CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
Raja S C Mullick Road,
Kolkata – 32
Advertisement Number: R&C/550/2021

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit:    https://iicb.res.in/

Last date of submission of online application 24/08/2022
 
CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, a premier Institute under the aegis of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), is involved in generating cutting edge knowledge and trained human resources in the field of chemical biology, biochemistry, cell biology, genomics, epigenomics, structural biology, bioinformatics, and medicinal chemistry to address fundamental and applied biological and biomedical research questions associated with infectious and non-infectious diseases that are relevant to this country and in the global context.

The Institute intends to induct manpower for the following positions by inviting applications from the eligible candidates.

Post: Junior Stenographer
No. of posts: 04, out of which 01 for Visually Impaired
Qualification: 10+2/XII or its equivalent and proficiency in stenography as per the prescribed norms
fixed by DOPT from time to time.
Age: 27 years
Pay Level – 4, Cell – 1
Job requirement: To provide secretarial/stenographic assistance/Typing and other official work as and when assigned

The proficiency in stenography will only be qualifying in nature.

The posts carry usual allowance i.e. Dearness Allowance (DA), House Rent Allowance (HRA), Transport
Allowance (TA) etc. as admissible to the Central Government employees and as made applicable to
CSIR. Council employees are also eligible for accommodation of entitled type as per CSIR house
allotment rules depending upon availability in which case HRA will not be admissible.

Persons With Benchmarks Disabilities (PWD) fulfilling the eligibility conditions prescribed under GOI
instructions are encouraged to apply.

Age Relaxation: 10 years for PwD candidates.

Candidates will have to visit the Institute‟s website for downloading call letters for online test. Intimation for downloading call letter will also be sent through email/SMS.

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:

The candidate will have to arrange his/her own scribe at his/her own cost. The qualification of the scribe
should be one step below the qualification of the candidate taking the examination. The candidate will
have to submit the certificate and undertaking as per Annexure-II & III at the time of written test.

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
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 favourably entertained.

A person acting as a scribe for one candidate cannot be a scribe for another candidate.

The scribe may be from any academic stream.

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 fulfil 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.

Those candidates who use a scribe shall be eligible for compensatory time of 20 minutes for every hour
of the examination or as otherwise advised.
Scribe should not answer on his/her own. Any such behavior observed will result in cancellation of
candidature

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.

Eligible candidates are required to apply on-line through CSIR-IICB website: website i.e. https://iicb.res.in/
or http://www.career.iicb.res.in/

Guidelines for scanning and Upload of Documents
Before applying online a candidate will be required to have a scanned (digital) image of his/her
photograph, signature, left thumb impression and the hand written declaration as per the specifications
given below.
Photograph Image: (4.5cm × 3.5cm)

 Photograph must be a recent passport style colour picture.
 Make sure that the picture is in colour, taken against a light-coloured, preferably white,
background.
 Look straight at the camera with a relaxed face
 If the picture is taken on a sunny day, have the sun behind you, or place yourself in the
shade, so that you are not squinting and there are no harsh shadows
 If you have to use flash, ensure there's no "red-eye"
 If you wear glasses make sure that there are no reflections and your eyes can be clearly
seen.
 Caps, hats and dark glasses are not acceptable. Religious headwear is allowed but it must
not cover your face.
 Dimensions 200 x 230 pixels (preferred)
 Size of file should be between 20kb–50 kb
 Ensure that the size of the scanned image is not more than 50kb. If the size of the file is
more than 50 kb, then adjust the settings of the scanner such as the DPI resolution, no. of
colours etc., during the process of scanning.