Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission invites applications for Asst. Engineer & Technical Officer 2013 - 936 Posts

Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) invited application for recruitment to the post of Assistant Engineer in different department. The candidates eligible for the post can apply through prescribed format before 24 January 2014.

Important Dates

• Opening Date for Registration: 24 December 2013
• Last Date for Receipt of Examination Fees in the Bank : 20 January 2014
• Closing Date for Registration: 24 January 2014

Details of Posts

Irrigation Department

• Assistant Engineer (Civil): 640 Posts
• Assistant Engineer (Mechanical: 89 Posts

Minor Irrigation Department

• Assistant Engineer (Agriculture: 10 Posts
• Assistant Engineer (Civil): 10 Posts
• Assistant Engineer (Mechanical): 04 Posts

Rural Engineering Services Department

• Assistant Engineer (Civil): 24 Posts
• Assistant Engineer (Electrical): 01 Posts

Land Development and Water Resources Department

• Bhoomi Sanrakshan Adhikari/Technical Officer: 08 Posts

Public Works Department (P.W.D)

• Assistant Engineer (Civil): 140 Posts

Ground Water Department

• Assistant Engineer (Civil): 06 Posts
• Assistant Engineer (Mechanical): 04 Posts

Total Number of Post: 936 Posts

Pay Scale: Rs. 15,600-Rs. 39,100/- (Grade Pay Rs. 5400/- Post- Class-II, Gazetted)

Eligibility Criteria

Age Limit: The age of Candidates must not be below than 21 years and must not complete  40 years as on 01 July  2013 i.e. they must have not been born earlier than 2 July 1973 and not after than 01 July 1992

Educational Qualification

• Assistant Engineer Electrical/Civil/Mechanical: Degree in Electrical/ Civil or Mechanical Engineering from an Institution or University recognized by the Government.
• Bhoomi Sanrakshan Adhikari/ Technical Officer: Bachelor degree in Agricultural/Civil Engineering from a University established by law in India or a qualification recognised by the Govt. as equivalent

Preferential Qualification : A candidate who has: (i) served in the Territorial Army for a minimum period of two years, or (ii) obtained a “B" certificate of N.C.C., or (iii) Successfully completed one year training as trainee, shall other things being equal, be given preference in the matter of direct recruitment.

How to Apply

Eligible candidates have to apply online in the prescribed application format before 24 January 2014. The last date of submitting the application fee is 20 January 2014. 

For details check the below link.

For Recruitment Page 

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IIT Kharagpur creates record, more than 1,000 students get jobs

Kharagpur has set a record among all IITs with more than a thousand of its students securing cushy jobs in the first phase of campus placements, officials said today.

Around 1,010 students of the Kharagpur campus accepted job offers in the first round of placements which ended in December.

At IIT Mumbai, there were 900 offers while IIT Delhi got about 750 offers and IIT Kanpur had around 700 offers.

IIT officials said, Kharagpur has achieved a new record with the maximum number of students getting jobs in the IIT system in one phase.

In addition to big names like Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Shell, Deutsche Bank, ITC, Schlumberger, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Abbott and EXL, start-ups like Flipkart and Housing.com were the ones who made multiple offers in dual figures.

The highest package offered was from a US-based company which has signed an IITian for an annual salary of $1.25 lakh (around Rs 77 lakh).

The highest domestic package was of Rs 37 lakh.

Two new dual degree programs - Financial Engineering and Engineering Entrepreneurship - proved to be a big hit with 85 per cent students from those courses being placed.

"The programs not only demonstrated acceptability by the industries, but projected the vision of IIT-Kgp for launching novel initiatives," said Prof Sudhir Kumar Barai, in-charge of training and placement, of the institute.

The number of companies offering placements have also increased this year with 195 organisations coming this time.

Barai said another 79 engineering students have accepted pre-placement offers from other companies.

(Courtesy : Times of India)

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IIT-KGP to set up research parks in Kolkata

Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) will expand its base here through research and innovation parks, an official release said on Monday. 


The move aims at merging industry and academia as well as fostering international collaborative studies. 

The hubs would give scope to young scientists from the institute to not only enhance their academic prospects but also boost their entrepreneurship skills, the release said. 

IIT-KGP plans to set up parks at Gopali, Kansabati and Rajarhat, besides the existing one at the Kharagpur campus. 

"The hubs would be a merger of all these areas. The project is on...and the first building would come up by early 2015," project in-charge Joy Sen told IANS. 

"The parks will be an extension of IIT-Kharagpur in the state capital," he said. 

The first Park will be developed in Kolkata. 

It will have facilities to house collaborative research laboratories of partner organisations, incubation units, and other academic and research facilities.

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For a new avatar of the AICTE

The policy paralysis at the top of the All India Council for Technical Education is manifested in different ways at all levels.

The present pitiable position of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) of is its own making. The AICTE, pre-Independent India’s recommendatory body, was in its 42nd year — in 1987 — vested with statutory powers through an Act of Parliament. The parliamentary wisdom hoped that the AICTE would discharge its statutory role of maintaining the standards and coordinated development of technical education in the country. During the 1970s and a part of the 1980s, a large number of unrecognised private self-financing/capitation-fee institutions came into existence in several States and most of them were sub-standard institutions run on a commercial basis and predominantly concentrated in four States, viz., Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Twenty-six years after the statutory incarnation of the AICTE, such an imbalance continues to exist with its stamping approval. The issue of regional imbalance was pointed out but ignored by the AICTE through a self-appointed committee.

Coupled with regional imbalance was the resultant negative impact on the national quality of technical education. This writer pointed out, in The Hindu on April 6, 1993, the AICTE’s functioning out of a two-bedroom flat with skeleton staff . Immediately, the MHRD made arrangements for a spacious building and appointment of necessary personnel in the AICTE. The personnel appointed were either retired, on deputation as an Advisor or on contract. This ‘triple personnel avatar’ affected three basic requirements in the functioning of a statutory body — accountability, transparency and continuity. Very rarely, the AICTE benefited from the aggregate wisdom of its three top posts — Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Member Secretary — and there were times when the AICTE was managed for many months with an official deputed from the Ministry.

The policy paralysis at the top manifested in different ways at all levels. When the AICTE was given statutory powers, the Ministry of Human Resource Development wrote to State governments that the AICTE would grant one-time approvals based on inspection of quality, infrastructure, etc., and that the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) to be set up by the AICTE would handle issues of withdrawal, renewal, etc. But it did not happen. Approval by the AICTE continues to be an annual paper exercise and even the High Court of Madras as early as 1990 deprecated the AICTE on granting of approvals subject to conditions on “temporary or provisional basis” against the provisions of the Act. The charitable approval policy of the AICTE also resulted in another suo motu admission of a writ petition by the Madras High Court recently, questioning the AICTE’s supportive role in the mindless mushrooming of engineering colleges.

Model curriculum in limbo

On the issue of academics and curriculum, the story is no different. The AICTE published a model curriculum for the undergraduate engineering programme in the year 2000 which till date has not been updated. An attempt made by the AICTE to make engineering education multi-disciplinary by blending Science and Humanities never took off despite 1,000 man-days having been spent on it. The AICTE did not even have a copy of its funded research project report on MBA education in India.

The AICTE Act mandated the organisation to evolve a suitable performance appraisal system for technical institutions and universities and incorporate norms and mechanisms for enforcing institutional accountability and formulate schemes for the initial and in-service training of teachers. It is yet to be accomplished. In the early 1990s, the AICTE made an honest attempt to improve the quality of teaching faculty through its well-planned Early Faculty Induction Programme (EFIP). This successful EFIP was killed, however, without the stakeholders having been consulted, much to the grief of its many beneficiaries. In respect of diploma education, the AICTE suffers from the “all power, no responsibility” syndrome. The AICTE chose to retain its power to grant approvals for polytechnics but all the other responsibilities are discharged by the respective Directorates of Technical Education or universities.

The AICTE failed miserably to even provide a model curriculum for diploma education. Professor V.C. Kulandaiswamy in 2000 rightly recommended that polytechnics, being extensions of Higher Secondary Schools and sub-university level education, must be left to State governments through the concerned universities. This was accepted and delegated to State Level Boards in 2001 but was withdrawn in 2010 because the delegation was done without proper provisions in the Act. The AICTE never bothered to fix the issue and continued to enjoy its “power without responsibility” status.

Prof. Kulandaiswamy rightly added that “there has been a progressive emasculation of the university system over the years. It is necessary to examine the desirability of weakening the universities which are grassroots-level institutions, by the AICTE taking over certain responsibilities that better remain with the universities. Also, if the AICTE takes over fully and faithfully all the responsibilities under clause 10 (k) devoting time to approve new institutions, new branches, new additions and involve itself in unending litigations, it may not be possible for it to fulfil all other functions under 10 (a) to 10 (v)”.

The AICTE did not realise the seriousness of the Prof. Kulandaiswamy’s recommendation and sought to continue with its “Approval Only” motto as if it were the organisation’s only function.

Consequential to the Supreme Court’s latest order withdrawing the AICTE’s powers of approval, the quality of technical education is at a crossroads. The proposed remedy that transfers power from one statutory body to the other, University Grants Commission (UGC) may become worse than the disease.

Hence, it is suggested that the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) should amend the Act with a five-point formula (i) allow the AICTE to function as per the provisions of the Act under Section 10 (k) to grant approvals for new institutions and or new programmes as a one-time event only and not as an annual ritual; (ii) vest affiliating Universities with the power to enforce the AICTE’s guidelines/regulations; (iii) leave diploma-level educational institution to Universities and State Directorates of Technical Education; (iv) direct the organisation to concentrate on producing competent teachers for technical education and (v) direct the promotion of innovations and research in all institutions based on competitive proposals besides attending to the other provisions of the Act. This five-point formula needs immediate legislation.

(The writer is the vice-chancellor of SASTRA University)

(Courtesy : thehindu)

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Career as Indian Airforce Officer

Career Overview :
The Indian Air force is the fourth largest air force in the world. Now that India is one of the Nuclear Weapon States, your thumb might just be on that nuclear trigger, you never know.

The airforce can be divided into:

* Flying Branch
* Technical Branch
* Ground duty branch

Now let’s see what’s in store for you in each of these branches:

Flying Branch - You’ll be flying fighter/bomber aircraft designed to destroy the enemy in the air and on the ground. As a transport pilot you will be ferrying troops and equipments under enemy fire often making rough landings at makeshift runways. You could even be assigned to V.I.P. transport.

As a chopper pilot you will closely co-ordinate with the army in its operations. You could spy on enemy positions or drop commandos with pinpoint accuracy or ambush enemy tanks with guns and rockets.

Technical Branch - For those of you with a technical bent of mind, the Indian Air Force offers an opportunity for hands-on experience on sophisticated aircraft and weapon systems. You will ensure the war preparedness of the fleet and the airworthiness of the aircraft.

Ground duty - You will look after administration, logistics, accounts, education and meteorology. You could also be the eyes in the sky as the air traffic controller and fighter combat controller.

Requirements

Flying BranchBefore being inducted as a trainee pilot at the Air Force Academy you have to finish a three-year course from National Defence Academy.
Age Limit: 16 ½-19 years

Educational Qualifications: Minimum 10 + 2 with Physics and Mathematics.
Entrance: Written examination conducted by UPSC followed by a Services Selection Board interview for those who pass the written examination.

Advertisement: In the month of April/ November by UPSC. The format of application will be available in the Employment News.

Air Force Academy (CDSE)Age Limit: 19 to 23 years

Educational Qualifications: B.Sc. (Physics and/ or Mathematics) or B.E.

Entrance: Written examination conducted by UPSC followed by a Services Selection Board interview for those who pass the written examination.

Advertisement: In the month of April/ November by UPSC. Successful candidates join the Air Force Academy directly for Pilot Training.

National Cadet CorpsAge Limit: 19 to 23 years

Educational Qualifications: B.Sc. Physics and/or Mathematics or B.E.

Entrance: Direct Services Selection Board interview.

Eligibility criteria for WomenStatus: Unmarried or widows of service personnel killed on duty but without any child.

Age Limit: 19-23 years, relaxable up to 25 years for those holding Commercial Pilot License.

Educational Qualification: B.Sc. Physics and/or Mathematics or B.E.

Advertisement: Published in the month of January and July each year in the Employment News and leading Newspapers.

Entrance: Directly qualify for interview by Service Selection Board.
Successful candidates join the Air Force Academy directly for Pilot Training.

Engineering 
Entry into the engineering branch can be achieved through the University Entry Scheme. Here, you are selected to join the Aeronautical Engineering Branches for Permanent or Short Service Commission while in the Pre-Final/ Final Year of your study in the Engineering Colleges.

Alternatively, you can opt for the Direct Entry Scheme after graduation.
Age Limit: 18 to 28 years

Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics)
(Permanent Commission or Short Service Commission)

• Engineering Degree in Electronics/Telecommunications/ Electrical
• Communication/Electronics and Communication/Computer Science & Engineering or a combination of these subjects OR
• B.Tech. in Radio Physics and Electronics of Calcutta University OR
• B.Sc. Physics with Electronics of Bombay University OR
• M.Sc. Electronics of Delhi, Bangalore, Madras, Gujarat, Lucknow or Calcutta University OR
• B.Sc. with Physics, Maths and Chemistry.

Aeronautical Engineering (Mechanical)(Permanent Commission or Short Service Commission)

• Engineering Degree in Aeronautical/ Mechanical/Production/ Industrial
  Production OR
• B.Sc. with Physics, Maths and Chemistry

Advertisement: Applications are called for twice a year in the month of January and July through advertisement published in the leading newspapers/Employment News.
Entrance: Written examination conducted by UPSC followed by a Services Selection Board interview for those who pass the written examination.

Ground DutiesYou would be inducted in one of these departments – Administrative, Logistics or Air Traffic Controller/Fight Controller (Short Service Commission) branches.

Age Limit: 20-23 years for graduates and 20-25 years for post graduates

Educational Qualifications: Graduates with 60 per cent and above marks and post graduates with 50 per cent and above.

Candidates with an MBA or post graduate diploma in Business Administration (Two years full time or three years part time course from institutes recognised by All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE) with 50 per cent and above marks and between the age group of

20-25 years can also apply.

For Law graduates (three-year course) with 50 per cent and above marks the age is relaxable to 26 years. LLB (five-year course) with 50 per cent marks and above can also apply provided they are in the age group of 20-25 years.

Advertisement: It is released in leading newspapers or Employment News in January and July for the administrative branch.

In January for Logistics Branch and in March for the Air Traffic Controller and Fighter Controller Branches.

Accounts BranchAge Limit: 20 to 23 years for Graduates and 20 to 25 years for post graduates.

Educational Qualifications: B.Com/B.Com. (Hons) with 60 per cent and above marks and M.Com. with 50 per cent and above marks.

For candidates with AICWA/Chartered/Registered/Incorporated Accountant together with B.Com or M.Com degree the age is relaxable upto 27 years.

Advertisement: Released in leading newspapers/Employment News in the month of July each year.
Entrance: Through SSB interview

Education BranchAge Limit: 21 to 25 years.

Educational Qualifications: M.A/M.Sc. with 50 per cent and above marks in English/Psychology/Defence Studies/Mathematics/Physics/Statistics/Computer Science or an MBA with 50 per cent and above marks with a combination of minimum two subjects out of Physics, Maths, Statistics, English, Psychology or Defence Studies at B A/ B.Sc. level.

Candidate with Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Two year full time or three years part time course) from Institutes recognised by All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE) with 50 per cent and above marks can also apply. For those who have done their M.Ed/ PhD, the age limit is relaxable up to 27 years.

Advertisement: Advertisement is released in leading newspapers/ Employment News in the month of July each year.

Entrance: Written examination conducted b y UPSC followed by a Services Selection Board interview for those who pass the written examination.

Meteorological BranchAge Limit: 20 to 25 years.

Educational Qualifications: MSc in Physics/ Applied Physics/ Meteorology/
Geophysics with Meteorology and Oceanography/ Oceanography with specialisation in Meteorology/

M.A/M.Sc. in Mathematics or Applied Mathematics/M.tech in Atmospheric Science from IIT Delhi with 50 per cent and above marks.

Advertisement: Advertisement is released in the leading Newspapers/ Employment News in the month of July each year.

Entrance: Written examination conducted by UPSC followed by a Services Selection Board interview for those who pass the written examination.

Candidates must be in accordance with the prescribed physical standards i.e. they should be physically fit and free from any disease or disability and excess fat. The minimum acceptable height for the Air Force is 162 cm.

(For Gurkhas and residents of north-eastern India, Garhwal and Kumaon, the minimum acceptable height is 5 cm lower than the standard and from candidates from Lakshadweep, the minimum height is lowered by 2 cm.)Candidates must have perfect eyesight (known as 6/6 vision).

Besides these general conditions, each training institute and examination have their own standards and requirements.

Job Opportunities 
Flying branch officers have to opt for a permanent commission of 20 years. Short Service commission of seven years is offered for all other branches.

Your career growth usually takes this route:

• Commissioning rank- Flying Officer
• 5 years-Flight Lieutenant
• 11 years -Squadron Leader
• 16-21 years – Wing Commander
• 22 years – Group Captain
• 24 year – Air Commodore
• 26 years – Air Vice Marshal
• 28 years – Air Chief Marshal

Money & Other Benefits 
Flying Officer Rs 8,500 – 10,050

Flight Lt. Rs 9,600 – 11,400

Sq. Leader Rs 11,600 – 14,850

Wing Commander Rs 13,500 – 17,100

Group Captain Rs 15,100 – 17,350

Air Commander Rs 16,700 – 18,050

Air Vice Marshal Rs 18,400 – 22,400

Air marshal Rs 22,400 – 24,500

Air Chief Marshal Rs 30,000

In addition to the above fighter pilots get flying pay of Rs 9,000 per month. For helicopter and transport pilots, it is Rs 7,000.

Other facilities include leave benefits, travel concessions, dearness allowance, furnished accommodations, soft loans, group insurance scheme and free ration and medical treatment.

Career Prospects

Airforce pilots after retirement can move on to commercial airlines. This is true for all other branches as the civilian airline industry mirrors the defence one. With flying clubs and adventure sports gaining popularity there is a need for qualified personnel in these areas too.

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Hiring foreign teachers will now be easier for IITs

NEW DELHI: Giving a big boost to the IITs plan to hire teachers from abroad, the home ministry has relaxed the income criteria for grant of employment visa to them. 

With this, IITs can hire faculties from abroad with a salary of $14000 per annum as per the revised norms. Earlier, visa was not allowed to those who would get a salary of less than $25,000 per annum. 

"We have already informed the IITs about the relaxation in norms," said an HRD ministry official, adding the new norms would help these institutes tide over the faculty shortage to an extent. 

However, the relaxation will be given for two years up to December 31, 2015 and it will be reviewed taking into account the progress in the intake of foreign faculty. 

While providing the relaxation, the home ministry has also made it clear that norms will be available only for those recruited as teaching faculty and not for exclusive research positions in strategic areas or in strategic institutions. 

The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and central universities would also be benefited from this, the official said. 

IITs, which face up to 30 per cent faculty shortage are willing to recruit foreign nationals on contract basis for posts of assistant professors or associate professors. 

The IIT council had a couple of years ago given the go-ahead for inducting foreign teachers up to 10 per cent of the total faculty strength. 

The new norms would, however, not be available to foreign nationals coming from countries such as China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Sudan, he said. 

On the issue of recent reports of foreign students admitted to IIT Kanpur facing problems in local police stations at the time of registration, the official said they have taken up the matter with the highest level in Uttar Pradesh administration and have sought home ministry's intervention. 

As per rule, foreign students are required to get themselves registered at the local police station within a fortnight of arrival.

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Robots to teach students

To explore the world of Robotics, iRobokid has come up with a unique way to teach children via robots. The iRobokid team consists of a team of educators and engineers, which uses robotics as a medium to create, test, and deploy hands-on, mind-on activities and curriculum designed to teach STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to children of today.

The idea is to get children future ready via robotics, to get our children on par v/s global peers and so they are enabled to think and act on their own. iRobokid is the venture of four friends, with diverse qualifications in varied fields, ranging from advertising & marketing, metallurgy, agricultural commodities to engineering bound by a single passion of enhancing and empowering quality technological education and awareness to the generation of tomorrow. iRobokid aims at giving children an early introduction to science and technology in a manner which is friendly, pleasing and interesting. The aim is to make science and technology interesting and at the same time challenging.

The vision of iRobokid is to provide an early opportunity for children to embrace technology creativity and to challenge their skills and be inspired to explore and enjoy the wonders of technology. The curriculum of iRobokid is developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Lego. The content and methods are structured and modified based on age, groups and appropriate levels.

(Courtesy : TOI)

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NMDC Limited, Hyderabad Notified Recruitment to the Post of Assistant Manager 2013

NMDC Limited, Hyderabad, a Navaratna Public Sector Enterprise under Ministry of Steel, Government of India, is a multi location, multi product Mining and Mineral Exploration Organization with more than Rs. 11000 crore turn-over.

NMDC Limited, Hyderabad issued notification inviting applications for filling up two Assistant Manager vacancies with the Information Services department at its upcoming Steel Plant at Nagarnar, near Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh state. Interested candidates should send their applications on or before 4 January 2014.

Important Dates

Last Date for receipt of applications: 4 January 2014

Vacancy Details

Name of the Post: Assistant Manager (E1)

No of Vacancies: 2 posts

Discipline: Information Services

Pay Scale: Rs. 20600 - 3% - 46500;

CTC: Rs. 8.9 lakhs per annum;

Eligibility Criterion

Age Limit: (as on 4 January 2014)

Minimum: 18 years

Maximum: 45 years

Upper age limit is relax-able up to 5 years for SC / ST category candidates and up to 3 years for OBC category candidates.

Essential Qualifications: MCA or BE / B. Tech (Computer / CS / IT) or Degree in Engineering with PG Diploma in Computer Application Programming / Computer Management / System Management.

Candidates having post-qualification in the functional area of Network Administrator will be preferred.

Post-qualification Experience: at least 2 years post-qualification is required;

Selection Procedure: Selection will be done on the basis of candidates’ performance in the Interview.

Outstation candidates called for Interview will be reimbursed to and fro single AC – II tier rail fare by shortest route, on production of proof.

How to Apply: Interested eligible candidates should send their applications in the prescribed format along with attested copies of required certificates / documents / testimonials and their recent passport size photograph to "The Asssistant General Manager (Personnel) - (R&P), NMDC Ltd., 10 – 3 – 311 / A, "Khanij Bhavan", Castle Hills, Masab Tank, Hyderabad-500 028" so as to reach the concerned authority on or before 4 January 2014.

On the envelope, candidates should super-scribe Employment Notification No. and Name of the post applied for. 

Candidates should mention their valid e-mail ID and mobile / phone no in the application form to facilitate prompt communication.

Candidates willing to apply for more than one post should send separate application for each post.

For Detailed Notification : http://www.nmdc.co.in/Careers/Default.aspx

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