Cabinet approves to set up National Recruitment Agency to conduct CET

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Cabinet today approved setting up of National Recruitment Agency to conduct Common Eligibility Test.

Briefing media this afternoon, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar termed it as historic decision which will benefit job seeking youth of the country.

He said, this fulfils long standing demand of the youth of the country. The National Recruitment Agency will conduct a Common Eligibility Test to screen and shortlist candidates for the Group B and C (non-technical) posts. NRA will have representatives of Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Finance, SSC, RRB and IBPS.

Special focus on creating examination infrastructure in the 117 Aspirational Districts would go a long way in affording access to candidates at a place nearer to where they reside.

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The CET score of the candidate shall be valid for a period of three years from the date of declaration of the result.

The best of the valid scores shall be deemed to be the current score of the candidate.

There shall be no restriction on the number of attempts to be taken by a candidate to appear in the CET subject to the upper age limit.

Relaxation in the upper age limit shall be given to candidates of SC/ST/OBC and other categories as per the extant policy of the Government.

Candidates would have the facility of registering on a common portal and give a choice of Centres.

Government has sanctioned a sum of 1517.57 crore rupees for the National Recruitment Agency.

The expenditure will be undertaken over a period of three years. National Recruitment Agency will ensure transparency and ease in recruitment process, both for the candidate and the recruiting organisation.

CET scores can be shared with Central and State Governments, PSUs, private sector thus reducing recruitment costs of these organisations. Initially the NRA will conduct CET twice a year.

The Cabinet which met under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi also approved a proposal for leasing out three airports – of Airports Authority of India through Public Private Partnership.

These are Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram. These projects will bring efficiency in service delivery, expertise, enterprise and professionalism apart from harnessing the needed investments in the public sector.

Cabinet Committe on Economic Affairs, CCEA has approved Fair and Remunerative Price of sugarcane payable by sugar mills for the sugar season 2020-21 at 285 rupees per quintal for a basic recovery rate of 10 per cent.

CCEA also approved one-time relaxation to Power Finance Corporation and Rural Electrification Corporation for extending loans to DISCOMs above limits of working capital cap of 25 percent of last year’s revenues under Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana.

One-time relaxation would help in providing liquidity to the power sector and ensure payments by State Governments to DISCOMs.