ISRO Scientists Engineers Recruitment 2014: Notification | Eligibility | Form

ISRO recruits every year 100 odd bright engineering graduates for the post of Scientists/Engineers and this year is no exception - it has ...

ISRO recruits every year 100 odd bright engineering graduates for the post of Scientists/Engineers and this year is no exception - it has come up with ISRO Recruitment 2014 Notification for Scientists/Engineers recently for 102 vacancies. As per the notification, last date to apply online is 13th March, 2014 and the written ISRO Scientists/Engineers Recruitment Exam 2014 would be conducted on 26th April, 2014.

Focus of this blog article is to help you apply for this recruitment by quoting the relevant information on dates,eligibility & forms by quoting the same from the notification, while another blog article: ISRO Scientist/Engineers Exam pattern/Papers/Books would provide you the prep materials for the ISRO exam. Before that at first let us know what is ISRO.

What is ISRO?

Headquartered in Bangalore under Department of Space, Govt. of India, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) was established on August 15, 1969 to use space technology for national benefit. It is the sixth largest government space agencies in the world. From the time of launching India’s first satellite, Aryabhata on 19 April 1975 to Chandrayaan-1, India’s first mission to the Moon on 8th November 2008, ISRO has traveled many miles.

How prestigious an organisation is ISRO can be gauged from the fact that none other than the Prime Minister of this country is at its helm, as you can find from this Organisational Chart!

You can know about more about this very prestigious organisation from this “About us” page of ISRO website.

Branch-wise vacancy for ISRO Recruitment 2014

As said, there are 102 vacancies with branch-wise break-up as given in table at right.

ISRO Eligibility for Scientist/Engineers:
Age eligibility: as on 13/03/2014.

Maximum 35 years (Age relaxations exists as per Govt rule)

Academic Qualification eligibility:

You need to be a first class BE/B.Tech or equivalent in Electronics or Mechanical engineering or Computer Science, with a minimum aggregate of 65% (average of all semesters for which results are available). Final year students can also apply, provided the results are declared within 31st August, 2014.

ISRO Salaries for Scientist/Engineers:

The gross salary offered by ISRO for these Scientist/Engineers positions is in pay-scale of Rs. 15600-39100 + 5400 (Grade Pay). The gross monthly salary with this pay-scale is approximately approximately Rs.33,180/- p.m.

Selection Process for ISRO Scientist/Engineers:

Based on your engineering degree aggregate, ISRO is going to shortlist the candidates for ISRO written exam which consists of 240 marks: 80 question, each weighing 3 marks. This has to be answered in 90 minutes. Based on relative performance of candidates in this written exam, ISRO is going to issue call letter for Interview. The written exam is for qualifying purpose only - the final selection would be based on Interview solely and you need to score minimum 60% marks in the Interview to be eligible to featured in merit list.

You can find more about the ISRO written exam in my subsequent blog post titled: ISRO Scientist/Engineers Exam pattern/Papers/Books.

List of exam centres for ISRO written exam:
The written exam in 2014 would be held in the exam centres in following ten city/towns all over India:
Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Chennai, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Thiruvananthapuram. 

Online Application Form ISRO Recruitment 2014:
You can apply only online! There is no offline application form. How to apply online has been given in detail in section "How to apply" of the notification.
Click here for ISRO Recruitment 2014 Form for Scientist/Engineer SC

ISRO exam 2014 important dates:

Start date of ISRO Online registration: 20-02-2014.

Last date of ISRO Online registration: 13-03-2014.

Date of ISRO Written exam 2014: 26th April, 2014 (Saturday).

Some of you may be appearing in ISRO Recruitment Scientists/Engineers exam 2015 and would like to know when the dates for ISRO Recruitment exam 2015 notification would come out and when the exam would be held. Based on previous exams, let me tell you that the notification comes out on the 1st/2nd week of February and the written exam is held in April/May. So please check this ISRO notification webpage from 1st week of February, 2015 for the notification as well as exact date of exam.

ISRO exam Study materials:

You can find detailed information on ISRO exam patten , sample papers and books from the previous blog post titled: ISRO Scientist/Engineers Exam pattern/Papers/Books.

Best wishes!.

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