The setting up of the National Recruitment Agency (NRA) to conduct Common Eligibility Test has been approved by the cabinet. While Briefing the media yesterday, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar termed it as a historic decision which will benefit job seeking youth of the country. He said, this fulfills the long standing demand of the youth of the country.
A Common Eligibility Test will be conducted by the National Recruitment Agency to screen and shortlist candidates for the Group B and C (non-technical) posts. The NRA will have representatives from the Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Finance, SSC, RRB and IBPS. Special emphasis on creating examination infrastructure in the 117 Aspirational Districts would go a long way in affording access to candidates nearer to the place they reside. The CET score of the candidate shall be valid upto a period of three years from the date of declaration of the result. The best of the valid scores shall be deemed to be the current score of the candidate. No restrictions shall be imposed on the number of attempts to be taken by a candidate to appear in the CET subject to the upper age limit. Relaxation in the upper age limit shall be given to candidates of SC/ST/OBC and other categories as per the extant policy of the Government. Candidates will have the facility to register on a common portal and give the choice of Centres. Government has sanctioned a sum of 1517.57 crore rupees for the National Recruitment Agency. The expenditure will be undertaken over a period of three years. National Recruitment Agency will guarantee transparency and ease in recruitment process, both for the candidate and the recruiting organisation. CET scores can be shared with Central and State Governments, PSUs, private sector thus reducing recruitment costs of these organisations. Initially the NRA will conduct CET twice a year. Suparna Saikia, AIR News, Delhi.
last evening, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a series of tweet that the National Recruitment Agency will prove to be a boon for crores of youngsters. Mr Modi said, through the Common Eligibility Test, the NRA will eliminate multiple tests and save precious time as well as resources. He said, this will also be a big boost to transparency.
Home Minister Amit Shah thanked the Prime Minister for giving approval for the creation of National Recruitment Agency (NRA). In a series of tweets, Mr Shah said, this transformational reform will remove the hurdles of multiple exams for central government jobs through CET.
The Cabinet which met under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister also approved a proposal for leasing out three airports of the Airports Authority of India through Public Private Partnership. Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said, the three airports are Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram.
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved Fair and Remunerative Price of sugarcane payable by sugar mills for the sugar season 2020-21 at 285 rupees per quintal for a basic recovery rate of 10%.
CCEA also approved one-time relaxation to Power Finance Corporation and Rural Electrification Corporation for extending loans to DISCOMs above limits of working capital cap of 25% of previous year’s revenues under Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana.
