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eGov Products & Services
Niyukti
A one stop recruitment solution for the Government of Assam
offered as a service
Edited by Dr. DIBAKAR RAY
Since its inception in the year
2017, Niyukti has quickly evolved
as a widely used recruitment
solution in Assam Government.
Its USP lies in the fact that it
is offered as a service to the
recruiting agencies, thereby
allowing them to quickly onboard
with a recruitment process in no
time. Already 16 recruitments
have been successfully conducted
so far and the number is ever
increasing.
Tapan Gogoi
Sr. Technical Director
tapan.gogoi@nic.in
Rahul Deka
Scientist-C
ar.deka@nic.in
Gautam Ch. Deva
Sarma
Scientist-C
gcd.sarma@nic.in
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he genesis of Niyukti goes back to the year 2017 different institutions among which the state’s Sec-
when the Office of the Deputy Commissioner, retariat Administration Department, Assam Infor-
Darrang decided to conduct recruitment for mation Commission, Majuli District Administration,
Tfew posts of Junior Assistant. To avoid tedious Sonitpur District Administration, Biswanath District
process of recruiting offline, Darrang District Ad- Administration, Office of the Commissioner Upper
ministration decided to accept applications online Assam Division, Barpeta District Administration are
and NIC Darrang was requested to provide a solu- to name a few. The usage statistics of Niyukti over
tion. Accordingly, a web-based recruitment system time depicts how the system has evolved as a solu-
was developed by NIC Darrang for Darrang district tion within a short span of time.
administration and the whole recruitment process
was conducted successfully. Immediately after that, Technical overview
requests for similar recruitment system came from
Assam Information Commission and Deputy Com- Niyukti is a web-application developed using
missioner, Jorhat as they were planning to recruit for the open-source technology stack and works as a
multiple posts. The recruitment system developed multi-tenant application with single instance of the
for Darrang District was successfully used for these web-application and multiple instance of the data-
two recruitments too. Subsequently, when a com- bases. Each recruiter gets his own instance of da-
mon recruitment platform for the entire state was tabase. The technical specifications are mentioned
envisaged to cater to the growing need of recruit- below.
ment solution for various quarters in the govern- Web Server: Apache
ment, the application developed at Darrang District RDBMS: MySQL (MariaDB, Postgres compatible)
was adopted for use across the State and necessary Languages & Technology: PHP, Javascript, CSS
work for extending and scaling up the application Framework: CodeIgniter, JQuery, Bootstrap
was taken up. The portal got named as “Niyukti” the Design Pattern: Model-view-Controller (MVC)
Assamese synonym for the word recruitment and is The application is currently hosted in NIC Assam
currently available at https://niyukti.assam.gov.in. mini cloud on Linux virtual machines.
Introduction Salient features
As on date, Niyukti is serving as a complete re- • Niyukti offers the recruitment solution as a ser-
cruitment solution offered as a service to various re- vice. A recruiting agency can come onboard as a
cruiting agencies of the Government of Assam. The recruiter in the Niyukti portal and can immedi-
project has reached a high efficiency as well as ma- ately initiate their recruitment process with mini-
turity level after being used by as many as thirteen mum amount of application level configurations.
Figure 1: Niyukti Process Workflow
Verification & Creating
1 Publishing the 2 Venue Assignment 3 Attendance sheets
Recruitment Notice
Recruiter Publishes the • Recruiter verifies appli- Attendance sheets are
recruitment notification cations on the system auto-generated for
inNiyog portal • Assign venue to appli- conducting the exams.
cant with one button click
6 Applicant Applies 5 Publishing 4 Issuing Admit
Card/ Call letters
for a Post
Results
• Applicant registers & • After exam, recruiter publi- • Admit cards are automa-
submits applications on shes result in the notice tically issued as per the
Niyog Portal. board. configured template
• Instant email & SMS • Instant email & SMS alerts. • Instant email & SMS
alerts. • Applicants are further alerts.
shortlisted for next round.