NOTIFICATION FOR COMMON SELECTION UNDER N.T.

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VIDYONNATHI PROGRAMME 2018-19 BATCH.

GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

SOCIALWELFARE DEPARTMENT

Applications are invited from all eligible SC, ST, BC, Kapu, Brahmin,
Minority and EBC Students of Andhra Pradesh for appearing common online
Entrance Test under NTR Vidyonnathi Scheme conducted by JNTU
Ananthapuramu. The selected candidates will be sponsored to Reputed
coaching Institutes across the Country for providing (9) months professional
guidance for Civil Services Examination to be conducted by UPSC for prelims
–cum- Mains.

ELIGIBILITY:

Age : All the candidates must have attained the age of 21 years and not have
attained the age of 32 years for Kapu, Brahmin, Minority and EBC and not
have attained the age of 35 years for BC and not have attained the age of 37
years for SC&ST as on 01.08.2019.in case of differently abled candidates
(VH/HH/OH), upper age limit is 42 years as on 01.08.2019.Candidates should
be residents of Andhra Pradesh.

Education Qualification : Candidate should pass any Bachelor’s Degree.

Degree final year students are also eligible to apply and they have to produce
degree certificates at the time of verification, failing which their candidature
will be cancelled.

Income ceiling : Annual family income shall not exceed Rs.6.00 lakhs.

No second time benefit : The candidates who were sponsored for the
coaching in the previous years,i.e.2015-16 and 2016-17,2017-18, are not
eligible to apply for the scheme. If any such cases are noticed, their
candidature will be cancelled and further action will be initiated.

No of seats: The number of seats available per departments/corporations will

be notified on the jnanabhumi portal shortly.

Syllabus :As per the Civils Preliminary Examination.

Examination fee: Nil.

Examination: Question paper will be bi lingual (Telugu&English) and
Examination will be conducted online.

No.of papers & Marks: Only one paper with 150 Questions for 150 marks.

Duration:150 Minutes

How to Apply:

Eligible candidates can apply through www.jnanabhumi.ap.gov.in and submit

their applications ONLINE.

Schedule of Examination:

Commencement of Submission of online application from:24.05.2018

Last date for submission of online application :02.06.2018

Download of Hall tickets from website :From 2nd June, onwards

Date of Examination :25.06.2018 & 26.06.2018

Examination centres: All district Head Quarters.

Candidates will be notified later regarding the empanelled institutions and

the seats available for each institute and corporation wise, departmentwise.

The selected candidates are provided with institution fee (payable to

institution) and monthly stipend (payable to candidate).

For detailed information, please visit www.jnanabhumi.ap.gov.in

Note: Selected candidates shall be sponsored to the empanelled

Institute based on their merit and seats allotted to the Institutes. HODs
decision is the final in all aspects

Sd/-M.Rama Rao
Director of Social Welfare