The Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided that a single exam will be conducted to fill vacancies for all Central Government jobs. This exam will be called Common Eligibility Test (CET) and will be conducted by National Recruitment Agency.
According to secretary of Department of Personnel and Training, C. Chandramouli there are around 1.25 lakh vacancies in Central government jobs for which almost 3 crore aspirants sit every year. For now CET will be conducted for group B and C non technical jobs. Till now the central government jobs were conducted by Staff Selection Commission, Railway Recruitment Board and Institute of Banking Personnel Selection. The national recruitment agency will have representatives from all three agencies mentioned. The CET exam will be conducted once a year for three different levels which are for 10th pass, 12th pass and graduates. The CET will be just preliminary examination and if the agency wants they can conduct the specialised tier examinations.
CET will be conducted online. It has been planned that every district will have an examination centre for this and special focus will be given 117 aspirational selected districts. It will be conducted in 12 different languages so that more and more candidates can apply. the marks obtained in the seat will be valid for a period of three years.
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