GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY PLANNING AND RESEARCH DEPARTMENT ‘No.3990/PRD/Estt./A1/2022-23 Puducherry, dated 11.01.2024 Date and time for submission of online application: 13.01.2024 10:00 AM to 12.02.2024 05:00 PM NOTIFICATION This Department has notified 5 vacancies in the post of INVESTIGATOR (Group 'C? — Non- Gazetted-Non-Ministerial) vide Notification No.3990/PRD/Estt./A1/2022-23, dated 21.11.2022. Now, in partial modification of the category of vacancies, applications are invited from the eligible Indian Citizens who are Natives / Residents of the Union Territory of Puducherry for the Competitive Examination to be held for Direct Recruitment to the post of INVESTIGATOR (Group 'C’ - Non- Gazetted-Non-Ministerial) in the Planning and Research Department, Puducherry, as detailed below: Name of the post and Total Level in the Pay matrix | Number of Vacancies | UR) MBC | OBC | SC INVESTIGATOR ras 08 o2 | on a | on Abbreviations: UR- Un-Reserved, MBC-Most Backward Classes, OBC-Other Backward Classes, SC ~ Scheduled Castes Note 1: The vacancies notified are existing. However, Government reserves the rights to cancel the recruitment process. No interim enquiry will be entertained. Note 2: “Those who have applied earlier through the prescribed online recruitment portal in response to the Notification dated 21.11.2022 need not apply again. However, the candidates who belong to MBC but applied under UR may apply afresh”. 1. QUALIFICATION FOR ELIGIBILITY: Essential: @ Degree of a recognized University in Economics / Statistics / Mathematics / Commerce / Computer Science / Social Sciences. Desirable: (A Master’s Degree of a recognized University in any one of the above subjects or its equivalent. (ii) Experience in Computation work/Ofice procedure/Field Surveys. Gii) A pass in Typewriting in English in Higher Grade (iv) Working Knowledge of Tamil. 2 Page 4 of 122 I. AGE LIMIT: Between 18 and 32* years of age as on 12-02-2024, Age limit is relaxable in respect of MBC, OBC, SC, Ex-Servicemen, Persons with Benchmark Disabilities and Widows / Divorced Women / Women judicially separated from their husband and who are not re-martied as detailed below: Category Relaxation of Upper Age Limit** MBC 3 years onc eee s 5 years Ex-Servicemen (For details of Reservation and Concession to | period of military service plus 3 years. XSM refer Part-IV of General Instructions to E candidates) Persons with Benchmark Disabilities 10 years (in respect of reserved & categories of | applicants, over and above the ‘ob, refer Part-II of | admissible relaxation of 5 years for General Instructions to candidates) SC and 3 years for MBC/OBC) Widows / Divorced Women / Women Upto the age of 35 years judicially separated from their husband and who are not re-married. (Upto 40 years for SC) * Relaxation of two years in the upper age limit prescribed for the post of Investigator has been provided as one time measure as per G.0.Ms.No.50 dated 29-07-2022 issued by the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (Personnel Wing), Puducherry. ** Requirement of Age for candidates belonging to various categories are given in Part-{ll of this Notification, MW. NATIVITY / RESIDENCE: ‘Those who are natives of Union Territory of Puducherry and residents by continuous residence in the U.T. for the last 5 years immediately preceding the date of notification only are eligible to apply for the posts. The applicants on selection should furnish the fresh Nativity/Residence Certificate issued by an Officer of the Department of Revenue and Disaster Management not below the rank of Deputy Tahsildar, at the time of certificate verification. YL Page 2 of 12IV. COMMUNITY CERTIFICATE: 7 The selected applicants should submit a fresh Community Certificate for SC/OBC/MBC obtained in the prescribed form issued by an Officer of the Department of Revenue and Disaster Management not below the rank of Deputy Tahsildar at the time of certificate verification. Candidates selected under $C quota should furnish Community Certificate issued under "The Constitution (Puducherry) Scheduled Castes Order, 1964 " and "The Constitution (Puducherry) Scheduled Castes Order, 2002". V. WIDOWS / DIVORCED WOMEN / WOMEN JUDICIALLY SEPARATED FROM THEIR HUSBANDS AND WHO ARE NOT RE-MARRIED. ‘The applicants who apply under the category of Widows / Divorced Women / Women judicially separated from their husbands and who are not re-married, should necessarily submit a Certificate issued by an Officer of the Department of Revenue and Disaster Management not below the rank of Deputy Tahsildar to the effect that they are not re-married. VI. PERSONS WITH BENCHMARK DISABILITY (PwBD): ‘The applicants who are Persons with Benchmark Disability (PwBD), on selection should necessarily submit the Medical Certificate issued by District Medical Board, Government of Puducherry at the time of certificate verification. Certificate received from any other authority will not be accepted. The categories of disability suitable for the post are detailed in Part-II of General Instructions to candidates. VIL MODE OF RECRUITMENT / PATTERN OF EXAMINATIO! Written Examination: The vacancies of the above said post will be filled through a Competitive Examination. ‘The Question paper will be of Degree standard of objective type consisting of single part in forenoon session with a duration of 2 hours having 100 questions carrying one mark each question from Economics / Statistics / Mathematics / Commerce / Computer Science / Social Science / General Science / General English / General Knowledge/Current affairs, General Intelligence, Reasoning Ability and Data Interpretation. Negative mark of 0.25 will be awarded for every wrong answer and multiple answers will be treated as a wrong answer. Candidates are, therefore, advised to keep this aspect in mind while answering the questions. bRp Page 3 of 124. ‘The Question paper will be in bilingual (except General English) i.e., in English and in any one of the regional languages namely, Tamil or Telugu or Malayalam. Therefore, the candidates should indicate the choice of the language in which they prefer to write the examination, in the on-line application, Answering would be in the form of shading the correct answer by using BLACK BALL POINT PEN only and the applicants are permitted to take the carbon copy of their answer sheet along with their question booklet. The answer key will be published inthe recruitment website https://recruitment.py.gov.in and also in the official website https://dpar.py.gov.in after completion of Examination process. A list of candidates will be provisionally shortlisted from the merit list based on the marks obtained by the applicants in the Written Examination subject to reservation as per rules in-force. Minimum qualifying marks to be secured by the various category of candidates are as follows:- UR A 30% _| MBC7OBC 23% SC7XSM/PwD 20% Note : The validity of operation of wait list, if drawn, will be two years from the date of declaration of the result / publication of select list. The wait list will be operated in the event of occurrence of a vacancy caused in the select list due to rejection of candidature for non-production of required certificates, non- appearance of candidate for certificate verification, non-joining of candidate within the stipulated time allowed for joining the post or when a candidate joins but resigns or dies within a period of one year from the date of joining. VI. DATE AND VENUE OF EXAMINATION: ‘The Competitive Examination will be held only in Puducherry region of Union Territory of Puducherry. The exact date, time and venue of the examination will be intimated in due course in the recruitment website & also in leading Newspapers. IX. HOW TO APPLY AND LAST DATE FOR APPLICATION: Applicants fulfilling the eligibility criteria as mentioned above may apply online only through the official website hitps:/recruitmentpy.gov.in from 13.01.2024 (10.00 AM) to 12.02.2024 (05.00 PM). Page 4 of 12GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES PART-I Applicants should read the following instructions carefully before applying: L Mode of applying for the Competitive Examination for Recruitment to the post of INVESTIGATOR is only through online. Avoid registering multiple online applications and register only a single application. All multiple online applications will be cancelled. Applicants shall upload their Photograph and Signature using either option 1 or option 2 provided in the recruitment portal as given below: Option 1 (Scanned Photograph and Signature as a single ima: Applicants are instructed to scan their recent passport size colour photograph & signature in an Ad sheet with 200 DPI resolution, dimensions should be minimum. 600 x 600 pixel and the file size should be less than 150 KB (as shown in guidelines video for uploading and cropping your photograph and signature during online application). Option 2 Scanned Photograph and Signature as separate images, Applicants are instructed to scan their photograph in JPEG format with 238 x 306 pixel dimension and the file size should be less than 50 KB. Signature file format should be JPEG, dimensions should be 350 x 150 pixel and the file size should be less than 30KB. The applicants have to register their Mobile Number in the online portal “hitps:/irecruitment.py.gov.in" for applying through online. Then they will be receiving Username and Password through SMS in the mobile number provided while registration. Thereafter, the applicants have to login into the online portal using the Username and Password for applying to the post of INVESTIGATOR. ‘The applicants are also advised to change the default Password received in their mobile at first login. It is the applicant's responsibility to take ownership of the password and should not be disclosed to anyone. Otherwise the liabilities arose upon will be the applicant’s risk. ‘The applicants will be allowed to view, print & check the status of their application and download the Hall Ticket by login into the online portal using the username and password. Hence, they are advised to keep the user name and password safe for future reference until the recruitment process is over ‘The applicant, after applying, can also make corrections in their on-line application, if any error occurred while entering the data. They are allowed to avail this facility till 5.00 PM on 12.02.2024. Page 5 of 1210. i 12. 14, 15, 16. i. 18, ‘The information / data furnished by the applicants in the online application are final and cannot be altered later after the last date for applying i.e.12.02.2024, The applicants are advised to have a copy of the online generated application for their reference. Applicants need not send the printout of the online application or any other supporting documents to this Department. Original Certificates are required to be produced by the provisionally shortlisted candidates after the notification of results of this recruitment examination, only at the time of Certificate Verification. This Department will not undertake detailed scrutiny of applications for the eligibility and other aspects at the time of written examination and therefore, candidature will be accepted provisionally. Candidates must go through the requirements of educational qualification, age, physical and medical standards ete. and satisfy themselves that they are eligible for the post. Copies of supporting documents will be sought at the time of Certificate Verification. When scrutiny is undertaken, if any claim made in the application is not found substantiated, the candidature will be cancelled and the Departmental Recruitment Committee’s decision shall be final Candidates seeking reservation benefits available for SC/OBC/MBC must ensure that they are entitled to such reservation as per eligibility preseribed in the Notification. They should also be in possession of the certificates in the prescribed format in support of their claim. All the communications with regard to this recruitment will be published in the Website bttps://recruitment.py.gov.in. Applicants are advised to access the above website and watch news and dailies regularly for information. They are advised to keep the Mobile number given in the online application active for sending SMS connected with this recruitment, Afier scrutiny, the status of the application will be indicated in the Website https://recruitment.py.gav.in. The applicants are advised to check the official website to know their application status. ‘The decision of the Government as to the eligibility or otherwise of the applicant for admission to the Examination shall be final, No correspondence will be entertained with regard to the xecruitment process. Candidates are advised to verify the status of their Application/Hall Ticket ete., through online only. A separate press note will be issued in leading regional news dailies regarding the issue of hall tickets through online. The eligible applicants can download their Hall Ticket from the website https://recruitment.py.gov.in by using the "User Name and a Page 6 of 1219. 20, 21. Change of Address and Mobile number, if any, after subi should invariably be intimated to_the Department by Registered Post with ‘Acknowledgement Due, Otherwise the Department will not be responsible for any delay/ non-delivery of letters / SMS messages. The candidates will have to appear for the Competitive Examination at their own expenses. SC/ST candidates from other regions (Karaikal/Mahe/Yanam) are entitled for second class to and fro Railway/Bus fare on production of Railway/Bus tickets. ‘The admission to the examination is only provisional. Success in the examination confers no right to appointment. The appointment is subject to verification of educational qualification/residence/community and any other special category claimed by the individual including medical fitness. HELP LINE: 22. For any clarification, if needed, in filling online application, please contact the Help Line Number 0413-2243019 on all working days between 9.30. AM and 5.00 PM. Page 7 of 12Physical requirement 8 PART-II 1r the post of INVESTIGATOR, Si. No. Physical Requirement 1. | Sitting 2. | Standing 3. | Walking 4, | Reading & Writing 5. 6. Seeing Communication 2. Categories of Disability suitable for the post of INVESTIGATOR SL. No. Category of Disability 1. Blind, Low Vision. 2. Hard of Hearing. 3. One Atm, One Leg Multiple Disabilities involving (1) to (3) above. Page 8 of 129. PART-II Sl | Candidates must have been born i‘ Category feeeeeees Beene 0. Notearlier than | Not later than 1, | General/Unreserved 13.02.1992 2. | MBC/OBC 13.02.1989 3. [SC 13.02.1987 4,_ | Persons with Benchmark Disabilities & aioe General/Unreserved | 5._[ Persons with Benchmark Disabilities & MBC/OBC | __13.02.1979 ot avanne 6._| Persons with Benchmark Disabilities & SC 13.02.1977 Widow/Divorced Women/Women Judicially 7. | separated from their husband and not remarried & 13.02.1989 General/Unreserved/MBC/OBC Widow /Divorced Women / Women Judicially 8. | separated from their husband and not remarried & | 13.02.1984 sc (R. SHEEI DIRECTOR (PLG) Page 9 of 12-10- PART-1V Government of India, Ministry of Personnel, P.G. and Pensions, Deptt. of Pers. & ‘Training, New Delhi, Office Memorandum No. 36034/21/87-Estt.(SCT), dated 7” November, 1989 Sub: Second time benefit to ex-servicemen for reservation in Groups ‘C’ and posts/services not allowed In this Department's O.M. No.36034/27/84-Estt.(SCT) dated 02.05.1985, it was decided that the second time benefit of ex-servicemen will not be admissible to those ex-servicemen who have already availed of the benefit of Ex-servicemen on their frst re-employment in civilian posts. On the request made by Directorate General of Resettlement, Ministry of Defense, that the decision contained in the above OM dated 02.05.1985, should not be made applicable to those Ex-servicemen who have been re-employed or are re-employed by the Private Companies/Autonomous Bodies/Public Sector Undertakings and Government Offices on casual/contract/temporary ad hoc basis and who can be removed from such service at any time by the Employer concerned, the matter has been reconsidered by this Department and it has been decided that the provisions contained in this Department's OM No. 36034/27/84- Estt.(SCT) dated 02.05.1985, shall not apply to those ex-servicemen who have been re- employed or are re-employed by Private Companies/Autonomous Bodies/Public Sector Undertakings/ Government Offices on casual/contract/Temporary ad hoc basis and who can be removed from such service at any time by their employer concemed. AEH Government of India, Ministry of Personnel, P.G. and Pensions, Deptt, of Pers. & Training, New Delhi, Office Memorandum No.36034/6/90-Estt. (SCT), dated 2™ April 1992 Sub: Benefit of age concession to Ex-servicemen who have already joined Govt, service for applying for employment in a higher grade/cadre under the Central Govt., Group C & D. The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department's O.M.No.36034/27/84-Estt, (SCT), dated 2-5-1985 wherein it has been clarified that on an ex-servicemen joining civil appointment he is deemed to be a civil employee and will accordingly be entitled to only such of the benefits like relaxation of age etc. as admissible to civil employees, in accordance with the existing instructions in this regard. Representations have been received requesting the Govt., to reconsider the above decision. The matter has also been raised by the Staff Side of the National Council (JCM) suggesting that at least the benefit of age relaxation should be allowed to those ex-servicemen candidates who have joined a civil post under the Govt. of India and who wish to improve their career prospects. 2. The matter has been examined in this Department in consultation with Ministry of Defenee and the Department of Public Enterprises and it has now been decided that such of those ex-servicemen candidates who have already secured employment under the Central a3 Page 10 of 12oe Govt, in Group C and D will be permitted the benefit of age relaxation as preseribed for ex- servicemen for securing another employment in a higher grade or cadre in Group C/D under the Central Govt, However, such candidates will not be eligible for the benefits of reservation for ex-servicemen in Central Govt. jobs. The above decision is in modification of Provision of this Department’s O.M. No.36034/27/84-Estt.(SCT), dated 2-5-1985. HH Government of India, Ministry of Personnel, P.G. and Pensions, Deptt. of Pers. & Training, New Delhi, Office Memorandum No.36034/1/2014-Estt.(Res.) dated 14" August, 2014 Sub: Benefit of reservation to Ex-servicemen, who applies for various examinations! vacancies before joining civil posts/serviees in the Government job on civil side. In terms of this Department's Notification No. 39016/10/79-Est(C) dated 15th December, 1979 as amended from time to time and which was last amended vide Notification No, 36034/1/2006-Estt (Res) dated 4th October, 2012, the benefit of reservation to ex- servicemen is available at ten percent of the vacancies in Group C posts and twenty percent of the vacancies in Group D posts in all the Central Civil Services and posts. Benefit of reservation is also extended at ten percent of the vacancies in the posts up to of the level of Assistant Commandant in all para-military forces to be filled by direct recruitment, Vide this Department's O.M. No. 36034/27/84-Estt.(SCT) dated 02.05.1985, it was decided that once an ex-serviceman has joined the Government job on civil side after availing of the benefits given to him as an ex-serviceman for his re-employment, his ex-serviceman status for the purpose of re-employment in Government would cease. It was also decided that on his joining the civil employment, he would be deemed to be a civil employee and would accordingly be entitled to only such of the benefits like relaxation of age etc. as admissible to civil employees in the normal course, Vide this Department's O.M. No. 36034/21/87-Estt(SCT) dated 07.11.1989, it was clarified that the instructions of 02.05.1985 shall not apply to those ex- servicemen who have been re-employed or are re-employed by private companies/ autonomous bodies! public sector undertakings/ government offices on casual/ contract/temporary ad-hoc basis and who can be removed from such service at any time by their employer concerned. An ex-serviceman at the time of his release o discharge from the armed forces normally applies for more than one vacancy, but in case he/she joins any civil employment due to early declaration of results/selection, he/she is not entitled for the benefit of reservation for ex- servicemen for subsequent employment. It has been brought to the notice of this Department that the aforesaid instructions are affecting the chances of ex-servicemen in the case of direct recruitment for subsequent suitable employment. ‘The matter has, therefore, been considered in consultation with Department of Ex- servicemen, Ministry of Defence. It has now been decided that if an ex-serviceman applies Page 11 of 12 oe-12- for various vacancies before joining any civil employment, he/she can avail of the benefit of reservation as ex-serviceman for any subsequent employment. However, to avail of this benefit, an ex-serviceman as soon as he/she joins any civil employment, should give self declaration! undertaking to the concemed employer about the date-wise details of application for various vacancies for which he/she had applied for before joining the initial civil employment. Further, this benefit would be available only in respect of vacancies which are filled on direct recruitment and wherever reservation is applicable to the ex-servicemen. The above Orders shall take effect from the date of issue of this Office Memorandum. HH as DIRECTOR (PLG) Page 12 of 12