RRB NTPC age limit: are you eligible?
Railway Recruitment Board — Non-Technical Popular Categories · Railway Recruitment Boards
General category
18 – 33 years
measured on as on 1 January of the recruitment year.
This year’s notification is not out yet. These figures come from the previous one. They are here so you can plan — not as this year’s official limits.
We have not been able to confirm these figures against the official notification. Check the source below before you rely on them.
Check your own date of birth
Your age is measured on the cut-off date, not today — which is why knowing your age is not the same as knowing whether you qualify.
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Age relaxation by category
Relaxation raises the upper limit only. It never lowers the minimum age.
| Category | Relaxation | Upper limit becomes |
|---|---|---|
| General / UR | — | 33 years |
| OBC (non-creamy layer) | +3 years | 36 years |
| SC | +5 years | 38 years |
| ST | +5 years | 38 years |
| PwBD (disability) | +10 years | 43 years |
| Ex-servicemen | +3 years | 36 years |
What the number above does not tell you
🔴 If you have seen 36 printed elsewhere, that figure ALREADY contains a one-off relaxation of +3 granted over the normal graduate ceiling of 33. Treating 36 as the base and adding your category relaxation on top would overstate your limit by three years. We use 33 as the base. RRB NTPC also splits into undergraduate posts (lower cap) and graduate posts (higher cap); 33 is the graduate level.
Source
The notification is the authority on every figure on this page — not us. Open the official page for RRB NTPC.
Figures on this page last reviewed 9 August 2026. Age limits change between notifications; if this date is old, trust the notification and not this page.
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