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NIC Recruits Scientific Officer & Engineer; 235 Posts

National Informatics Centre (NIC), a premier IT organization of Government of India invites young IT professionals to join its ranks to take up challenging assignment in the domain of e-Governance.

Scientist-C

Pay scale: 15600-39100 (GP-6600)

Age limit: 35 years.

Total no. of posts: 10

Job description/ requirements: Promotion, planning, design, development and implementation of computerization service of NIC to a Department of Government or an associated organisation. Systems Analysis and Software development, Optimization and Modelling, Expert System development, Managing Information Systems and training. Experience in the technology area of Biometric, Cyber Security, System Designing, Analysis, Network and Database are desirable.

Eligibility:(a) Ph.D in Computer Science/ Mathematics/ Statistics / Operations Research/ Engineering; OR (b) M.E./M.Tech. in Computer Science/ Engineering with First Class or minimum 60% marks in aggregate and with 3 years relevant experience; OR (c) B.E./B.Tech./MCA/M.Sc in Computer Science / Engineering with First Class or minimum 60% marks in aggregate and with 5 years relevant experience in computer programming; OR (d) Master’s degree in Physics/ Maths/ Statistics / Operation Research with Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science from a Govt. recognized institution / University and 5 years of experience in computer programming is essential. The Master’s degree and Post Graduate Diploma should be with 60% marks in aggregate or equivalent grade.

Scientific Officer/ Engineer-SB (Programmer)

Pay scale: 9300-34800 (GP 4600)

Age limit: 30 years

Total no. of posts: 58

Reserved posts: SC-8, ST-4, OBC-15, UR-31, PH (OH, HH) - 2

Job description/ requirements: Development of software tools and packages for various projects in the areas of MIS application, RDBMS, Network, Multimedia, AI etc. Experience in the technology area of Biometric, Cyber Security, System Designing, Analysis, Network and Database are desirable.

Eligibility: (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 computer programming is essential. The Master’s degree and Post Graduate Diploma should be with 60% marks in aggregate or equivalent grade.

Scientific/ Technical Assistant-B

Pay scale: 9300-34800 (GP 4200)

Age limit: 30 years

Total no. of posts: 167

Reserved posts: SC-25, ST-12, OBC-45, UR-85, PH (OH, HH) - 5

Job description/ requirements: NICNET operations, assistance in Programming, Analysis & MIS support, coordination of Users and other support functions. Experience in the technology area of Biometric, Cyber Security, System Designing, Analysis, Network and Database are desirable.

Eligibility: (a) Master’s degree in Physics/ Mathematics/ Statistics / Operations Research / Economics (with specialization in Information Technology) with atleast 60% marks in aggregate and One year experience of computer programming is essential; OR (b) Bachelor’s degree in Physics/ Maths / Statistics / Operations Research/ Economics (with specialization in Information Technology) either with Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science/ Computer Applications (from a Govt. recognized Institution/University) and one year experience in computer programming or with atleast 3 years experience in Computer Programming or equivalent is essential. The Bachelor’s degree and Post Graduate Diploma should be with 60% marks in aggregate; OR (c) B.Sc. in Computer Science or BCA with atleast 60% marks in aggregate and one year experience of computer programming is essential.

Selection process:
For Scientific Officer/ Engineer-SB and Scientific Technical Assistant-B posts:

* Written test on Computer Programming and related topics for the duration of about two hours for screening the candidates
* Candidates who qualify the written exam will be called for a personal interview.