The Railway Service commission, Danapur found the small office at the back of DRM Office, Danapur too small to execute its responsibilities. In November, 1981, therefore, the Railway Service Commission, Danapur was shifted in a private building on Jamal Road in Patna. Along with its shifting to Patna the Railway Service commission, Danapur was re-christened as Railway Service Commission, Patna vide the Railway Board's letter dated 19th December, 1981. The Railway Service Commission, Patna was re-christened on 2/1/1985 as Railway Recruitment Board, Patna as per directive of Railway Board. In the year 1985, the other eventful mark in Railway Recruitment Board, Patna's history was that its office was shifted to the Railway building in Mahendrughat on 31/7/1985 from a private building at Jamal Road.
Since then, the Railway Recruitment Board, Patna has been functioning in the same building and discharging its responsibilities of making recruitment selections for its present jurisdiction of Danapur, Mughalsarai, Dhanbad Divisions (East Central Railway) & Head Quarter of East Central Railway and Katihar Division (Northeast Frontier Railway).