDCE for AEN notification No. P(G)532/I/AEN/30% LDCE/CCBT 2025-2026 dated 29.08.2025, with Annexure A (syllabus)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://southernrailway.gov.in/srhqpb/home/Gaz/notifications/2025/G25049_AlertNotice1.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Southern Railway — AEN 30% LDCE eligibility list letter dated 14.01.2026</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://ner.indianrailways.gov.in/uploads/files/1766397380714-AEN%2030%20%20Notification.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">North Eastern Railway — AEN 30% LDCE notification dated 19.12.2025 (Hindi), with Board letter E(GP)2022/2/4 dated 07.11.2022 (syllabus)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://ner.indianrailways.gov.in/uploads/files/1776687571494-List%20of%20Eligible%20and%20Not%20Eligible%20candidtaes%20for%20AEN%2030%20selection%202025%2026.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">North Eastern Railway — eligible / not-eligible list dated 20.04.2026, with Board letter E(GP)2024/2/37 dated 02.04.2026 and its calendar</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/codesmanual/IREM_VOL_1/IREM-Ch2_Data.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Railway Board — IREM Vol I, Chapter II (Group B promotion; parts superseded)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://secr.indianrailways.gov.in/uploads/files/1768289287994-Result_SECR_AEN_SIGNED.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">South East Central Railway — AEN 70% selection result 2025-26 (CBT 04.05.2025, 18.05.2025, 01.06.2025)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://er.indianrailways.gov.in/cris/uploads/files/1745838292324-Letter_for_CBT_70_All_Concerned.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">RRB/Ajmer letter No. EG/RRB/CBT/GBS/2025-26 dated 23.04.2025 — CBT protocol and instructions for the 70% Group B selection (enclosed on the Eastern Railway site)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://konkanrailway.com/sites/default/files/2026-08/NOTIFICATION_AEN_ASTE_AME_19082026_0.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Konkan Railway — Employment Notification CO/P-R/03/2026 dated 19.08.2026 (direct-recruit AEN Civil through GATE)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#8a5300;font-weight:700">reported</span> — <a href="https://indiankanoon.org/doc/178274120/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">CAT Guwahati Bench — order of 12.11.2025 quoting and upholding RBE 10/2025 dated 03.02.2025 (70% selection: viva at six times the vacancies, panel by seniority) (reported via Indian Kanoon)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#8a5300;font-weight:700">reported</span> — <a href="https://www.staffnews.in/2024/10/promotions-from-group-c-to-group-b-posts-centralized-cbt.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">staffnews.in — RBE 93/2024, negative marking removed in 70% selections, retained in LDCE (reported)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#8a5300;font-weight:700">reported</span> — <a href="https://www.gconnect.in/orders-in-brief/railways-orders-in-brief/eligibility-conditions-promotion-railway-board.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">gconnect.in — RBE 216/2019, eligibility for Group B selection and LDCE (reported)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#8a5300;font-weight:700">reported</span> — <a href="https://www.staffnews.in/2026/09/relaxation-in-the-qualifying-standard-marks-rbe-no-69-2026.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">staffnews.in — RBE 69/2026 dated 31.08.2026, relaxation in qualifying marks for SC/ST (reported)</a></li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472"><strong style="color:#1f7a45">official</strong> = a document published by the conducting body. <strong style="color:#8a5300">reported</strong> = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.</p></div>

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