Taking a decisive step to ensure credible and trustworthy recruitments, the Haryana Government has notified the Policy for Recruitment to Group C and D posts through Common Eligibility Test (CET), 2024 to simplify and standardize the recruitment process for government employment to all direct recruitment to Group C and Group D posts. The test will be conducted as and when decided by the government from time to time.
According to the notification issued by Chief Secretary Dr. Vivek Joshi, the test shall apply for direct recruitment to Group C posts, including the posts of Police service, Prisons and Home Guards etc., excluding teaching posts, Ex-Agniveer and Group D posts for which minimum educational qualification is below Matriculation in the Haryana Group D Employees (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2018 (5 of 2018), in the departments of State Government or any Board, Corporation, statutory body or any other agency owned and controlled by the State Government other than any university established by or under a State Act.
The minimum educational qualification for Group C posts shall be class 10+2/equivalent or Matric with additional qualification. For Group D posts, the minimum qualification shall be Matric along with Hindi or Sanskrit as one of the subjects in Matric or Hindi as one of the subjects in Higher Standard or as per provision in Haryana Group D Employees (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2018 (5 of 2018).
The syllabus for Common Eligibility Test shall be divided into two parts comprising— (a) 75% weightage for General Awareness, Reasoning, quantitative ability, English, Hindi, and for Group C posts, computer knowledge in addition; and (b) 25% weightage for History, Current Affairs, Literature, Geography, Environment, Culture etc. of Haryana.
The question paper shall be of the level of senior secondary education (i.e.10+2 level/equivalent) for Group C posts and of the level of secondary education (Matric level) in case of Group D posts, provided that Hindi and English shall be of Matric Level. All applicants shall register on a designated portal i.e. onetimeregn.haryana.gov.in by the last date to be published by an advertisement issued by the Commission, providing all particulars relating to the identity of the applicant and uploading all the required documents.
The Parivar Pehchan Number enables the recruiting agency to verify the applicant’s claims in respect of residence, educational and other qualifications, caste and experience certificate, family income/assets, status of parents (if any parent is deceased the verification of death certificate is involved), marital status of female applicant, separation certificate of legally separated women, disability certificate, sports gradation certificate, denotified tribe/Vimukt Jati certificate, certificate of ex-serviceman, dependent of ex-servicemen certificate, dependent of freedom fighter, FIR copy etc.
The applicant may register using his Parivar Pehchan Number or Aadhaar Number or otherwise on the basis of such documentation as may be specified by the government from time to time. The policy states that there shall be no restriction on the number of attempts to appear in the written examination of the CET. An applicant of general category shall have to obtain minimum 50% marks in CET to be eligible for skill and/or written examination of second stage, however, an applicant of reserved category (both vertical and horizontal) shall receive concession @ 10%, for the purpose of eligibility for CET, i.e. the minimum cut-off for such candidates shall be 40%.
An applicant of any category who obtains less than the minimum marks in CET shall have to re-appear in CET in the next or any subsequent attempts. If an applicant has already qualified the CET for Group D post, he will have the option to appear again in the CET to improve his CET marks in the next or any subsequent occasion.
After publication of CET (Marks) in accordance with sub-clause (xi) of clause 7 above, the posts available for recruitment shall be advertised by the Commission along with the syllabus, procedure/manner of conducting skill and/or written examination of the advertised posts and last date for attaining minimum educational qualifications and/or experience.
On the advertisement being issued, the Commission shall invite applications electronically of the eligible candidates based on the merit list of CET (Marks) to know whether the candidate is willing to appear for skill and/or written examination for that post. Out of the candidates applying for the post, the maximum number of candidates eligible to appear for the skill and/or written examination shall be ten times the total number of posts advertised by the Commission.
This exam will be a computer-based online/offline/Optical Mark Reading (OMR) based test and will be conducted by the Haryana Staff Selection Commission or any other agency as decided by the Government and shall be bilingual i.e. conducted in Hindi and English. The policy further states that the CET marks obtained by an applicant shall be valid for a period of three years from the date of declaration of the result.
However, if an applicant improves his CET marks in the next or any subsequent attempt, then the fresh period of validity of three years shall commence from the date of declaration of result of such attempt. More details of this policy can be accessed at website https://csharyana.gov.in.