ALL INDIA COMPETITIVE EXAM FOR GRANT OF ICAR_SRF(PGS)-2011( EXAM DATE: 4.12.2011, Application deadline:30.8.2011)

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
Rajendranagar, Hyderabad 500407, Andhra Pradesh
NOTIFICATION
ADVT No. ICAR-SRF (PGS)/2011
All India Competitive Examination for grant of
ICAR-SRF (PGS)-2011

Applications are invited from eligible candidates for the grant of ICAR Senior Research Fellowship  (PGS)-2011 for pursuing Ph.D. degree in the field of Agriculture and allied Sciences. The candidates should have Master’s Degree in the concerned discipline. The examination will be held on 04-12-2011 (SUNDAY).

IMPORTANT DATES(i) Last date for receipt of filled in applications: August 30, 2011

(ii) Last date for receipt of filled in applications from remote:    September 6, 2011
areas; namely Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh

Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, Laddakh

Division of J&K State, Lahaul & Spiti district and Chamba

district of Himachal Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar Island,

and Lakshdweep

(iii) Date of Examination: (Change, if any, will be notified) December 4, 2011 (Sunday)

(iv) Likely date of declaration of result : End of March 2012

1. Day and date of examination : Sunday, the 4th December 2011

(Change, if any, will be notified)

2. Duration : Paper I : 10.30 AM to 12.00 Noon

Paper II : 2.00 PM to 4.30 PM

AGE:

The minimum and maximum age limit shall be 21 years and 30 years respectively for General Category.

Relaxation in upper age limit of 5 years will be admissible to candidates from SC/ST and PH categories. For candidates belonging to OBC, relaxation in upper age limit for 3 years will be admissible.For in-service candidates, the maximum age limit shall be 45 years in all cases. The crucial date for determining the minimum and maximum age limit for all categories will be the date of examination. Candidates seeking age relaxation should submit an attested copy of the Caste Certificate issued by the prescribed authority of Government of India in the form given in the bulletin at Annexure – II (for SC/ ST) candidate and at Annexure III for OBC. A Physically Handicapped (PH) and Visually Handicapped (VH) person seeking to apply for this examination should submit an attested copy of certificate about being handicapped from a Government Hospital/ Medical Board alongwith his/ her application form.

RESERVATION: 15% of the total SRF are reserved for SC candidates, 7.5% for ST candidates and 3% for PH candidates

subject to their being otherwise suitable. The responsibility of verification of the genuineness of SC/ST/OBC and PH certificates will be of the concerned Agricultural University (AU) where the candidate has been granted admission. If suitable candidates are not found for reserved seats for PH candidates, the same will be filled as per merit from general category. In case sufficient number of candidates of a category are not available to fill up the seats, the fellowships will not be awarded/transferred to another category.

VALUE AND TENURE OF FELLOWSHIPThe Fellowship will be awarded to meritorious candidates seeking admission in the listed State Agricultural Universities, ICAR Deemed Universities, Central Universities having faculty of agriculture, Central Agricultural University or any other approved University/ Institute where Ph.D. Degree programme consists of course work with definite credit hours and research work/thesis. The fellowship will be at the following rates:

Postgraduate other than in Veterinary Science Rs. 12000/- p.m. (fixed) for 1st & 2nd year.

Rs. 14000/- p.m. (fixed) for 3rd year.

Postgraduate in Veterinary Science Rs. 14000/- p.m. (fixed) for 1st & 2nd year.

Rs. 15000/- p.m. (fixed) for 3rd year.

(Contingent grant of Rs. 10,000/- per year for procurement of essential chemicals, books, and travel connected with research work will also be paid to all the awardees).

EXAMINATION PROCEDURE

The candidate who fulfills the eligibility requirement may appear in the written competitive examination. There will be two papers in written examination, i.e. Paper – I & Paper – II.

The examination will be in English.

Paper – I: will be a composite paper on General Knowledge common for all subjects. The questions will be designed to test the ability of candidate’s awareness of the environment around him / her and its application to the society. It will contain questions on General Knowledge in Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Dairying, Fisheries and Allied Sciences, etc. including current events and such matters of every day observation and experience as may be expected to be known to a research scholar. It will be of one and a half hour (90 minutes) duration having 100 objective type questions with multiple choice answers, for a total of 100 marks. The weightage of this paper will be 25%. There will be negative marking (–25%) for each wrong answer. The paper will be evaluated through computer scanning.

Paper – II: This paper will also be objective type having subject - specific multiple choice OMR based

questions. This paper will be of two and a half hours (150 minutes) duration, having a total of 200 objective type questions with multiple choice answers, for a total of 200 marks. These 200 questions in each major subject paper would cover questions from all the sub-subjects listed under each major subject. For example, in the major subject of Plant Sciences, there will be equal distribution of questions from the sub-subjects Agronomy, Genetics, Plant Breeding, and Seed Technology, making a total of 200 questions. The weightage of this paper will be 50%.

The paper will be evaluated through computer scanning.

Paper – II will be evaluated of those candidates only who qualify in Paper – I. Cut-off percentage for

Paper – I would be decided at the time of evaluation. No request for re-evaluation of papers will be entertained.

The candidates are advised to fill OMR Sheet strictly as per instructions. Any wrong information in the OMR sheet regarding Roll No., Code etc., and also carelessness on the part of candidates in filling the bubbles of OMR sheet will result in cancellation of his/her candidature. No request for re-evaluation, etc. will be entertained. Final ranking for SRF would be drawn subject area-wise on the basis of marks obtained by a candidate in the written examination (25% weightage for Paper I and 50% weightage for Paper II) and his/her academic performance at undergraduate and postgraduate level (25% weightage).

without grant of SRF.

Candidates who have not produced attested copies of their degree and final mark sheets will not  be considered at all. The in-service candidates will be awarded SRF, only if they come in the overall merit list of their concerned subject areas. A list of those candidates who qualify as per cut-off marks, but do not come in the merit list for award of SRF will also be prepared and circulated to the Agricultural Universities to facilitate their admissions in Ph.D.

HOW TO APPLY

The candidates can download application form from the website, fill it up and send it along with the requisite certificates and examination fee of Rs.1200/- for General/OBC and Rs.600/- for SC/ST/PH candidates, to the Controller of Examination, NAARM, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad 500407 on or before 30-8- 2011 (06-09-2011 for remote areas).

FOR FURTHER DETAILS regarding the Information Bulletin, Application Form, etc., please visit NAARM website: (http://www.naarm.ernet.in/, http://icar.naarm.%20ernet.in/) and ICAR website (http://www.icar.org.in/) between 19-07-2011 and 16- 08-2011.