Special Class Railway Apprentices SCRA are the candidates selected by the Union Public Service Commission, after a thorough selection process who are then admitted to the undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Jamalpur. Every year more than 1.5 lakh candidates appear for a SCRA entrance exam conducted by UPSC. After the completion of their training, those apprentices are absorbed into the highest level leadership program in the railway organization.
