UPSC Engineering Services Examination 2012

 

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will be conducting a combined competitive examination for recruitment to the Engineering services/posts under categories: Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering. UPSC will hold Engineering Services Examination 2012 commencing on 15th June, 2012. The number of vacancies to be filled on the results of the examination is expected to be approximately 560 including 47 PH vacancies.

Exam Name: Engineering Services Examination 2012

 

Educational Qualification: Candidate must hold a degree in Engineering or equivalent. Provided that a candidate applying for the posts of Indian Naval Armament Service (Electronics Engineering Posts) and Engineer Group A in Wireless Planning & Coordination Wing/Monitoring Organization may possess M.Sc.Degree or its equivalent with Wireless Communication, Electronics, Radio Physics or Radio Engineering as a special subject. Candidates who qualify on the results of the written part of the examination will be summoned for personality test.

Application Fee: Rs.100/- either by remitting the money in any Branch of SBI by cash or by using net banking facility of State Bank of India/State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur/ State Bank of Hyderabad/ State Bank of Mysore/ State Bank of Patiala/ State Bank of Travancore or by using Visa/ Master Credit/Debit card. No fee for SC/ ST/ Female / PH candidates.

How To Apply: Candidates are required to apply Online through www.upsconline.nic.in up to 9th April, 2012 till 11.59 PM.

Detailed Info: http://upsc.gov.in/exams/notifications/2012/ese/eng.pdf

RBI invites applications from eligible Indian citizens, for the post of Assistant vacancies to fill up 1000 posts.

Vacancy details: A total of 1000 vacancies available for Assistant jobs 2012 in RBI across various regions. Out of which45 for Ahmedabad, Bangalore - 45, Bhopal - 30, Bhubaneswar 40, Chandigarh 25, Chennai 90, Guwahati 40, Hyderabad 45, Jaipur 35, Jammu 25, Kanpur & Lucknow 45, Kolkata 145, Mumbai 225, Nagpur 30, New Delhi 65, Patna 40, Thiruvanathapuram & Kochi 30.

Pay scale: The selected candidates for RBI recruitment 2012 for Assistant vacancies are offered with starting basic pay of Rs.8860/- in the scale of 8040-20100/- with allowances such as DA, HRA, CCA, TA as admissible and as per norms. At present their initial month Gross salary for RBI assistant posts will be approximately Rs. 19340/-

Age limit: The age limit for RBI recruitment 2012 for Assistant job should be between 18 and 28 years as on 01.03.2012. However the upper age limit is relaxed by 5 years for SC/ST, 3 years for OBC, 10 years for PWD. 

Educational qualification: The candidates should have acquired Bachelor's degree in any discipline with minimum of 50% marks in the aggregate. Pass mark is enough for SC/ST/PWD candidates. The candidates should have working knowledge of word processing on computer. Please note that the candidate should have passed the examination from the university / board within the recruitment zone of the concerned office to which he or she is applying. More over the candidates should have acquired the said education as on 01.03.2012.

Selection process, Exam Pattern & Syllabus

Selection process: The selection process for RBI recruitment for assistant job 2012 is based on Written Exam followed by Interview. The qualified candidates from the written exam only be allowed for interview. The selected candidates for recruitment for Assistant jobs in RBI will be initially posted in the Bank's office within the recruitment zone on which they have applied for. 

Exam pattern: The RBI Assistant 2012 exam pattern will be of Objective type multiple choice questions which has 5 parts which carries 40 marks each. The candidates needs to qualify in each of the part for next level in the selection process. The candidates have to select to write their written examination on only center and they have to mention its name and code number in the online application form.

Syllabus: The syllabus for RBI assistant exam 2012 consists of 5 parts which is of objective type questions. 1) Test of Reasoning 2) Test of English language 3) Test of Numerical Ability 4) Test of General Awareness 5) Test of Computer Knowledge.

How to Apply

Application fees: The candidates need to pay Rs. 385/- towards application fees and SC/ST/PWD candidates need not pay any fees. 

How to apply: First scan your photograph and signature as per the instruction given on official website. Then access online application form for RBI recruitment 2012 for Assistant jobs. 

To make the payment offline: Dully fill the particulars and save the entered details. On saving the data, you will get registration number and password which is displayed on the screen. Don't forget to note your registration and password as you need it for future use. You can re-edit your saved application to make neccessary correction but it is allowed only three times. Once finished, hit the submit button, where you have to take a print out of system generated fee payment challan. Then you need to pay the fees from the 2nd working day after your registration was made. You can make the payment in any of the following banks Bank of Baroda / Bank of India / IOB/ Central Bank of India / PNB/ United Bank of India. Your payment of fees confirms your completion of your registration process of RBI recruitment 2012 for assistant jobs. You will get confirmation registration by sms/email after two working days from the date, you made the payment. 

To make the payment online: Follow the same procedure as above but when you opt for online fee payment, the challan will not be generated and the payment has to be made online through payment gateway for which the instruction will be displayed on the screen. You can make the payment using your Master / Visa Debit or Credit Card or by Netbanking. On completion of your transaction, you will get e-receipt and application form which will be generated and you need to take this printout for future reference.

Starting date of online registration: 01.03.2012

Last date for online registration: 25.03.2012

RBI Assistant exam 2012 date: 29.04.2012

Payment of fees at Bank branches: 01.03.2012 to 27.03.2012 

Apply Online through the Site:www.rbi.org.in

Proposed new postal security standards for International Mail

The UPU’s official bodies, the Council of Administration and the Postal Operations Council, last week endorsed a proposed resolution on minimum security standards for international mail.

The proposal will be put forth for formal adoption by UPU member countries at the 25th Universal Postal Union Congress in Doha, Qatar, in September/October 2012.

If approved, the proposed standards would force Posts worldwide to apply measures to better screen international mail and take custody of it. Posts would have to apply minimum security standards to critical facilities in their network, such as international offices of mail exchanges, which process arriving and departing international mail.

According to UPU Postal Security Expert David Bowers, the standards would establish a security baseline to the global postal network, thus reassuring civil aviation and customs organizations that international mail has gone through minimum screening measures. “Our goal is to harmonize our international standards with the ones developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization to guide air transportation of mail,” explains Bowers.

International effort

The new proposed standards are the result of two years of work by the UPU’s inter-committee on security group. It includes representatives from UPU member countries and major international organizations, such as the International Air Transport Association, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the World Customs Organization and the United States Transport Security Agency, among others.

The UPU set up the group to tighten security standards for the global postal supply chain after rigorous TSA screening measures were unilaterally applied to international mail travelling to the United States in late 2010 after two packages containing bombs were found on private courier flights destined for the United States. The packages, sent from Yemen, were intercepted in Dubai and the United Kingdom.

The UPU launched a concerted effort among all relevant parties to come up with standardized security standards for the global postal supply chain to increase the security of mail travelling by air.

Member countries had adopted recommended security standards at the last Universal Postal Congress in Geneva in 2008, but there was no obligation to implement them.

Source: Universal Postal Union News

RTI APPLICANTS COUGH UP MORE, CUT WORD COUNT

Bhopal, Mar 12, 2012(TNN): Faced with the ‘problem’ of managing flood of RTI applications, BJP government inMadhya Pradesh has mooted a proposal to double fees on application and appeal, raise fee for document copy and to impose other restrictions such as “word count” for each request-a move that could trigger protests from the supporters of the transparency law. 

We here are, unfortunately, trying to restrict the people's right on one pretext or the other. Civil society has to wake up to protest against any such moves.

By proposing to amend the relevant RTI rules, the government plans to increase the existing fee of Rs 10 per application to Rs 20, double the fee for first appeal from Rs 50 to Rs 100 and to make a five- fold increase in fee for second appeal. If the amendment comes through, anyone moving the second appeal before the state information commission would have to shell out Rs 500 as against the existing fee of Rs 100. 

Insiders say that the government is also planning to restrict to 150 the “word limit” per application and also to restrict the number of subjects to be mentioned in one application to ensure that only one subject is entertained by the Public Information Officers (PIO) at a time. Besides, sources claim that the new rules could also have a provision that anyone, filing an RTI application, should also furnish a copy of the photo identity card to check the possibility of applications being filed in pseudonymous names. 

Sources claimed that the state government is empowered to make rules under section 27 (1) and (2) of RTI Act 2005 which stipulate that the government may make rules to carry out the provisions of the Act to decide the cost the cost of the medium or print cost price of the materials to be disseminated and the fee payable and so on. 

Legislative Assembly secretariat in Chhattisgarh, another BJP ruled state, recently increased the RTI application fees by 900% from Rs 50 to Rs 500 and the increase in fees per document copy to Rs 15 per page had invited criticism from the National Campaign for Peoples’ Right to Information (NCPRI) and others. Earlier, Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi had also written to Chhattisgarh chief minister, Speaker, and leader of the opposition to re-consider the decision to hike RTI fees. 

“A proposal has come up at the government level. It’s being examined. It’s too premature to divulge any details”, official sources confirmed. 

RTI activist Ajay Dubey said “the state government is planning to make amendments in the RTI rules through a notification. The amendments being considered are against the very sprit of the transparency Act, aimed at introducing cumbersome procedures to discourage people from using the RTI tool to elicit information”. 

Dubey said he had already written a letter to the state Governor Ram Naresh Yadav, seeking his intervention to stall the proposed amendments as it would amount to defeating the very purpose the historic transparency Act. 

Few months ago, he said, state government had also misused section 24 (4) of the RTI Act to keep the special police establishment of the Lokayukta and the State Bureau of Investigation of Economic Offences (EOW) out of the purview of the RTI Act 2005 as both these anti-corruption agencies were dealing with sensitive cases involving politicians and bureaucrats. “Till today, the state government has failed to put this notification before the state legislature, which is a mandatory requirement under section 24 (5) of the RTI Act, 2005″, he pointed out. 

“Bad habits are easy to copy”, quipped Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi, who had protested against the Chhattisgarh legislative assembly secretariat, when his comments was sought on Madhya Pradesh move to increase RTI fees and introduce restrictions on word counts.

He said “RTI itself is getting lesser attention in the country with the civil society being engaged in many other issues. World over rights of people, even the fundamental rights in many countries, are being expanded further”. “We here are, unfortunately, trying to restrict the people’s right on one pretext or the other. Civil society has to wake up to protest against any such moves”, he added.

Revised recruitment rules for HSG I & HSG I adhoc arrangements

       UPSC has approved revised recruitment rules for HSG I. after several rounds of discussions with the  officers of India Post. The Department of Posts has fulfilled the requirements of the UPSC. Now the file may go to Law Ministry .After that our Department will issue gazette notification notifying the revised recruitment rules for HSG I.

    Department of Posts has approached DOPT for approval of adhoc arrangements for HSG I. Approval is expected with in a week and formal orders likely to be issued shortly. 

Courtesy: ipaspandhra blog

Railway Recruitment Boards invites applications for recruitment of 6449 posts. Last Date : 09.04.2012

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS 

RAILWAY RECRUITMENT BOARDS

Date of Publication : 10-03-2012

Date and Time of Closing : 09-04-2012 upto 17.30 hrs 

Date of Exam : 09-09-2012 

(refer para 17 of the general instructions)

CENTRALISED EMPLOYMENT NOTICE NO.01/2012

   Applications are invited in the prescribed format as enclosed (on a good quality A-4 size bond paper 80 GSM using one side only) from eligible Indian Nationals for the following posts.  Applications complete in all respects along with required enclosures should be sent  by post to the concerned Railway Recruitment Board, as mentioned in Para-15 of General Conditions, so as to reach on or before 09-04-2012  upto 17.30 hrs.  The applications can also be dropped in the box kept at the premises of RRB offices concerned , till the closing date. For candidates residing in Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, Jammu & Kashmir, Lahaul & Spiti districts and Pangi sub-division of Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, Andaman, Nicobar and Lakshwadeep islands and for  candidates residing abroad, the closing date for receipt of applications by posts will be  24-04-2012 upto 17.30 hrs.

CANDIDATES PLEASE NOTE :

(1) Written examination will be held on the same day by all participating RRBs. 

  

(2) Participating RRBs have given choice of regional languages, candidates have got the option to choose any one of the regional languages at the time of applying.

(3) No examination fee for SC/ST/Ex-Servicemen/Physically Handicapped/Women/Minorities / Economically backward classes candidates having annual family income less than Rs.50,000/-

(4) Candidates should refer Para-16 of general instructions for submission of Single / Separate application to the RRB concerned.

(5) Candidates may refer to para 12 of General Instructions regarding online submission of application.

For more details please click here to view the notification copy

Govt opens Face book account to create awareness

 The Information and Broadcasting ministry has opened a dedicated account on social networking site Face book to interact with people to create awareness about its plans to digitize the cable sector.


Officials in the I & B ministry hope that the 'Wall' on the face book account would become an interactive platform.

“The Government has launched a new and dedicated face book account, namely, www.facebook.com /DigitalIndiaMIB to facilitate exchange of information and clarifications on a wider canvas of public participation, covering a whole gamut of public concerns,” a statement from the ministry said today.

The ministry’s facebook account carries answers to some of the frequently asked questions  and provides links to other connected organizations involved in digitization.

Officials in the ministry hope that the ‘Wall’ on the facebook account would become an interactive platform and also be a source of information for individuals as well as the stakeholders like the Multi-System Operators and Cable Operators.

The ministry has set an ambitious deadline for complete digitization of the Cable sector by December 31, 2014. In Phase I of this plan, the four metropolitan cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata have to be digitalised by June 30 this year.

The digital switch-over of cable television necessitates adequate public awareness about the new system and the changes to be made at the level of stakeholders including television viewers to be digital ready by the cut-off dates, the statement said.

The I and B ministry is also planning special awareness campaigns in conjunction with state governments to disseminate information related to digitization.

Announcement of Inspector Posts exam Result

It is ascertained that Directorate will  take some more time to announce the result of Inspector Posts Examination 2011. Though everything is ready to announce the result, it could not be announced because of allowing of  Postmaster Grade I cadre officials to write the examination erroneously by some of the circles and the Directorate is examining the various options to avoid the possible CAT / Court cases before announcement of the result.

Posted by ipaspandhra 

India's postal services to cost more

For the first time in ten years, India Post will soon increase charges for postal services upto 20% to meet its operational costs. The decision, which awaits the Reserve Bank of India's approval, would rake in additional revenue of about Rs. 1000 crore as it gears up to convert more than 1.5 lakh post offices into full-fledged banks.

The hike on speed post, inland letters, money orders and post cards also comes because the government has moved towards corporatisation of India Post. Post offices currently offer financial services such as savings bank accounts, postal life insurance, pension payments and money transfer services.

A top india post official confirmed that the hike has been approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission. India Post officials argue that the charges are heavily subsidized and much lower than the cost of services being offered by private courier services.

Despite having initiated the new hybrid mail service ePost, railway ticket vending and sale of gold coins, India Post has not been able to generate additional revenue. Till last November, it earned over Rs. 81 lakh.

Source:SAPARAVUR

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