New Delhi, Dec. 2 -- Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) is all set to conduct exams for the selection into Non-Technical Popular Categories (NTPC), Group D, Ministerial (Steno and teacher) and isolated category. The exams will begin on December 15, RRB Chairman and CEO Vinod Kumar Yadav said on Tuesday.

A total of 2.44 crore applications have been received for 1.4 lakh vacancies announced under RRB, he said. For the NTPC category, RRB received more than 1.2 crore applications against 35,208 vacancies; for the Group D exam, a total of 1,15,67,248 applications have been received against 1,03,769 vacancies and for the Ministerial and Isolated category posts, a total of 1,663 vacancies posts will be filled, and a total of 1,02,940 candidates ar...