As many as 6,141 positions of train ticket examiners (TTEs) were vacant as on April 1 this year, Lok Sabha was informed today.
The number of vacant positions as on April 1 last year was 6,022 and the corresponding figure in 2013 was 5,109, Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha said in a written reply in the Lower House.
As on April 1, 2012, the number of TTEs positions which were not filled up was 4,566, while it was 4,920 on the same date in the previous year (2011), he added.