New India Assurance Recruitment 2011: Notification, Eligibility & Forms

New India Assurance Recruitment Notification 2011 for Admin Officers has just come out yesterday for a good number of 379 Admin Officer ...

New India Assurance Recruitment Notification 2011 for Admin Officers has just come out yesterday for a good number of 379 Admin Officer positions and this blog post sums up this notification, telling what are the eligibilities to appear for this exam and how to apply for the same.

Click here to find the New India Assurance recruitment notification 2011 for Admin Officers.

If you are interested to appear for this recruitment exam, another blog article of mine titled: NIA Admin Officers exam pattern, Sample papers and Books helps you to prepare for this exam by pointing you to the sources for the sample papers and books.

Before going further, let us know New India Assurance as an organisation.

What is New India Assurance?

New India Assurance was founded by Sir Dorab Tata on July 23rd, 1919 and was nationalised in 1973. It is ranked No. 1 non-Life Insurance Company in India and is also the largest non-Life insurer in entire Afro-Asia region excluding Japan.

With approximately 21000 employees, it has a country-wide network of 1068 offices, comprising of 26 Regional offices, 393 Divisional offices and 648 branches. It also has overseas presence in 24 countries with a network of 19 Branches, 12 Agencies, 2 Associate companies and 2 Subsidiary companies.

More about New India Assurance can be found from this About us page of NIA website.

New India Assurance Admin Officer vacancies:
There are 360 vacancies as below:
Admin Officer (IT): 40
Admin Officer (Generalists): 289

Admin Officer (Accounts/CA): 25

Admin Officer (Actuary): 25

New India Assurance Admin Officer Eligibilities:
Age Eligibilities (as on 01.02.2011): Max. 30 years.
Go through section: “(II) Eligibility conditions” of Page-1 of the notification for age-relaxations.

Educational qualification eligibilities for Admin Officer Specialists (IT):
M.E./M.Tech (IT/Computer Science) / MCA (Masters in Computer Applications) / MIT
(Masters in Information Technology)/ MCM (Masters in Computer Management) with
55% marks (50% for SC/ST) in aggregate from a recognized University/ Institute.
OR
BE/B.Tech (IT/Computer Science) with 60% marks (55% for SC/ST) from a recognized University/ Institute.

Educational qualification eligibilities for Admin Officer (Generalists):
Graduation with minimum 60% (55% for SC/ST candidates) marks in aggregate from a recognized University/ Institute

OR
Post Graduation with 55% (50% for SC/ST candidates) from a recognized University/ Institute.

Educational qualification eligibilities for Admin Officer (Accounts/CA):

Graduation in Commerce with minimum 60% (55% for SC/ST) marks in aggregate

OR Post Graduation in Commerce with 55% marks (50% for SC/ST) from recognized University/ Institute duly approved by UGC/AICTE.

OR Final pass of Chartered Accountancy / ICWA Examination.

Educational qualification eligibilities for Admin Officer (Actuary):

Graduation with minimum 60% (55% for SC/ST candidates) marks in aggregate

OR Post Graduation with 55% marks (50% for SC/ST) from recognized University/ Institute duly approved by UGC/AICTE . Passed at least 5 Papers of Actuary Examination. The candidate should be a Member of Actuarial Society of India.

New India Assurance Admin Officer Salaries:

NIA is offering salaries in the pay scale of Rs.17,240-840(14)-29,000-910(4)-32640 and other admissible allowances as applicable. Gross emoluments in Metro centres would be approximately Rs.27,300/- per month.

New India Assurance Application Form:
Application fee is Rs. 500/= (Rs. 150/= for SC/ST/PWD candidates).
You need to make a crossed Demand Draft of this amount from any Nationalized or Scheduled Bank in favour of “The New India Assurance Company Limited” payable at “Mumbai”. Also write down your name and address, Group and Code No. on the reverse of the DD. The DD should be attached with your application form.

Send the completed form with enclosures by ordinary post to the following address:

Post BagNo. 2281, Chanakyapuri, Post Office, New Delhi –110021

Last date for receipt of your form at the above address is 28.03.2011.

Important dates for New India Assurance Admin Officer exam 2011:
Date of notification and form availability: 03.03.2011..
Last date for receipt of application forms: 28.03.2011.
Date of Written Examination: 22.05.2011.

Hope with above you can apply confidently to the New India Assurance Admin Officer job. My next blog post would focus on providing you the study materials for this NIA exam: NIA Admin Officers exam pattern, Sample papers and Books. Please visit that post!

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