ASRB stands for Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board. The board was established with the approval of Cabinet on 1 November, 1973 as an independent recruitment agency. Again, the Government of India has approved restructuring the board as per their decision in the meeting of the Union Cabinet held on 1 August, 2018.

Thus, at present ASRB has been delinked from ICAR and attached with the Department of Agricultural Research & Education (DARE) under the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India.

The Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB) conducts the
competitive examination for recruitment to the posts of Administrative Officer (AO) and Finance & Accounts Officer from time to time.

Educational Qualifications

Post	Educational Qualifications	Desirable Qualification
Administrative Officer	Candidate should have graduation degree from a recognised university, not less than 55% mark in the final degree examination. Must have working knowledge of computer	Specialization in Finance/ Accounting/ Commerce at the Post Graduation level or professional qualification such as CA/ ICWA/ CS
Finance & Accounts Officer	Candidate should have graduation degree from a recognised university, not less than 55% mark in the final degree examination. Must have working knowledge of computer	Specialization in Finance/ Accounting/ Commerce at the Post Graduation level or professional qualification such as CA/ ICWA/ CS

Age Limit

Minimum Age Required: 21 Years
Maximum Age Required: 30 years

As on the closing date of online registration of application, candidates should have attained the age of 21 years and must have not attained the age of 30 years. But, for the regular employees of the council, holding the post in administrative (ministerial) category will be relaxable upto 45 years.
The upper age limit prescribed above will be relaxable as per the government rules and regulations.

Application Procedure for the Departmental Candidates

All the candidates, who are in the services of Indian Council of Agricultural Research or in the any government services, whether in a permanent or in temporary basis or as work-charged employees, other than casual or daily rated employees, have to submit an undertaking that they have informed in writing their Head of Office/Department that they are applying for this examination.

Scheme of Examination for the post of Administrative Officers

The examination scheme for this post is divided into three parts as follows:

Tier-I Exam

Objective MCQ paper of 200 questions each of one mark. Duration of the Tier-I examination is 3 Hrs. This paper will be qualifying in nature and marks scored in it will not be carried forward.

Section - A	General Knowledge	50 Questions
Section - B	General Intelligence & Reasoning Ability	50 Questions
Section - C	Arithmetical & Numerical Ability	50 Questions
Section - D	Language Comprehension (Hindi or English)	50 Questions

Note : For each wrong answer, there will be a penalty of one third of the marks originally assigned to that question.

Tier-II (Descriptive) Exam

The ASRB will prepare a list of candidates to be qualified for Tier-II Examination, based on the criterion of minimum qualifying marks. In Tier-II, there will be four papers each of 3 Hrs duration and 150 marks.

Paper-I	General Awareness of Development of Economic, Social, Scientific & Cultural Fields, History & Geography of India and the World	150 Marks
Paper-II	Constitution of India, Polity, Governance, Social Justice	150 Marks
Paper-III	Essay Writing-I Essay Writing-II	150 Marks (75 +75)
Paper-IV	Ethics, Integrity, Aptitude	150 Marks

Total of Written = 600 Marks

Tier-III (Interview)
Candidates from Tier-II Exam will be qualified for Tier-III in the ratio of 5 candidates for each vacancy (category-wise).

Structured Interview : 100 Marks

The Final merit will be prepared on the basis of marks obtained in Tier-II Exam (out of maximum 600 Marks) and marks obtained in Structured Interview (out of maximum 100 Marks).

Scheme of Examination for the post of Finance and Accounts officers

The examination scheme for this post is divided into three parts as follows:

Tier-I Exam

Objective MCQ paper of 200 questions each of one mark. Duration of the Tier-I examination is 3 Hrs. This paper will be qualifying in nature and marks scored in it will not be carried forward.

Section - A	General Knowledge	50 Questions
Section - B	General Intelligence & Reasoning Ability	50 Questions
Section - C	Arithmetical & Numerical Ability	50 Questions
Section - D	Language Comprehension (Hindi or English)	50 Questions

Note : For each wrong answer, there will be a penalty of one third of the marks originally assigned to that question.

Tier-II (Descriptive) Exam
In this Tier-II, each paper will be of 3 Hrs. duration.

Paper-I	General Awareness of Development of Economic, Social, Scientific & Cultural Fields, History & Geography of India and the World	150 Marks
Paper-II	Constitution of India, Polity, Governance, Social Justice	150 Marks
Paper-III	Essay Writing	100 Marks
Paper-IV	Commerce & Business Economics	200 Marks

Total of Written = 600 Marks

Tier-III (Interview)

Candidates from Tier-II Exam will be qualified for Tier-III in the ratio of 5 candidates for each vacancy (category-wise).

Structured Interview : 100 Marks

Final merit will be prepared based on the aggregate of marks (700 Marks), i.e., marks obtained by the candidates in Tier-II Exam (out of maximum 600 Marks) and marks obtained in Structured Interview (out of maximum 100 Marks).

CENTRES

Centres for the Tir-I Examination:

Anand/ Vadodara
Barapani / Shillong
Bareilly
Bengaluru
Barrackpore/ Kolkata
Bhopal
Bhubaneswar
Chandigarh/ Mohali
Chennai
Coimbatore
Dehradun
Delhi
Dharwad / Goa
Guwahati
Hyderabad
Indore
Jaipur
Jammu
Jodhpur
Karnal
Kochi
Lucknow
Ludhiana
Mumbai
Nagpur
Patna
Port Blair
Raipur
Rajkot
Ranchi
Shimla
Srinagar
Varanasi
Vijayawada

Centres for the Tier-II Examination

Centre Code	Centre
01	Bengaluru
02	Bhubaneswar
03	Coimbatore
04	Delhi
05	Guwahati
06	Hyderabad
07	Jammu
08	Kolkata
09	Mumbai
10	Nagpur
11	Patna
12	Varanasi