Administrative Officer (Scale-I), Generalist and Specialist
Vacancies
Notification not out
Job Location
Pan India
Selection Process
Prelims → Mains → Interview (previous cycle)
Official Website
newindia.co.in
Category
Insurance — General
Mode
Online (CBT)
Exam Dates
NIACL AO — current cycle
No 2026 AO notification on newindia.co.in as of 30 Oct 2026. The current pane is notification not released. The previous column is the 2025 recruitment, which continued into 2026, and those dates are not a 2026 exam.
Notification
Apply
Prelims
Mains
Interview
Event
2025 cycle
2026 cycle
Notification
7 Aug 2025
Not notified
Apply
7–30 Aug 2025
Not notified
Prelims
14 Sep 2025
TBA
Mains
29 Oct 2025
TBA
Interview
21 Jan–17 Feb 2026
TBA
Where a 2026 date is still TBA, the conducting body has not published it. Check the official notification linked on this page before you rely on a date.
Eligibility
NIACL AO Eligibility Criteria 2026
Education
Not notified for 2026. The 7 Aug 2025 notice required generalists to hold a graduate or post-graduate degree in any discipline from a recognised university, with at least 60% marks (55% for SC/ST/PwBD), as on 1 Aug 2025. Specialist streams had separate degrees in that same notice.
Age limit
21–30 years
Not notified for 2026. In the 2025 notice the limit was 21–30 years as on 1 Aug 2025 (born 2 Aug 1995 to 1 Aug 2004). SC/ST +5, OBC +3, PwBD +10. Cumulative relaxation could not take age above 45.
Nationality
Not notified for 2026. The 2025 notice allowed a citizen of India, or the other categories it named, where a Government of India eligibility certificate was required.
Vacancy Breakdown 2026
Notification not out
Syllabus
NIACL AO Syllabus 2026 — Topic-wise
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Reasoning Ability
Quantitative Aptitude
English Language
Letter writing and essay (descriptive, qualifying)
General Awareness
Specialist professional-knowledge test (specialist mains only, in the 2025 notice)
Exam Pattern
NIACL AO Exam Pattern 2026
Section
Questions
Marks
Time
English Language
30
30
20 min
Reasoning Ability
35
35
20 min
Quantitative Aptitude
35
35
20 min
Total
100
100
60 min
Negative marking: In the 7 Aug 2025 notice, one-fourth of the marks of a wrong objective answer was deducted in both Phase-I and Phase-II. A blank answer had no penalty. Descriptive marks were not counted for interview shortlisting or final selection.
Section
Questions
Marks
Time
Reasoning
50
50
40 min
English Language
50
50
40 min
General Awareness
50
50
30 min
Quantitative Aptitude
50
50
40 min
English Descriptive (qualifying)
2
30
30 min
Total
202
230
180 min
⚠️ Negative marking applies to objective sections. Descriptive section is evaluated separately.
Selection Process
1
Prelims
2
Mains
3
Interview (previous cycle)
Earlier cycles
NIACL AO — previous exams
The latest AO exercise on newindia.co.in is the 2025 recruitment of 550 Scale-I officers; the recruitment list checked on 30 Oct 2026 has no 2026 AO notification.
Shortlist 31 Dec 2025; interviews 21 Jan–17 Feb 2026
Vacancies
550 (Generalist 193; UR 222, OBC 148, EWS 55, SC 83, ST 42)
Cutoff
Phase-II result of 31 Dec 2025 said cut-offs would follow; no cutoff PDF is linked under AO 2025
Final merit used Phase-II objective marks and interview in the ratio 75:25. Pre-employment medical for provisionally selected candidates was scheduled for 6–10 Apr 2026 (notice dated 2 Apr 2026).
FAQs
NIACL AO Frequently Asked Questions
No. On 30 October 2026 the recruitment list at newindia.co.in has no Administrative Officer 2026 advertisement. The latest AO heading is Recruitment of Administrative Officers 2025.
The 7 August 2025 notice set online registration from 7 to 30 August 2025, Phase-I on 14 September 2025 and Phase-II on 29 October 2025. Those are 2025 dates. They are not a 2026 exam.
550 Scale-I officers, including 193 generalists. The category total was UR 222, OBC 148, EWS 55, SC 83 and ST 42. A 2026 vacancy count has not been notified.
The Phase-II shortlist is dated 31 December 2025. The interview schedule dated 9 January 2026 lists interview dates from 21 January 2026 to 17 February 2026. That schedule belongs to the 2025 recruitment.
Phase-I was 100 questions for 100 marks in 60 minutes. Generalist Phase-II objective was 200 questions for 200 marks in 150 minutes, plus a 30-mark qualifying descriptive paper in 30 minutes. Specialist Phase-II replaced one block with a 40-question professional-knowledge test and retimed the sections, still 150 minutes of objective tests. That is the previous cycle’s pattern.
The 31 December 2025 Phase-II result says marks and cut-offs would be posted later. On 30 October 2026 the AO 2025 list on newindia.co.in does not link a category-wise cutoff PDF, so none is shown here.
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