IB ACIO Recruitment 2020 | Notification Released for 2000 Vacancies

The Ministry of Home Affairs of India (MHA) has released the IB ACIO Recruitment 2020 Notification for selection of Assistant Central Intelligence Officer (ACIO) posts in the Intelligence Bureau of India (IB). As per the notification posted in the Ministry of Home Affairs website 2000 IB ACIO post vacancies have been announced. In this post on IB ACIO 2020 Notification, we are going to have a look at all the IB ACIO Recruitment details like – Important Exam dates, category-wise vacancy, Exam Pattern, Syllabus, Pay-scale, etc.

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IB ACIO Recruitment 2020 | Overview

Organization Intelligence Bureau (IB)
Post IB ACIO – General Central Service (Non-Gazetted, Non-Ministerial)
Total Vacancies 2000
Starting Date to apply 19-12-2020
Closing date to apply 09-01-2021
Application Mode Online
Category Government Job
Official Site www.mha.gov.in

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IB Recruitment 2020 Vacancy

The IB ACIO 2020 Recruitment Notification has announced a total of 2000 Vacancies. The category-wise details are as follows:

Category No. of Vacancies
UR 989
EWS 113
OBC 417
SC 360
ST 121
Total 2000

Note: The IB ACIO posts are identified not suitable for Person with Disabilities (PWD), hence there are no vacancies for this category.

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IB ACIO Recruitment 2020 – Important Dates

  • Online Registrations Start Date: 19-12-2020
  • Online Registrations End Date: 09-01-2020
  • IB ACIO Tier-I Examination: not declared yet
  • IB ACIO Tier-II Examination: not declared yet

Dates would be updated after the release of IB ACIO 2020 recruitment Notification PDF.

IB ACIO Recruitment 2020 – Eligibility Criteria

  • Age: 18-27 Years
  • Additional: Basic Computer Knowledge

IB ACIO Notification 2020 – Age relaxation

Category Age Relaxation
OBC 3 Years
SC/ ST 5 Years
Departmental Candidates who have rendered 3 years of regular and continuous service Up to the age of 40 Years
In the case of widows, divorced women and women judicially separated from their husbands and not remarried. Under general category Up to the age of 35 Years
In the case of widows, divorced women and women judicially separated from their husbands and not remarried. Under SC/ ST category Up to the age of 40 Years

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IB ACIO Recruitment 2020 – Selection Process

The selection process for IB ACIO 2020 recruitment will have 3 stages. the details as follows -:

Stage Type Marks
Tier 1 Objective Exam 100
Tier 2 Descriptive Exam 50
Tier 3 Personal Interview 100

IB ACIO Recruitment 2020 – Exam Pattern

IB ACIO Notification 2020 – Tier 1 Exam Pattern

Section No. of Questions Maximum Marks Duration
General Awareness 20 20 60 mins
Quantitative Aptitude 20 20
Logical/Analytical Ability 20 20
English Language 20 20
General Studies 20 20
Total 100 100

Total time will be 60 minutes and there will be a negative marking of ¼ mark for each wrong answer.

IB ACIO Notification 2020 – Tier 2 Exam Pattern

Section Marks
Essay Writing 30
English Comprehension & Précis Writing 20
Total 50
  • Candidates will be given 60 minutes to write the exam.
  • Minimum 33% marks required in IB ACIO 2020 Tier 1 Exam to be eligible for IB ACIO 2020 Tier 2 Exam. The candidate would also need to score more than the actual Tier 1 cutoff to be declared by IB.
  • Both – IB ACIO 2020 Tier 1 and Tier 2 Marks would be considered for Tier 3 (interview) selection.
  • Total marks scored in all 3 stages of IB ACIO 2020 Exam would be considered for Final Selection.

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IB ACIO Recruitment 2020 – How to Apply

  • Step 1: Following are the step to fill the Online Application form for the IB ACIO 2020 Recruitment Exam.
  • Step 2: Go to MHA Official Website (https://mha.gov.in/)
  • Step 3: Go to vacancies under Notification tab on the homepage
  • Step 4: Click on the IB ACIO Online Application link
  • Step 5: Register on the Online Application portal by filling your personal details like name, phone number and date of birth to get the Registration number and Password
  • Step 6: Now Log-in with  your Registration number and Password to start filling the Form
  • Step 7: Fill all your personal, education and work-related details correctly in the IB ACIO Online Form
  • Step 8: Upload your latest passport size photo
  • Step 9: Upload your Signature
  • Step 10: Submit the form (Check all the details carefully, once submitted, details cannot be changed.)
  • Step 11: After submission of IB ACIO Online form, you will be directed to the payment page for Application fees payment
  • Step 12: Make the payment through Online mode or Print the application fees challan for offline payment.
  • Step 13: Take a Print out of both application form and payment receipt.

IB ACIO Notification 2020 | Application Fees

It is in 02 components: Examination Fee: Rs. 100/- & Recruitment Processing Charges: Rs.500/-  which is required to be paid as under:

Category Fee to be paid
Male   candidates of General, EWS and OBC categories Examination   Fee + Recruitment Processing Charges
All SC/ST, all-female candidates & all ExSM’ Recruitment Processing Charges only

Ex-servicemen who have already secured employment In civilside under Central Govt in Group·c·post on regular basis after availing benefits of reservation given to them are required to pay the examination fee, i.e. Rs. 100/- also along with recruitment processing charges of Rs. 500/-

Note: Banking charges, if applicable, will be borne by the candidate.

MODE OF PAYMENT (ONLINE/ OFFLINE MODE):

a) The application form Is Integrated with the payment gateway & the payment process can be completed by following the instructions.
b) Payment can be made through Debit Cards (RuPay/ visa/ MasterCard/Maestro), Credit Cards.  Internet Banking. UPI. SBI Challan etc.
c) Fee once paid shall not be refunded under any circumstances.
d) Online payments can be made only till the last date of submission of the online application form.
e) Payments through SBt challan generated on the last day of closure of online application forms can be submitted in the bank till 12.01.2021(during banking hours only)

IB ACIO Notification 2020 – Topics to prepare

Following is the list of important topics to be prepared for IB ACIO 2020 Exam -:

IB ACIO 2020 General Awareness Syllabus: 

Biology, Chemistry, Current Affairs, Economy & Finance, Geography, History, Indian Polity and Constitution, Physics, Science and Technology, Static GK.

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IB ACIO 2020 Quantitative Aptitude Syllabus: 

Average, Data Interpretation, LCM & HCF, Mensuration, Mixture and Alligation, Partnership, Pipes and Cistern, Problem on ages, Problems on boats and streams, Profit loss & Discount,  Ratio Proportion,  Simple Interest & Compound Interest, Time work & wages, Trigonometry. 

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IB ACIO 2020 Logical Reasoning Syllabus: 

Alphabet Test, Analogy, Arithmetic Reasoning, Blood Relation, Classification, Coding decoding, Cube & Dice, Distance direction test, Figure & Image-based problems, Logical Venn diagram, Matrix, Pattern Completion, Series – Missing Number, Alpha-numeric.

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IB ACIO 2020 English Language Syllabus: 

Active & Passive Voice, Cloze Test, fill in the blanks, Idiom & Phrase, One-word Substitution, Para Jumble, Preposition, Reading Comprehension, Sentence Improvement, Spelling Error, Spotting Error, Synonyms & Antonyms.

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IB ACIO Recruitment 2020 – Pay Scale

“This is not related to the IB Recruitment notification mentioned above.”

The details of IB ACIO PayScale is given below:

Level 7 ( Rs. 44,200-1,42,000) + admissible Central Government Allowances

Also, Special Security Allowance @ 20% of basic pay (in addition to other allowances)

[Under revision as per the recommendations of 7th C.P.C.]

IB ACIO Recruitment 2020 – Career Prospects

“This is not related to the IB Recruitment notification mentioned above.”

Selected candidates would be posted as IB ACIO II Officers across various IB offices all over the country.

  • Eligible to be promoted to ACIO-I after 3-4 Years of service
  • After ACIO-I, the next promotion would be to the post of DCIO (Deputy Central Intelligence Officer. This happens after nearly 10 Years of service as IB ACIO-I 
  • A DCIO can be promoted as Assistant Director (Of Various Subsidiary IB’s)
  • Assistant Director can be promoted to the position of Joint Deputy Director

IB ACIO Recruitment 2020 – Posting

  • Once selected as an IB ACIO, the candidate can be posted in any part of the country.
  • The posting can be in either Urban or Rural Area.

“This is not related to the IB Recruitment notification mentioned above.”

IB ACIO 2020-21 Exam Centers

State Cities
Andhra Pradesh Guntur
Kakinanda
Kurnool
Nellore
Rajahmundry
Tirupathi
Vijayawada
Visakhapatnam
Vizianagaram
Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar
Naharlagun
Assam Dibrugarh
Guwahati
Jorhat
Silchar
Tezpur
Bihar Bhagalpur
Muzaffarpur
Patna
Purnea
Chandigarh Chandigarh
Chattisgarh Bhillai Nagar
Bilaspur
Raipur
Delhi NCR Delhi NCR
Gujarat Ahmedabad
Anand
Gandhinagar
Mehsana
Rajkot
Surat
Vadodara
Haryana Ambala
Yamuna Nagar
Himachal Pradesh Hamirpur
Shimla
Jammu and Kashmir Jammu
Jharkhand Bokaro Steel City
Dhanbad
Hazaribagh
Jamshedpur
Ranchi
Karnataka Belagavi (Belgaum)
Bengaluru
Hubballi (Hubli)
Kalaburagi (Gulbarga)
Mangalore
Mysuru
Shivamogga
Udupi
Kerala Ernakulam
Kannur
Kollam
Kottayam
Kozhikode
Thiruvananthapuram
Thrissur
Ladakh Leh
Madhya Pradesh Bhopal
Gwalior
Indore
Jabalpur
Ujjain
Maharashtra Amravati
Aurangabad
Mumbai
Nagpur
Nanded
Nashik
Pune
Manipur Imphal
Meghalaya Shillong
Mizoram Aizawl
Nagaland Kohima
Odisha Balasore
Berhampur-Ganjam
Bhubaneswar
Cuttack
Dhenkanal
Rourkela
Sambalpur
Punjab Amritsar
Bhatinda
Jalandhar
Ludhiana
Mohali
Patiala
Rajasthan Ajmer
Bikaner
Jaipur
Jodhpur
Udaipur
Tamil Nadu Chennai
Coimbatore
Madurai
Tiruchirappalli
Telangana Hyderabad
Karimnagar
Warangal
Tripura Agartala
Uttar Pradesh Agra
Aligarh
Bareilly
Gorakhpur
Jhansi
Kanpur
Lucknow
Meerut
Prayagraj
Varanasi
Uttarakhand Dehradun
Haldwani
Roorkee
West Bengal Asansol
Hooghly
Kalyani
Kolkata
Siliguri

That is all from us in this blog on IB ACIO Recruitment 2020. Keep checking this space for all the government exam updates.

IB ACIO Recruitment FAQs

What is qualification for IB?

Candidates should between 18 and 27 years with a Graduation or equivalent qualification from a recognised university.

How do I apply for IB 2020?

Candidates can apply for IB via SSC or at mha.gov.in

Can final year student apply for IB ACIO?

Yes final year students can apply for IB ACIO given they can submit their degree certificate before the date mentioned on the notification.

What is the salary of ACIO in IB?

IB ACIO employees get Level 7 ( Rs. 44,200-1,42,000) + admissible Central Government Allowances as salary

What is the total vacancy in IB ACIO 2020?

Candidates can apply for 2000 IB ACIO posts.

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