Scientific Officer post at NIC; Last Date: Jan 20th

National Informatics Centre (NIC)

NIC provides e-Governance services to the Government at different levels such as Central Government, State Government and District/Sub-District Administration. NIC provides spectrum of services in the domain of e-Governance including consultancy/business process reengineering, software development and roll out of applications at National level. As a part of its support to the Government, NIC has established extensive ICT infrastructure having satellite based network at more than 3,000 locations across the country, Video Conferencing facilities in 490 districts and Nationwide network including 1,00,000 (approximately) Local Area Network (LAN) nodes in different offices of central/state governments.

This infrastructure referred to as NICNET provides extensive IT services including national/state level Data Centres, e-mail, web hosting, etc. Wide range of technologies in the area of Networking, database management, application development tools such as JAVA, .NET etc. are being used by NIC professionals to build e-Governance solutions in different domains. NIC, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to IT professionals to get extensive exposure to the state of the art, as well as futuristic technologies and also provide real life large scale implementation platform for e- Governance solution for Government at different levels in the country.

In order to meet the increasing demands for providing technical services for Data Centres and related technology areas, NIC invites application from bright and committed Indian nationals with good academic background/records in the following technical position.

POST & SCALE OF PAY

Post - Scientific Officer/Engineer-SB (Programmer)

Scale of Pay - Rs. 9300 - 34800 (PB2) Grade Pay 4600
Total emoluments Rs.26,880/-p.m. approximately in ‘A’ Class cities
with usual allowances like DA, HRA etc. as per Government of India orders from time to time. The place of posting can be anywhere in the country.

No. of Vacancies : Total – 265 ( SC : 39 ST : 19, OBC : 71, UR : 136 )

Horizontal Reservation : Eight vacancy reserved for Physically Handicapped (OH)

These Posts Are For The Duration Of Five Years. After Completion Of Five Years, The Personnel Posted Against These Posts Are Likely To Be Continued In Nic.

Job Description / Requirements:
Design, development, implementation and maintenance of software projects for various Government Departments / Organizations. Technical support to various areas relating to Data Centre Management, such as System Administration, Database Administration, Storage Systems Management, Networking, Data Security etc.

Qualification and Experience:
(a) B.E./B.Tech/MCA with first class or minimum 60% marks in aggregate or equivalent and specialization in Computer Science/Computer related areas;
or
(b) M.Sc in Computer Science with first class or at least 60% marks or equivalent;
or
(c) Master’s degree in Physics/Maths/Statistics/Operation Research with either Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science from a Govt. recognized institution/University or at least three years of experience in the areas indicated under Job Description is essential. The Master’s degree and Post Graduate Diploma should be with minimum 60% marks in aggregate or equivalent grade.

The written test and the Personal Interview will be held as per the Schedule given below.

Date of Written Examination - 22/02/2009, Sunday

Tentative Venue
Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi and Thiruvananthapuram.

Date of the Personal Interview for qualifying Persons - Starting from 09/04/2009

Tentative Venue
National Informatics Centre,
A-Block, Cgo Complex Lodhi Road,
New Delhi Pin – 110 003.

AGE LIMIT: 18-30 years as on last date of receipt of applications. The age relaxation will be as per Government of India instructions/rules.

Candidates who fulfill the prescribed qualifications and experience may send their application in the prescribed format through online submission in the website

http://recruitment.nic.in.

No other mode of submission of forms will be entertained. Candidates can opt for the written examination venue at the time of filling the application on line. No change of Venue / Date will be entertained under any circumstances.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:

All applicants will have Apply online.

Before filling the application form, Kindly read the instructions given in the detailed advertisement carefully.

Candidates are advised to note down the Roll Number displayed on the screen after submitting their application for any future reference.

Applicants will have to take print out of the Acknowledgement Slip after filling the online application. If you have missed taking the print out, click the link Duplicate Ackn. Slip for taking a copy of the same.

For printing the duplicate Acknowledgement Slip, the Roll Number and Date of Birth is required.

If your academic marks are in point scale/grade, convert that into percentage while filling the qualification details.

Rounding of percentage of marks is not allowed (For example if your percentage of mark is 59.9 write only 59).

While filling the employment details, mention only the monthly emoluments against the total emoluments column.

Note: Characters like , ~ $ < > ( ) % / \ - + : ; should not be entered in ANY of the FIELDS

For Feedback if any, regarding filling up of the Online Application Form mail to : recruitment.nic(at)nic.in

All communications related to the candidate will be available on the NIC web site

http://recruitment.nic.in.

No separate communication will be sent regarding the Written Test and Interview.

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