NHPC Recruitment 2014 through GATE 2014

PSU Notifications for recruitment of engineers through GATE 2014 has started - today NHPC has issued Recruitment Notification 2014 throug...

PSU Notifications for recruitment of engineers through GATE 2014 has started - today NHPC has issued Recruitment Notification 2014 through advertisement: NH/Rectt. /01/ 2013 for recruitment of 180 Engineer Trainee from the engineering disciplines of Civil, Mechanical & Electrical. As per the notification, Online form for NHPC recruitment 2014 would be made available from 7th January, 2014  and the last date for submission of the forms is 21st January, 2014.

You can click here to download NHPC Trainee Engineer Recruitment 2014 notification.

Online application form for GATE 2014 is going to be made available from day-after-tomorrow - i.e. 2nd of September and list of PSU recruiting through GATE 2014 is going to increase with each passing day. I had compiled the list of all PSU which has this year recruited through GATE 2013 and you can find the list in my popular article: Jobs through GATE 2013: List of PSU Organisation recruiting. Just like the last year, I am also going to publish soon an exclusive article on Jobs through GATE 2014: List of PSU recruiting.

This blog post is being made to apprise you about the NHPC job opportunity through GATE 2014 - what are the eligibility and the application forms i.e. how to apply, by quoting the relevant information from the NHPCs advertisement for recruitment in 2014. Towards the end of the article, I am posting the relevant prep materials for GATE 2014 prep materials for Civil, Mechanical & Electrical papers as well as GD/Interview prep materials for NHPC.

But before that, a small synopsis on NHPC as an organisation since you should know about the organisation in which you are interested to work in.

NHPC as an organisation:

Established in 1975 and with its headquarter in Faridabad, NHPC Ltd. is a Mini Ratna Category-I PSU of Govt. of India. NHPC is among the TOP TEN companies in the country in terms of investment. It has 17 Hydro Power Stations with total capacity 5702 MW and work is on for construction of 7 more Hydro Power Stations.

More about NHPC can be found from this About us page as well as Wiki.

NHPC ET Vacancy 2014:

There are total 180 ET vacancies in NHPC Recruitment 2014. Branch-wise vacancies are as below:
Civil: 25; Mechanical: 25; Electrical: 130.

GATE 2014 papers for NHPC ET Recruitment 2014:

For the Trainee Engineer positions in NHPC, you have to appear in GATE 2014 papers: CE, ME & EE respectively.

Salary for NHPC ET:

For the Management Trainee, NHPC is offering salary in pay-scale of Rs 20600-3%-46500/-. CTC with this pay-scale is around Rs 7.25 lakhs per annum. After successful completion of one year on the job training, the trainees will be designated as Asst. Design Engineer in E-1 grade.

Selection process for NHPC Engineer Trainee:

As said above, NHPC would short list the candidates for GD/Interview based on GATE 2014 core. So GD/Interview are the only stages which will be conducted by NHPC for selecting ET.

Eligibility for NHPC ET Recruitment:

Age Eligibility:  Max 30 years as on 01.04.2014. (Relaxations exists as per Govt. rule).

Academic Qualification Eligibility: Minimum 60% marks in BE/ B.Tech/B.Sc. (Engineering)/AMIE from a recognized Indian Institute/University.

How to apply for NHPC ET Recruitment 2014: Online Form

There is no offline form for NHPC ET Recruitment 2014. You have to apply online only.
You have to register (i.e. apply) actually twice for NHPC ET positions- Once for GATE & than for NHPC.

First you have to apply online for GATE 2014.

GATE 2014 Form would be available from 2nd September to 3rd October 2013.

Subsequent to your online registration for GATE 2014, you would be able to download the GATE 2014 Admit card from 18th December, 2013 onwards.  You than have to use the "GATE-2014 Registration Number" as given in the admit card to register online for NHPC.

The NHPC ET Recruitment 2014 Online form would be available from 7th January, 2014 in this NHPC Career webpage. Last date for submission of  NHPC application form is 21st January, 2014.

NHPC Recruitment 2014 GD/Interview Dates:

NHPC notification is silent about the date on which GD/Interview would be held, as they would shortlist the candidates only after GATE 2014 result is declared on 28th March, 2014. Therefore, you can expect the call letter only after this date – may be in the first week of April, 2014.

Prep materials for NHPC ET Recruitment 2014:

To qualify in NHPC Recruitment 2014 and get that NHPC Management Trainee job, you have to prepare for two things - for the written exam (i.e. CE, EE or ME paper of GATE 2014) and GD/Interview. This blog has enough prep material for you to crack NHPC ET Recruitment 2014.

My following blog articles on GATE prep materials would help you prepare for GATE 2014, by pointing you to the sources for downloading syllabus, sample papers, books & coaching institutes for the exam:
GATE ME Prep material: Syllabus, Exam Papers & Books
GATE CE Syllabus, Sample Papers & Books
GATE EE Syllabus, Sample Papers & Books

Prep Materials for the NHPC Interview: Please visit my blog article titled: Interview for Jobs. The article tells you what are the requirements an interviewer looks for in you. And than it gives you a list of 99 interview questions, which are most repeated in every other interview! These questions helps you prepare yourself.

You should also be ready to face questions on "What is NHPC", as the interviewer would want to know how much interested you are for this job. So go through this About us page of NHPC as well as Wiki.

Prep Materials for the NHPC GD (Group Discussion): Please visit my blog article titled: Group Discussion for jobs, which tells you what are the essential qualities you need to have and how you can prepare for the same, along with a YouTube video of a mock-GD. Further this article tells you what are the different types of GD, along with example of GD topics.

I am sure with above information on NHPC ET Recruitment 2014 through GATE 2014, you can not only apply for the job confidently but also crack NHPC Interview very easily with the prep material presented. Please keep visiting this blog. I would be on the look out for more job avenues through GATE and post the same here, as and when I find them.

Best wishes!

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