NABARD IT Officer
The NABARD Grade A IT Notification 2024 has been released on 27th July 2024 for 16 vacancies. NABARD has released vacancies for the post of Grade A Assistant Managers (RDBS) in various disciplines in the detailed notification. Out of these 102 total vacancies released, 16 vacancies are specifically out for the NABARD IT Officer. In this blog post, we intend to provide all the necessary information on NABARD Grade A IT Notification 2024.
NABARD Grade A IT Notification PDF
The detailed notification is released on the official website for NABARD IT Officer on 27th July 2024. The candidates can apply within the application window that is open from 27th July 2024 to 15th August 2024. As the NABARD Grade A IT 2024 detailed notification has been released, the candidates must download it from the link given below:
Download NABARD Grade A IT Notification PDF
NABARD Grade A IT Officer 2024 - Important Dates
The schedule for the NABARD Grade A IT officer exam 2024 is provided below. The exact dates has been notified in the detailed NABARD Grade A Notification 2024.
| Events | NABARD IT Officer Important Dates |
| NABARD IT Officer Short Notification Release Date | 25th July 2024 |
| NABARD Grade A IT Officer Notification Release Date | 27th July 2024 |
| NABARD Grade IT Officer Application Start Date | 27th July 2024 |
| NABARD Grade A IT Officer Application Last Date | 15th August 2024 |
| NABARD Grade A IT Officer (RDBS) – Phase 1 Prelims Exam Date | 1st September 2024 |
| NABARD Grade A Officer – Phase 2 (Mains) Exam Date | 19th October 2024 (Tentative) |
NABARD Grade A IT Vacancies 2024
The vacancies for NABARD Grade 'A' AM (RDBS) - IT has been provided below for the current year. We have shared the vacancy of the previous years as well so that the aspirants come to know about the vacancy trend being followed.
| Category | 2024 Vacancies | 2023 Vacancies | 2022 Vacancies | 2021 Vacancies |
| Unreserved | 9 | 16 | 10 | 06 |
| OBC | 1 | 14 | 9 | 04 |
| SC | 1 | 6 | 4 | 03 |
| ST | 5 | 1 | - | - |
| EWS | - | 3 | 2 | 02 |
| Total | 16 | 40 | 25 | 15 |
NABARD Grade A IT Apply Online 2024
The application window is open from 27th July 2024 so, the below given link is active. Use the direct link given below to apply for NABARD Grade A IT Officer.
Direct NABARD Grade A IT Officer Apply Online Link
NABARD IT Officer Eligibility
While applying for NABARD Grade A, be aware that you can apply only for one discipline/ post of your choice. If you apply for Assistant Manager in IT discipline, you cannot opt for any other discipline like General, Fisheries, Agriculture, Finance, etc.
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NABARD IT Officer Eligibility - Age Limit
The candidate must be between 21 and 30 years of age which means that the candidate must have been born not earlier than 02-07-1994 and not later than 01-07-2003 as of 1st July 2024. Also note that the reference date and the other dates are as expected.
NABARD Grade A IT Officer Age Limit - Relaxation
Check out the relaxation in the table given below:
| Category | Age Relaxation |
| OBC | 3 years |
1. SC/ST
2. Ex-servicemen
3. Emergency Commissioned Officers/Short Service Commissioned
Officers
4. Children/family members of victims died in the 1984 riots | 5 years |
PWBD
1. General
2. OBC
3. SC/ST | 10 years
13 years
15 years |
NABARD IT Officer Eligibility - Educational Qualification
Check out the NABARD Grade A IT Educational Qualification required below:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/ Computer Technology/ Computer
Applications/Information Technology with 60% marks (SC/PWBD applicants 55%) in
aggregate OR - A post-graduate degree in Computer Science/ Computer Technology/
Computer Applications/Information Technology with 55% marks (SC/PWBD applicants
50%) in aggregate from a recognized university.
NABARD Grade A IT Notification - Selection Process
The selection will be in three Phases as furnished below:
- Phase 1 (Preliminary Examination) - 200 Marks
- Phase 2 (Mains Examination) - 200 Marks
- Phase 3 (Interview) - 50 marks
NABARD Grade A IT Exam Pattern 2024
The NABARD Grade A IT Exam Pattern for both prelims and mains has been discussed below. The candidates must check out the detailed pattern to have a better understanding of subjects and their weightage.
NABARD Grade A IT Exam Pattern 2024 for Prelims
The Prelims Exam Pattern of NABARD Grade 'A' Assistant Manager - IT is given below :
| Name of the Test | No. of
Questions | Max
Marks |
| Test of Reasoning | 20 | 20 |
| English Language | 30 | 30 |
| Computer Knowledge | 20 | 20 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 20 | 20 |
| Decision Making | 10 | 10 |
| General Awareness | 20 | 20 |
| Eco & Soc. Issues (with focus on Rural India) | 40 | 40 |
| Agriculture & Rural Development with an Emphasis on Rural India | 40 | 40 |
| Total | 200 | 200 |
Important Notes
- Qualifying Section - Test of Reasoning, English Language, Computer Knowledge, Quantitative Aptitude, Decision Making.
- Merit Section - General Awareness, Eco & Soc. Issues (with focus on Rural India), Agriculture & Rural Development with Emphasis on Rural India.
- Shortlisting of the candidates for the Main exam will be based on marks scored in the Merit section only.
NABARD Grade A IT Exam Pattern 2024 for Mains
The Mains exam pattern of NABARD Grade A IT Officer (Assistant Manager Exam) is given below :
| Paper | Subject | Type of
Paper | Number of Qs | Marks | Duration | Remarks |
| Paper- I | General
English | Online
Descriptive | 3 | 100 | 90 minutes | Descriptive
Answers to
be typed
using
keyboard |
| Paper-II | IT | Objective | 30 | 50 | 30 minutes | - |
| Paper-II | IT | Descriptive
Type | 6
You will be
required to
attempt 4
questions
[2 of 15 marks
each] | 50 | 90 Minutes | Descriptive
Answers to
be typed
using
keyboard
either in
English or
Hindi
(Remington
and Inscript
keyboards) |
The calling ratio to qualify for the main examination and interview would be a maximum of
1:25 and 1:3, respectively.
NABARD Grade A IT Negative Marking
- There will be a penalty for wrong answers marked by the candidate.
- For every wrong answer marked, 1/4th of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as a penalty in Phase-I and Phase-II.
- Cut-offs in Phase-I and Phase-II may be applied in two stages that are On scores in individual tests & On Total Score.
NABARD Grade A IT Syllabus 2024
NABARD Grade A Phase 1 (prelims) examination and Phase 2 (mains) examination syllabus are given below:
NABARD Grade A IT Prelims Syllabus 2024
Check out the detailed NABARD Grade A IT Prelims Syllabus below:
| Name of Section | Topics asked |
| Reasoning Ability | 1. Puzzles & Seating arrangement
2. Syllogism
3. Data sufficiency
4. Statement-based questions (Verbal reasoning)
5. Inequality
6. Coding-Decoding
7. Input-Output
8. Blood relations
9. Miscellaneous Questions |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 1. Data Interpretation
2. Quadratic Equations
3. Number Series
4. Simplification/ Approximation
5. Data Sufficiency
6. Arithmetic Questions
7. Quantity Comparisons
8. Mathematical Inequalities |
| English Language | 1. Reading Comprehension
2. Sentence improvement
3. Cloze test
4. Spotting the errors
5. Fill in the blanks
6. Sentence rearrangement
7. Para Jumbles
8. New pattern questions |
| General Awareness | Majorly includes questions from current affairs - Banking, Finance, Insurance, Appointments, Awards and Honours, Sports, Schemes, and National and International Events. |
| Computer Knowledge | It various topics like Networking, Input-output devices, DBMS, MS Office, Internet, History of computers & generations, and Shortcuts. |
NABARD Grade A IT ESI Syllabus 2024
The ESI is one of the most important subjects to excel if you want to clear the NABARD Grade A Exam.
| Name of Section | Topics asked |
| Nature of Indian Economy | 1. Structural and Institutional features
2. Economic Underdevelopment
3. Opening up the Indian Economy
4. Globalization
5. Economic Reforms in India
6. Privatization |
| Inflation | Trends in Inflation & their Impact on National Economy and Individual Income. |
| Poverty Alleviation and Employment Generation in India | Rural and Urban Measurement of Poverty
Poverty Alleviation Programmes of the Government |
| Population Trends | Population Growth and Economic Development
Population Policy in India |
| Agriculture | 1. Characteristics / Status
2. Technical and Institutional changes in Indian
3. Agriculture
4. Agricultural performance
5. Issues in Food Security in India
6. Non-Institutional and Institutional Agencies in rural
credit |
| Industry | 1. Industrial and Labour Policy
2. Industrial performance
3. Regional Imbalance in India's Industrial
Development
4. Public Sector Enterprises |
| Rural banking and financial institutions in India | Reforms in the Banking/ Financial sector. |
| Globalization of Economy | 1. Role of International Funding Institutions
2. IMF & World Bank
3. WTO
4. Regional Economic Cooperation |
| Social Structure in India | 1. Multiculturalism
2. Demographic trends
3. Urbanization and Migration
4. Gender Issues- Joint family system
5. Social Infrastructure
6. Education
7. Health and Environment |
| Education | 1. Status & System of Education
2. Socio-Economic Problems associated with Illiteracy
3. Educational relevance and educational wastage
4. Educational Policy for India |
| Social Justice | Problems with scheduled castes and scheduled tribes
Socio-economic programmes for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and other backward classes. |
| Positive Discrimination in favour of the underprivileged | 1. Social Movements
2. Indian Political Systems
3. Human Development |
NABARD Grade A IT ARD Syllabus 2024
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| Name of Section | Topics asked |
| Agriculture | 1. Definition, meaning, and its branches
2. Agronomy: Definition, meaning, and scope of
agronomy
3. Classification of field crops
4. Factors affecting crop production
5. Agro Climatic Zones
6. Cropping Systems: Definition and types of cropping
systems
7. Problems of dry land - Seed production, seed
processing, seed village
8. Meteorology: weather parameters, crop-weather
advisory
9. Precision Farming
10. System of Crop Intensification
11. Organic farming |
| Soil and Water Conservation | 1. Major soil types
2. Soil fertility
3. Fertilizers
4. Soil erosion
5. Soil conservation
6. Watershed management |
| Water Resource | 1. Irrigation Management
2. Types of irrigation
3. Sources of irrigation
4. Crop-water requirement
5. Command area development
6. Water conservation techniques
7. Micro-irrigation
8. Irrigation pumps
9. Major, medium, and minor irrigation. |
| Farm and Agri-Engineering | 1. Farm Machinery and Power
2. Sources of power on the farm- human, animal,
mechanical, electrical, wind, solar, and biomass,
biofuels
3. Water harvesting structures
4. Farm Ponds
5. Agro-Processing
6. Controlled and modified storage, of perishable food
storage, godowns, bins, and grain silos |
| Plantation & Horticulture | 1. Definition, meaning, and its branches
2. Agronomic practices and production technology of
various plantation and horticulture crops
3. Post-harvest management, value, and supply chain
management of Plantation and Horticulture crops. |
| Animal Husbandry | 1. Farm animals and their role in the Indian economy
2. Animal husbandry methods in India
3. Common terms pertaining to different species of
livestock
4. Utility classification of breeds of cattle
Introduction to common feeds and fodders, their
classification, and utility
5. Introduction to the poultry industry in India (past,
present, and future status)
6. Common terms pertaining to poultry production and
management
7. The concept of mixed farming and its relevance to
the socio-economic conditions of farmers in India
8. Complimentary and obligatory nature of livestock
and poultry production with that of agricultural
farming. |
| Fisheries | 1. Fisheries resources Management and exploitation -
freshwater, brackish water, and marine
2. Aquaculture- Inland and marine
3. Biotechnology Post-harvest technology
4. Importance of fisheries in India
5. Common terms pertaining to fish production. |
| Forestry | 1. Basic concepts of Forest and Forestry
2. Principles of silviculture, forest mensuration, forest
management, and forest economics
3. Concepts of social forestry, agroforestry, joint forest
management
4. Forest policy and legislation in India, India State of
Forest Report 2015
5. Recent developments under the Ministry of
Environment, Forest, and Climate Change |
| Agriculture Extensions | 1. Its importance and role, methods of evaluation of
extension programs
2. Role of Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) in the
dissemination of Agricultural technologies |
| Ecology and Climate Change | 1. Ecology and its relevance to man, natural resources,
sustainable management, and conservation
2. Causes of climate change, GreenHouse Gases (GHG),
major GHG emitting countries, climate analysis
3. Distinguish between adaptation and mitigation
4. Climate change impact on agriculture and rural
livelihoods
5. Carbon credit, IPCC, UNFCCC, CoP meetings
6. Funding mechanisms for climate change projects
7. Initiatives by Govt of India, NAPCC, SAPCC, and INDC. |
| Present Scenario of Indian Agriculture and Allied activities | 1. Recent trends
2. Major challenges in agriculture measures to enhance
3. Viability of agriculture
4. Factors of Production in agriculture
5. Agricultural Finance and Marketing
6. Impact of Globalization on Indian Agriculture and
issues of Food Security
7. Concept and Types of Farm Management. |
| Rural Development | 1. Concept of Rural Area
2. Structure of the Indian Rural Economy
3. Importance and role of the rural sector in India
4. Economic, Social, and Demographic Characteristics of
the Indian rural economy
5. Causes of Rural Backwardness
6. Rural population in India
7. Occupational structure
8. Farmers, Agricultural Laborers, Artisans, Handicrafts,
Traders, Forest dwellers/tribes, and others in rural
India
9. Trends of change in rural population and rural
workforce
10. Problems and conditions of rural labour
11. Issues and challenges in Hand-looms
12. Panchayati Raj Institutions – Functions and
MGNREGA, NRLM – Aajeevika, Rural Drinking
water
13. Working Programmes, Swachh Bharat,
Rural Housing, PURA, and other rural
development programs |
NABARD Grade A IT Mains Syllabus 2024
The NABARD Grade A IT Mains Syllabus is divided into two papers. Check out the detailed syllabus of both the papers below:
| Paper-I - English Topics |
| Essay, Précis writing, Comprehension, and Business/Office Correspondence |
Exam Date
Phase 1: 1st September 2024
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