Pension and Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA
Advt. no. 02/2022

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit https://www.pfrda.org.in/writereaddata/links/final%20advertisement%20202...

Last date for submission of Online Application : 07.10.2022

RECRUITMENT OF OFFICER GRADE ‘A’ (ASSISTANT MANAGER) 2022 

GENERAL, FINANCE AND ACCOUNTS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH (ECONOMICS), LEGAL AND OFFICIAL LANGUAGE (RAJBHASHA) STREAMS

Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA/ Authority), is a statutory regulatory body
in the financial sector established under PFRDA Act (23 of 2013) passed by the Parliament of India with the
mandate to promote, develop and regulate the Pension Sector in India.

PFRDA invites applications from Indian citizens for filling up the posts of Officer Grade ‘A’ (Assistant Manager) for the General, Finance and Accounts, Information Technology, Research (Economics), Legal and Official Language (Rajbhasha) Streams

Assistant Manager
General
No. of posts 15, out of which 01 for Visually Impaired
Qualification - Master's Degree in any discipline
or Bachelor's Degree in Law or Bachelor's Degree in
Engineering from a recognized University or ACA/ FCA from ICAI or ACS/ FCS from ICSI or ACMA/FCMA from ICMAI (erstwhile AICWA/ FICWA from ICWAI) or CFA from CFA Institute.

The PwBD candidates may belong to any category (i.e. GEN/SC/ST/OBC/EWS) and they will be eligible for age relaxations. Reservation for PwBD is horizontal and within the overall vacancies for the posts. In case no suitable person with benchmark disability is available for filling up the reserved vacancy, PFRDA may fill up the vacancy by a person other than a Person with Benchmark Disability.

PwBD means a person with not less than forty per cent of a specified benchmark disability where specified disability has not been defined in measurable terms and are eligible to apply in the GEN/SC/ST/OBC/EWS category. They will be eligible for concession in applicable fee.

Upper age limit 30 years

Relaxation of 10 (ten) years for PwBD candidates shall be applicable whether the post is reserved or not. Relaxation of 13 (thirteen) years for PwBD (OBC) candidates where vacancies are reserved for OBC candidates. Relaxation of 15 (fifteen) years for PwBD (SC/ST) candidates where vacancies are
reserved for SC/ST candidates.

pay scale- Rs. 44500--89150/-

GUIDELINES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES USING A SCRIBE
The visually impaired candidates and candidates whose writing speed is adversely affected permanently for any reason can use their own scribe at their cost during the online examination. In all such cases where a scribe is used, the following rules will apply:

Candidate should ensure that he/ she is eligible to use a scribe as per the Government of India rulesgoverning the recruitment of Persons with Benchmark Disabilities.

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

The scribe should be from an academic stream different from that stipulated for the post.

Both the candidate as well as scribe will have to give a suitable undertaking in the prescribed format with passport size photograph of the scribe along with call letter at the time of examination confirming that the scribe fulfils all the stipulated eligibility criteria for a scribe mentioned above.
Further in case itlater 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 online examination. Proforma of undertaking will be made available on PFRDA website on or before the Call Letters for the online examination are made available on the PFRDA website.

During the exam, at any stage, if it is found that scribe is independently answering the questions, the exam session will be terminated and candidate’s candidature will be cancelled. The
candidature of such candidates using the services of a scribe will also be cancelled if it is reported after the examination by the test administrator personnel that the scribe independently answered the questions.

Those candidates who use a scribe shall be eligible for compensatory time of 20 minutes for every hourof the examination or as otherwise advised.

A person acting as scribe for one candidate cannot be a scribe for another candidate. In addition the scribe arranged by the candidate should not be a candidate for the same examination. If violation of the above is detected at any stage of the process, candidature of both the candidate and the scribe will becancelled. 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.

Only candidates registered for compensatory time will be allowed such concessions since compensatory time given to candidates shall be system based, it shall not be possible for the test conducting agency to allow such time if he / she is not registered for the same. Candidates not registered for compensatory time shall not be allowed such concessions.

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 or otherwise advised of examination.

These guidelines are subject to change in terms of Government of India guidelines/ clarifications, if any,from time to time.

GUIDELINES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

A compensatory time of twenty minutes per hour shall be permitted for the candidates with locomotor disability and cerebral palsy where dominant (writing) extremity is affected to the extent of slowing theperformance of function (minimum of 40% impairment) and for Visually Impaired candidates under LowVision (who suffer from not less than 40% of disability).

ii. 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 magnifying font will be available to Visually Impaired candidates.

The scribe will be allowed to be used as per the guidelines issued vide Office Memorandum F.No.16-110/2003- DDIII dated February 26, 2013 of Government of India, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Department of Disability Affairs, New Delhi.

Candidates are required to apply On-line through the website www.pfrda.org.in from 15/09/2022 to 07/10/2022 and no other mode of application will be accepted. Candidates need not submit the system generated print out of the ON-LINE application to PFRDA's office.

Applicants are required to go to PFRDA’s website ‘www.pfrda.org.in’ and open the link “Careers”. Thereafter, open the Recruitment Notification entitled “PFRDA RECRUITMENT
EXERCISE -RECRUITMENT OF OFFICER GRADE A (ASSISTANT MANAGER) - 2022” and click on the option "APPLY ONLINE" which will open a new screen.

No fee for pwD candidates.