ICMR Recruitment 2020: 80 Assistant (Group-B) Posts - Apply Online

ICMR, accordingly, invites online applications from the citizens of India for recruitment to the regular posts of ASSISTANT (Group-B Level-6) at Indian Council of Medical Research Headquarters, New Delhi, and its Institutes/ Centers across India. Only those applications which are successfully filled through the website and found in order shall be accepted. Candidates should go through the Recruitment Notice carefully before applying for the post and ensure that they fulfill all the eligibility conditions like Age-Limit/ Essential Qualifications (EQs)/ Category etc. as indicated in this Notice. Candidature of applicants not meeting the eligibility conditions will be canceled at any stage of the recruitment process without any notice. Candidature of Applicants shall be purely PROVISIONAL at all stages of the recruitment process.

Required Qualification

Minimum three years Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognized University/ Institute and Working Knowledge of Computer (MS Office/ PowerPoint).

Selection Procedure

Recruitment to Selection Posts will be made through Written Test in Computer Based Mode consisting of Objective Type Multiple Choice Questions.

1. The written examination (in English language only) would be of 80 minutes duration and will consist of 80 multiple choice objective type questions. Each question shall be of one mark. There will be a negative marking to the extent of 0.25 marks per question for a wrong response. During these 80 minutes, the candidates will be required to undergo a biometrics test or photo-matching to check any impersonation in the examination.
2. The Qualifying marks for written test/ skill test shall be 50% for UR/OBC/EWS and 40% for SC/ST/PwBD category. As the Government of India has dispensed with the holding of interview for Group ‘B’ and ‘C’ (non-gazetted) posts, there will be no interview for these posts and the candidates will be selected on the basis of merit in the written examination and skill test only.
3. On the basis of written examination, candidates, five times of the vacancies advertised will be short-listed. The result of the written examination for shortlisting of the candidates will be uploaded through a notice on the website i.e. www.icmr.nic.in and www.pgimer.edu.in of the Institute within one week of the date of holding the written examination.
4. The shortlisted candidates will be required to apply afresh offline within the prescribed time along with all the certificates/ documents/ testimonials etc. on a given format which will be made available on the website of the Institute along with the notice for shortlisting of the candidates on the basis of written examination. Shortlisted candidates will be required to furnish the following certificates/documents/ testimonials along with their offline application:-
   a) Print out the online application form.
   b) Self-attested/attested copy of mark sheet of Matric, 10+2, and other higher qualifications as per the requirement of the recruitment rules of the post concerned.
   c) Self-attested/attested copy of caste/category certificate viz. SC/ST/OBC/EWS/PwBD.
   d) No Objection Certificate from the present employer in case a candidate is working in Govt./Semi Govt./Autonomous Body etc.
5. Notice of eligibility/ provisionally eligible/ not eligible will be uploaded on the websites. A candidate who will be found eligible/ provisionally eligible by the Scrutiny Committee, his/her result will be compiled provisionally and they will be called for skill test.
6. Shortlisted candidates in merit list including those on the waiting list who have been declared eligible by the scrutiny committee and qualified in the skill test, where ever prescribed, would be called to appear personally for document verification with originals on a day and time to be intimated to them through a notice on the websites. Accordingly, candidates whose certificates in support of their age, educational qualification, and experience, etc. are in order would be finally selected for these posts on a merit basis.
7. It is made clear that merely appearing for the written test and skill test does not make a candidate eligible for the post for which the candidate has applied.
8. The final selection of candidates declared eligible after scrutiny of the applications will be made on the basis of total marks obtained by them in the written test and skill test.
9. SC, ST, OBC, and PH candidates, who are selected on their own merit without relaxed standards, along with candidates belonging to other communities, will not be adjusted against the reserved share of vacancies. Such SC, ST, OBC, and PH candidates will be accommodated against the general/ unreserved vacancies in the post as per their position in the overall Merit List or vacancies earmarked for their category, whichever is advantageous. The reserved vacancies will be filled up separately from amongst the eligible SCs, STs, OBCs, and PH candidates who are lower in merit than the last general candidate on the merit list of unreserved category but otherwise found suitable for appointment by relaxed standard.

Application Fee

• PWD candidates:- Exempted from payment of the fee.
• SC/ ST/ EWS/ Women:- Rs.1200/- plus Transaction Charges as applicable.
• For all others:- Rs.1500/- plus Transaction Charges as applicable.
• The candidates can deposit the above application fee through an online payment gateway available at the APPLICATION PORTAL using Debit/ Credit Card/ Net Banking.