(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: Role & Functions of National Recruitment Agency

Topic: Role & Functions of National Recruitment Agency

Guest:

Sujata Chaturvedi, (Addl Secretary, Dept of Personnel & Training, GoI)
Surendra Nath Tripathi, (Director, IIPA)
A. K. Bhattacharya, (Editorial Director, Business Standard)

Topic Description:

Terming the setting up of a National Recruitment Agency as "historic", Union minister Jitendra Singh on August 19 said it will conduct an online Common Eligibility Test for shortlisting candidates for majority of central government jobs twice a year. He said the multiple recruitment examinations are a burden on the candidates, as also on the respective recruitment agencies, involving avoidable or repetitive expenditure, law and order or security-related issues and venue-related problems. It is envisioned that the NRA would be a specialist body bringing state of the art technology and best practices to the field of central government recruitment.