THE NEW INDIA ASSURANCE COMPANY LTD
Wholly Owned By Govt. of India
Regd. & Head Office: New India Assurance Building, 
87, M.G., Road, Fort, Mumbai- 400001
www.newindia.co.in

REF NO: CORP.HRM/AO/2016. 10 October 2016

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit http://www.newindia.co.in/

On-line registration and payment of application fees: 14th October to 1st November 2016

RECRUITMENT OF 300 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS (GENERALISTS) (SCALE-I)

The New India Assurance Company Ltd., a leading Public Sector General Insurance Company & wholly owned by Government of India, invites applications for recruitment of 300 Officers (Generalist) in Scale I
cadre from open market.

Post: Administrative Officers (Generalists)(Scale-I)
No. of posts: 300, out of which 03 for Visually Impaired
Qualification: A candidate must possess the minimum qualification of a graduate/post graduate in any discipline from a recognised University or any equivalent qualification recognised as such by Central Government with at least 60% marks in either of the degree examination for General candidates and at least 55% marks for SC/ST/PWD candidates.

Age Limit: 21-30 years

A candidate appointed in the Officers’ cadre on regular pay rolls of the Company shall be on probation for a period of one year from the date of joining the duty.

The probation period may be extended twice by a further period of six months at a time stretching up to one year.

Age relaxation: 10 years for PwD candidates.

Emoluments & Benefits:  

Basic pay of Rs. 32,795/- in the scale of Rs. 32795-1610(14)-55335-1745 (4)-62315 and other admissible allowance as applicable. Total emoluments will be approximately Rs.51,000/- p.m. in Metropolitan Centers. Other benefits such as  coverage under National Pension System governed by PFRDA, Gratuity, LTS, Medical Benefits, Group Personal Accident Insurance etc. shall be as per rules. 

The Officers are also entitled for Company’s / leased accommodation as per norms.

 Definitions:

PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: Under Section 33 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1995 only such persons would be eligible for reservation who suffer from not less than 40% of relevant disability and are certified by a Medical Board appointed by the Central/State Govt.
Accordingly, candidates with the following disabilities are eligible to apply:

Visually Impaired (VI):

Blindness refers to condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions namely (a) Total absence of sight, (b) Visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses. (c) Limitation of the field of vision subtending in angle of 20 degrees or worse.

Low vision means a person with impairment of visual functioning even after treatment or standard refractive correction but who uses or is potentially capable of using vision for the planning or execution of a
task with appropriate assistive device.

Guidelines for Persons with Disabilities using a Scribe:

Those candidates who are visually impaired or affected by cerebral palsy with loco-motor impairment and whose writing speed is affected can use own scribe at own cost during the online examination. In all such cases where a scribe is used, the following rules will apply:

The candidate will have to arrange his / her own scribe at his/her own  cost. 

The scribe may be from any academic stream. 

Those candidates who use a scribe shall be eligible for compensatory time of 20 minutes for every hour of the examination. 

 The same scribe cannot be used by more than one candidate. In addition, the scribe arranged by the candidate should not be a candidate for the examination. If violation of the above is detected at any stage
of the process, candidature of both the candidate and the scribe will be  cancelled. Candidates eligible for and who wish to use the services of a scribe in the examination should invariably carefully indicate the same in the online application form. Any subsequent request may not be favorably entertained.

The Scribe should not be an active-employee of The New India Assurance Co Ltd. 

Both the candidate as well as scribe will have to give a suitable undertaking confirming that the scribe fulfils all the stipulated eligibility criteria for a scribe mentioned above. Further in case it later transpires that he/she did not fulfill any laid down eligibility criteria or suppressed material facts, the candidature of the applicant will stand cancelled, irrespective of the result of the examination.

Visually Impaired candidates:

Visually Impaired candidates (who suffer from not less than 40% of  disability) may opt to view the contents of the test in magnified font and all such candidates will be eligible for compensatory time of 20
minutes for every hour of examination. 

The facility of viewing the contents of the test in magnified font will not be available to Visually Impaired candidates who use the services of a Scribe for the examination. These guidelines are subject to change in terms of GOI guidelines/ clarifications, if any, from time to time 

SC/ ST / PWD: Rs. 100/- (Intimation Charges Only)

The examination will be conducted online in venues given in the respective call letters.

HOW TO APPLY:

Candidates to go to the Recruitment Section of Company’s website http://newindia.co.in and click on the option "APPLY ONLINE" which will open a new screen.

Candidates are required to take a printout of the e-receipt and online Application Form. Please note that if the same cannot be generated, online transaction may not have been successful.