CSIR NCL Recruitment Exam Dates, Fees, Eligibility & Notification

NCL conducts national exams that take place twice a year. It aims to recruit technicians who have a thorough understanding and knowledge of organic chemistry, materials chemistry and chemical engineering. Likewise, biochemical sciences, polymer science, catalysis and, process development are subjects with equal considerations.

 

CSIR NCL Exam Notifications and Dates

Exams notifications and dates pop up on the official website of NCL. The official announcements for the opening and closing dates of Regular and Project jobs offered by NCL reflect on the ‘Join Us page’ of NCL.

The last date to apply for technician posts by online application is 28-08-2021.

For Project Associates, it is 27-07-2021.

Find all about the particular post proposed by the NCL recruitment 2021 on the official website of NCL. You can find the detailed advertisement, terms and conditions, and instructions to the candidate on their official website.

 

CSIR NCL Application Fees

CSIR-NCL recruitment application fee is simply affordable.

The application fees of any position are 100/- and are non- refundable.

Whereas, applicants belonging to the group SC / ST / PWD / Women / CSIR Workers / Abroad are application fee waivers.

The candidates need to get the hard copy of remitted application fee receipt, to have an acknowledgment against the payment. The hard copy will further be useful to fill UTR / Transaction no. and other details during the filing of the application form.

 

CSIR-NCL Eligibility Criteria

The eligibility of each vacancy differs from the required qualification and field of specialization. Here we have the required eligibility for NCL 2021 Recruitment vacancies.

CSIR NCL Qualification Criteria

Sr. Technical Officer-

A minimum of 55% marks or equivalent grade, in aggregate of all semesters/years, is required in Bachelors of Engineering (B.E.) or Bachelors in Technology (B.Tech). In addition, five years of expertise within the service/maintenance of scientific and analytical instruments or facilities.

Technical Officer –

A minimum of 55% marks or equivalent grade, in aggregate of all semesters/years, is required in Bachelors of Engineering (B.E.) or Bachelors in Technology (B.Tech), under the specialization in Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology.

Technical Assistant-

A minimum of 55% marks or equivalent grade, in aggregate of all semesters/years, is required in Bachelors of Engineering (B.E.) or Bachelors in Technology (B.Tech). It can be under the specialization in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering or natural philosophy Engineering or Instrumentation Engineering.

Senior Project Associate-

A minimum of 55% marks or equivalent grade, is required in M. Sc. in Organic Chemistry from a Recognized University. In addition, 04 years of rich experience in research and development in industrial and academic institutions or science and technology organizations in organic/organometallic synthesis. Aspirants with a Doctoral degree in Organic chemistry/Organometallic Chemistry from a recognized university or equivalent grade are also welcomed.

Project Associate 1 Position I-

A minimum of 55% marks or equivalent grade, is required in M.Sc/B. Tech or Bachelors degree in Engineering. It should be under the specialization in any chemistry branch from Recognized Institute/University. As per DST Norms, candidates with NET/GATE will be preferred.

Desirable qualification- This is not a mandatory requirement, but candidates with additional qualifications will be preferred over others. Experience in routine molecular biology techniques (gene isolation, cloning, and expression), bioinformatics analysis, plant transformation techniques, agroinfiltration. An experiments in plants, experience/knowledge about advanced genome editing tools spring-like/Cas9 and Virus-Induced Gene-Silencing /Cas9 and Virus-Induced Gene-Silencing (VIGS) are also considered.

Project Associate:-I Position: II

A minimum of 55% marks or an equivalent grade, is required in M.Sc/B.Tech in Biochemistry/ M.Sc in Natural or Agricultural Sciences/ MVSc or Bachelors degree in Engineering. They can be under Technology or Medicine Biotechnology / Microbiology or any part in Life Sciences from recognized University. As per DST Norms, candidates with NET/GATE will be preferred.

Desirable qualification – This is not a mandatory requirement, but candidates with additional qualifications will be preferred over others. Experience in routine molecular biology techniques (gene isolation, cloning, and expression), bioinformatics analysis, plant transformation techniques, agroinfiltration. An experiments in plants, experience/knowledge about advanced genome editing tools spring-like/Cas9 and Virus-Induced Gene-Silencing /Cas9 and Virus-Induced Gene-Silencing (VIGS) are also considered.

Project Scientist

Aspirants with a minimum of 55% marks or equivalent grade in Doctoral degree in science is essential from a recognized university or equivalent.

CSIR-NCL Age Limit

The Age limit of the CSIR-NCL Recruitment exam varies from position to position. The maximum age limit to apply is 40 in Sr. Technical Officer, whereas the minimum is 28 Years, for the rank of Technical Assistant. The tabular classification of the age limit for the positions is mentioned below.

Position	Age limit
Sr. Technical Officer	40 Years
Sr. Technical Officer/ Fire Safety Officer	35 Years
Technical Officer	30 Years
Technical Assistant	28 Years
Technician	28 Years
Senior Project Associate	40 years
Project associate I	35 years
Project Associate II	35 years

 

*Age relaxation will be granted for SC/ ST/ OBC/ PWD category as per Govt. of India Rules

 

CSIR NCL Vacancies

NCL has approximately 200 scientific working staff, 400 graduated students pursuing research towards a doctoral degree, and it is a privilege to be a part of NCL. It gives you tremendous scope to enhance your career by being a part of CSIR-NCL. The job vacancies from NCL for the year 2021 are for the post of Sr. Technical Officer, Sr. Technical Officer/ Fire Safety Officer, Technical Officer, Technical Assistant, Technician, Project Associate and, Project Scientist. The technical staff is essentially accountable for the maintenance, day-to-day management, supervision. They are also responsible for operation of instruments, equipment, and conveniences at CSIR-NCL. The expectations from the technical staff is to have proficiency in their trade/ area of expertise, a enthusiasm to operate in teams to accomplish institutional and project aims, along with, the ability to grasp new skills to keep up with the dynamic scientific and technological milieu.

The Classification of vacancies are as follows:

Positions	Vacancies
Sr. Technical Officer	02
Sr. Technical Officer/ Fire Safety Officer	01
Technical Officer	12
Technical Assistant	10
Technician	20
Project Associate I	02
Project Associate II	03
Project Scientist I	03
Senior Project Associate	01

 

CSIR NCL Salary

CSIR NCL recruitment salary is as follows-

Position	Salary
Senior Project Associate	INR. ,000.00/- PM
Project Associate II	INR. 28,000.00/- PM
Project Associate I	INR. 25,000.00/- PM
Senior Technical Officer	INR. 100136/- PM
STO / Fire Safety Officer	INR. 84360/- PM
Technical Officer	INR. 65096/- PM
Technical Assistant	INR. 52176/- PM
Technician INR 29200/	INR. 29200/- PM

 

CSIR NCL Syllabus

The CSIR-NCL syllabus is vast and comprehensive. It majorly includes logical and general awareness, in addition to language and science proficiency. As the CSIR-NCL Exam paper suggests, you should attain a thorough understanding of the fields like electrical, chemical, computer, instrumentation, and metallurgical engineering. Though the syllabus is never-ending, however, you can gain vast knowledge about literally everything. To know more about the syllabus, click here.

 

CSIR NCL Exam Pattern

Candidates should stay well-versed with the exam pattern before applying. It gives you clarity on how to prepare for the CSIR-NCL Recruitment exams. The paper will be computer-based and objective type. The questions will be in the form of Multiple Choice Questions.
The medium of the paper is not only English but Hindi also.
Because of the extended syllabus, the exams are going to be in three parts.

Tabular distribution of Exam Pattern

Position	Part-01	Part-02	Part-03
Technical Officer	Subject: Mental Ability Check Time assigned – 1 hour No. of questions – 50 Maximum marks- 200 marks (4 marks of each question) There will be no negative marking	Subject: General Awareness Time assigned – 30 minutes No. of questions- 25 Maximum marks- 75 marks One negative mark for each question	Subject: English Time assigned – 90 minutes No. of questions – 100 Maximum marks- 300 marks one negative mark for each question
Technical Assistant	Subject Mental Ability Check Time assigned – 1 hour No. of questions – 50 Maximum marks- 200 marks (4 marks of each question) There will be no negative marking	Subject: General Awareness Time assigned – 30 minutes No. of questions- 25 Maximum marks- 75 marks One negative mark for each question	Subject: Concerned subject Time assigned – 90 minutes No. of questions – 100 Maximum marks- 300 marks one negative mark for each question
Technician	Subject Mental Ability Check Time assigned – 1 hour No. of questions – 50 Maximum marks- 200 marks (4 marks of each question) There will be no negative marking	Subject: General Awareness Time assigned – 30 minutes No. of questions- 25 Maximum marks- 75 marks One negative mark for each question	Subject: Concerned subject Time assigned – 90 minutes No. of questions – 50 Maximum marks- 150 marks one negative mark for each question

 

How to apply

The application process for the CSIR NCL recruitment exam is online.

• For notification, updates, job vacancies, job advertisements, or applications visit the official website of NCL. The official website of the National Chemistry Laboratory is www.ncl-india.org.
• Look for “Join us” > “Job Vacancies” or search with the help of Ctrl+ F to get the list of all the openings for recruitment in CSIR-NCL.
• Before applying to any job position, read the advertisement for jobs carefully and cross-check the requirements.
• If you find yourself eligible for the post, proceed to fill the application form.
• The application fees of any position are 100/- and are non- refundable. Whereas, applicants belonging to the group SC / ST / PWD / Women / CSIR Workers / Abroad are application fee waivers.
• The portal has an online payment gateway to make transactions in favor of ‘Director, National Chemical Laboratory’ via NEFT or other online payment options.

Payment Details: Bank Name : State Bank of India Account No. : 30267257846IFSC Code No : SBIN0003552Branch Code : 3552Branch Name : NCL Campus Branch, Pune

• The candidate must ensure to generate the receipt of remitted application fee through the online payment system. The receipt should acknowledge the date of the transaction and UTR Number / Transaction number and must be followed by the hard copy of the online application form.
• Mentioned below is the information that must be filled on the opposite of the printed copy of the provided acknowledgment of the remitted application fee i) Name of the applicant, (ii) Application ID (iii) Type of candidate (iv) Postal Code.

Requirements

• Candidates must have a working email ID, soft copies of passport size photograph, and signature before applying. The application form will ask you to attach the documents of the same.
• Scanned images in JPG/JPEG format only.
• Aspirant’s Photograph File size must be less than 50 kb.
• Applicant’s Signature File size must be less than 25 kb.

Registration process

• Candidates applying for the first time need to register themselves to the NCL portal through their Email ID. They will receive their activation keys to their respective Email IDs after clicking on the activation key, you will be re-routed to the NCL portal logged-in. , your NCL portal system login ID will be the same as your user ID. However, they can use one ID to apply for more than one job position in NCL.
• Eventually, candidates later need to pick their desired job position and press “Fill Application” written against the job position. Click on “view” to proceed with filling the application form.

Application Form Details

• The application form asks candidates to fill in their contact information and their qualification/ educational details. It should be noted that, that these are the mandatory fields. In the absence of required information, the application form will not get submitted.
• While filing the educational details, candidates will be requested to convert their CGPA/SGPA/OGPA grades to the percentage. They can do it by the formula presented by the University.
• If the applicant has acquired relevant experience or additional academic qualifications, he can add all of those in the “Other Qualification. ” Also, note that SSC and HSC details will be considered under the category of “Academic Details “, and not under ” Other Qualifications “.

After submitting the form

• At last, the candidate is asked to fill in the details from the remitted application fee certificate generated online. Furthermore, the mandatory fields include UTR/ Transaction no., the date of transaction, Bank account no. of the candidate, etc. to confirm the payment of application.
• You can send your application form to oss@ncl.res.in
• If you happen to have any technical issue or have a query while applying online, seek your solution by sending an E-mail to accountable authorities at recruit@ncl.res.in.
• For queries concerning these leagues or the CSIR examination, please contact, Dr. A. A. Arbale (Co-Ordinator of CSIR – UGC SRF Exam Unit, Chair- Human Resource Management Unit, NCL).
• Finally, you are done with the form. Above all, don’t forget to get a printout of the application form for future purposes.

The online application form should be filled before 27/07/2021. Late applications will not be considered.

 

Selection Process

The prescribed educational qualifications are a bare minimum . The candidates are not entitled to be called for an interview for merely possessing bare minimum.

The number of applications received in response to this notice of engagement is large. It may not be possible to interview all the candidates who applied. Based on the recommendation of the Screening Committee, the project Leader may restrict the number of candidates to be called for interviews. Furthermore, The reasonable limit will be considered according to the qualification and experience. More will be the additional qualification, more will be the preference. Therefore, it will be in the interest of the candidates, to mention all the qualifications and experience in the relevant field on the date of advertisement.

Working of Screening Committee

The possibilities of you getting selected by screening committee will increase depending on how convincing your qualification and experience looks.

The candidates recommended by the Screening Committee to be called for interview would be notified on the website. Also, in Divisional Notice Board. This interview will be held on or before 5:00 PM 28/07/2021. The candidates may contact Mr. P.M. Dhutraj for information at email id: pm.dhutraj@ncl.res.in. At contact No: 02025902010 too. You can contact from 29/07/2021 during 10.00 AM to 5:30 PM.

Selection Committee will call for the shortlisted candidates for an online interview. The link of the online interview will be provided to short-listed candidates later via email on or before 30/07/2021.

Interview Details

The interview will be conducted on 30/07/2021 from 09:30 AM onwards online. The interview will happen through a suitable medium. For example, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Cisco WebEx, etc.

Neither any interview call letter will be issued separately, nor any TA/DA will be admissible for appearing for the interview.

Selected candidates will be requested to join duty immediately as mentioned in the engagement letter issued by CSIR NCL.

 

CSIR NCL Recruitment 2021 Admit Card

How to download the CSIR NCL admit card?

1. Visit the official website of CSIR- NCL www.ncl-india.org
2. You will reach the CSIR NCL official home page.
3. Skim the webpage and look for the link to download the CSIR NCL position Hall Ticket
4. Now enter your login details like registration id and date of birth
5. Next download the CSIR NCL Admit Card 2020 of yours.
6. Carry it to the written examination hall

 

CSIR NCL Recruitment 2021 Result & Cut off

1. Visit the official website of CSIR- NCL www.ncl-india.org
2. You will reach the CSIR NCL official home page.
3. Skim the web page and check for the link to check the result for the CSIR NCL Technical position, Project associate position etc.
4. Now enter your login details like registration id and date of birth
5. Next, download the CSIR NCL the result 2020 and cut off

 

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CSIR NCL FAQs

Q1. What is the total no. of vacancies released by CSIR NCL Recruitment?

Ans. As of now, only the vacancies of technician and project associate posts are revealed. The total no. of Vacancies in 2021 is yet to disclose.

Q2. What is the minimum qualification required for CSIR NCL Recruitment?

Ans. The qualification requirement for each post varies. Whereas the minimum qualification required is Bachelors of Engineering (B.E.) and Bachelors of Technology (B. Tech. )

Q3. What is the age limit to apply for CSIR NCL Job positions?

Ans. The maximum age limit to apply is 40 years with age benefit to reserved categories.

Q4. Can a single login ID be used for applying to multiple positions?

Ans. Yes, one login ID can be used to apply for more than one position.

Q5. What is the highest salary in the CSIR NCL recruitment vacancy?

Ans. The highest salary is 100136/- per month for the job position of Senior Technical Officer.

Q6. What are the application fees of CSIL NCR Recruitment papers?

Ans. The application fees of any position are 100/- . It is non- refundable. Whereas, applicants belonging to the group SC / ST / PWD / Women / CSIR Workers / Abroad are application fee waivers.

Q7. How do I apply for CSIR NCL Recruitment?

Ans. Visit the official website of CSIL – NCR, then click on join us > Job opportunities > Choose from regular and project vacancies. You can find all the available vacancies and application forms of the same there.

Q8. Can we apply after the closing date of the application forms?

Ans. Latecomers have no provision made for them. For any job position, candidates will not be entertained after the closing date.

Q9. Is there any negative marking for wrong answers?

Ans. There is no negative marking in Paper 01 of the mental ability check. However, there is negative marking in paper 02 and paper 03. For this reason, choose your answer wisely.

Q10. Can I apply for CSIR NCL Recruitment after 12th?

Ans. No, you can’t apply for NCL Recruitment after 12th.