TNPSC Assistant AAO & AHO Officer Recruitment 2023 263 Posts

TNPSC Assistant AAO & AHO Officer Recruitment 2023 263 Posts

TNPSC Assistant AAO & AHO Officer Recruitment 2023 263 Posts : Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) has released a notification for from eligible candidates only through online mode for direct recruitment to the posts of Assistant Agricultural Officer in Tamil Nadu Agricultural Extension Subordinate Service and Assistant Horticultural Officer in Tamil Nadu Horticultural Subordinate Service. This is a great opportunity for candidates who are looking to work with the Tamil Nadu government. Interested and eligible candidates can apply online from 25.11.2023 to 24.12.2023 through the official website of TNPSC.

Summary For AAO & AHO Posts Posts- TNPSC

Organization Name	Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission
Job Category	Tamil Nadu Government Jobs
Notification	Advertisement No. 675 Notification No. 26/2023 Dated : 25-11-2023
Posts	Assistant Agricultural Officer, Assistant Horticultural Officer Posts
Number of Vacancy	263
Start Date	25-11-2023
Closing Date	24-12-2023
Mode of Apply	Online
Place	Tamil Nadu

Vacancy And Salary Details For AAO & AHO Posts -TNPSC 

TNPSC invites online application for the eligible candidates for direct recruitment to the posts of Assistant Agricultural Officer in Tamil Nadu Agricultural Extension Subordinate Service and Assistant Horticultural Officer in Tamil Nadu Horticultural Subordinate Service.The post name with service code and number of vacancy is listed in the table below. The salary details for each post is also given in this section. Candidates can check the detailed vacancy distribution and other details from the official notification from the links given below.

S. No	Name of the Post and Post Code No.	Name of the Service and Service Code No.	Number of vacancies	Salary
1	Assistant Agricultural Officer (Post Code No.3101)	Tamil Nadu Agricultural Extension Subordinate Service (Code No.102)	79*+5 C/F	Rs.20,600 – 75,900/- (Level-10)
2	Assistant Horticultural Officer (Post Code No.3104)	Tamil Nadu Horticultural Subordinate Service (Code No.105)	148*+31 C/F	Rs.20,600 – 75,900/- (Level-10)
Total			263

C/F –Carried Forward Vacancies

Vacancies shown here are the vacancies after deducting 3% of vacancies for the reservation for meritorious sports persons as per G.O.(Ms) No.6, Youth Welfare and Sports Development (S1) Department, Dated 20.02.2019.

Eligibility Criteria For AAO & AHO Posts – TNPSC

Candidates wish to apply for the AAO & AHO Posts for TNPSC recruitment 2023 can check their eligibility criteria for the post in this section. Educational qualification, Age limit and all details needed to apply for the above posts are discussed in this section of the article.

Educational Qualification (As on 25-11-2023)

• Assistant Agricultural Officer – Must have passed Higher Secondary (plus two) Examination. Must possess two years Diploma in Agriculture from the Institution recognized by the Government of Tamil Nadu or affiliated with the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University; or Gandhigram Rural Institute, Dindigul District; or Annamalai University or any other institution under the control of the Commissioner of Agriculture.
  Note:  Candidate who have not possessed the two year Diploma in Agriculture are not eligible for the post of Assistant Agricultural Officer even though they possess Higher Qualification. Diploma in Agricultural Technology (3 Years Course) is not the prescribed Educational qualification as per the special rule for the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Extension Subordinate Service.
• Assistant Horticultural Officer – A Pass in Higher Secondary Examination. and A pass in two years Diploma course in Horticulture in the Institutions approved by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University / Gandhigram Rural University / Director of Horticulture and Plantation Crops or Diploma course in Horticulture awarded by the Annamalai University.
  Note: Degree Holders in Horticulture are not eligible for the post of Assistant Horticultural Officer. Two Years Diploma in Agriculture and One Year Post Diploma in Commercial Horticulture are not eligible for this post.
• The educational qualification prescribed for the posts should have been obtained after passing 10+2. The Results of the examination should have been declared on or before the date of notification.
• Candidates claiming Equivalence of qualification to the prescribed qualification should submit evidence for Equivalence of qualification in the form of Government Order issued on or before the date of this Notification,failing which their application will be summarily rejected after due process. The Government Orders issued declaring Equivalence of prescribed qualification after the date of this Notification will not be accepted. A list of Equivalence of qualification in the related subject is available in Annexure-I to this Notification. (Refer also to the Disclaimer annexed to this Notification).

Age Limit For AAO & AHO Posts -TNPSC Recruitment (As on 01-07-2023)

• SCs, SC(A)s, STs, MBC/DCs, BC(OBCM)s, BCMs and Destitute Widows of all categories : No Maximum Age limit
• ‘Others’ [i.e. candidates not belonging to SCs, SC(A)s, STs, MBCs/DCs, BC(OBCM)s and BCMs] : * 32 years ( Should not have completed). @37 years in case of persons who are in regular service under the Government of Tamil Nadu ( Should not have completed).
• @ For the post of Accounts Officer Class – III included in Tamil Nadu State Treasuries and Accounts Service.

Relaxation in Age Limit For TNPSC Recruitment 2023

• For Persons with Benchmark Disability(Others) : No maximum age limit for Differently Abled Persons applicants belonging to SCs, SC(A)s, STs, MBC/DCs, BC(OBCM)s,BC(M)s]. “Others” not belonging to any of the categories mentioned in (a) above are eligible for age concession up to 10 years over and above the maximum age limit prescribed for this post. (Section 64 of the Tamil Nadu Government Servants (Conditions of Service) Act, 2016 and as per Para 5D of “Instructions to Applicants”)
• For Ex-servicemen (Others) : No maximum age limit for Ex-Servicemen applicants belonging to SCs, SC(A)s,
  STs, MBC/DCs, BC(OBCM)s, BC(M)s]. The maximum age limit is 50 years (48+2) for “Others” (i.e.) applicants not belonging to any of the categories mentioned in (a) above. The above mentioned age concession will not apply to the Ex-servicemen applicants who have already been recruited to any class or service or category.

CERTIFICATE OF PHYSICAL FITNESS: Applicants selected for appointment to the said posts will be required to produce a certificate of physical fitness in the form prescribed below. The model format is enclosed with Annexure-III of the notification. The said Certificate should be submitted by the selected candidate to the Appointing Authority at the time of joining to the said post.

Standard of Vision	Form of Certificate of Physical Fitness
Standard III or Better	Form prescribed for Executive Posts

KNOWLEDGE IN TAMIL : Applicants should possess adequate knowledge in Tamil.

Application Fee For AAO & AHO Posts -TNPSC

• Registration Fee – For One Time Registration : Rs.150/-
• Examination Fee : Rs. 100/-
• Applicants who have already registered in One Time online Registration system and are within the validity period of 5 years are exempted.
• The Examination fee should be paid at the time of submitting the online application for this recruitment, if they are not eligible for the concession as noted below.
• Examination fee is payable by online mode through Net Banking / Credit card / Debit card on or before the last date of submission of online application by choosing the option in the online application.
• Offline mode of payment in the form of Demand Draft / Postal Order etc. will not be accepted and the applications forwarded with such modes of payment will be summarily rejected.

Exam Fee Concessions For TNPSC Recruitment

One Time Registration is valid for five years from the date of registration. After completion of five years, the applicant must renew the One Time Registration by paying the fee prescribed. The One Time Registration is different from the application for the examination. An applicant should make an online application separately for each and every examination for which he intends to appear.

Category	Concession
Scheduled Castes / Scheduled Caste (Arunthathiyars) and Scheduled Tribes / Destitute Widows / Persons with Benchmark Disability	Full Exemption
Most Backward Classes / Denotified Communities	Three Free Chances
Backward Classes (other than Muslim) / Backward Classes (Muslim)	Three Free Chances
Ex-Servicemen	Two Free Chances

Selection Process For AAO & AHO Posts -TNPSC Recruitment 2023

TNPSC may follow the following process to select the candidates.

Written Examination

Certificate Verification

Selection will be made in single stage, based on the marks obtained by the  candidates in the CBT examination subject to the rule of reservation of appointments. A tentative list of eligible candidates for certificate verification will be announced in the Commission’s website. After verification of the original certificates, the eligible candidates will be summoned for final selection

Note: First, the selection will be made for the carried forward vacancies. Secondly, the selection will be made for regular vacancies following the rule of reservation.

The CBT Examination centres:  Chennai -0101, Madurai -1001, Coimbatore -0201 Trichirappalli -2501, Tirunelveli -2601 , Salem- 1701, Vellore -2701

Exam Pattern For AAO & AHO Posts -TNPSC

• Answer sheets of Paper-I and Part B of Paper II of the candidates will be evaluated, only if the candidates secure minimum qualifying marks in Part- A of Paper-II.
• Marks secured in Paper-I and Part-B of Paper-II will only be considered for ranking.
• The questions in Paper – I will be set in English only and questions for Part B in Paper – II will be set both in English and Tamil.
• The candidate should appear for all the papers in the CBT Method examination for his / her answers to be evaluated and in case the candidate absents himself / herself for any of the papers, the papers attended will not be evaluated.
• If answers of a candidate for one paper is declared deemed not fit for valuation, the answers of the candidate for the remaining papers will not be evaluated.
• As per the orders issued in G.O.(Ms) No.49, Human Resources Management (M) Department, dated 23.05.2022, the differently abled candidates can avail exemption from writing Part-A in Paper-II (Objective Type) (Tamil Eligibility Test). Such candidates have to furnish the required details in the online application without fail. Subsequent claim will receive no attention.
• Instructions to the candidates who are claiming exemption for Tamil Eligibility Test
• As per the orders issued in G.O. (Ms.) No.49, Human Resource Management (M) Department, dated 23.05.2022, read along with G.O. Ms.No.8, Welfare of Differently Abled Persons (DAP 3.2) Department, dated 21.09.2021, the differently-abled candidates who are even below the 40% of disability can also avail the exemptions from writing Tamil Eligibility Test i.e., Part-A in Paper-II of examination if they have claimed such exemptions in their online application.
• The candidates who have been exempted to write Tamil Eligibility Test shall be allowed to write only General Studies Paper i.e. Part-B in Paper-II.
• Part-A of Paper-II Tamil Eligibility Test shall contain 100 questions from 1 to 100. Part-B of Paper-II the General Studies paper contains 100 questions from 101 to 200 and time duration to write each part of the said examination shall be given 1 Hour and 30 minutes.
• All the exempted candidates with disability who have physical limitation with regard to writing, including that of speed and not availing the services of a scribe shall also be allowed compensatory time of a minimum of thirty minutes for an examination of one and a half hours (1 Hour and 30 minutes.) duration in the General Studies paper as per G.O.Ms.No.8, Welfare of Differently Abled Persons (DAP 3.2) Department, dated 21.09.2021.
• The said exempted candidates must also enter into the examination hall in the A.N. session half an hour before the commencement of examination (i.e. till 1.30 P.M)
• In the case of OMR method of examination, they shall be allowed to write the examination from 2.00 P.M. to 4.00 P.M., and in the case of CBT method, they shall be allowed to write the examination from 2.30 P.M.
  to 4.30 P.M. All the candidates are permitted to leave the examination hall only after the closure of examination even though they are exempted to write Tamil Eligibility Test.
• The disability certificate as prescribed in the Appendix to G.O. (Ms.) No.8, Welfare of Differently Abled Persons (DAP 3.2) Department, dated 21.09.2021, should be obtained from the competent authority (viz. Chief Medical Officer / Civil Surgeon / Medical Superintendent /Notified Medical Authority of a Government Health Care Institution) and it has to be produced / uploaded along with the online application failing which, the application of the candidate (who claims exemption from Tamil Eligibility Test) will be rejected after due process
• The exemption from Tamil Eligibility Test, Compensatory time and scribe will be provided only if the candidates have made such claims in their online application and uploaded the Medical Certificate as prescribed in Appendix to the G.O. (Ms.) No. 8, Welfare of Differently Abled Persons (DAP 3.2) Department, dated 21.09.2021

Paper	Subjects	Number of Questions	Maximum marks	Time Duration
Paper –I	Subject Paper (Diploma Standard) 1.Agriculture(Code No. 431) 2.Horticulture(Code No. 432)	200	300	3 Hours
Paper – II	Part-A Tamil Eligibility Test (SSLC Std)	100	Minimum qualifying marks – 60 marks (40% of 150) Marks	3 Hours
	Part-B (General Studies) General studies (SSLC standard) -75 questions And Aptitude and Mental ability test (SSLC standard) – 25 questions	100	150
	Total		450

How To Apply For AAO & AHO Posts – TNPSC 2023

Step 1 : Applicants should apply only through online mode in the Commission’s websites www.tnpsc.gov.in or www.tnpscexams.in

Step 2: Candidates must apply under One Time Registration system with valid email and phone number.

Step 3: Already registered applicants can login using the Unique ID and password.

Step 4: Applicants should select the name of the post for the required post.

Step 5: Fill the online application carefully.

Step 6: Online Application can be edited till the last date for submission of online application.

Step 7: Upload the required document as specified in the instructions.

Step 8: Pay the Application fee if applicable and note down the acknowledge number.

Step 9: Take print out of the final application form for future reference.

Step 10 : After the last date for submission of online application, the candidates are allowed to edit their online application during the Online Application Correction Window.

Important Links For TNPSC Recruitment Of AAO & AHO Posts

Official Website : www.tnpsc.gov.in

Notification PDF For TNPSC Recruitment – AAO & AHO Posts : TNPSC Assistant Agricultural officer Recruitment

Last Date To Apply For AAO & AHO Posts -TNPSC 2023 : 24-12-2023

Application Correction Window Period : From 29-12-2023,12.01 A.M to 31-12-2023,11.59 P.M

Computer Based Exam Details For TNPSC AAO & AHO Posts-2023

Paper	Subject	Date	Time
Paper I	Diploma Standard	07-02-2024	09.30 A.M. to 11.00 P.M.
Paper II	PART A-Tamil Eligibility Test (SSLC Std) And PART B-General Studies (SSLC Std)	07-02-2024	02.30 P.M. to 05.30 P.M.

In conclusion, TNPSC has announced the recruitment of 263 Assistant Agri & Horticulture Officer for the year 2023. Candidates who fulfill the eligibility criteria can apply online through the official website of TNPSC from 25.11.2023 to 24.12.2023. It is advised that interested candidates go through the official notification carefully and follow the instructions provided while filling the online application form. The important dates and links for the recruitment are available on the official website of TNPSC.

Overall, the TNPSC Assistant Agriculture Posts recruitment 2023 is an excellent opportunity for candidates who are seeking a government job in Tamil Nadu and have the required qualifications and experience.