BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS
(Department of Consumer Affairs
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Govt of India]
Manak Bhawan,9 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, 
New Delhi -110002
ADVERTISEMENT NO. 01/2024/ESTT

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Last date/time for Online Registration: 30..09.2024

Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
(Department of Consumer Affairs), Govt. of India and responsible for activities in the field of Standardization,
Product and System Certification, Hallmarking of Gold/Silver Jewellery, Laboratory Testing, etc. in the country,
INVITES on-line applications from the ELIGIBLE individuals for filling up of vacancies by DIRECT
RECRUITMENT in the following posts at BIS Headquarters, New Delhi and BIS Offices located in the country, as
per the details given below:

Posts:
1. Personal Assistant
No. of posts: 27, out of which 01 for Visually Impaired
GROUP- B
Qualifications: (a) Degree from a recognized University;
(b) Computer Proficiency Test: The candidate should be proficient at least upto Level-6 of National Skill Qualification Framework. The test shall be qualifying in nature; and (c) Shorthand test in English or Hindi comprising dictation test at hundred words per minute for seven minutes which the candidates shall be required to transcribe in forty-five minutes (English dictation) and in sixty minutes (Hindi
dictation) and knowledge of computer.
Visually disabled candidates having disability of forty percent and above will be required to transcribe the matter in seventy minutes for English shorthand test and in ninety minutes for Hindi shorthand test. Permissible mistakes: five percent.
The permissible mistakes shall be relaxable upto ten percent, if adequate number of qualified candidates (i.e. with five per cent mistakes) are not available in any category against the vacancies advertised.
Age Limit: 30 Years 

2. Stenographer
No. of posts: 19, out of which 01 for Visually Impaired
GROUP - C
Qualifications: (i) Bachelor‘s Degree from a recognized University;
(ii) Computer Proficiency Test: The candidate should be proficient at least upto Level-5 of National Skill Qualification Framework. The test shall be qualifying in nature; and
(iii) Shorthand Test: English/Hindi Shorthand test at the speed of eighty words per minute which the candidates shall have to transcribe on Computer in fifty or sixty five minutes, respectively.
Visually disabled candidates having disability of forty percent and above will be required to transcribe the matter in seventy minutes for English shorthand test and in ninety minutes for Hindi shorthand test.
Permissible mistakes: five percent.
The permissible mistakes shall be relaxable upto ten percent, if adequate number of qualified candidates (i.e. with five percent mistakes) are not available in any category against the vacancies advertised.
Age Limit: 27 Years 

3. Senior Secretariat Assistant
No. of posts: 128, out of which 02 for Visually Impaired
Group-C
Qualifications: (i) Bachelor’s Degree from a recognized University; and (ii) Qualifying Skill Test in Computer Proficiency consisting of:
(a) Word Processing Test - 2000 Key Depressions in fifteen minutes;
(b) Test in Spread Sheets on Microsoft Excel - fifteen minutes; and
(c) Test in Power Point (Microsoft PowerPoint) – fifteen Minutes
Age Limit: 27 Years

4. Technical Assistant (Laboratory)
No. of posts: 27, out of which 01 for Visually Impared
Group-B
Qualifications: For Mechanical Discipline:
Three years diploma in Mechanical with minimum sixty per cent marks (fifty per cent marks for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes).
For Chemical Discipline
Bachelor’s Degree in Science (with Chemistry as one of the main subject) with minimum sixty percent marks (fifty percent for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes)
For Microbiology Discipline
Bachelor’s Degree in Science (with Microbiology as one of the main subject) with minimum sixty percent marks (fifty percent for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes)
Age Limit: 30 years

PwD with minimum 40% disability shall only be eligible to apply for competing against the vacancies reserved
for them or availing any relaxation/concession

Age Relaxation: 10 years for PwD candidates.

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

Candidate will appear for the examination at an Examination Centre at his/her own risks and expenses and BIS will not be responsible for any injury or losses etc. of any nature.

The Centre, venue address, post applied for, date and time for examination/interview/skill test/shorthand test/mini written test, wherever applicable, shall be intimated in the respective Admit Card. A candidate who has registered successfully should download his/her Admit Card from the BIS’s website www.bis.gov.in by entering his/her details i.e. Registration Number and Password/Date of Birth. No hard copy of the Admit Card/ Information Handout will be sent by post/ courier.
Intimations will be sent by email / SMS to the email ID and mobile number registered in the online application form. BIS will not take responsibility for late receipt/ non-receipt of any communication e-mailed/ sent via SMS to the candidate due to change in the mobile number, email address, technical fault or otherwise beyond the control of BIS.
Candidates are hence advised to regularly keep in touch with the BIS website www.bis.gov.in for updates and any information which may be posted for further guidance as well as to check their registered e-mail account from time to time during the recruitment process.

No fee to be paid by SCs/STs/PWDs/ Women and BIS serving employees

Procedure for uploading the documents
• While filling in the Online Application Form the candidate will be provided with separate links for uploading
left thumb impression and hand written declaration
• Click on the respective link “Upload left thumb impression / hand written declaration”
• Browse and Select the location where the Scanned left thumb impression / hand written declaration file has been saved.
• Select the file by clicking on it
• Click the ‘Open/Upload’ button Your Online Application will not be registered unless you upload your
Left thumb impression and hand written declaration as specified.
• If the file size and format are not as prescribed, an error message will be displayed.
• Preview of the uploaded image will help to see the quality of the image. In case of unclear / smudged, the same may be re-uploaded to the expected clarity /quality. 

Separate examination will be held for each post. The examination for two or more posts can
be held during same session. Candidates applying for more than one post should keep this in
mind as the candidates will have the option to appear for one examination only.

Definition of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) [Divyangjan]:
Under Section 2 (r) of the Right of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016, only such persons would be eligible for reservation who suffer from not less than 40% of specified disability and are certified by a Medical Board constituted by the Central/State Government. Candidates claiming such benefits should produce certificate in original (by the Competent Authority issued on or before the last date of online submission of application in the prescribed format available at the end of this advertisement) in support of their claim at the time of Interview/at any stage of the recruitment process. Persons with Disabilities will have to work in any Regional Office/Branch Office as per requirement. Candidates with the following disabilities are eligible to apply against the vacancies
reserved for them (as per GOI guidelines dated 15 January 2018):
i) Blindness and Low Vision –
a) "blindness" means a condition where a person has any of the following conditions, after
best correction—
(i) total absence of sight; or
(ii) visual acuity less than 3/60 or less than 10/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with
best possible correction; or
(iii) limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 10 degree.

(b) "low-vision" means a condition where a person has any of the following conditions,
namely:—
(i) visual acuity not exceeding 6/18 or less than 20/60 upto 3/60 or upto 10/200
(Snellen) in the better eye with best possible corrections; or 
(ii) limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 40 degree up to 10
degree

GUIDELINES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES USING A SCRIBE
i) 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,
subject to limits as in (ii) and (iii) below. 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 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 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.
• 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 behaviour 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.
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.
Guidelines for 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 or otherwise advised of examination.
(iv) In case of candidates with benchmark disabilities, the provision of scribe/lab assistant can be allowed on production of a certificate from the Chief Medical Officer/Civil Surgeon/Medical Superintendent of a Government health care institution as per proforma at APPENDIXA, to the effect that the person concerned has physical Limitation to write, and scribe is essential to write examination on his behalf.