What RRB Paramedical is
The Railway Recruitment Boards recruit across nine paramedical categories, Nursing Superintendent, Pharmacist (Entry Grade), Dialysis Technician, ECG Technician, Laboratory Assistant Grade II, Radiographer, Health and Malaria Inspector Grade II, Optometrist, and Audiologist and Speech Therapist, through one combined notification rather than nine separate recruitment cycles. This page covers the whole category rather than splitting it into nine near-identical pages, since all nine posts share one notification, one application window and one exam structure even though their qualifications differ post by post. Nursing Superintendent and Pharmacist are the two largest categories by vacancy count and the ones candidates search for most specifically.
Who can apply
Qualification is genuinely post-specific, not a single bar across the category. Nursing Superintendent asks for a B.Sc Nursing or GNM (General Nursing and Midwifery) qualification from a recognised institution, along with Registered Nurse and Midwife (RN, RM) registration. Pharmacist (Entry Grade) asks for a B.Pharm or Pharm.D degree with valid pharmacist registration. The remaining seven categories each carry their own post-specific qualification set out in the notification; do not assume a nursing or pharmacy qualification carries over to a different category. The general age band runs 18 to 40 years, with the exact figure for your specific post confirmed against the notification rather than assumed from the overall range, since age limits are set per post within this combined recruitment, similar in structure to how RRB NTPC bundles multiple post types under one cycle.
How selection runs
Selection runs on a single Computer Based Test per candidate, covering professional and technical knowledge specific to your own category alongside General Awareness, Reasoning and General Science, followed by document verification and a medical examination. There is no interview and no physical efficiency test.
Preparing the application
Photograph and signature specifications match the standard RRB format: a recent JPEG photo between 20 and 50 kilobytes, light background, and a scanned signature between 10 and 20 kilobytes on white paper in black or blue ink. The photo resizer and signature resizer on this site adjust an existing photo or signature to the required size in the browser.
The application fee is five hundred rupees for general candidates. SC, ST, women, EBC, ex-servicemen, transgender and minority candidates pay two hundred fifty rupees.
On exam day
Reach the centre at least ninety minutes before the reporting time on your admit card. Carry the printed e-admit card, an original government photo identification, and two passport size photographs matching the one on the admit card. Mobile phones, smartwatches, calculators, earphones and any other electronic device are prohibited inside the examination hall.
Confirm your specific category’s details
Because this notification bundles nine genuinely different professional categories, the qualification, exact age band and vacancy count that matter to you are the ones for your specific post, not the combined total this page states. Read the category-wise breakdown in the full notification before assuming your professional registration and qualification clear the bar; a nurse checking Pharmacist eligibility, or the reverse, is checking the wrong section entirely.
For anything this page cannot answer, treat the RRB common application portal, linked above, as the last word: the full nine-category vacancy breakdown, post-specific eligibility and the official notification PDF are published there.