National Recruitment Agency

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National Recruitment Agency
AbbreviationNRA
Formation19 August 2020;4 years ago (2020-08-19)
TypeCentral Recruitment Agency
Headquarters New Delhi, India
Region served
India

National Recruitment Agency [1] is a Central Recruitment Agency established by the Government of India, that will conduct a Common Eligibility Test (CET) [2] for selection to all of the Group C and Group D employee posts in all central government establishments which includes all of the central public sector undertakings and all of the central autonomous bodies. [3] NRA has representatives of Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Finance, SSC, RRB and IBPS.

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Background

Before the establishment of the National Recruitment Agency, the recruitment exams to all of the Group 'C' and Group 'D' post under the Government of India (including Indian Railways, ministries and all central public sector units), were done separately and most of these posts required similar education qualification. These multiple recruitment examinations were a burden to candidates as they had to pay fees to multiple recruiting agencies and also travel long distances to complete the duplicate exams. [4]

In order to avoid these problems faced by the candidates, creating a National Recruitment Agency was proposed by Nirmala Sitharaman, finance minister of India on her 2020-21 budget [5] speech on 1 February 2020. [6] And on 19 August 2020 the Union Cabinet decided to set up a National Recruitment Agency which will conduct a Common Eligibility Test (CET) twice a year for the different posts. [4] The Union Cabinet approved Rs 1,517-crore for this purpose, which the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Jitendra Singh described as “one of the most landmark reforms in the history of Independent India”.The Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted: “The National Recruitment Agency will prove to be a boon for crores of youngsters. Through the common eligibility test, it will eliminate multiple tests and save precious time as well as resources. This will also be a big boost to transparency”. [6]

Composition

The National Recruitment Agency will have representatives of:

Features of Common Eligibility Test (CET)

The Common Eligibility Test (CET) will replace the current preliminary examinations held by SSC, IBPS, RRB, other departments, organisations, central public sector units and ministries under central government for recruitment to Group C and Group D posts under union government civil services , union government defence services and also various other posts in all the union government services. Separate CETs will be conducted for matriculate level, higher secondary and graduate applicants . The scores received in these exams will be valid for 3 years [6]

Medium of CET

The Common Eligibility Test (CET) of National Recruitment Agency (NRA) will be conducted in 12 languages (Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu) that are in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India and in English. [7]

Number of Attempts

The aspirant will be allowed unlimited attempts within a prescribed age limit to better his CET score, with the best being considered. [6]

Venue of Exam

Applicants need not travel outside their respective district to access a test centre, with 1,000 centres proposed countrywide with at least one per district. Also, money spent on fees for multiple recruitment tests will be saved. The CET score, which will be generated immediately, shall be made available to the candidate as well as the individual recruitment agency and can be expected to improve transparency. [6]

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