Railway AFA LDCE Dates and Results: From NAIR Sittings to ECoR Panel

The AFA 30% LDCE has been held centrally since 2022: three times by NAIR, Vadodara (20.11.2022, 25.06.2023 and a special drive on 04.08.2024) and once by RRB/Ajmer, on 24.05.2026 and 31.05.2026, after three postponements. Results are not published centrally. Each zone receives its railway-wise marks and runs its own medical, viva and panel. By 30 September 2026 we had found one zone's complete 2025-26 AFA result: East Coast Railway, which empanelled 7 candidates for 8 seats on 21.08.2026. RRB/Ajmer's own Group B page still said its content "will be published soon".

Against the revised calendar, East Coast Railway's result order came about four weeks after the date set for RRB/Ajmer's result, and its panel 25 days after the panel date (our arithmetic). The ECoR result order of 20.07.2026 is cited in the viva letter; we did not find it posted on its own.

Neither NAIR nor RRB/Ajmer publishes an all-India AFA result, pass count or vacancy total. NAIR published only papers and keys. Results live with the zones, which post them on their own websites if they post them at all. On 30 September 2026 we found:

So there is no all-India AFA pass rate, and we do not estimate one from a single zone. East Coast Railway's figures — 7 of 50 present reaching a normalised 90, 7 of 8 seats filled, the ST seat empty — describe one cohort in one zone. Its full breakdown is in the pass-marks guide. For the other Group B posts of the same CBT, the Group B LDCE notice board tracks updates.

A zonal AFA result arrives as a sequence of short letters rather than one list, and each answers a different question. The result order comes first: ECoR's was Office Order 1/33/2026 of 20.07.2026. We did not find it posted; the viva letter calls candidates "in continuation" of it, so it is, on our reading, the zone's declaration of who qualified in the CBT. The viva letter (ECoR, 06.08.2026) names who is called, in alphabetical order, with a date, time and place, and asks for a bio-data form in triplicate; only candidates found medically fit may sit the viva. The panel (ECoR, Office Order 1/38/2026 of 21.08.2026) lists the empanelled in panel position, says against which category of vacancy each is placed, and states that it is provisional, subject to cases pending in the courts, and approved by the General Manager. Some zones also post the CBT marks table as RRB/Ajmer furnished it; ECoR's AFA table gives the final mark and the normalised score for every candidate, present or absent.

The LDCE follows two-year vacancy cycles: 01.01.2023-31.12.2024, then 01.01.2025-31.12.2026 (with anticipated vacancies to 30.06.2027 in the Board's letter). On that pattern the next AFA cycle would begin on 01.01.2027 — our inference; no Board letter had announced it by 30 September 2026. The Board's letter of 16.04.2026 fixes a common cycle 01.01.2027-31.12.2028 only for Miscellaneous and Isolated cadres, not Accounts. When the next cycle comes, expect the same sequence: a Board letter, then your zone's notification with its cut-off date, HRMS applications, an eligibility list and pre-promotional training for SC/ST candidates, then the CBT.