 Linguistic Data Consortium for
Indian Languages (LDC-IL)
CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF INDIAN LANGUAGES (CIIL)
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Manasagangotri, Hunsur Road, Mysore - 570 006
Recruitment of Project Personnel
Sl.
No. |
Positions |
No. of
posts |
Essential Qualification |
Age limit as on 1st July 2007 |
Monthly consolidated amount / Scale of pay |
1. |
Professor-cum-Project Director |
1 |
a) Doctorate degree in Linguistics/ Comparative Philology/Indian Languages and Literature from a recognized University or Institute.
b) Ten years’ experience of teaching/ research. Out of this 5 years of experience in the area of Speech Recognition and Synthesis or Character Recognition or Natural Language Processing or Corpora Creation in Indian Languages as evident in publications, conference/seminar participation. |
Not exceeding 55 years |
Rs.35,000/-
Rs.16,400-22,400 |
2. |
Reader / Research Officer |
2 |
a) Doctorate degree in Linguistics/ Comparative Philology/Indian Language and Literature including English, Computer Science from a recognized University or equivalent.
b) Five years experience of teaching/research. Out of this minimum of 3 years of research/training experience in the area of Speech Recognition and Synthesis or Character Recognition or Natural Language Processing or Corpora Creation in Indian Languages as evident in publications, conference/seminar participation. |
Not exceeding 50 years |
Rs.26,000/-
Rs.12,000-18,300 |
3. |
Senior Lecturer / Junior Research Officer |
3 |
a) Master’s Degree in Linguistics or Comparative Philology or Indian Language and Literature including English, Computer Science from a recognized University.
b) Should have obtained fifty five (55%) percent marks or equivalent Grade, at the Master’s Degree level from a recognized university
c) Three years research/training experience in the area of Speech Recognition and Synthesis or Character Recognition or Natural Language Processing or Corpora Creation in Indian Languages as evident in publications, conference/seminar participation. |
Not exceeding 45 years |
Rs.22,000/-
Rs.10,000-15,200 |
4. |
Lecturer / Resource Person |
5 |
a) Master’s Degree in Linguistics or Comparative Philology or Indian Language and Literature including English, Computer Science from a recognized University.
b) Should have obtained fifty five (55%) percent marks or equivalent Grade, at the Master’s Degree level from a recognized university
c) Two years research/training experience in the area of Speech Recognition and Synthesis or Character Recognition or Natural Language Processing or Corpora Creation in Indian Languages as evident in publications, conference/seminar participation. |
Not exceeding 40 years |
Rs.18,000/-
Rs.8,000-13,500 |
6. |
Technical Officer (Senior) |
20 |
a) BE/ B.Tech in Computer Science or Electronics & Communication or Instrumentation Technology or M.Sc (CS)
b) Min. 3years experience in C, C++, .NET and Database
OR
c) MA in Linguistics or in an Indian language with experience in research/ programming for natural language processing |
Not exceeding 35 years |
Rs.14,000/-
Rs.6,500-10,500 |
5. |
Technical Officer (Junior) |
8 |
a) MCA or Diploma in Computer Science from the recognized Institution.
b) Min 1 year experience in C, C++, .NET and Database
OR
c) MA. in Linguistics or in an Indian language including English with experience in research/ programming for natural language processing. |
Not exceeding 35 years |
Rs.11,000/- |
7. |
Maintenance Personnel - Accounts |
1 |
a) Bachelor’s degree of a recognized university or equivalent
b) Experience of Accounts work as per Government of India Rules for a minimum period of 5 years.
Desirable
c) Candidate having experience in the field of Auditing work. |
Not exceeding 45 years |
Rs.14,000/-
Rs.6,500-10,500 |
8. |
Maintenance Personnel - Sales and Promotion |
1 |
a) Bachelor’s degree of a recognized university or equivalent
b) Experience of Publication and Sales work for a minimum period of 5 years. |
Not exceeding 35 years |
Rs.12,000/-
Rs.5,500-9,000 |
9. |
Maintenance Personnel - General |
1 |
a) Bachelor’s degree of a recognized university or equivalent
b) Experience in processing procurement of various stores items as per Govt. of India procedures, Maintenance of stock register etc. for a minimum period of 5 years. |
Not exceeding 35 years |
Rs.12,000/-
Rs.5,500-9,000 |
|
Total |
42 |
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Brief Specification of duties and responsibilities - Academic and Technical Personnel.
The Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages focuses on the following four areas of Language Technology and Creation of Language Resources in Indian Languages: Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Character Recognition, Natural Language Processing Corpora Creation in Indian Languages. The academic persons will look after the academic aspects of these areas and technical personnel will work as Technical Resource Persons.
Maintenance Personnel – Accounts
Responsible for finance and accounts maintenance. The person has to be watchful on budget control, compilation of accounts and checking the classified vouchers; issuing communication of sanctions, compliance of internal audit observations and related correspondences; checking the salary bills of project staff and detailed scrutiny of bills in respect of academic programmes; checking of daily payment and receipt scroll from the bank; preparing of outstanding cheque-list, cashbooks, UDP Register / AC Bill Register / TA advances; maintenance of sanction registers under various sub-heads such as TA, contingent expenditure for purchases / services, etc., preparing budget estimates (under OC / OE). Timely submission of fortnightly / monthly / quarterly statement of expenditure. Also the work includes IT Assessment for the project staff besides guiding the junior support staff. MP-A is expected to function as Financial Manager.
Maintenance Personnel – General
Responsible for office maintenance; putting up of the files on various matters, preparation of draft letters, maintenance of various official documents, filing of papers, handling and maintenance of files. Putting up of the fresh receipts on various matters for orders/decision, maintenance of various official documents, preparation of periodical returns, quoting of rule positions, protocol maintenance such as receiving guests, making travel arrangements, etc., whenever required. Purchase of stationery items and other materials, maintenance of stores, attendance of project staff and their leave particulars; dealing with service records of deputed employees and personal files of all the staff, attending to all such administrative issues besides guiding the junior support staff, MP-G is expected to function as Office Manager.
Headquarters
Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore with liability to work anywhere in India for a period to be decided by the Institute.
Duration
Initially upto the end of the XI Plan period (i.e. March 2011), or earlier - as may be decided, which may vary from case to case. Any extension beyond March 2011, or the stipulated date given in the memorandum to selected personnel will be based on the achievements made. The candidates are expected to file their self-appraisal forms regularly so as to create a continuous file or record of their achievements. However, all or any contract(s) is/are liable to be terminated by the authorities at any time without assigning any reason(s).
Format
All candidates are expected to apply on a format that is downloadable from ciil’s web-site (www.ciil.org). The applications should also include a list of their publications and major seminar/conference presentations as well as sample of programmes or tools or language resources developed, if any. In exceptional cases, the Chairman, LDC-IL is authorized to accept plain paper/faxed/e-mail applications of candidates provided they have all the basic information that are needed.
All e-mail correspondences in respect of LDC-IL applications may be sent to all the three mail IDs as follows:
udaya@ciil.stpmy.soft.net
vani@ciil.stpmy.soft.net
ldc-il_recruitment@ciil.stpmy.soft.net
Note
a) Relaxation in educational qualifications and experience prescribed for various positions would be allowed by the Chairman, LDC-IL & Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore - 570 006, on his/her discretion in deserving cases of personnel otherwise qualified and found suitable by him/her in some mechanism.
b) Relaxation in age of 3 years for OBC and 5 years for SC/ST candidates and 5 years for persons in service either in the government/autonomous bodies is admissible. Reservation for SC/ST/OBC is followed as per Government of India rules.
c) The Chairman, LDC-IL reserves the right to accept or reject any of the applications received without assigning any reason.
d) The Chairman, LDC-IL, in exceptional cases, is at liberty to invite suitable in-service/superannuated scholars for any or all the positions for shorter or longer period, as needed.
e) The persons who are already in service should apply through their employers. However, at least the advanced copies of applications should reach the Institute within the last date.
f) For the regular employees joining the project their Leave Salary and Pension Contribution will be borne from out of the project funds as per rules.
g) The Human Resources could be taken on contract basis as per the following details: (i) All selected project personnel will receive the total emoluments in the initial pay of the pay scales Rs.16,400-22,400 (Rs.35,000), Rs.12,000-18,300 (Rs.26,000), Rs.10,000-15,200 (Rs.22,000), Rs.8,000-13,500 (Rs.18,000), Rs.6,500-10,500 (Rs.14,000) and Rs.5,500-9,000 (Rs.12,000). In case of people in service, their payment will be as per the scale, and not on consolidated basis. For others, the consolidated amount payable is as indicated in the brackets. There will be an increase in the consolidated amounts after completion of every year, or to match with increase/modifications in the corresponding pay-scales if any.
h) The last date to receive the applications complete in all respects is five weeks from the date of its announcement in the Employment News, which will include the additional two weeks to be given to the candidates from the North East Region.
i) The applications may please be sent to Professor Udaya Narayana Singh, Chairman, Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL), Central Institute of Indian Languages, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, Manasagangotri, Hunsur Road, Mysore - 570 006, KARNATAKA. All envelopes containing applications to have a mark on top left corner in bold letter – “LDC-IL”.
j) The screened and short-listed candidates may be called to a Workshop at the CIIL to assess their work and quality. Such invited candidates will be paid TA/DA as per their eligibility in terms of the Government of India rule.
k) The selected candidates will not be paid any joining TA/DA. In case they are on deputation or are already Government of India employee elsewhere - joining an LDC-IL position will be paid only TA/DA for joining the project.
S/D/ Dr. I.S. Borkar
Assistant Director (Administration)
Central Institute of Indian Languages |
