Job Details
Post Name : Project Technician III
No of Vacancy : 04 Posts
Pay Scale : Rs 18000/- (Per Month)
Educational Qualification : 12th pass in Science subject plus with 2 years field experience in Government recognized organization
Age Limit : As per NIRT Rules
Job Location : Chennai (Tamil Nadu)
Selection Process : Selection will be based on Walk-in-Aptitude Test
Application Fee : Candidates have to pay Rs.
100/- through Demand Draft from any Nationalized Bank in favour of Director, NIRT, Chennai SC/ST/PH & Woman candidates are exempted from payment of this Fee
How to Apply : Interested Candidates may appear for Walk-in-Aptitude test with prescribed application form with original certificate for age, qualification from Matriculation onwards and proof for certificates of experience at the time of Walk-in-Aptitude Test
Venue of Walk-in-Aptitude Test : National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, 1 Mayor Sathyamoorthy Road, Chetpet, Chennai 600 031
The National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis [Formerly Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC)], a permanent institute under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), is an internationally recognized institution for Tuberculosis (TB) research.
It is a Supranational Reference Laboratory and a WHO Collaborating Centre for TB Research and Training Recently, an International Centre for Excellence in Research (ICER) in collaboration with NIH was established at the Centre
The Centre (formerly known as the Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Centre) was set up in Madras in 1956 as a 5-year project, under the joint auspices of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the Government of Tamil Nadu, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the British Medical Research Council (BMRC) The objective of the Centre was to develop studies designed to provide information on the mass domiciliary application of chemotherapy in the treatment of pulmonary TB It started its activities with 8 international staff members belonging to the WHO and a team of national staff members drawn for ICMR and the Government of Tamil Nadu under the dynamic leadership of Dr.
Wallace Fox of the BMRC
The Centre, which had an initial lease of life of five years and had faced the threat of closure in 1961, has moved from strength to strength Dr Hugh Stott who succeeded Dr Fox as WHO Senior Medical Officer in 1961 and had ably guided the research activities of the Centre during the following 6 years.
Dr N K Menon, who assumed charge in July 1964, was the first national Director Dr.
C G Pandit and Prof V Ramalingaswami, of the Indian Council of Medical Research, Dr.
PV Bengamin, Adviser in Tuberculosis to the Government of India, Col Sangham Lal, Director of Medical Services, Tamil Nadu State and Dr C.
Mani, Regional Director of the World Health Organization, South East Asia Region, played key roles in placing the Centre on a firm footing in Madras Dr NKMenon was succeeded by Dr.
S P Tripathy in September 1969, Dr R Prabhakar in1983 and DrP.
R Narayanan in 1996