UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED (UIICL)
Regd. Office : 24, Whites Road,
 Chennai – 600 014
Head Office :No 19,4th Lane,
Nungambakkam High Road,
Chennai-600034
Phone : 044-28575200
Ref No:UIIC/HO-HRM/Asst/2023

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details :https://uiic.co.in/sites/default/files/uploads/recruitment/ASSISTANT_REC...

Closing date for  application: January 06, 2024

United India Insurance Co. Ltd. is a leading Public Sector General insurance company wholly owned by Government of India with a gross premium of more than Rs. 17,644 crores.

Company proposes to recruit young and dynamic candidates for its Offices all over India.
Applications are invited from eligible Indian citizens for the post of ASSISTANT.

Post: Assistant
No. of posts: 300, out of which 17 for Visually Impaired
State wise posts:
Andaman & NicobarIslands: 01, Arnachal Pradesh: 01, Chandigarh: 01, Chattisgarh: 01, Goa: 01, Gujarat: 01, Haryana: 01, Ladakh: 01, Manipur:: 01, Meghalaya: 01, Mizoram: 01, Nagaland: 01, Puducherry: 01, Rajasthan:01, Sikkim: 01Tamil Nadu: 01, Tripura: 01

Scale of pay:: Rs. 22405--62265/-
Educational Qualification: Graduate from a recognized University
AND
Knowledge of Reading, Writing and Speaking of Regional language of the State of Recruitment is essential.

Age: 21-30 years
Age relaxation: 10 years

Definition of Persons with Benchmark Disabilities:
Under section 34 of “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016”, persons with benchmark disabilities are eligible for Reservation. All the above posts are identified suitable for the Persons under categories of disabilities as defined in the Schedule of RPWD Act 2016 and notified by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) from time to time.

Visual Impairment (“VI” Category):
Only those Visually Impaired (VI) persons who suffer from any one of the followingconditions, after best correction, are eligible to apply.
Blindness:
(a) Total absence of sight; OR
(b)Visual acuity less than 3/60 or less than 10/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with best possible correction; OR
(c) Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 10 degree.
Low Vision:
(a) Visual acuity not exceeding 6/18 or less than 20/60 upto 3/60 or upto10/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with best possible corrections; OR
(b) Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 40 degree
(c) up to 10 degree.

Application fee: Rs.250/- (service charges only) + GST as  applicable.

Probation period:

The newly appointed employees will be on probation for a minimum period of 6 months. Before the probation period comes to an end the performance of the newly recruited employees will be evaluated and the probation period of those employees whose performance fails to meet Company’s expectation, may be extended as per
rules. The candidate is required to serve in the posted location for a minimum period of five years.

All candidates will have to appear for the Online examination, thereafter, candidates who qualify in the examination will be called for a Regional Language Test.
b. Merely satisfying the eligibility norms do not entitle a candidate to be called for ONLINE examination and Regional Language test.

The visually impaired candidates and candidates with Benchmark Disabilities whose writing speed is adversely affected permanently for any reason can use their own scribe at their cost during the online examination, subject to limits as in “ b”; “c”; and “f” below. In all such caseswhere a scribe is used, the following rules
will apply:

The candidate will have to arrange his/her own scribe at his/her own cost.

The scribe may be from any academic stream. The qualification of the scribe should be one step below the qualification of the candidate taking the examination. If violation of the above is detected at any stage of the process, candidature of both the candidate and the scribe will be cancelled. Candidates eligible for and who wish to use the services of a scribe in the examination should invariably carefully indicate the same in the
online application form. Any subsequent request may not be favorably entertained.

A person acting as a scribe for one candidate cannot be a scribe for another candidate.

Both the candidate as well as scribe will have to give a suitable undertaking confirming that the scribe fulfils all the stipulated eligibility criteria for a scribe mentioned above. Further in case it later transpires that he/she did not fulfill any laid down eligibility criteria or suppressed material facts the candidature of the applicant will stand cancelled, irrespective of the result of the online examination.

Those candidates who use a scribe shall be eligible for compensatory time of 20 minutes for every hour of the examination or as otherwise advised.

Only candidates registered for compensatory time will be allowed such concessions since compensatory time given to candidates shall be system based, it shall not be possible for the test conducting agency to allow such time if he / she is not registered for the same.

Candidates not registered for compensatory time shall not be allowed such concessions.

During the exam, at any stage, if it is found that scribe is independently answering the questions, the exam session will be terminated and candidate’s candidature will be cancelled. The candidature of such candidates using the services of a scribe will also be cancelled if it is reported after the examination by the test
administrator personnel that the scribe independently answered the questions.

Guidelines for Visually Impaired candidates
i. Visually Impaired candidates (who suffer from not less than 40% of disability) may opt to view the contents of the test in magnified font and all such candidates will be eligible for compensatory time of 20 minutes for every hour or otherwise advised of examination.
ii. The facility of viewing the contents of the test in magnifying font will be available to Visually Impaired candidates who use the services of a Scribe for the examination.

Examination Centers:

Examination Centers:
1. Competitive Online Written Examination will be held at specific centers in India.

The candidates may choose any one of the centers mentioned in Annexure - II which must be indicated in the application form. Candidates will appear for the examination at the examination center at his/her own risk and expenses.

The candidates shall appear in the online exam at the venues given in their call lettersonly.

No request for change of center/venue/date/session for Examination shall be entertained.

The Company however, reserves the right to cancel any of the Examination Centers and / or add some other Centers, at its discretion, depending upon the response, administrative feasibility, etc.

Candidate will appear for the examination at an Examination Centre at his /her own risks and expenses and Company will not be responsible for any injury or losses etc. of any nature.

Choice of center once exercised by the candidate will be final.

Centers and dates of the examination are liable to change of the discretion.

Downloading the Call letter:
Candidates will have to visit the Company website(uiic.co.in) for downloading call letters for online test. Intimation for downloading call letter will also be sent through email/SMS. Once the candidate clicks the relevant link, he/she can access the window for call letter download. The candidate is required to use (i)
Registration Number/Roll Number, (ii) Password/Date of Birth for downloading the call letter. Candidate needs to affix recent recognizable photograph on the call letter preferably the same as provided during registration and appear at the examination center with (i) Call Letter (ii) Photo Identity Proof as stipulated in clause (14(B)) below and also specified in the call letter and photocopy of the same Photo Identity Proof as brought in original.

Candidates are advised to regularly visit the Company’s website www.uiic.co.in

For Persons with Benchmark Disabilities: Authorized certifying authority will be the Medical Board at the District level consisting of Chief Medical Officer, Sub-Divisional Medical Officer in the District and an Orthopedic /Ophthalmic/ENT Surgeon or any person designated as certifying authority by appropriate government.

Photograph Image:
- Photograph must be a recent passport style colour picture.
- Make sure that the picture is in colour, taken against a light-coloured, preferably white,
background.
- Look straight at the camera with a relaxed face
- If the picture is taken on a sunny day, have the sun behind you, or place yourself in the shade,
so that you are not squinting and there are no harsh shadows
- If you have to use flash, ensure there's no "red-eye"
- If you wear glasses make sure that there are no reflections and your eyes can be clearly seen.
- Caps, hats and dark glasses are not acceptable. Religious headwear is allowed but it must not cover your face.
- Dimensions 200 x 230 pixels (preferred)
- Size of file should be between 20kb–50 kb
- Ensure that the size of the scanned image is not more than 50kb. If the size of the file is
more than 50 kb,then adjust the settings of the scanner such as the DPI resolution, no. of colours
etc., during the process of scanning.
- If the photo is not uploaded at the place of Photo, Admission for Examination will be reje cted /
denied. Candidate him/herself will be responsible for the same.
- Candidate should also ensure that photo is uploaded at the place of photo and signature at
the place of signature. If photo in place of photo and signature in place of signature is not
uploaded properly, candidate will not be allowed to appear for the exam.
- Candidate must ensure that Photo to be uploaded is of required size and the face should be clearly
visible.

Scanning the documents:
• Set the scanner resolution to a minimum of 200 dpi (dots per inch)
• Set Colour to True Colour.
• Crop the image in the scanner to the edge of the left thumb impression / hand wri tten
declaration, then use the upload editor to crop the image to the final size (as specified above).
• The image file should be JPG or JPEG format. An example file name is: image01.jpg or
image01.jpeg
• Image dimensions can be checked by listing the folder files or moving the mouse over the file
image icon.
• Candidates using MS Windows/MSOffice can easily obtain documents in .jpeg format by using MS Paint or MSOffice Picture Manager. Scanned documents in any format can be saved in .jpg / .jpeg format by using ‘Save As’ option in the File menu. Size can be adjusted by using crop and then resize option.