Govt.Jobs: Department Of Posts : India Prospectus & Application For Recruitment Of Postal Assistants/Sorting Assistants Jobs

Posted on August 23rd, 2010

DEPARTMENT OF POSTS : INDIA

THE DETAILS IN THIS PROSPECTUS ARE APPLICABLE FOR RECRUITMENT FOR THE FOLLOWING POSTS:
a) Postal Assistants in Post Offices. f) Postal Assistants in Foreign Post Offices.
b) Postal Assistants in Circle Office and Regional Offices. g) Postal Assistants in Mail Motor Services.
c) Postal Assistants in Savings Bank Control Organization h) Postal Assistants in Postal Stores Depots.
d) Sorting Assistants in Railway Mail Service.
e) Postal and sorting Assistants in Army Postal Service.

1. SCALE OF PAY : The scale of pay is Rs. 5200 – 20200 + Grade pay Rs. 2400/- + admissible allowances.
2. PROBATION : The candidates selected will be appointed and will be on probation as per rules till the successful completion of probation as per rules.

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS :
3.1 Age : (a) Between 18 to 25 years as on last date prescribed for receipt of application as shown in the advertisement and in the list containing vacancy position supplied with this prospectus.
Upper age limit is relaxable for a) SC/ST by 5 years b) OBC by 3 years
c) Physically handicapped by 10 years ; and d) Ex-Servicemen by the Length of Military Service plus three years.

METHOD OF SELECTION :
-The aggregate marks for selection will be 100. consisting of 40% weightage of percentage of marks secured in 10+2 or 12 th Class, 50% weightage of marks secured in aptitude test and 10 marks for computer test (including typing skill on computer)
-A merit list of the candidates will be prepared on the basis of marks in the aggregate secured by them in 10+2 or 12th Class Examination of recognized University or Board of School Education or Board of Secondary Education (excluding vocational streams). This merit list is on the basis of 40% of the percentage of marks secured by the candidate in 10+2 or 12th Class Examination. For example if a candidate has secured 70% of marks in 10+2 or 12th Class Examination, he would be awarded 40% of 70 i.e., 28 marks for the purpose of preparing merit list.
- Out of this merit list, candidates equal to 10 times of vacancies (for each community separately as per the vacancies reserved for each community) will be called for to appear for the Aptitude test / written test. The candidates selected will be addressed to appear for the Aptitude Test. Those who desire to appear for the Aptitude
Test should credit an examination fee as under :-
i) Rs. 100/- for General Candidates and Rs. 50/- for Schedule Castes / Scheduled Tribes / OBC / Ex-Servicemen / Physically handicapped candidates in any Post Office and produce the receipt at the time of appearing for the test.
- The Aptitude Test will contain 50 objective type questions of 2 marks each and will include questions on English,Mathematics, Genral Knowledge and Reasoning and Analytical ability. The duration of the test will be 60 minutes.
50% of the marks secured in aptitude test will be given weightage for the final assessment.
- The computer test consists of data entry knowledge and typing knowledge on computer. The test will consist of one passage in English or Hindi to be typed to test the typing knowledge (The Passage for type test will consist of 450 words in English or 375 words in Hindi to be typed at the minimum speed of 30 w.p.m) and data consisting
of figures and letters to test the knowledge of data entry. The test shall be for 30 minutes – 15 minutes for each part i.e., Typing knowledge and data entry and each part shall be given 5 marks each. Marks shall be given at 0 or5 based on whether the candidate achieves minimum standard or not. There will not be graded marks.

The weightage for computer test will be 10 marks.
-The marks secured in computer test will be added to the marks already secured in the components referred to in paras 5.2 and 5.4 above and final merit list will be prepared. The final selection will be made on the basis of this final merit list.
- Attendance in Aptitude Test and Computer Test (including typing skill) is mandatory for selection. Those who fail to appear for these tests will not be selected.

THE EXAMINATION WILL BE HELD ON 14-11-2010 AT 10.00 A.M

LAST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS: 5^th Oct 2010
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