The ICAR Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) has extended the deadline to apply online for the post of Technician. Interested and eligible candidates can now apply for the vacancies upto January 20, 11.45 PM at the official website iari.res.in.

The ICAR recruitment drive is being conducted for a total of 641 posts of Technician in Pay Level-3. The ICAR Technician online objective type examination (CBT) will be conducted between January 25 to February 5, 2022.

Here’s ICAR technician recruitment 2022 notification.

Eligibility Criteria

Age Limit: The minimum age limit is 18 years, whereas the maximum age limit is 30 years as on January 10, 2022. The maximum age limit for Serving regular employees of ICAR is 58 years as on January 10, 2022.

Educational Qualification: Matriculation pass from a recognized Board. Candidate must specifically indicate the percentage of marks obtained (calculated to the nearest two decimals) in the relevant column of the application form. Where percentage of marks is not awarded by the University but only CGPA/OGPA is awarded, the same shall be converted into percentage in terms of conversion norms of university in this regard, besides indicating the CGPA/OGPA in the application form. More details in the notification.

Application Fee

The application fee for the candidates from UR/OBC-NCL(NCL)/EWS category are required to pay the fee of Rs 1000, of which Rs 700 is examination fee and 300 is registration fee. The candidates from Women/ Schedule Caste/Schedule Tribe/ExServicemen/PwD category will have to pay Rs 300.

Steps to apply for ICAR Technician recruitment 2021:

  1. Visit the official website iari.res.in
  2. Click on “Recruitment Cell” tab
  3. Click on Technician (T-1) application window
  4. Register and proceed with application process
  5. Upload the required documents, pay the fee and submit the form
  6. Take a printout for future reference

Here’s direct link to register for ICAR Technician posts.

Exam Plan

The Computer Based Test/Examination shall consist of Objective Type 100 Questions with 4 multiple choice answers out of which candidate has to choose one correct answer only. Each question carries one mark. For each wrong answer ¼ (0.25) mark shall be deducted.

Qualifying marks in written test/CBT is prescribed as 40% for UR, 30% for SC/OBC-NCL/EWS and 25% for ST.