Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Recruitment Portal

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) Recruitment Portal has been developed as a centralized, transparent, and user-friendly digital platform for managing recruitment processes of the Ministry and its associated offices.. The portal facilitates end-to-end recruitment activities, including publication of vacancies, online submission of applications, scrutiny of eligibility, conduct of examinations and interviews, and dissemination of results. It aims to ensure efficiency, fairness, and ease of access for applicants across the country By leveraging digital technology, the Recruitment Portal enhances transparency, reduces processing time, and ensures adherence to prescribed recruitment rules and guidelines. It serves as a single point of interaction for candidates, enabling seamless communication and real-time updates throughout the recruitment lifecycle. The initiative reflects MoEFCC’s commitment to good governance, accountability, and adoption of e-governance solutions in public service delivery.

Privacy Policy Correction in the content The MoEFCC Recruitment Portal collects personal information only when voluntarily provided by users, such as through the Contact Us form. The information is used solely to respond to queries or provide requested services. The portal does not collect personal information for commercial or marketing purposes and does not create individual user profiles. Users are advised not to share unnecessary personal details. Wherever additional personal information is required, the purpose and usage will be clearly stated. For the purpose of this policy, Personal Information refers to any information by which an individual’s identity can be reasonably ascertained. Any concerns regarding privacy may be reported through the Contact Us page. Content Management, Moderation and Approval Policy (CMAP) The website follows a role-based Content Management System (CMS) to ensure accuracy, authenticity, and timely publication of information. • Creator: Creates and submits content for approval • Publisher: Reviews, approves, and publishes content • Web Administrator: Manages users, roles, modules, and overall content quality The Web Administrator ensures that updated and verified information is available on the website at all times. Content Review Policy Contents are periodically reviewed by the Web Administrator and designated officials to ensure it remains accurate, relevant, and current. A defined workflow is followed before final updation or publication. Content Archival Policy An automated archival mechanism is in place to ensure that expired or outdated content is removed from active pages and transferred to the archive section upon expiry. Archived content remains searchable. The Web Information Manager is responsible for assigning expiry dates wherever applicable. Website Quality & Accessibility Policy The portal complies with Guidelines for Government Websites (GIGW) 3.0 guidelines, ensuring: • Citizen-centric, clear, and simple language • Multilingual content updated simultaneously • Easy access to key information from the homepage • Readable content in electronic and print formats • Adequate color contrast and alternate text for non-text elements • No flashing content beyond prescribed limits Website Security Policy The website is hosted only after obtaining a security audit clearance from a CERT-In empanelled auditor. All vulnerabilities identified during audits are addressed. Periodic security reviews are conducted in case of functional or environmental changes. Website Monitoring & Contingency Policy The portal is monitored regularly to ensure: • Proper functionality of all modules • Optimal performance and page load time • Absence of broken links and errors The website is designed for 24×7 availability. In case of defacement, data corruption, or downtime, immediate corrective action is taken by authorized personnel.

Disclaimer & Terms of Use This is the official website of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) Recruitment Portal, developed to provide information related to recruitment opportunities and processes. All efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of the content available on this website. However, the information provided is for general guidance only and shall not be construed as a legal document or used for any legal purpose. In case of any inconsistency between the information on this website and the relevant Acts, Rules, Regulations, policies, or official documents, the latter shall prevail. The content on this website is subject to change without prior notice. MoEFCC shall not be responsible for any loss or damage, including indirect or consequential loss, arising out of the use of or inability to use the information available on this website. Links to external websites are provided for user convenience. MoEFCC does not control or guarantee the availability, accuracy, or reliability of the content on such external websites and does not endorse any views expressed therein. The content of this website may be reproduced free of charge for non-commercial use, provided it is reproduced accurately, without distortion, and the source is duly acknowledged. This permission does not extend to content identified as third-party copyrighted material. Prior permission must be obtained from the respective copyright holders for use of such material. These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India. Any dispute arising under these terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of India.

Email moefcc-recruitment[at]gov[dot]in Phone 1800 11 9792 Address 166, Jor Bagh Rd, Block 17, Lodi Colony, New Delhi, Delhi 110003

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is the face of the Government disseminating government information and services. This content Review Policy has been formulated to keep the content on the Website current and up-to-date. Since the type of the content on the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change varies, different Review timelines are defined for the diverse content elements. This Review Policy is based on different types of content elements, their validity and relevance as well as the archival policy. As a general rule: The entire website content shall be reviewed in a phased manner over a period of 3 months to ensure the up-to-date of the content. The exception to the above is listed below: Content Review Timeline SECTION REVIEW PERIODICITY Home Page Daily News Page Daily Who’s who list As and when required Newsletter, Circulars, Notifications etc. No review required Acts, Rules Quarterly Immediate-For new Policies introduced The entire website content would be reviewed for syntax checks once a week by the MoEFCC Website Team.

Each of the content components is accompanied by meta data, source and validity date. For some of the components the validity date may not be known i.e., the content is stated to be perpetual. Under this scenario, the validity date should be ten years hence. Under no circumstances, any content is to be displayed on the Website after the validity date. For few of the components like announcements, tenders, only the live content whose validity date is after the current date is shown on the Website. For other components like documents, schemes, services, forms, websites and contact directory there is a need for timely review of the same as per the Content Review Policy. List of content contributed is sent to the content contributor two weeks prior to the validity date to revalidate the content and if required modify the validity date. In case of no response, then a reminder is sent a week before the validity date and therefore the content is archived and no longer published on the Website. Important Links

The Contents provided in the website are the information for public service. This system is monitored to ensure proper operation, to verify the functioning of applicable security features, and for comparable purposes. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has a Website Monitoring Policy in place and the website is monitored periodically to address and fix the quality and compatibility issues around the following parameters: Performance: Site download time is optimized for a variety of network connections as well as devices. All-important pages of the website are tested for this. Functionality: All modules of the website are tested for their functionality. The interactive components of the site such as, feedback forms are working smoothly. Broken Links: The website is thoroughly reviewed to rule out the presence of any broken links or errors. Traffic Analysis: The site traffic is regularly monitored to analyse the usage patterns as well as visitors’ profile and preferences. Feedback: Feedback from the visitors is the best way to judge a website’s performance and make necessary improvements. A proper mechanism for feedback is in place to carry out the changes and enhancements as suggested by the visitors.

Contingency Management Plan Defacement Protection Policy The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is security audited for application vulnerabilities and performance. Any application-level modification on the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change implies re-audit of the website. All the servers’ configuration and logs are monitored timely. Only system administrator users are allowed to access the servers for doing administration and configuration tasks. All servers are in lock and net secured. Contents are updated through secured FTP using VPN. Monitoring of defacement of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change There are two ways of monitoring the defacement of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change website. Cyber security division is continuously monitoring by analyzing the log files. The Central help desk at NIC (HQ) data Centre is also monitoring the websites at regular intervals for possible defacement or undesirable change in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. The Development team also monitors the website regularly. In case of any eventuality, whoever notices it first shall inform the Technical Manager and Web Information Manager on Phone as well as through email. Actions to be taken after defacement As soon as the Technical Manager and/or Web Information Manager receive the information regarding the defacement of the website, the following steps will be taken: Stoppage/partial stoppage of the website according to the degree of defacement. Analyzing log files and troubleshooting the source of defacement and blocking of the service. Analyzing type of defacement and fixing it. In case of complete loss of data, restoring the website data from backup or starting of website from DR site in case of long down time. Giving log files to the security division for analysis. Fixing of all vulnerabilities on the basis of security recommendations and re-auditing of applications. Restoring the affected /corrupted contents from the backup and restoring the site. Contact details in case of any eventuality of defacement Name Designation Organization E-mail Address Telephone/Mobile No. Office Address Shri Neelesh Kumar Sah Joint Secretary Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change sahnk[at]cag[dot]gov[dot]in +91-11-20819220 2nd Floor, Agni Wing, Indira Paryavaran Bhawan, Jor Bagh Road, New Delhi-110003 Time for Restoration of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change after defacement The time taken for restoration of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change website depends on the degree of defacement and services affected by the defacement. Data Corruption Regular back-ups of the website data are being taken in NIC Data Centre. These enable a fast recovery and uninterrupted availability of the information to the citizens in view of any data corruption. Regular back-ups of the website data are being taken in NIC Data Centre. These enable a fast recovery and uninterrupted availability of the information to the citizens in view of any data corruption. Hardware/Software Crash Though such an occurrence is a rarity, still in case the server on which the website is being hosted crashes due to some unforeseen reason, the web hosting service provider - NIC Data Centre has enough redundant infrastructure available to restore the website at the earliest'. Generally, Time required for starting a website from another server will take about 24 hours. ​​​​​​​Natural Disasters: There could be circumstances whereby due to some natural calamity (due to reasons beyond the control of any person), the entire data center where the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change website is being hosted gets destroyed or ceases to exist. In such an eventuality, in-charge of NIC will instruct that the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change website to be started from the DR site. Natural Disasters (DR): Storage Based Replication Takes Place at DR site.

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has been placed in protected zones with implementation of firewalls and IDS (Intrusion Detection System) and high availability solutions. Before launch of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, simulated penetration tests have been conducted. Penetration testing has also been conducted x times after the launch of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has been audited for known application level vulnerabilities before the launch and all the known vulnerability has been addressed. Hardening of servers has been done as per the guideline of Cyber Security division before the launch of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Access to web servers hosting the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is restricted both physically and through the network as far as possible. Logs at x number different locations are maintained for authorized physical access of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change servers. Web-servers hosting the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change are configured behind IDS, IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) and with system firewalls on them. All the development work is done in a separate development environment and is well tested on the staging server before updating it on the production server. After testing properly on the staging server, the applications are uploaded to the production server using SSH and VPN through a single point. The content contributed by/from remote locations is duly authenticated & is not published on the production server directly. Any content contributed has to go through the moderation process before final publishing to the production server. All contents of the web pages are checked for intentional or unintentional malicious content before final upload to web server pages. Audit and Log of all activities involving the operating system, access to the system, and access to applications are maintained and archived. All rejected accesses and services are logged and listed in exception reports for further scrutiny. Help Desk staff at the IT Division monitor the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change at intervals of weekly to check the web pages to confirm that the web pages are up and running, that no unauthorized changes have been made, and that no unauthorized links have been established. All newly released system software patches; bug fixes and upgrades are expediently and regularly reviewed and installed on the web server. On Production web servers, Internet browsing, mail and any other desktop applications are disabled. Only server administration related tasks are performed. Server passwords are changed at the interval of 3 months and are shared by 2 persons Yashwant and S. Annadurai. Shri Vikram Singh, DS(IT) and Shri Navin Kumar Karn, Senior Director (NIC) have been designated as Administrator for the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and shall be responsible for implementing this policy for each of the web servers. The administrator shall also coordinate with the Audit Team for required auditing of the server(s). Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has been re-audited for the application level vulnerability after major modification in application development [Not applicable at first launch]. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has been audited before launch and has complied with all the points mentioned in the policies document of the Cyber Security Group mentioned above. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has also been subjected to an automated risk assessment performed through vulnerability identification software before and after the launch and all the known vulnerabilities have been addressed.

Each of the content components is accompanied by meta data, source and validity date. For some of the components the validity date may not be known i.e., the content is stated to be perpetual. Under this scenario, the validity date should be ten years hence. Under no circumstances, any content is to be displayed on the Website after the validity date. For few of the components like announcements, tenders, only the live content whose validity date is after the current date is shown on the Website. For other components like documents, schemes, services, forms, websites and contact directory there is a need for timely review of the same as per the Content Review Policy. List of content contributed is sent to the content contributor two weeks prior to the validity date to revalidate the content and if required modify the validity date. In case of no response, then a reminder is sent a week before the validity date and therefore the content is archived and no longer published on the Website.

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Contents of this website may not be reproduced partially or fully, without due written permission from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) Recruitment Portal. If referred to as a part of another website, the source must be appropriately acknowledged. The contents of this website cannot be used in any misleading or objectionable context.

Policy Statement for 2-tiered CMAP structure (for small websites) The Website of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change represents a single department where most content is contributed by a single set of sources. We hereby adopt a 2-tiered structure to implement CMAP requiring minimum 2 officials to execute the CMAP roles, viz., Contributor Moderator/Approver Template to implement 2-tiered CMAP structure for small websites SECTIONS ROLES CONTRIBUTOR MODERATOR & APPROVER Home page Divisions Divisional Head News, Press Releases, Recruitments, Tenders etc. Divisions Divisional Head Who’s Who, Organization Chart, Circulars/Notifications Divisions Divisional Head Acts, Documents, Forms, Reports etc. Divisions Divisional Head Policy Statement for 3-tiered CMAP structure (for large websites) The Website of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change represents a single department where most content is contributed by a single set of sources. We hereby adopt a 3-tiered structure to implement CMAP requiring minimum 3 officials to execute the CMAP roles, viz., • Contributor • Moderator • Approver Template to implement 3-tiered CMAP structure for small websites. SECTIONS ROLES CONTRIBUTOR MODERATOR APPROVER Home & common sections e.g., FAQs, Help etc. Divisions Divisional Head Divisional Head Who’s Who, Organization Chart, Circulars/Notification Divisions Divisional Head Divisional Head Section 2: Department 1 Divisions Divisional Head Divisional Head Section 3: Department 2 Divisions Divisional Head Divisional Head

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