Common online test for filling non-gazetted govt posts to ease difficulties faced by aspirants

National Recruitment Agency to conduct these exams (Representational picture)
The on-line Common Eligibility Test (CET) for recruitment to non-gazetted posts will ease the difficulties confronted by aspirants for presidency jobs, significantly these from poor and unprivileged sections, Union minister Jitendra Singh mentioned on Friday.

Releasing a digital ebook titled ‘Aarambh’ and highlighting the achievements of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), he mentioned even through the coronavirus pandemic this division set new requirements of functioning, which weren’t solely broadly hailed but in addition emulated.

For instance, the DoPT’s iGOT (Integrated Government Online Training Programme) included an unique course on coronavirus consciousness and COVID-19 warriors’ coaching for which inside a number of weeks over 23 lakh officers registered themselves, the minister mentioned.

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One of crucial initiatives this yr was the train to arrange the National Recruitment Agency (NRA), which is able to conduct computer-based on-line Common Eligibility Test (CET) for recruitment to non-gazetted posts with examination centres in each district, Singh mentioned.

This, he mentioned, will ease the difficulties confronted by aspirants for presidency jobs, significantly these from poor and unprivileged sections.

The minister mentioned, true to the title of ‘Aarambh’, the yr 2019-20 was marked with a lot of new beginnings, crucial of which was the first-ever experiment of interplay with Prime Minister Narendra Modi by 425 trainee officers from 21 civil companies on the Statue of Unity portraying Sardar Patel at Kevadia, Gujarat.

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These officers have been a part of the widespread basis course of 21 service and have been chosen by way of the Civil Services Examination, mentioned the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.

The businesses working below the aegis of the DoPT like, for example, Kendriya Bhandar promptly got here out to supply important provides of non-public protecting tools (PPE) kits, sanitiser and different objects within the early days of the pandemic when there have been some reviews of preliminary scarcity of this stuff in sure components of the nation, he mentioned, highlighting the DoPT’s achievements.

Among those that attended the launch of the e-book have been DoPT Secretary C Chandramouli and Additional Secretary Rashmi Choudhary, whereas the opposite officers related by way of video convention.

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